[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app
Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.
On the list to try out somewhere during the year.
It is open source; some more links:
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Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen – De Correspondent
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/01
Vooruitgang: [Wayback/Archive] Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen – De Correspondent
--jeroen
PS: te laat gepubliceerd, want “Missed Schedule” omdat WordPress.com een beperking van 100 geplande artikelen in de wachtrij heeft. Een probleem dat ze al sinds 2012 niet opgelost hebben.
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LR: “warming myself on this post li…” – Gamedev Mastodon
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/22
(This post too suffered from the WordPress.com missed schedule bug which has been unfixed since 2012)
[Wayback/Archive] LR: “warming myself on this post like a space heater…” – Gamedev Mastodon
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @jensfoell.de — Bluesky
Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
In other news today, in addition to the earlier leaked Anthropic AI model, Mythos got leaked as well – [Wayback/Archive] Dany :verified_gay:: “Ah yes, the almighty Mythos, …” – HSNL Social:
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Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/07
Windows had its own aCropalypse in the Snipping tool, but other UWP based applications are vulnerable of that too because of this:
[Wayback/Archive] Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”
It is part of this interesting [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @sjmurdoch on Thread Reader App with these two parts just after the above Tweet:
The old Win32 API for saving a file was (roughly) to show a file picker, get the filename the user selected, and then open the file. To open a file, the programmer must specify whether to overwrite the file or not, and example code usually does overwrite the file.
However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content!
The tread continued supporting this statement, that in the new situation you need to manually truncated the file, and referenced these links:
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“Your YouTube Comments” is part of “Google – My Activity”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06
It took me a while to find, but the canonical URL is Source: [Wayback/Archive] Google – My Activity – Your YouTube Comments
It was a relatively short queste:
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Excel: operations involving the last occurence of a substring (with examples getting the current Worksheet, Workbook and file/directory path)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02
Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….
There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results
an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.
Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:
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Organising my Twitter lists: adding many accounts at once
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30
I could not find a way to add many accounts at once to a Twitter list using the normal App or Web UI, so I did a [Wayback/Archive] twitter mass add accounts to list – Google Search
The only way to do this seems to be to use Google Chrome and install [Wayback/Archive] Better TweetDeck – Chrome Web Store combined with the old TweetDeck UI (or use and install it on any of the other supported browsers).
Note that it is basically a project shelved early 2023, so it will likely have stopped functioning before you read this.
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The mastodon boop sounds are called boop and were created by Josef Kenny
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/24
You can find the binary files sound files of the Mastodon beep sound at
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/raw/refs/heads/main/public/sounds/boop.mp3
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/raw/refs/heads/main/public/sounds/boop.ogg
They were created by [Wayback/Archive] Josef Kenny (blog: [Wayback/Archive] josef.one; Mastodon “i made that mastodon boop sound”: [Wayback/Archive] josef (@jk@mastodon.social) – Mastodon) early 2017 and updated with metadata later that year. In 2022 it became clear that using the sound is allowed as long as there is credit:
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RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/16
Apparently people are fed up enough that finally El Reg published an article like [Wayback/Archive] RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register.
So I wrote this [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky
I have been consuming the majority of web content through RSS for at least 15 plus years now, and The Register explains exactly why:
the web has become unbearable to consume. Not just because of ads and their risks, but especially because every web site has a different user experience.
Before 2013, I used Google Reader, but Google has the habit of killing products, so now I use Feedly.
These are some prior blog posts I wrote on them:
- Google Reader stops at 2013-07-01: How can I download my Reader data? (via: Reader Help)
- Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
- A few notes on Google Reader replacements that I’m testing
- Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
- knowledge worker tip: adding a Google Group to #Feedly using one of its RSS feeds
El Reg linked newer posts by others:
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Is there an RSS feed for my publication? – Substack, Inc
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/27
Reading SubStack via RSS skips the nag screens and other annoying steps.
If you sign in to your.substack.com/feed then you get redirected to your own RSS feed link.
Even easier if you want to read from a link:
- if you see a Subtack URL hosted at
domain.substack.com - then the accompanying RSS feed URL is
domain.substack.com/feed
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Baert on Twitter: “Tip voor mensen die substacks lezen: elke substack heeft een RSS-feed onder https:// whatever . substack . com / feed – Inladen in je RSS-lezer, en geen nag screens of gedoe, gewoon de content.”
Related:
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