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Analog Audio over Cat 5/6/7 – Building your own panels – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/27

Interesting blog post on patch panels for audio with XLR connectors and ethernet over twisted pair (best to use shielded cable): [Wayback/Archive] Analog Audio over Cat 5/6/7 – Building your own panels – YouTube.

--jeroen

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Watering plants; nice Dutch thread with lots of useful tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/27

Interesting Dutch thread on watering plants: it’s not so easy, but the tips in the tread help:

[Archive.is] Jason 🚀 on Twitter: “Hoe weet je hoeveel en wanneer je plant water nodig heeft?”

General guidance:

–jeroen

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Finding back Flickr invoices (via Finding back invoices for Amazon prime membership and Proton Account)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/20

I have been writing about finding back invoices:

To this list, I can now add https://www.flickr.com/account which has a list of past orders including invoices for the Flickr membership (which get downloaded through Stripe so be sure to enable JavaScript for https://invoice.stripe.com too).

--jeroen

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Finding back Invoices Amazon prime membership (via Dashboard: Invoices = Proton Account)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/17

A while ago I wrote about Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account.

From my link archive, here are the links to find back the invoices for Amazon prime membership fees:

--jeroen

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Falconer’s knot: the worlds best one handed knot! – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/13

[Wayback/Archive] The Worlds BEST One Handed Knot! – YouTube which “The Bear Essentials” in this video calls “the thumbs up knot” but in fact is the Falconer’s Knot (which in turn is a one-handed way of tying a Halter Hitch) and also covered in his longer video [Wayback/Archive] TOP 10 BEST Knots for Life – YouTube.

The Thumbs Up knot is in fact a different knot which you can for instance use at the start of a paracord keychain: [Wayback/Archive] THUMBS UP! – YouTube

The short video explains the Falconer’s Knot well, but I do more like the step by step pictures in [Wayback/Archive] The Modern Apprentice – How to Tie a Falconer’s Knot

A video that also explains it better is [Wayback/Archive] Tying the Falconers Knot – YouTube.

More links:

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Interactive maps with building ages in The Netherlands / Interactieve kaarten met bouwjaar gebouwen in Nederland

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/13

I found these maps:

  • Years at the time of writing this post (spring 2023)

Via:

--jeroen

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Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10

I mention dead links a lot, and always try to archive content before scheduling it in a blog post.

No different for [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral, which provides background information about how the short lifespan of most URLs.

Their 2024 publication was a poster in PNG and PTTX format (linked below under the abstract), so I created this PDF out of it:

Abstract

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scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10

Cool: [Wayback/Archive] scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.

Bumped into this via [Wayback/Archive] Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) / Twitter.

At the time of writing, it had an invalid TLS certificate, so you would get red warnings when accessing it over HTTPS.

Hopefully that has been fixed by now.

It’s not exactly security through obscurity, but it allows people to access your email after solving a captcha so it is not 100% secure but a lot more secure than otherwise.

I found it 5 years after mailhide got discontinued by Google. I used it on my [Wayback/Archive] Contact form through mailhide.recaptcha.net which Google slowly killed without me noticing likely because Google didn’t want to upgrade it from using reCAPTCHA v1 into v2 or v3.:

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Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de kerkklokken, maar niet de sirenes te horen. Het is onduidelijk wanneer ze wel te horen zullen zijn.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Op [Wayback/Archive] Sirenes – Brandweer staat dit:

👉 Geen testalarm!

Op maandag 6 april (2e paasdag) en op maandag 4 mei (dodenherdenking) is er geen test-alarm. De sirene zal dan niet te horen zijn.

Ze vergeten daar de vervolgvraag: wanneer gaan de sirenes dan wel af?

Met andere woorden: wordt het uitgesteld tot een week later, of wordt het maar liefst twee maanden overgeslagen tot maandag 1 juni? Of pas als de voorraden fossiele brandstoffen op zijn en er chaos uitbreekt?

Dit is een iets aangepaste versie van mijn toot [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de …” – Mastodon

--jeroen

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Pumpkin soup recipe

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Recipe for pumpkin soup that I got from a friend quite a while ago and further below a Dutch recipe from another friend.

I posted it a while ago in a Dutch pompoensoep thread a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Start message: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@Marjo_Sl @Dinsdal85174312 Dit is het enige pompoenrecept wat ik heb: kreeg ik ooit van een vriend. De truc is 45 minuten in de oven op 200 graden. Dan komt het vel er makkelijk af en is de pompoen ook al flink gaar, dus gaat snijden veel makkelijker. Recept over de alt-text van beide plaatjes verdeeld.”

English recipe

Text OCR-ed from image, then fixed:

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