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Dutch hackerspaces and FabLabs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/15

Before visiting Bitlair 2 years ago, I didn’t know there were so many hackspaces and FabLabs in The Netherlands.

There are (:

Starting points:

This is the hackerspace closest to my home: [Wayback/Archive] Technologia Incognita. At Louwesweg 1, 1066 EA Amsterdam, it is about 15 minutes bicycling distance (more information on in their wiki at [Wayback/Archive] ACTA – Technologia Incognita; onofficially on Twitter at [Wayback/Archive] Techlnc ☸ (@Techlnc) / Twitter).

Related tweets:

–jeroen

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Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner, 2024-05-20

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

After decades telling management that remote work is best for most of the IT-teams, or in more general white-collar workers, Covid-19 proving it does, some managers still don’t get it.

After years of the Return-to-Office movement trying to get people back to the office, Gartner finally found out that RTO is a major risk of losing talent or not even acquiring talent.

[Wayback/Archive] Why Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Risks | Gartner

  • Nearly three-quarters of executives say return-to-office (RTO) mandates are a source of leadership conflict.
  • Lack of work-life balance ranks among the top five reasons employees quit.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Chartier: “The Data Is In: Return-to-Office Mandates Aren’t Worth the Talent Risks …” – Toot Café

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ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/14

Cool tool to peek around in the Windows File System API and fiddle around uncharted territory: [Wayback/Archive] ladislav-zezula/FileTest: Source code for File Test – Interactive File System Test Tool.

It is written in C++ using Visual Studio and has build-instructions in [Wayback/Archive] FileTest/README.md at master · ladislav-zezula/FileTest.

Via [Wayback/Archive] “create reparse point” “query reparse point” – Google Search (which also found [Wayback/Archive] Free File Utilities – Free download and software reviews – CNET Download [Wayback download]) after reading a tweet thread having these highlights:

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Kevlin Henney on generative AI creating job security for programmers:

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/13

Kevlin Henney being interviewd by Richard Seidl

Kevlin Henney being interviewd by Richard Seidl [Wayback/Archive] MDVxFQrqZnh1OxlP.jpg (1200×675)

The quote from this abstract of the January 2024 interview with Kevlin Henney by Richard Seidl  is important:

You really need to understand history. First of all, you need to understand history. Then, you need to understand language. And you need to go and talk to some customers. And then, you will realize how safe your job is. Because programming is not merely the assembly of syntax. It is the application of precision. It is the seeking of precision.And what is the answer? What is it that I’m trying to do?And it turns out that if you specify something badly in natural language, it works out even worse than if you did it in code.And we already know, for example– we can actually take inspiration from the most widely used programming paradigm on the planet, the spreadsheet. What we know from the spreadsheet is that most people who use a spreadsheet do not have a software development background.

Yes.

We also know that most spreadsheets are unmaintainable, incomprehensible, and buggy. If we are saying that the future of software development is people who are not software experts doing this stuff, your job is safe.

It is a fragment of the vodcast episode [Wayback/Archive] Software Engineering im Jahr 2034 – Richard Seidl which limits the quote to this:

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jilles.com on testing USB cables

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/13

[Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter: “@jpluimers This was the one I have used m.nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005003234986327.html This was the other one, out of stock now: www.tindie.com/products/petl/usb-c-cable-tester-c2c-caberqu“:

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Captive portal – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12

In the past I wrote a few articles containing information about Captive Portals, but I forgot mentioning that the article Captive portal – Wikipedia exists.

Got reminded to this by these tweets about Apple not using the default browser when displaying the Captive Portal page:

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How to reset OnePlus One – Factory reset and erase all data – A0001

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12

I needed this a while ago for a OnePlus A0001: [Wayback/Archive] How to reset OnePlus One – Factory reset and erase all data

  1. Regular reset (keeping the current Android version)
  2. Factory reset (to the stock Android version)

–jeroen

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How long will Firefox survive, given market share and likely demise of main income source: Google Search (via Thom – Exquisite.social)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/11

Interesting take of which I was subconsciously aware for a while as well: [Wayback/Archive] Thom :linux: :kde: :systemd:: “My concerns about the future o…” – Exquisite.social

My concerns [www.osnews.com] about the future of Firefox keep becoming reality [www.osnews.com] and yet nobody who relies on Firefox – Canonical, Fedora, KDE, GNOME, etc. – seem to give a shit.

Y’all realise Mozilla is about to lose 80% of its revenue, right? And y’all do understand what this will mean for Firefox, right? Why aren’t you taking any steps or making any plans to prepare for what this will inevitably mean for the most important and crucial desktop Linux application?

I feel like Kassandra [en.wikipedia.org] over here.

It is not a Desktop Linux problem alone: it is a Firefox problem at heart which will also (and in much larger numbers) affect other platforms as it also means one less browser engine: the Gecko browser engine used by Firefox and other browsers highly depends on Mozilla funding.

Given the long lasting keyboard productivity problems in Firefox on MacOS and Windows (even without any extensions installed), I don’t think that my frequency of Firefox usage will increase beyond occasional use.

A few examples hampering power usage of Firefox:

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Welkom in de onzichtbare vinkjesmaatschappij – Rules by Rosita (want het gaat slecht met mensenrechten voor gehandicapten in Nederland)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/10

Belangrijke blog-post: [Wayback/Archive] Welkom in de onzichtbare vinkjesmaatschappij – Rules by Rosita

De onzichtbare vinkjes zorgen ervoor dat er aan de ene kant veel onduidelijk is over wie met welke beperking wel/geen recht heeft op bepaalde onderdelen van deelname in de maatschappij, en aan de andere kant dat mensen zonder beperkingen geen idee hebben welke onderdelen dat geldt.

Velen beseffen niet hoe makkelijk je zomaar eens een beperking kunt krijgen (hallo ongelukkige struikelpartij!) en als je dit bijvoorbeeld na je 18e overkomt je ineens geen recht op Wajong meer hebt.

In 2016 – bijna 10 jaar nadat het verdrag ontstond – ratificeerde Nederland pas het VN-verdrag inzake de rechten van personen met een handicap (meest afgekort tot “VN-verdrag handicap” of “VN verdrag handicap”). Helaas is er sinds de 8 jaar na ratificering nog maar weinig gebeurd, sterker: er is zelfs achteruitgang volgens de introductie op [Wayback/Archive] Persportaal ANP: Nederland moet zich verantwoorden bij de Verenigde Naties

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Inline drying of 3D printer fillament?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/09

A promising video:

[Wayback/Archive] Why are we drying filament this way? – YouTube

The trick is blowing warm air over the fillament strand while it is pulled through some tin cans.

This also works for drying used (and therefore wettened) silica gel beads on a 3D printer heat bed.

--jeroen

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