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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/08
I drive an E61 and a friend an E61 LCI, so:
Oh, the channel also has this very useful video: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E60/E61 tips: how to manually shift the gear selector to Neutral (completely dead💀 car) – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/08
Blog posts I should check:
In the meantime:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05
With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.
When you are in The Netherlands:
- Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
- If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.
When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:
- List of suicide crisis lines (Wikipedia)
- [Wayback/Archive] International Suicide Hotlines & Helplines. Free, 24/7 Chat, Text & Phone
- [Wayback/Archive] Call A Hotline – List of Worldwide Suicide Hotlines | Suicide Stop
- [Wayback/Archive] International Suicide Hotlines – OpenCounseling : OpenCounseling
Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.
The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.
If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05
Note that http://neverssl.com is the way to figure out if you are in a captive portal, see below.
In Windows 10, the name of the endpoint changed from
msftncsitomsftconnecttest, presumably to make the purpose of the access more obvious in security and audit logs. Nobody will understand that NCSI stands for Network Connectivity Status Indicator.
[Wayback/Archive] Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing
It refers to a few other interesting sites, for instance about modifying if/how NCSI detects internet connectivity:
You can turn off NCSI by doing one of the following:
- Create a
REG_DWORDregistry setting namedNoActiveProbeinHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetworkConnectivityStatusIndicatorwith a value of1(one).
As mentioned at the top: my blog post on http://neverssl.com: NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication
Other related blog posts:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
Source: Ringvaartaquaduct | NavShip
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.
Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.
A few videos that can be helpful:
Posted in Development, Ethernet, fiber, Hardware, Hardware Development, Internet, Network-and-equipment, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User | Tagged: cat5e, fiber, networking, run, shorts, toner | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
For my link archive the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cwolferesearch on Thread Reader App starting with [Wayback/Archive] Cameron R. Wolfe on Twitter: “After GPT-3 was proposed, a lot of research was done to find an even better language model. Initial attempts focused on just training larger models. Contrary to popular belief, however, there is more to creating a good language model than size… 🧵[1/8]” / Twitter
3 years later, I’m anxious to know what the current state of the art on GPT is, as between GPT-2 and GPT-3 there was about a 3 year period.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03
I see so many people not using flux while desoldering.
Flux works like magic: [Wayback/Archive] The Miracle of Flux – YouTube
This trick work like magic too: [Wayback/Archive] Soldering hacks Soldering 9 contacts at once with a soldering iron and how to use Desoldering wire – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03
I needed the portable version of [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark on Chocolatey (unlike the [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskMark (Install) package). Luckily I found the auto-update package [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) and knew both that CrystalDiskMark is from the same author as CrystalDiskInfo, and that their code is on GitHub like the Chocolatey package.
Given I had a the below chocolatey-packages/automatic/crystaldiskinfo.portable as a template, I asked the CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) package maintainer if they were willing to maintain CrystalDiskMark (portable) as well and was glad the response was “yes”: [Wayback/Archive] Portabe CrystalDiskMark similar to the current CrystalDiskInfo? · Issue #159 · mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages
So for my link-archive:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02
Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).
The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.
The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.
The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history
The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm
The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.
The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.
So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.
For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:
Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 