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Algorism and algorithm are named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, founder of algebra (via @annefleurdd)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/14

I was in my 50s when I learned that both algorism and algorithm are named after the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who founded algebra.

Related:

Via:

–jeroen

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Draad van @Walrathis expert in psychotraumatologie on Thread Reader App – over crisisrespons tijdens Oktoberfest 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Een inzichtvolle draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Walrathis on Thread Reader App

Enkele onderwerpen:

  • tijdlijn
  • opschalen
  • compartimenteren
  • regie hebben en houden
  • communicatie
  • suicide postventie
  • briefing/debriefing
  • evenementen

Uiteraard dit: Denk je aan zelfmoord? Neem contact op met 113, dat kan altijd gratis en anoniem: bellen via 113 of 0800-0113, of via de chat of teletolk op [Wayback/Archive] Homepage | 113 Zelfmoordpreventie.

Gerelateerd

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Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Interesting ideas about home automation, domotics and IoT:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verlichting – Tweakers
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huishoudelijke taken – Tweakers
  4. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huisgenoten en -dieren – Tweakers
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verwarming, klimaat en energiegebruik – Tweakers
  6. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Multimedia – Tweakers
  7. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
  8. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers

–jeroen

Posted in Domotics/Smarthome, Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.

Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.

From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:

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I was in my 50’s discovering Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

Boy, I must have lived under a stone as it took me some 6 years to discover [Wayback/Archive] Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Check your browser and settings at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks.

More information at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser.

Via

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Internet Explorer, LifeHacker, Opera, Opera Mobile, Power User, Safari, User-Agent, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

ibm midrange – Syntax higlighters for RPG And CLP that generate HTML and/or RTF? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/09

In case I ever need this for the future: [Wayback/Archive] ibm midrange – Syntax higlighters for RPG And CLP that generate HTML and/or RTF? – Stack Overflow

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] aaronbartell and [Wayback/Archive] Mike Wills for your answers there.

Oh, an if you wonder what these ancient abbreviations mean:

--jeroen

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auroraoss.com: AuroraStore can help to bypass Google Play Store region blocks

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/09

[Wayback/Archive] auroraoss.com

Via:

–jeroen

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Rudimentary DaynaPORT packet driver to use WiFi from DOS using BlueSCSI: GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

Despite beta or early alpha quality [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver by by [Wayback/Archive] RetroTech Chris – YouTube is very cool.

Main source: [Wayback/Archive] daynaport-dos-packet-driver/src/dayna.c at main · cml37/daynaport-dos-packet-driver · GitHub

Related:

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Posted in C, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, MS-DOS, Network-and-equipment, SCSI, Software Development, TSR Terminate and Stay Resitent, Turbo C | Leave a Comment »

HSTS Preload List Submission

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

[Wayback/Archive] HSTS Preload List Submission

Sources:

Via

–jeroen

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finding duplicates – voidtools forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/07

That feeling you have been living under a stone since 2014: [Wayback/Archive] finding duplicates – voidtools forum

1.4 Beta has both dupe: & sizedupe: functions.
(In the Index, you need to index the file size & also enable Fast size sort.)

You can combine them, something like:

> dupe: sizedupe: c: file:

Or even add a size to it:

> dupe: sizedupe: c: file: size:>2MB

Note that that finds file name AND (I believe its an AND) file size duplications – anywhere, not necessarily limited to C:, & also that name AND size are the only qualifications for “duplication”, as in files meeting that criteria may not be (byte-by-byte) “duplicates”.

A partial excuse is that these never made it to the changelog at [Wayback/Archive] www.voidtools.com/Changes.txt or [Wayback/Archive] www.voidtools.com/BetaChanges.txt.

It is in the documentation since May 2017 at [Wayback/Archive] Searching – voidtools though:

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