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John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14

[Wayback/Archive] John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

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Waarom verschillen buizerds zo sterk in kleur? – rootsmagazine.nl (dank @HermVerm)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/13

Ik vroeg @HermVerm (twitter) via DM wat een grote bijna zwarte roofvogel lijkend op een buizerd en in de buurt van Lisse plots tussen de bomen de weg overvloog zou kunnen zijn. Herman kwam metΒ [Wayback/Archive] Waarom verschillen buizerds zo sterk in kleur? – rootsmagazine.nl

Erfelijk bepaald

Kleurvariaties, oftewel genetisch polymorfisme, komen bij 3,5 procent van de vogelsoorten voor en zijn erfelijk bepaald. Het overgrote deel van de buizerds is min of meer bruin. Zo’n 5 procent is (spier)wit, eenzelfde percentage zwart. De basis voor die kleurvariaties ligt in de hoeveelheid pigment: hoe meer melanine, hoe donkerder de buizerd.

Ik heb nu dus geleerd dat een buizerd ontzettend veel kleurvariaties van licht tot donker kan hebben.

–jeroen

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Fritz!Box firewall permissions for NPO Start

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/01

I had to add the below to the firewall permission list of a Fritz!Box to allow watching NPO Start, the free Video on Demand service of the Dutch public broadcasting system:

npostart.nl
assets.npo-data.nl
www-assets.npo.nl
start-player.npo.nl
ccm.npo.nl
images.npo.nl
npo-drm-gateway.samgcloud.nepworldwide.nl
time.akamai.com
npo.prd.cdn.bcms.kpn.com

You can find the list on the page fritz.box/?lp=trafapp under Permitted websites edit.

–jeroen

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Belastingaangifte 2022 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/31

Net op tijd gelukt met de Excel tool van Computer Idee die dit jaar wat lastiger te vinden was dan vorig jaar

Vorig jaar blogde ik dit: Belastingaangifte 2021 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

De links van dit jaar:

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Caroline Brouwer on Twitter: “Vrijdag verhuizen we op de FM πŸ“¦πŸŽΆ check je nieuwe frequentie op radioveronica.nl”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/30

[Wayback/Archive] Caroline Brouwer on Twitter: “Vrijdag verhuizen we op de FM πŸ“¦πŸŽΆ check je nieuwe frequentie op radioveronica.nl

De echte link is www.radioveronica.nl/fm-frequenties-vanaf-september-23

–jeroen

PS:

Kaartje net nieuwe FM-frequenties staat op

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Learned a while ago from @Caramelia79Β  at Twitter: “AEG Methode.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/28

Too bad thatΒ [Wayback/Archive] Cara (@Caramelia79) / TwitterΒ deleted their tweet before it got archived, so this lone tweet does not really make sense now:

[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Caramelia79 @unimanatee Heute neu gelernt: AEG Methode.” / Twitter

The joke however was this:

AEG Methode:

  1. Ausschalten
  2. Einschalten
  3. Geht

It is also known as “AEG-Prinzip” and refers back to the AEG brand that was (still is?) big in Germany for household appliances and industrial products.

The not so cool thing is that by now it seams to mean:

  1. Ausschalten
  2. Einschalten
  3. Geht nicht

as about a year ago some AEG microwave appliance models show errors F606 and F254 after a firmware update: they now think they are steam ovens but cannot find the correct steam hardware:

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Youtube – Extract Meta Data – Amnesty International

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/16

Cool that Amnesty International can do a YouTube [Wayback/Archive] Extract Meta Data (Amnesty International).

Via:

I wonder if I can write a Bookmarklet for this (it will likely require an HTTP POST request).

–jeroen

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Zonnepanelen op plat dak

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/14

For my link archive:

–jeroen

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Gradual Hedy programming language supports many numerals: easier for people not using English or not using Latin based alphabets

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/10

Yesterday, I wrote about Learn to program the gradual way: Welcome to Hedy! and today is the next installment: about numerals.

[Archive] /Fay-lee-nuh/ (@Felienne) | TwitterΒ kind of by surprise discovered that the ten numerical digits of the decimal numeral system used in virtually all programming languages are not the original Arabic forms.

Supporting other forms of decimal numerals will help learning to program when your background is non-English or even using ten systems outside the Arabic numeral realm so common in Latin alphabets. And they are a fun learning exercise for every body too!

Some of the related Tweets on this:

Some more related Wikipedia links:

In the Unicode pages, look for “numeral”, “number”, and “numeric” (or just for “num”).

–jeroen

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Learn to program the gradual way: Welcome to Hedy!

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/09

Cool way to learn programming in a gradual way which works adults just as well as for kids: [Wayback/Archive] Felienne/hedy

Hedy is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual languages use different language levels, where each level adds new concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.

[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to Hedy!hedycode.com

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