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Artemis II – WDR 2

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/20

Edit 20260221: the below WDR 2 link has been renamed into [Wayback/Archive] Artemis II – Launch with Launch T0: 2026-03-07 01:29:00 UTC (yup, that T0 is T-zero, not T-oh) which the Americans date as 206-03-06 as they use local EST time which is only valid at their east coast.

Artemis II testing and launch videos, including timeline, can be viewed from [Wayback/Archive] Artemis II – WDR 2.

Yesterday, as part of the launch vehicle system tests, the second wet dress rehearsal was performed.

Somewhere the next few weeks, a launch is anticipated.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @marijkelouise.bsky.social — Bluesky

--jeroen

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Link dump on GL.iNet and WireGuard

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/20

For my link archive, as these might be useful one day:

WireGuard on Gl.INet devices

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Agile Manifsto turned 25 years this: happy birthmonth!

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Yesterday evening, WordPress.com did it again: “missed schedule” – that bug still is not fixed, so I posted it manually today.

In the time when people create a lot of technical debt, the [Wayback/Archive] Manifesto for Agile Software Development turned 25 years. Happy birthmonth!

Birthmonty you say, not birthday? Yes, it took  a few days for the Agile Manifesto to get written – you can read about it at [Wayback/Archive] History: The Agile Manifesto which starts with

On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened

I got reminded to it [Wayback/Archive] Agile Manifesto co-author ‘smitten’ with vibe coding • The Register which shows that vibe coding only can work when all people involved know exactly what they are doing. More often than not they don’t, and just increase their technical debt which was something that working in an agile way tries to solve. So better re-read this 25 year piece of work before you start using LLM to generate code.

Related blog posts:

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Enabling TRIM on an external SSD on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Enabling TRIM on an external SSD on a Raspberry Pi | Jeff Geerling

Printing to large format paper or displaying it on large screens introduces a lot of whitespace resulting in the listings having horizontal scrollbars. That was easier to circumvent in CSS than I initially thought, so I wrote [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App:

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A 2D barcode on PostNL delivered packages can contain too much sender information (via Security.NL and Tweakers.net): is this in the documented Data Matrix and who should fix this?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/17

Yesterday, an important question appeared at almost the same time on Tweakers.net and Security.nl. It is about 2D barcodes on some packages delivered by PostNL. Some of these – I call them Data Matrix, as that is what they are – seem to include the e-mail address of the recipient.

The posts caused some uproar, and in order for myself to understand what is going on and what questions should be asked to PostNL, I wrote this blog post.

In any case: always remove parcel labels before disposing of the parcels, then destroy the labels. This has always been good privacy practice and will stay that way forever.

 

Regrettably, Tweakers.net blocks both the Wayback Machine and Archive Today, which makes their information ephemeral. Therefore I archived some of the Tweakers.net information in the gist [Wayback/Archive] “E-mailadres van ontvanger kan in PostNL barcode staan” archived from https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/2327530/0 · GitHub

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Ring Video Doorbell Comparison chart

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/16

Yes, I know: Ring and controversy.

Still need to figure out how to replace their ecosystem without shelling out far above 1K of money though, so for now – as our main doorbell is showing deterioration and hoping there would be PoE powered ones – a comparison chart PDF:

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Exactly how to remove DRM · apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools Wiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/16

The easiest way to get rid of DRM from PDF files is to use the Calibre plugin DeDRM with the instructions at [Wayback/Archive] Exactly how to remove DRM · apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools Wiki

The reason that I promote this tool is that the user experience of is that the user experience of Adobe Digital Editions is mediocre at best: keyboard navigation usually does not work, viewing 2 pages next to each other is impossible and almost none of the Acrobat Reader functionality is available.

[Wayback/Archive] How to view 2 pages, side-by-side in PDF within Ad… – Adobe Support Community – 10666132

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Het gevecht om de ultieme VVD-scalp, de hypotheekrenteaftrek, is nog niet helemaal gestreden | de Volkskrant

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/15

[Wayback/Archive] Het gevecht om de ultieme VVD-scalp, de hypotheekrenteaftrek, is nog niet helemaal gestreden | de Volkskrant

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Er is alleen een probleem: de Belastingdienst weet niet wie (aflossingsvrije) hypotheken heeft van dertig jaar of ouder. De hypotheekhouders zijn ook niet verplicht om dat zelf bij te houden. Het gevolg is dat iemand die in 2031 niet vrijwillig aangeeft dat zijn hypotheek de maximale looptijd heeft bereikt, nog tot 2043 kan blijven aftrekken (in dat jaar is het probleem opgelost, omdat er sinds 2013 alleen nog hypotheken zijn die moeten worden afgelost).

Ambtelijk wordt daar al lang voor gewaarschuwd. ‘De dertigjaarstermijn is vanaf 2031 niet goed uit te voeren en vraagt echt om een beleidsaanpassing’, staat er in een advies uit 2024. Ook de extra kosten voor de schatkist zijn in kaart gebracht: zo’n 976 miljoen euro per jaar. Een bedrag dat niet is opgenomen in de ramingen en dus ergens vandaan moet worden gehaald.

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Toch valt rond Financiën te horen dat de kwestie waarschijnlijk op de lange baan wordt geschoven en uiteindelijk ‘verdwijnt in de techniek’. Door voorzichtig te draaien aan het tarief van de eerste belastingschijf, te ‘spelen met de heffingskortingen’ en andere fiscale regelingen kunnen de kosten van de hypotheekrenteaftrek alsnog worden getemperd voor de schatkist. Zo kunnen ook de extra kosten vanaf 2031 enigszins worden gecompenseerd. ‘Dat gebeurt vaker’, aldus een ingewijde. ‘Maar het valt niemand op. Veel te technisch.’

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Link: [Wayback/Archive] Belastingen in maatschappelijk perspectief_Bouwstenen voor een beter belastingstelsel.pdf [Wayback PDF Preview/PDF Preview] (2024)

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @mariekedoorman.bsky.social — Bluesky

--jeroen

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Museum vol vintage computers toont het stenen tijdperk van ons schermleven | Trouw

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/15

Trouw publiceerde dit prachtige ode aan het HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond wat een belangrijk document is aan de geschiedenis van computers, voornamelijk, maar niet niet alleen die thuis stonden:

[Wayback/Archive] Museum vol vintage computers toont het stenen tijdperk van ons schermleven | Trouw

Iets bijzonders in dit museum is dat:

Je mag overal aanzitten, ‘behalve aan het personeel’.

Maar ook dat de computers, spellen en andere elektronica in hun natuurlijke historische omgeving staan: meubels, behang, accessoires sluiten allemaal aan.

Mijn eigen verzameling aan historische computers wordt na mijn dood aan dit museum ter beschikking gesteld.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @homecomputermuseum.computermuseum.social.ap.brid.gy — Bluesky

--jeroen

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GitHub – glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/13

On my list of tools to play around with: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – glotlabs/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client

With a warning though from the documentation (emphasis mine):

Gdrive saves your account credentials and tokens under $HOME/.config/gdrive3/. You don’t usually need to use these files directly, but if someone gets access to them, they will also be able to access your Google Drive. Keep them safe.

and from the gdrive2 prior version more elaborate documentation [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – prasmussen/gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client:

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