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The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

Just in case I upgrade from F-mount to Z-mount and want to re-use my old 1980s/1990s era F-mount lenses:

[Wayback/Archive] The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors

Related: [Wayback/Archive] MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 Archives – Nikon Rumors

--jeroen

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Interesting; Meshtastic

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

ImageOn my list of hardware/software to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic:

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4“

Products:

For both boards, this holds:

1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:

github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md

github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases

2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:

Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.

Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test

3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors

4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna

Related:

–jeroen

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What is the best free PDF Editor for Mac?… – Apple Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24

Need to check this out:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] pdf editor macos – Google Search

--jeroen

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MacOS: open file in other monitor

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/24

When I have an external monitor connected to my 2015 era Retina MacBook Pro machines, I wanted some apps to appear on the laptop screen and others on the external one.

That was harder than I hoped for as no single solution works in all cases.

What I do now is to make sure the icon bar is on the monitor where I want applications to open. Not perfect, but works for most cases.

Here are some links that helped me:

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Strooikaart | Rijkswaterstaat

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/22

Voor wanneer de R van Rijkswaterstaat in de maand zit: [Wayback/Archive] Strooikaart | Rijkswaterstaat

Augustus 2025 had de eerste nachtvorst: een maand dan september wat een normale maand is voor die gebeurtenis

Inzoomen op de kaart laat zien:

  • Waar de strooiwagens nu actief zijn
  • Wat de temperaturen van het wegdek zijn

Voorbeeld:

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Inschrijving tot 1 december: Trilveen Festival 2026 | Muzikaal feest voor de blaasmuziek

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/22

Trilveen 2026 is op 9 mei. De inschrijving is bijna gesloten: Trilveen Festival 2026 | Muzikaal feest voor de blaasmuziek

Avondprogramma staat al vast – twee gerenommeerde orkesten die hun complete WMC-programma laten horen:

  • Gelders Fanfare Orkest
  • Fanfare De Eendracht Den Ilp.

In 2025 deden overdag volgens [Archive] Trilveen Festival | KunstGreep Oostzaan | deze orkesten mee:

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All of Bluesky’s Features and How to Use Them

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21

I wonder what has changed since this November 2024 article: [Wayback/Archive] All of Bluesky’s Features and How to Use Them

Via a response on me asking about moderation lists: [Wayback/Archive] John Kraal: “Deze pagina had wat basic info. Het is wel gewoon vertrouwen delegeren aan een willekeurige ander dus ga er niet blind op :-) …” — Bluesky

--jeroen

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Do WiFi-cables (German: WLAN-Kabel) exist?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21

There is this German joke about “WLAN-Kabel” (WiFi-cable) ** that goes with #Neuland (Germans mocking about Internet and technology still being uncharted territory*).

Yes, they do!

There is [Wayback/Archive] IWLAN RCoax Cable | Industrial Wireless LAN | Siemens Global:

* Neuland

See:

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What “Stairway to Heaven” Can Teach Us About Software Development – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/20

Cool video [Wayback/Archive] What “Stairway to Heaven” Can Teach Us About Software Development – YouTube with this intro:

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Currently, the Wayback Machine is down – again – without proper indication “Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance” will take or how long it might last

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/20

For more than an hour, any page on the Wayback Machine leads to [Archive] Internet Archive: Scheduled Maintenance:

Temporarily Offline

Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.

Please check our official accounts, including Twitter/X, Bluesky or Mastodon for the latest information.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Edit 20251209 18:22Z:

Back then I didn’t have time to put all updates in the blog post, so I put them as a reply below the [Archive] Richard MacManus: “The Wayback Machine has been offline for the past hour or so…” – Mastodon.

Later I forgot to update this blog post, but I just bumped into the thread again, so here it is:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “RE: https://wiert.me/2025/11/2…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    This is very typical for almost all their maintenance and outages and really frustrating for their users (of which luckily more and more are donating to them).

    Plus that the title suggests the whole Internet Archive is under maintenance whereas the rest really is working pretty OK.

    A page like `status.web.archive.org` or `status.archive.org` would be a much welcomed.

    Just blogged about it: wiert.wordpress.com/?p=187822

    (Hopefully Mastodon gets backtick code formatting)

  2. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive It …” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    It didn’t, but now that I’m back behind a keyboard, I see some social media activity by Jason Scott:

    mastodon.archive.org/@textfile

    bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com

    bsky.app/profile/textfiles.com

  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive The…” – Mastodon

    There is at least some progress:

    – web.archive.org/save/ returns a 503
    – web.archive.org/save/https://m returns a 404
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns a 503

  4. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Some progress:

    – web.archive.org/save/ returns 200
    – web.archive.org/save/https://m returns 200 with “system is overloaded” message and no imagery on the canvas
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns 503
    – web.archive.org/https://mastod returns 503
    – web.archive.org/web/*/https:// returns 200
    – web.archive.org/web/*/https:// returns 200
    – web.archive.org/web/2025112021 returns 503

  5. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Som…” – Mastodon

    Some 32 hours after the outage started, the status is this:

    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/
    – SRY page for web.archive.org/save/https://m
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://

    It’s slowly but steadily returning to normal behaviour.

  6. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Als…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Also some social media coverage yesterday:

    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1
    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1

    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p
    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p

    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet
    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet

    The first were at almost 8 hours after the incident started. That’s pretty late for status updates on a large outage.

    Time to get to the next appointment. Back in some 8 hours or so.

  7. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive – H…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/save/https://m plus a succesful archive
    – HTTP 307, 307, 302, 200, 307 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/web/2025112212
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 303, 302 and finally 200 for web.archive.org/https://mastod
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://
    – HTTP 200 for web.archive.org/web/*/https://

    Oh: interesting: stackoverflow.com/questions/20

  8. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive The…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    The appointment took way longer: got back late, did the mandatory 12 hour recovery hence the follow up only now.

    The good thing: the Wayback Machine seems to have fully recovered.

    New social media coverage some 2 hours after my coverage yesterday confirms this:

    – x.com/internetarchive/status/1

    – bsky.app/profile/archive.org/p

    – mastodon.archive.org/@internet

    Glad things work again. Now going through my backlog of pages that need to be archived.

  9. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive Slo…” – Mastodon

    @ricmac @internetarchive

    Slowly archival times go down. From about 20 hours 2 days ago to about 6 hours now.

    [Wayback/Archive] 3102eff610756ff0.png (770×272)

Edit 20251120T1614Z: 

For a short time, some of the links didn’t redirect to the above SRY page, but now they again do. This was just a short happy period:

[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@ricmac @internetarchive …” – Mastodon

@ricmac @internetarchive

There is at least some progress:

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