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World Health Organisation – “Quick reference guide: responsible reporting on suicide”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.

When you are in The Netherlands:

  • Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
  • If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.

When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:

Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.

The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.

If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:

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msftconnecttest/msftncsi: Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05

Note that http://neverssl.com is the way to figure out if you are in a captive portal, see below.

In Windows 10, the name of the endpoint changed from msftncsi to msftconnecttest, presumably to make the purpose of the access more obvious in security and audit logs. Nobody will understand that NCSI stands for Network Connectivity Status Indicator.

[Wayback/Archive] Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing

It refers to a few other interesting sites, for instance about modifying if/how NCSI detects internet connectivity:

As mentioned at the top: my blog post on http://neverssl.com: NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication

Other related blog posts:

–jeroen

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LAN/WAN network building: test and know how to locate your cabling

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04

I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.

Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.

A few videos that can be helpful:

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Some notes on getting CrystalDiskMark portable on Chocolatey

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03

I needed the portable version of [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark on Chocolatey (unlike the [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskMark (Install) package). Luckily I found the auto-update package [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) and knew both that CrystalDiskMark is from the same author as CrystalDiskInfo, and that their code is on GitHub like the Chocolatey package.

Given I had a the below chocolatey-packages/automatic/crystaldiskinfo.portable as a template, I asked the CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) package maintainer if they were willing to maintain CrystalDiskMark (portable) as well and was glad the response was “yes”: [Wayback/Archive] Portabe CrystalDiskMark similar to the current CrystalDiskInfo? · Issue #159 · mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages

So for my link-archive:

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Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).

The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.

The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.

The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history

The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm

The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.

The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.

So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.

For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:

Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:

  1. https://archive.is/c6d09
  2. https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

--jeroen

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Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Lia🌈❤ on X: “Kocht voor weinig een pakket ongeclaimde pakketjes… kon net door de deur🤣 merendeel is niet interessant voor mij (gereedschap, opladers, cartridges) maar ook leuke zooi (waterkan, stickers, knutselspul). Er zitten ook mystery items in, oftewel “ik heb geen idee wat het is”.” / X

Related:

--jeroen

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gsudo (sudo for windows)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Not that long ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Home | gsudo (sudo for windows)

I wish I had bumped into this much longer ago (:

Source at [Wayback/Archive] gerardog/gsudo: Sudo for Windows.

One installer package (there are others like winget and scoop on the documentation site): [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | gsudo – a sudo for windows.

Via [Wayback/Archive] windows – How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gerardo Grignoli)

Edit 20250901 (thanks [Wayback/Archive] mterwoord (Matthijs ter Woord) · GitHub):

Windows 11 has a built-in sudo which has different semantics, and is disabled by default.

Enabling Windows 11 sudo

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Belastingaangifte 2024 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/30

Let op:

  1. deze Excel spreadsheets werken alleen correct op Windows en Engelse of Nederlandse taal-/regioinstellingen. Op MacOS en OpenOffice kan het zijn dat ze niet behoorlijk werken
  2. inloggen op Mijn Belastingdienst vandaag lukt vaak niet of is heel traag en dan kom je uit op [Wayback/Archive] U kunt nu niet inloggen op Mijn Belastingdienst

    Mijn Belastingdienst is tijdelijk niet bereikbaar. Dit komt doordat het maximale aantal mensen is ingelogd. Wij vragen u om later terug te komen. Onze excuses voor het ongemak.

    of daar na inlogpoging met de melding:

    Er is een technische fout opgetreden. U bent automatisch uitgelogd. Probeer later nog een keer in te loggen. Of bel de Belastingtelefoon 0800 - 0543. Neemt u contact op met de Belastingdienst over deze foutmelding? De volgende gegevens kunnen helpen bij het opsporen van de oorzaak: Foutcode: 96762438 Tijdstip van melding: 30 augustus 2025 om 14:32

    Er is een technische fout opgetreden. U bent automatisch uitgelogd.
    Probeer later nog een keer in te loggen. Of bel de Belastingtelefoon 0800 – 0543.

    Neemt u contact op met de Belastingdienst over deze foutmelding? De volgende gegevens kunnen helpen bij het opsporen van de oorzaak:

    • Foutcode: 96762438
    • Tijdstip van melding: 30 augustus 2025 om 14:32

    [Wayback/Archive] 483877656-3984fa77-7838-4c92-ae50-fa530cf77255.png (1070×224)

    of na inloggen deze melding:

    Let op! Probleem Mijn Belastingdienst Door een technische storing gaat het inzenden van aangiftes niet altijd goed. Bij het inzenden kan er een technische fout optreden. We werken aan een oplossing. Excuses voor het ongemak.

    Let op!
    Probleem Mijn Belastingdienst
    Door een technische storing gaat het inzenden van aangiftes niet altijd goed. Bij het inzenden kan er een technische fout optreden. We werken aan een oplossing. Excuses voor het ongemak.

    [Wayback/Archive] 483878240-0c9e5c63-98aa-4d19-bde1-f53a56f082a3.png (810×111)

Met dank aan het commentaar van Leon onder mijn blog-post Belastingaangifte 2023 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee is hier op de valreep de versie voor aangifte 2024:

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Veel gebruikte afkortingen in de oogzorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Had ik nodig om de brief van de oogarts te kunnen ontcijferen (:

[Wayback/Archive] www.optometrie.nl/serverspecific/default/images/File/Richtlijnen/Afkortingenoogzorg131104.pdf

Queries:

--jeroen

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Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Reminder to self: check if the WordPress.com classic editor is still alive and still supports adding Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) polls (Crowdsignal is part of Automattic, the WordPress.com parent company).

From [Wayback/Archive] Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress (I made the areas that are important to me in bold):

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