Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/23
Maybe in the future I have enough energy to play around more with the Windows .CAT files that are catalog files with digital signatures for Windows driver files (.sys) that can be installed via Windows information files (.inf).
Some links for that:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/22
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – minvws/horsebattery: A password generator inspired by https://xkcd.com/936/
Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] xkcd: Password Strength
Curated Dutch word list: [Wayback/Archive] horsebattery/config/nl/word-list.txt at main · minvws/horsebattery · GitHub
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Discord
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
Via:
You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an
_atprotoTXTdns-record.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
This started out ad a post to make things easier for my mentally brother, but then I figured it makes it so much easier for myself as well: getting rid of the evern returning Windows nag screens. Not just the ones after logon during initial Windows install that get back about every other Windows 20H update (thank god they stepped away from 19## version numbering that felt so, ehm, last millennium), but also the various “suggestions” in start menu, on the taskbar and elsewhere.
I understand that basically giving Windows 10 and 11 for free to many Windows 7/8 licensed machines or Windows-preinstalled machines induces Microsoft to see Windows as an advertising environment, but hey: many users can do without these distractions.
It is hard to solve, as even the underlying registry settings seem to be reset every once in a while, and solving it globally is not an option: the settings are a per-user one. Which means you need to run script early during every Windows logon to overwrite these settings.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/18
Needed to check some of the fuses on the Mercedes-Benz R171 SLK of my better half.
Found them with [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] [Wayback/Archive] SLK R171 Fusebox layout.pdf through [Wayback/Archive] R171 Fuse Allocation Chart | Mercedes SLK World.
That forum thread also referred to [Wayback/Archive] Fuse box location and diagrams: Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class (2005-2011) – YouTube, but I found the PDF more clear than the video.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] r171 fuses – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/18
It started with this tweet [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Does anyone know why this iqvw64e.sys file from @Dell is considered unsafe? It is signed by @IntelSoftware and resides in C:\Program Files\Dell\SupportAssistAgent\PCDr\SupportAssist\6.0.7033.2285\iqvw64e.sys iqvw64e.inf in the same directory: 04/06/2018,1.3.2.17 @IntelSupport? “
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/17
Interesting NUT explanation: [Wayback/Archive] Save your servers! NUT on a Raspberry Pi! – YouTube.
Wonder how well it does with a combo of APC and Victron UPS systems.
Related:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
As a keyboard person, I prefer to live on the CLI (command-line interface), so when possible I prefer command-line tools over GUI tools (especially since command-line tool are way easier to script).
In the past on non-Windows systems I used gist (see below), but that is not available on Windows unless you have a Ruby environment.
Some notes on Windows to install and authenticate GitHub CLI (gh) and GitLab CLI (glab), both of which I previously mentioned in Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username.
For me, installing is easiest through Chocolatey (version numbers from the time of writing; the non-archived URLs point to the most current version available):
This was my install script:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14
[Wayback/Archive] ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025.
De belangrijkste punten per 1 september 2025:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14
[Wayback/Archive] How to change the ringtone on your doorbell – The Verge (quote for my Ring camera as I always forget their link):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 