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Belastingaangifte 2023 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27

Dit jaar was ik er een paar dagen eerder bij dan vorig jaar: meer rust in mijn hoofd na de verhuizing en een betere planning gemaakt rondom de paardrijvakantie van mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer (waar we altijd zorgen daar in de buurt te zijn zodat we indien nodig snel ter plaatse kunnen handelen).

Waarom is deze blog post zo laat?

Het laat heeft er vooral mee te maken dat deze Excel sheet meestal nog een aantal wijzigingen krijgt na de normale deadline van 1 mei. Dus ik begin pas met downloaden de maand voor de echt harde deadline van 1 september.

Waarom dan toch nu de post?

Eigenlijk is dat heel simpel: vooral zodat je kunt zien hoe je aan deze informatie komt ook al wijzigen de locaties: waar vorig jaar het Excel-bestand voor de belastingaangifte nog bij Google stond, staat het deze keer bij WeTransfer.

Dit jaar zijn de linkjes her en der dus behoorlijk anders: meer dan een simpele vervanging van 2022 door 2023 in de start-link van de eerste Google Search onderaan mijn blog-post.

Let ook op (dit vergat ik vorig jaar te vermelden): dit Excel bestand werkt bij mij niet op Office voor MacOS.

Omdat Computer Idee meestal geen jaartallen in de titels van hun artikelen gebruikt, moet je handmatig de zoekresultaten van Google Search door om te zien welke relevant voor aangifte over afgelopen jaar (in dit geval 2023) is/zijn. Vandaar dat ik hieronder op een aantal plekken jaartellen heb toegevoegd:

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Rondje kanovaren: Greveling Lisse via Ringvaart Haarlemmermeer en Ringsloot

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/26

Rondje 11km

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Rondje buren 2.6km:

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Op bezoek bij vrienden:

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--jeroen

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With the ever increasing heatwaves all around the world: important PDF. Print it. Have it with you. Even better: read it before and prepare! “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20” @Walrathis

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/26

This is a reminder of a tweet I posted two years back: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “With the current heatwaves all around the world: important PDF. Print it. Have it with you. Even better: read it before and prepare! “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20”  CC @Walrathis”

Climate change makes the weather expres happen more often and more prominently.

This means in the summer more heat waves.

Be prepared, so download and print this booklet: [Wayback] 54_HIP Pocket Guide.pdf titled “Heat Illness Prevention Pocket Guide Approved for public release, distribution unlimited TA-010-JAN20”.

It is from the USA army. They know this shit well.

I got the link from [Wayback/Archive] ReverseSlope on Twitter: “@jpluimers @J_Green_505 @GameOverMike @MDArcheologist @KristeninAlmo @diggingellen @OSHA This is a good summation. …”

Via [Wayback/Archive] Either Ellen or Dr. Chapman on Twitter: “Kaylen Gehrke, a 24 year old archaeologist on her first day on the job, died of a heat related medical emergency in Louisiana yesterday. Thinking back to past heat illness of myself and others and the varying responses from supervisors. So sorry for her, her family, and friends.”

Related: Rode Kruis on Twitter: “#hittetip voor de komende dagen en de zomer. 👉 Zo herken je de symptomen van oververhitting:…”

–jeroen

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512GB to 8TB for your M1: Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/24

Video: [Wayback/Archive] Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Tweets in [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App

  1. Just finished an awesome upgrade on an M1 Mac Studio, upgrading the stock 512GB of storage to its maximum of 8TB. Thanks to Gilles of Polysoft Services reverse-engineering and designing a custom storage module PCBs, I was able to perform the upgrade with ease!
  2. Be sure to check out my video of the complete upgrade process, found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFCurB3-0Q

The PCB are by [Wayback/Archive] Polysoft – centre de services à Tours/[WaybackSave/Archive] Gilles AUREJAC (@gillesaurejac) / X Hopefully, they will be available for sale soon.

Tweet images:

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If I ever need to do OAuth: aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers: OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/21

This is cool: [Wayback/Archive] aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers: OAuth 2.0 social authentication providers for ASP.NET Core.

Based on ideas at [Wayback/Archive] TerribleDev/OwinOAuthProviders: OAuth providers for Owin.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler 🇧🇧🇺🇸 on Twitter: “Since we’re on the auth topic, there’s a repository maintained by @martin_costello and @kevin_chalet for interacting with pretty much every oauth provider on the planet github.com/aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers… #dotnet #aspnetcore”.

OAuth 2.0 providers covered at the time of writing are in the [Wayback/Archive] AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers/README.md: Providers at dev · aspnet-contrib/AspNet.Security.OAuth.Providers.

–jeroen

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Some lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike debacle

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/20

About a month from International CrowdStruck Day, just a few thoughts, more likely to follow:

  • How well does your infrastructure behave when none of your Windows machines can boot?
  • How well is your out-of-band management?
  • How well is your CMDB doing key management, for instance for BitLocker encryption?
  • Is checkbox compliance more important than a single point of failure?
  • Can you ensure all updates from your supply chain are staggered/staged/phased with a kill switch when things get out of hand?
  • Are the worst case scenarios in your disaster recovery plans really the worst?
  • Do you understand the human factor of large scale outages (both of the people that – often indirectly – triggered them – hello #HupOps – and the ones that cannot work because of them)?
  • Do you value your people – especially the ones that pulled you out of this situation – enough, and did you rename your Human Resource department into something that is more friendly to your people?
  • Do you realise this could have happened on any of the platforms you use, including Linux and MacOS?
  • If you were mentioned in the media by not recovering well, do you have any idea how much a target you will be from adversaries?
  • Did CrowdStrike finally show some real postmortem instead of the half-hearted communications they did mostly after the weekend following the debacle?
  • How does your organisation perform dates of critical files?
  • Would other platforms be less or more risky? If so: why?
  • Will eBPF solve most of this, or at least centralise the issues and what consequences would that have?

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Smart idea: (re)use a solar panel as balcony power plant table

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/20

Still to do for Michael: put the inverter on the underside of the table-top.

[Wayback/Archive] Michael Eberhard on Twitter: “Nachdem wir eh einen neuen Tisch auf unserer Dachterrasse brauchten, gibt es nun einen Balkonkraftwerk-Tisch. Bloß der Wechselrichter muss noch unter der Tischplatte verträumt werden.”

The picture is below; this is the part list: [Wayback/Archive] Michael Eberhard on Twitter: “@TuckiTina @MatthiasVialon AlphaSolar Komplettpaket ca. 500€ Ikea Tischbeine 60€ Holz aus dem Bestand.” / Twitter

  • AlphaSolar full system ~500€
  • Ikea Table legs ~60€
  • Spare wood

Yield is not bad: [Wayback/Archive] Michael Eberhard on Twitter: “@truewhitemount Ich habe einen einfachen Zähler dazwischen. Gerade jetzt produziert der Tisch zwischen 180 und 230 Watt. In Summe bin ich im den letzten Tagen auf 0,6 – 0,8 kWh pro Tag gekommen. Noch ist die Motivation da, jeden Abend den Zähler abzulesen…” / Twitter

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‘Tis but a scratch, just a flesh wound: 3D Printable Black Knight from Monty Python – Highlands Miniatures by Highlands Miniatures

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/19

Memories of a great movie scene with The Black Knight and King Arthur: for USD 5 you can get the template files for the [Wayback/Archive] 3D Printable Black Knight from Monty Python – Highlands Miniatures by Highlands Miniatures.

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Remote desktop connection protocol error 0x112F: usually is lack of memory on the server side, try connecting with a lower resolution

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/19

Usually I work at high resolution monitors and sometimes I got error 0x112F when doing Remote Desktop.

After a reboot of the target machine, that error always goes away, but I wanted to know the underlying reason.

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What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis by Andy Pennel, Sonos fanboy/hacker

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/16

Four years ago, there was a [Wayback/Archive] Sonos U-turn over ‘bricking’ its smart speakers (BBC) after which hell broke loose in their community.

It was the main reason that I put my wish for Sonos speakers to sleep (and concentrate on surviving cancer).

Since a few weeks Sonos has released new apps that perform way worse and causes great turmoil in their community again, see for instance [Wayback/Archive] reddit/r/sonos: Anyone else worried about Sonos’s future? : sonos and [Wayback/Archive] The disaster known as The New Sonos App – vowe dot net.

I expect this this time Sonos won’t make a U-Turn: [Wayback/Archive] What happened to the Sonos app? A technical analysis is clear about what happened (“data-grab for AI purposes”) and the up-side for Sonos shareholders.

It however is making people that appreciate the former Sonos aim for quality to look for alternatives, which leads me to a post (plus thread) that pointed me to the above technical analysis: [Wayback/Archive] Kris: “Currently 11 Sonos devices. Time for an exit strategy. …” – chaos.social.

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