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Wat is de maximale huurverhoging voor een vrijesectorwoning in 2026? | Rijksoverheid.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/30

Edit 20260601: Tagged “missed schedule” vanwege de WordPress.com missed schedule bug die sinds 2012 niet is opgelost (kennelijk kan WordPress wel iets met AI, maar een lijst met meer dan 100 geagendeerde blogposts is “too big” voor ze)

Origineel:

Voor in het huurdossier: [Wayback/Archive] Wat is de maximale huurverhoging voor een vrijesectorwoning in 2026? | Rijksoverheid.nl

In 2026 is de jaarlijkse huurverhoging voor vrijesectorwoningen maximaal 4,4%. Dit geldt ook voor ligplaatsen voor woonboten. De huurverhoging moet wel als afspraak in uw huurcontract staan.

--jeroen

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Your presenter might not be dead, and a stupid USB cable with large plug needed to “Charge the Logitech Spotlight presentation remote”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/29

A follow-up on my previous post on Logitech presenters: Logitech remotes for presenting

Did my Logitech Spotlight die, or did the charging cable die?

I had not presented for a couple of years because of my cancer. So I tried to recharged my hardly used Logitech Spotlight presenter. No light would turn on. I thought it was the USB cable being broken.

[Wayback/Archive] Logitech Spotlight presentation remote LED status indicator

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Posted in Hardware, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

ChatGPT is a language model, which means it does not understand you and you can circumvent the gates added by humans

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/29

“Tricking” ChatGPT to give you information is about navigating around the gates added by humans: [Wayback/Archive] Gokul Rajaram on Twitter: “lol”:

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Posted in Software Development, Development, Power User, LifeHacker, AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, GPT-3, ChatGPT | Leave a Comment »

Generating ASCII-tables with spanning cells: manual labour still needed

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28

Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.

TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.

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A lot of GitLab pages links and Git pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: “error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27

Got an error when pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502

There was no big difference in information between these commands¹:

  1. git push
  2. git push --verbose

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Posted in //e, 6502, Apple, Apple ///, Apple IIgs, Apple ][, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitLab, History, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Leave a Comment »

Figuring out which COM Surrogate dllhost.exe process to kill (via The Old New Thing)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/25

A while ago, ejecting a CompactFlash card on Windows 10 failed with the dreaded message “The action can’t be completed because the file is open in COM Surrogate.”

I was in a hurry, and it was a long time since I bumped into a similar message, so I simply rebooted as I knew that for certainly would fix it.

Next time, these links will help me find which dllhost.exe process to kill:

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Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/25

On my list of things to try out when more readily available [Wayback/Archive] Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden

Demos:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Flipper test 1 – YouTube
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Flipper test 2 – YouTube

Via

–jeroen

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Be careful running Proxmox with Samsung SSDs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/22

In 2016, Proxmox within 6 months caused so many media errors on a Samsung MZ-7KE2T0BW 850PRO SSD 2TB that I had to RMA it. A year before that, a friend has similar issues with Samsung SSDs as well.

Other Samsung products seem to suffer with Proxmox when NCQ is enabled [Wayback/Archive] 201693 – Samsung 860 EVO NCQ Issue with AMD SATA Controller.

Reminded because of [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@jpluimers That might be because of excessive logging. But sure, it’s relatively old but still relevant if you own this specific combination of hardware. For me the workaround was not turned on automatically.”.

–jeroen

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Some tools for conference organisers

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21

Just in case I ever get involved in organising a conference:

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds Podcast – YouTube: hackerhotel review
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Hackerhotel 2020 – Review – YouTube (starts at around the 07:30 mark)
  3. [Wayback/Archive] 2020-03-28-Content-meeting-minutes – MCH2022 wiki
  4. [Wayback/Archive] OrangeCon on X: “@J0R1AN who is giving a workshop on hack the box methodology at Orangecon found a stored XSS on pretalx. (Which would probably be able to make CFP reviewers automatically accept his submission.) It is now fixed. Thanks for the quick response and fix @pretalx” / X

Queries:

–jeroen

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the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19

15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes

TL;DR: (not sugar coated; read the full post and their follow-ups on the why and how)

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Blue team, Development, LLM, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

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