I used to buy off-lease HP gear some 15 years ago. Nowadays I usually buy Dell 1 liter PCs for desktop usage (see my series on 3060/5060/7060) and got reminded that they also have good workstation gear that you can rackmount:
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SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter: “If you are building a home lab everything you need is on eBay and costs around $200. A SSD SATA drive in a off-lease Optiplex delivers more IOPS than an $100k server with a RAID6 we ran DBs on 10 years ago….”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/22
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Hoe omgaan met iemand die ernstig ziek is en (misschien) niet meer beter wordt
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
Lees deze, juist ook als je dit nog nooit aan de hand gehad hebt:
- [Wayback/Archive] Hoe steun je iemand met kanker | 15 tips | Els van Dongen
- [Wayback/Archive] Hoe omgaan met iemand die niet meer beter wordt | Kanker.nl
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Wat zal ik zeggen, hoe kan ik helpen? › Ziekenhuis Nij Smellinghe
Het sluit enorm goed aan op mijn eigen ervaringen als partner/naaste van, patiënt, overlevende en ondersteuner van andere mensen met (al dan niet terminale) kanker.
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Monitor Brandstofprijzen ACM: lichte daling brandstofprijzen gehele keten, diesel weer goedkoper dan benzine | ACM
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/15
[Wayback/Archive] Monitor Brandstofprijzen ACM: lichte daling brandstofprijzen gehele keten, diesel weer goedkoper dan benzine | ACM
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Autoriteit Consument & Markt: “⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehe…” – social.overheid.nl (Mastodon)
⛽Brandstofprijzen over de gehele brandstofketen zijn licht gedaald ten opzichte van een maand. Diesel is aan de pomp weer goedkoper dan benzine. Het beeld dat gemiddelde winstmarges niet bij tankstations, maar bovenin in de keten zijn gestegen blijft onveranderd. Dat blijkt uit onze Monitor Brandstofprijzen.
--jeroen
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Two online transcription tools
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/12
From best to second best:
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape (which at the time of writing in 2023 was free, but likely now is still affordable)
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape — Secure and automatic transcription
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape: plans — Secure and automatic transcription
- [Wayback/Archive] Pricing — Good Tape (free plan has 3 transcriptions per month, Store 3 files per month, Up to 30 minutes per file, Some waiting time)
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape: about (it’s a Danish company)
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape: security
- [Wayback/Archive] Good Tape: terms of service
- [Wayback/Archive] Azure Video Indexer Portal – Cognitive Video Indexing (at the time of writing the first 10 hours are free, then it’s around EUR 1/minute)
Related blog post: GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++
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Post by @lookitup.baby (Ian Coldwater) — Bluesky on recharge being part of your work
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/11
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @lookitup.baby (Ian Coldwater) — Bluesky on recharge being part of your work
I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
The replies add a few other useful tips. Be sure to read the thread on BSKY.
A few days later, this Dutch post basically stated it in a different way:
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Wat zijn seizoensgroente en seizoensfruit? | Voedingscentrum
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/08
Voor wanneer je meer afwisselend wilt eten in plaats van het bijna vaste assortiment in veel supermarkten: [Wayback/Archive] Wat zijn seizoensgroente en seizoensfruit? | Voedingscentrum
Als er nog een weekmarkt bij je in de buurt is: veel seizoensproducten.
[Wayback/Archive] Voedingscentrum seizoengroente- en fruitkalender.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Volledige quote omdat de uitklapstructuur belachelijk irrutant is: Read the rest of this entry »
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MIT Press: Open Access Materials : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/05
A while ago Jason Scott put all these 400+ books on the Internet Archive:
[Archive] MIT Press: Open Access Materials : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jason Scott: “MIT has a set of books labelled “Open Access” but it’s a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I’ve gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_…” — Bluesky
--jeroen
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Sad and Useless about Competitive Salary versus Amazing Skills on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/05
A great meme from the [Wayback/Archive] Sad And Useless Humor Site via [Wayback/Archive] Sad & Useless Humor (@sadanduseless) / Twitter from a while back is this:
We offer a competitive salary. Oh, I have amazing skills.
[Wayback/Archive] Sad & Useless Humor on Twitter: “#JobInterview”
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MeshCore – Off grid mesh radio communications system
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/02
In a world where it becomes increasingly important to think and act on situations where for various communication via traditional means is not that easy any more, then LoRa (Long Range) wireless networks have been steadily gaining ground: they use open frequencies and for some of these networks, their repeater structure is largely ran by communities of volunteers.
Both communities and devices have evolved so far that its not just for early adopters any more: mere mortals can use it too.
In the LoRa area, MeshCore looks to have become the successor of Meshtastic: [Wayback/Archive] MeshCore – Off grid mesh radio communications system.
The core difference between these two LoRa networks is explained in the Wikipedia article on MeshCore:
MeshCore is often compared with other LoRa-based mesh networking systems such as Meshtastic. While Meshtastic primarily relies on broadcast-style message flooding, MeshCore emphasizes structured routing roles and store-and-forward mechanisms, resulting in different scalability and energy-consumption characteristics.
Communication over the MeshCore network reminds me a lot of three things, in this chronological order:
- BITNET Relay (which predates IRC by about 3 years)
- Fidonet, of which I was part for years, see for instance Moar FidoNet memories.
- BlackBerry devices and even Nokia Communicator
- The Things Network based sensor networks
I think about everything of MeshCore is open source; mostly hosted in the hierarchy at [Wayback/Archive] MeshCore · GitHub.
MeshCore is fairly young which means it will have growth pains, and some hardware pains (like a node being limited to about 500 messages/hour because of physical bandwidth limitations – smaller cells work better than the FidoNet hub/spoke model – see the Dutch section below) but it also cool to see it evolving.
This blog post is going to be long, as a lot of MeshCore information is spread around the interwebz, so there is a lot to link to.
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Pentagon shaped AMERICAN DICTATOR? Board Game – E-UP Games
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/01
Get it while supplies last, as this Pentagon shaped board game of which parts of the proceeds to to charity is both too much a parody and even better resonates with the original “The Landlord’s Game” (that evolved into Monopoly) to let go:
[Wayback/Archive] AMERICAN DICTATOR? Board Game – E-UP Games
That page does not mention the proceeds, but their home page does, see [Wayback/Archive] Making Board Games Great Again! – E-UP Games
We are a Canadian family-owned company.
Our games are dreamed up, illustrated, play-tested, and brought to life by teenagers who love board games!
A portion of each purchase goes to charity.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
For more on the history – Elizabeth Magie was heavily anti-capitalist – read these:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 