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A Fatigue Scale by Miss•Treated

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/04

Some two years ago, a friend of me having Long-COVID posted about fatigue and the trouble finding a scale for it.

Their Dutch Twitter thread contained the below list which is very useful as it is phrased using concrete terms.

[Wayback/Archive] Five Reasons Fatigue Isn’t Like Normal Tiredness (Proving Most People Don’t Get It) — Miss•Treated

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Posted in Awareness, Covid-19 / Coronavirus, Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2/Coronavirus, Health, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Falende administratie: Pashouder gegevens opgeven – ABN AMRO

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/03

[Wayback/Archive] www.abnamro.nl/zakelijk-pashoudergegevens is een HTTP 301 redirect naar [Wayback/Archive] Pashouder gegevens opgeven – ABN AMRO.

Kennelijk bewaart De Bank niet de persoonsgegevens die ik 35 geleden bij ze opgaf en ze in de 25 jaar daarna – toen ze nog kantoren hadden – telkens aan de balie liet zien wanneer ik me bij bepaalde transacties nodig waren – moest legitimeren.

Maar “ken uw klant” geldt niet voor “de Bank”: ze hebben de gegevens opnieuw nodig met als smoes Wwft: [Wayback/Archive] Know your client centre – ABN AMRO

Wij willen dat u elke dag veilig uw bankzaken kunt doen. Eén van de manieren waarop we hiervoor zorgen, is door actuele en correcte informatie te hebben over onze klanten. Dit is ook vastgelegd in de Wet ter voorkoming van witwassen en financieren van terrorisme (Wwft).

Dat ze die gegevens zelf dus niet paraat hebben, betekent eigenlijk dat ze zelf de veiligheid uit het oog verloren hebben.

Helaas geen uitzondering: nog geen bank tegengekomen die deze zaken wel op orde had.

Iemand tips van banken die dat wel hebben?

Dit willen ze weten volgens de brief (dit staat niet op de pagina waar de site naar verwijst: [Wayback/Archive] Pashouder gegevens opgeven – ABN AMRO):

  • Geboortedatum (ze snappen niet dat sommigen geen geboortedag of geboortemaand hebben en een of beide daarvan 00 kunnen zijn, zie Geboortedatum – Wikipedia)
  • Geslacht waarbij onduidelijk is of die het gaat om genderidentiteit, genderexpressie of biologisch geslacht (fenotypisch, gonadaal, of genetisch). Bovendien kan daar slechts man (Heer) of vrouw (Mevrouw) worden ingevuld (hallo ISO 5218) en is daar sprake van discriminatie (als het bijvoorbeeld om het genetische geslacht, dan zijn er meer dan 2 keuzes: X, XX, XXX, XY, XXY en XYY komen voor)
  • Volledige voornamen
  • Officiële achternaam
  • Aangekomen achternaam als die er is

Daadwerkelijk gevraagd op het elektronische formulier:

  • IBAN
  • Pasnummers
  • Aanhef (geslacht) met slechts de keuzes Heer of Mevrouw
  • Voorletter(s)
  • Tussenvoegsel(s)
  • Achternaam
  • Volledige voornamen
  • Tussenvoegsel(s) aangenomen achternaam
  • Volledige dubbele achternaam

Naar UBO wordt dan weer niet gevraagd (wat in bovenstaande link wel wordt gesuggereerd): [Wayback/Archive] Uw UBO-gegevens – ABN AMRO.

Daar gaan ze vast nog een keer om vragen, want stel je voor dat de zaken bij ze nu al op orde zouden zijn…

Dingen die op het formulier niet werken:

--jeroen

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firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/29

With the ever changing Google Developer UI it is sometimes hard to track where things moved or what functionality is available.

I needed the “Network” tab to preserve the connections even after a redirect and this is indeed possible as per [Wayback/Archive] firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Rodrigo Graça for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Snuffleupagus for answering):

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Long-term memory – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/26

For my link archive:

Words from the Dutch picture (thanks Google Lens!) of which there also is a large version:

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Denkreflex on Twitter: “CN Pandemie / Trauma Wir sollten manchmal gnädiger mit uns sein. !B “

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/23

This was so much me from early 2022 to mid 2022: [Wayback/Archive] Denkreflex on Twitter: “CN Pandemie / Trauma Wir sollten manchmal gnädiger mit uns sein. !B”

  1. Heart carrying a large brick titled “past trauma”
  2. Heart also carrying smaller bricks “bad news”, “pandemic” and “stress”
  3. Heart trying to step over a “minor inconvenience”
  4. Heart breaking down and brains with glasses telling the heart “I think you’re overreacting”

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ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/22

Cool: [Wayback] ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool

ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scripts

It needs a shebang at the start of a script (like #!/usr/bin/env bash) to recognise the kind of shell, then does amazing analysis.

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive.is] koalaman/shellcheck: ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts with excellent documentation including explaining screenshots like

It’s not just available on-line or on the command-line, but also integrates with many code editors (like [Wayback/Archive.is] ShellCheck – Visual Studio Marketplace: Integrates ShellCheck into VS Code, a linter for Shell scripts.) and CI/CD pipelines.

Via: [Wayback] bash – error conditional binary operator expected in compound branch – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback] Cyrus!)

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ash/dash, ash/dash development, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/20

Great for converting tab separated data (for instance when copied from Excel) into HTML:

[Wayback/Archive] Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

–jeroen

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Many links about free modem/router choice and their configurations for the Dutch KPN internet/VoIP provider

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/19

I wrote this post because the xs4all->KPN transition was messy, especially on the VoIP side.

Emails and letters were incomplete lacking some essential information for manual configuration; 2nd line help desk did not return calls; pointers to where to find correct information were lacking.

This kind of is a catch all post with most of the links I found without much of their content so I can refer to them later when writing a more detailed post on how I did get VoIP to work.

So: for my link archive, almost all posts in Dutch.

Found posts

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thuddevort on Twitter: “You can disable the extra confirmation under System > FRITZ!Box Users > Additional Confirmation”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/16

My ISP did auto-update the Fritz!Box, but did not send release-notes, so I was not aware this feature had been added eons ago:

[Wayback/Archive] thuddevort on Twitter: “@jpluimers @wijnands @b0rk @xs4all You can disable the extra confirmation under System > FRITZ!Box Users > Additional Confirmation”.

I know a second factor is better for security, but doing that on both sites at the same time when setting up LAN2LAN VPN is tough (Fritz!Box names this either “LAN-LAN coupling” or “VPN Connections between the FRITZ!Box and Other Networks”.

A better feature at the same configuration page is instead of disabling, enabling to confirm using apps like Google Authenticator and Authy:

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« The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images  » – Thomas Fuchs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14

As an alt-text advocate, I appreciate [Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🔭✨: “The same people who say it’s t…” – Hachyderm.io

The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images.

#inclusion #a11y #accessibility

In case you missed it, this is indeed a thing: Prompt engineer – Wikipedia.

--jeroen

Posted in accessibility (a11y), AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, HTML, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »