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Privacyverklaring | Mazda

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03

Het gebruik van Bitly is netjes vermeld: [Wayback/Archive] Privacyverklaring | Mazda

Bitly: URL-verkortingsdienst en linkbeheerplatform; dienstverlener: Bitly, Inc, 139 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA; website: https://bitly.com; privacybeleid: https://bitly.com/pages/privacy.

Dat is belangrijk, want URL-shorteners zijn een risico op bijvoorbeeld:

  • De daadwerkelijke doel-URL is niet op voorhand zichtbaar of duidelijk
  • De doel-URL kan achteraf worden gewijzigd, dus waar je nu op uitkomt is niet noodzakelijkerwijs waar je in de toekomst op uitkomt
  • Er kan user-tracking plaatsvinden op het niveau van de URL-shortener
  • Ze worden veel gebruikt om malware te verpreiden (juist ook omdat de doel-URL makkelijk aanpasbaar is)
  • In veel omgevingen worden URL-shorteners om bovenstaande redenen geblokkeerd

--jeroen

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Is it Pokémon or Big Data?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03

Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.

It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;

And it is open source too:

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Reddit – PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29

[Wayback/Archive] PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad

TL;DR: Use a 1500 CP Poliwrath with Mud Shot and Power-Up Punch against Blanche in Great League, and don’t swipe any bubbles. Quest is done in 1 battle or 3 minutes.

This has been posted before when people were working on the 200 super effective charged moves for the level 43 quest, and I personally learned the trick from that post. But now that we have regular field research quests that reward Mega Energy for 10 SE charged moves, I figured it might be worth a repost.

What you need

A Poliwrath under 1500 CP, with fast move Mud Shot and charged move Power-Up Punch.

What you do

  1. Do a training battle with Blanche in Great League. This can be found at the bottom of the “Battle” tab.
  2. Use Poliwrath in the lead, followed by two random 1500 CP Pokemon. (Blanche always uses Sneasel, Sealeo and Snowy Castform.)
  3. In the battle, use a Power-Up Punch whenever it’s charged up.
  4. Do not swipe any bubbles during the charged move animation, until you already reached ~10 charged moves. This will ensure you do minimal damage (25% of the move’s actual power).
  5. Once you count to 9 or 10 charged moves, you can then swipe all bubbles to do full damage.

Without any bubbles, it typically takes 3-4 PuPs to kill Sneasel, 4-5 for Sealeo, and 4-5 for Castform. So I typically don’t swipe any bubbles against Sneasel and Sealeo, then swipe all or most bubbles against Castform (would take 2-3 PuPs to kill it). This works even if you’re not consciously keeping track of how many charged moves you’ve used.

Many alternatives are available, such as Medicham with Psycho Cut/Power-Up Punch against GL Blanche, Politoed with Mud Shot/Weather Ball against GL Candela, or a Mud Shot/Mud Bomb user (Whiscash, Marshtomp) against GL Candela.

(If someone wants to make a video of this, go ahead.)

Related:

--jeroen

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Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28

Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”

The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.

–jeroen

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Hopefully this has made it into a set by now: LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25

Often it can take a long time for first getting 100 votes, then via milestones 1000, 5000, 10000 and a long review phase to become an actual set.

Hopefully by now [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine has become a set or at least someone used Bricklink Studio designer and uploaded the model or instructions.

Edit 20241125:

Nope, LEGO decided they didn’t want to make money of this set as communicated in their [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine: Official LEGO Comments

Unfortunately, the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set.

But others did:

Looking at the price difference between these two, LEGO could have made quite a bit of money.

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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22

A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.

A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.

--jeroen

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GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

For future experimentation transcribing voice conversations: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Whisper (speech recognition system) usually runs in the cloud (someone else’s computers, often rentable for a substantial monthly sum).

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Wat is een goede tool voor transcriptie van Nederlandse tekst voor hobbymatig gebruik?…” – Mastodon
  2. [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “@wiert whisper.cpp als je handig bent…” – Fosstodon

Now hopefully Whisper works well with the Dutch language…

I later realised Jeff Geerling mentioned Whisper a while ago as well:

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Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19

A while ago, within a week time, I got reminded of a project I did some 15 years ago involving low-latency audio using the .NET platform on Windows XP Embedded.

For that I used the BASS.NET wrapper classes and P/Invoke methods around the Un4seen BASS Audio Library.

Back in those days there was not much documentation about this, but now there is more.

Some starting points are:

Via:

Related:

--jeroen

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Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC – ikje uit zomer 2010

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/15

Het blijft hartverscheurend: [Wayback/Archive] Opinie | Bosrandgeluk – NRC

Als we door een bos rijden, zegt ze opeens: „Als je straks ophoudt met werken, wil ik met jou in een huisje aan de bosrand wonen, met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje.”
Ik brom instemmend.
Na een poosje keren we terug.
Zij (83) naar het verpleeghuis.
Ik (89) naar het huisje aan de bosrand met een tuin, een moestuintje en een weitje, waar we ruim dertig jaar heel erg gelukkig waren.
W. van der Heijden

--jeroen

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Reminder to self: get the Technic 40 year anniversary model and also rebuild the 8860 on which it was based (via Brickset: LEGO set guide and database)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/14

Some 7 years ago, I missed the [Wayback/Archive] Technic 40 year anniversary model | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database.

Hopefully by now I have had time to get the various underlying boxes and build it, together with reviving the 8860 I still have from my child-hood time.

Pictures from Brickset:

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