Interesting tiny battery powered remote Lavalier microphone with USB-C receiver: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Practically Invisible…
The video covers the Hollyland LARKM2S.
I wonder about other devices like it.
--jeroen
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A Practically Invisible remote Microphone… – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/01
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Security alarm provider Woonveilig/Egardia really needs to work on their notifications towards end-users: outages are too frequend and not communicationed on to their customers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/01
This was no incident:
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Als zowel @WoonVeilig als @Egardia op 2 verschillende systemen een systeemtest failure geven en de apps 500-errors weet je dat hun infrastructuur plat ligt. Al een paar uur geleden, dus heel benieuwd hoe snel ze hun engineers wakker kunnen bellen.”
One of the problem is that Egardia/Woonveilig sees their social media channels as a broadcast-only. You can for instance se this when searching doing a [Wayback/Archive] egardia – Twitter Search or [Wayback/Archive] woonveilig – Twitter Search: no answers from them.
There were similar incidents in the past which I did not document on Twitter, but this outage was so large I had to documented it. So I started the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App with these images:
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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29
Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Karateka IBM PC Model 5150 Longplay – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/28
Karateka (which appeared way before the even more famous Prince of Persia which appeared 5 years later) memories of the past, for which I totally agree with the conclusion: the game on Apple ][ was way better:
[Wayback/Archive] 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕜𝕚𝕟💾 on Twitter: “@textfiles Jordan’s opinion on the IBM version”
JULY 31, 1986
Just looked at the “final” version of PC Karateka. It seemed OK, I guessed, except for overall sluggishness, frequent disk accesses, and a few minor graphics glitches. Then I booted up the Apple version to compare… and it was so smooth, it made me want to cry.
The PC version is maybe 50% of what it should be. I can’t even tell these guys s what to fix… it’s a million little things, and they’re just not up to the hassle. That kind of attention to detail is why the Apple version took me two years. This version is probably the best I’ll ever get out of them.
You can play the PC version online at [Wayback/Archive] Karateka IBM Version 1986-01-30 (1986-02-04) (ID 0873) : Jordan Mechner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internal Alpha version (1986-01-30) of the IBM port of Karateka by Jordan Mechner.
It was ported to many platforms, and there was a great documentary too. So there are more YouTube links below than [Wayback/Archive] Karateka IBM PC Model 5150 Longplay – YouTube which has this great description:
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The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27
Just in case I upgrade from F-mount to Z-mount and want to re-use my old 1980s/1990s era F-mount lenses:
[Wayback/Archive] The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors
Related: [Wayback/Archive] MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 Archives – Nikon Rumors
--jeroen
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Interesting; Meshtastic
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4“
Products:
- 433Mhz: [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO LORA32 T-Beam ESP32 Development Board WiFi BLE CH9102F Chip TTGO OLED Module Meshtastic Motherboards: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
- 866/915 Mhz: [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO T-Beam LORA32 ESP32 Development Board WiFi BLE CH9102F Chip Meshtastic TTGO Mainboards Soldered OLED Module: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
For both boards, this holds:
1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:
github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md
github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases
2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:
Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.
Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test
3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors
4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic (@TheMeshtastic)
- [Wayback/Archive] LILYGO (@lilygo9)
- [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Boot button for
flasher.Meshtastic.orgweb flasher.”
- [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Received @TheMeshtastic module by @lilygo9 I ordered yesterday for @HotelHacker on Friday.”
–jeroen
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What is the best free PDF Editor for Mac?… – Apple Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24
Need to check this out:
- [Wayback/Archive] What is the best free PDF Editor for Mac?… – Apple Community
- [Wayback/Archive] Why did Preview lock my PDF after I edited it?? – Apple Community
Query: [Wayback/Archive] pdf editor macos – Google Search
--jeroen
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MacOS: open file in other monitor
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24
When I have an external monitor connected to my 2015 era Retina MacBook Pro machines, I wanted some apps to appear on the laptop screen and others on the external one.
That was harder than I hoped for as no single solution works in all cases.
What I do now is to make sure the icon bar is on the monitor where I want applications to open. Not perfect, but works for most cases.
Here are some links that helped me:
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Strooikaart | Rijkswaterstaat
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/22
Voor wanneer de R van Rijkswaterstaat in de maand zit: [Wayback/Archive] Strooikaart | Rijkswaterstaat
Augustus 2025 had de eerste nachtvorst: een maand dan september wat een normale maand is voor die gebeurtenis
- [Wayback/Archive] Eerste nachtvorst al gemeten: ‘Zo vroeg door samenloop omstandigheden’ – Omroep Brabant: het laatste nieuws uit Brabant, sport en informatie uit jouw regio. (door kuch – Ron – kuck – Vorstermans – kuch).
- [Wayback/Archive] Vroege nachtvorst en een ‘valse herfst’ – zomer 2025 blijft verrassen | de Volkskrant
Inzoomen op de kaart laat zien:
- Waar de strooiwagens nu actief zijn
- Wat de temperaturen van het wegdek zijn
Voorbeeld:
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Inschrijving tot 1 december: Trilveen Festival 2026 | Muzikaal feest voor de blaasmuziek
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/22
Trilveen 2026 is op 9 mei. De inschrijving is bijna gesloten: Trilveen Festival 2026 | Muzikaal feest voor de blaasmuziek
Avondprogramma staat al vast – twee gerenommeerde orkesten die hun complete WMC-programma laten horen:
- Gelders Fanfare Orkest
- Fanfare De Eendracht Den Ilp.
In 2025 deden overdag volgens [Archive] Trilveen Festival | KunstGreep Oostzaan | deze orkesten mee:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 