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Post van RSI (@roelant.bsky.social — Bluesky): Smurfwijzer 2025 – de ultieme stemwijzer

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/18

Smurfwijzer 2025

[Wayback/Archive] @roelant.bsky.social — Bluesky: De ultieme stemwijzer is er weer:

De ultieme stemwijzer is er weer:

✏️De Smurfwijzer

In één oogopslag weet u waar u aan toe bent!

Delen!♻️

#TK2025 #Stemwijzer #Kieswijzer #Smurfwijzer #Verkiezingen

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[Wayback/Archive] bafkreieedfxb5yjhsp3fub2v3ow2gkrysej7zjgkhihvbfd5kcqlw7sj3m@png (2000×1932)

Ook deze keer in groot formaat (plaatje onderaan de blog post) en zowel in JPEG als PNG.

Helaas wordt de post op veel social media (kuch, [WaybackSave/Archive] smurfwijzer – Search / X, kuch) zonder bronvermelding gedeeld, ook door mensen met politieke en beleidsachtergrond als mevrouw de Bruine in een tweet met het groot formaat, maar stil na [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@helenedebruine Hee cool. Ben jij RSI?”.

Roelant laat in ieder geval zien dat de Peyo de bedenker en initieel auteur van de Smurfen was.

De Smurfwijzer is in 2023 door Roelant begonnen in een zowel groot als minder groot formaat:

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Turning off AI during Google Search with the “new” UDM parameter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17

It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.

In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).

That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.

This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.

Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go

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Dutch toll free Amazon Help phone number

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17

Toll free Dutch phone number for contacting Amazon is +318000224059.

The URLs mentioned in the below tweets redirect to:

Via

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The confusing case of two Android “NFC TagInfo” apps

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

For a long time, I had an “NFC TagInfo” app on my phone. It worked well, and combined simplicity with straightforward easy use.

To my dismay, when upgrading to a new phone, the icon had been copied over, but the app was unavailable as per the cropped¹ image on the right.

The important message there was “Your device isn’t compatible with this version” which, as I quickly discovered, means “This app has not been updated to be compatible with the Android version you run” (without telling up until which Android version it would run on).

What I however initially missed on the screenshot was the [Wayback/Archive] Michael Roland bit (this is his Stack Overflow profile link where he, as on [Wayback/Archive] User Michael Roland – Stack Exchange, explicitly mentions [Wayback/Archive] NFC TagInfo – Apps on Google Play²).

However, when you search you get another NFC TagInfo app: NFC TagInfo by NXP.

The confusing bit

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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments:

[Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi based on Google’s Skia graphics library.

The foundation is the cross platform Google 2D Skia Graphics Engine:

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Draad van @Walrathis expert in psychotraumatologie on Thread Reader App – over crisisrespons tijdens Oktoberfest 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Een inzichtvolle draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Walrathis on Thread Reader App

Enkele onderwerpen:

  • tijdlijn
  • opschalen
  • compartimenteren
  • regie hebben en houden
  • communicatie
  • suicide postventie
  • briefing/debriefing
  • evenementen

Uiteraard dit: Denk je aan zelfmoord? Neem contact op met 113, dat kan altijd gratis en anoniem: bellen via 113 of 0800-0113, of via de chat of teletolk op [Wayback/Archive] Homepage | 113 Zelfmoordpreventie.

Gerelateerd

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Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Interesting ideas about home automation, domotics and IoT:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verlichting – Tweakers
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huishoudelijke taken – Tweakers
  4. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huisgenoten en -dieren – Tweakers
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verwarming, klimaat en energiegebruik – Tweakers
  6. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Multimedia – Tweakers
  7. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
  8. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.

Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.

From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:

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I was in my 50’s discovering Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

Boy, I must have lived under a stone as it took me some 6 years to discover [Wayback/Archive] Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Check your browser and settings at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks.

More information at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser.

Via

–jeroen

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Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

Despite beta or early alpha quality [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver by by [Wayback/Archive] RetroTech Chris – YouTube is very cool.

Main source: [Wayback/Archive] daynaport-dos-packet-driver/src/dayna.c at main · cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver · GitHub

Related:

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