Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22
Two kinds of RP-SMA dual-band WiFi antenna parts having :
- Y9MPH is an omnidirectional dipole stick antenna which most use
- 3TJ9N is a semidirectional patch/panel antenna on a wire which few people use but can be useful when you want to put the antenna into a place having better signal reception
Both are also supposed to work for Dell OptiPlex Micro models 3020/3040/3050/5020/5040/5050/7020/7040/7050 (as 5030/7030 models were never released and 3030/9030 only released as a different all-in-one PC form factor): basically the end of the Micro form factors in Dell OptiPlex Series 4 and start of Dell OptiPlex Series 5.
Links (some also containing part numbers for other related components like internal wiring and M.2 Wi-Fi cards):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/19
In a German thread, Kristian Köhntopp perfectly explained why I too always use light mode, so I put the English translations here:
- Dark mode is a strain on the eyes and useless.
- Specific: In darkness (and in dark mode) your pupils widen, the diaphragm opens. This reduces the depth of field and the eye muscles have to do more work and precision when focusing.
- Conversely, with light and a bright background you have a smaller pupil, a small aperture and more depth of field. This means that everything is automatically sharp, even if the eye has not readjusted.
The German thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18
NewsGuard August 2025 One Year Progress Report: Percentage of Responses Containing False Information
This is what I have been warning for since 2020: AI LLM will end up in a downward quality spiral.
My reasoning back then, and still now is that they:
- cannot distinguish LLM generated training data from human data making the LLM worse over time
- don’t perform human curation thereby not solving the worsening
I’m not surprised by the [Wayback/Archive] August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard summary:
AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech
It is a great session with guidance how to kind of go “back to the future” by amending cloud based applications to run locally by means of caching and syncing data. No small feat, but very convenient for end-users to have their – recently regarded as old-fashioned – local running applications back.
There is a – member’s only – video of it as well at [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:
[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):
Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.
So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:
If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:
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Posted in CommandLine, Development, MSI, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 11, Z77A-G43 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15
A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.
I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.
So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:
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Posted in About, Awareness, Climate change, Google, GoogleImageSearch, GoogleSearch, LifeHacker, Power User | Tagged: shareholder | Leave a Comment »
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