I tried finding older versions of [Wayback/Archive] 160767437_1614740178716498_1088211482313253900_n.jpg (667×960) from Facebook: Crappy Electrical jokes and Puns. 1,666 likes · 9 talking about this. Just for fun (20210315), especially as the web-site of the ultimate source seems to have died: [Wayback/Archive] Kill The Neighbours, the game that doesn’t hurt – free online puzzle game
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Conductor, Semiconductor and Superconductor with a twist
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11
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Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08
On my list of things to try: [Wayback/Archive] Turn iPhone, iPad and Android into wireless mobile mouse / trackpad / keyboard with Remote Mouse.
Goal is to see if the iPad can function as a larger touchpad to assist drawing on my MacBook.
Links:
- [Wayback/Archive] FAQ – Remote Mouse – News & Tips
- [Wayback/Archive] Remote Mouse – News & Tips – Turn your mobile phone or tablet into a set of wireless mouse, keyboard and trackpad.
- [Wayback/Archive] Remote Mouse App Intro – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Remote Mouse on the App Store (iPad version)
- [Wayback/Archive] Remote Mouse on the Mac App Store (macOS version)
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Use iPad as a Trackpad – Apple Community
- [Wayback/Archive] Using ipad as trackpad for PC : ipad
Query: [Wayback/Archive] use ipad as mouse – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Hopefully by now the Chocolatey .nuspec extensions and limitations are documented in a more central way
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08
Chocolatey extends the NuGet file format .nuspec based XML files as base for their packages with at the time of writing very sparse and limited documentation in what it extends, why it does that and what extra limitations it imposes on the fields used inside .nuspec files.
Hopefully by now that has improved, so this post is a reminder to myself to check that out eventually.
At the time of writing, the NuGet .nuspec documentation was at [Wayback/Archive] .nuspec File Reference for NuGet | Microsoft Learn and the file format at [Wayback/Archive] NuGet.Client/nuspec.xsd at dev · NuGet/NuGet.Client. Most fields are defined as primitive data types xs:boolean, xs:string and xs:anyURI (of the 19 available primitive XML SChema (W3C) types). Some composite data types are are composed from them using local and global complexType, most using xs:all, xs:attribute or single-type unbounded xs:sequence (which all imply no particular order).
Since an XML Schema allows to both use restriction and extension on data types (the eXtensible in XML!), making them more strict is a relatively straight-forward operation and has the benefit of having these in a central place.
In the past for more than 5 years [Wayback/Archive] Is there a specification for the package format? · Issue #379 · chocolatey/choco was just pointing to the NuGet .nuspec format, but after a request to re-open new comments were made pointing to a current issue (basically a stub, but still) and a Chocolatey nuspec.xsd file, yay!
Still it was a quest to figure out the additional rules they have added, especially since the documentation was sparse and sloppy.
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html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/07
On my research list [Wayback/Archive] html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
The reason what that back then this would fail (but worked in Firefox and Safari, and because I was in a hurry I didn’t research further): [Wayback/Archive] https://www.office.com/
This site can’t be reached
The webpage at https://www.office.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_FAILED
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Mason Wheeler and [Wayback/Archive] Joel Davey.
Details:
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peter purgathofer: “… i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen …” – 🌱 hci.social
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
The below post reminded me that around black friday I bought [Wayback/Archive] ADWITS 2-Pack 4K 2K 1080P 30Hz to 60Hz Support HDMI Display Emulator DDC EDID Headless Ghost Monitor Adapter Dummy Plug, Highest 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz – Gold Colour: Amazon.de: PC & Video Games
[Wayback/Archive] peter purgathofer: “today i gave a talk, where the…” – 🌱 hci.social
today i gave a talk, where the setup was that i had to share my presentation over zoom, but i didn’t have a second screen. this usually meant that i have to forgo seeing my presenters’ notes because my notebook’s screen would be the shared presentation screen.
i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen.
simple and effective.
--jeroen
Image from the Toot: [Wayback/Archive] 6af960c3f84a12e8.jpeg (2939×2821)
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linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow (plus some Twitter scraping tricks)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
Sometimes I need [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302 on the command-line, so cURL to the rescue: [Wayback/Archive] linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow. The relevant portions of answers and comments further below.
TL;DR:
Since I prefer verbose command-line arguments (you can find them at the [Wayback/Archive] curl – How To Use on-line man page) especially in scripts this HTTP GET request is what works with Twitter:
% curl --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://x.com/anyuser/status/20
This failed (twitter dislikes HTTP HEAD requests):
% curl --head --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20
Notes
Given so many of my scripts now run on zsh, I added the new-line because of command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow. You can strip that bit.
Note that these do not perform client side redirects, so they do not return the ultimate originating URL https://x.com/jack/status/20 (which was the first ever Tweet on what was back then called twttr) as Twitter on the client-side overwrites window.location.href with the final URL. Similar behaviour for getting the Twitter user handle of a Twitter user ID, more on Twitter tricks below.
Tweet by TweetID trick via [Wayback/Archive] Accessing a tweet using only its ID (and without the Twitter API) – Bram.us.
Further reading (thanks [Wayback/Archive] vise, [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Stenberg, [Wayback/Archive] Ivan, [Wayback/Archive] AndrewF, [Wayback/Archive] Roger Campanera, and [Wayback/Archive] Dave Baird):
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Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05
For my research list: [Wayback/Archive] Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
--jeroen
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BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04
One of my BMW E61 rear light fixtures leaked: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube
[Wayback/Archive] Tail Light Leak…? | BMW M5 Forum and M6 Forums
Personally I’d start with new gaskets.
In my case, it was the light fixture itself leaking, not the gaskets, so either the work in the video is needed, or a second hand tail light.
Queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] e61 tail light leaking – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “E61” “tail light” leaking – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Windows: editing the RLU list of vncviewer.exe
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04
Every now and then you make a typo when accessing remote systems through UltraVNC vncviewer.exe (I did the worst: thinking I had hit Enter to select the most recent connection, but typing a password instead).
I could not find settings in the registry, nor a vncviewer.ini file, so I used Process Monitor and filtered all events for the most recently started vncviewer.exe to figure out where it would store configuration files.
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Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
[Wayback/Archive] Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten
De Afdeling vernietigt de uitspraak van de rechtbank en overweegt hiertoe als volgt. Volgens de Afdeling volgt uit de systematiek van de Awb dat indien een ambtshalve beslissing om het register te wijzigen een beschikking is, het verzoek van een belanghebbende om een zodanige beschikking te nemen een aanvraag is in de zin van artikel 1:3 van de Awb. De afwijzing van de aanvraag is hiermee ook een beschikking. De ambtshalve wijziging van het Rijksmonumentenregister is een ambtshalve besluit waartegen wel kan worden opgekomen bij de bestuursrechter. Als de afwijzing van een verzoek tot wijziging niet wordt aangemerkt als een besluit op een aanvraag, dan staat tegen de weigering alleen de gang naar de burgerlijke rechter open. Dit vindt de Afdeling onwenselijk.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 