Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/14
A few years back I bumped in this cool [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App on early Firefox history (from before it was called Phoenix or Firebird, heck from before Phoenix was created!).
It is important to keep telling these bits of history as they are fundamental to understand the Web Browser landscape as it is now.
Great material that complements Wikipedia articles like these:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13
When at look at a local Amazon site, they have plenty of stuff: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.de : 10 inch rack
2023 example via [Wayback/Archive] Ikea Eket DIY 10″ Rack (UK) [build showcase] · Issue #22 · geerlingguy/mini-rack · GitHub:
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Everyone in #Homelab knows about the DIY 19″ IKEA LACK rack… but did you know IKEA makes the perfect mini rack furniture, too? Presenting stirkage’s Eket rack! …”
[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (image on the right).
That tweet and [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Indeed… there’s gotta be some nerd at @IKEA who’s ensuring certain furniture fits standard sized rackmount gear, right?” (image below via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON) have some interesting replies, making the list of usable IKEA products at least this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13
For my reading list, the various responses to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/12
Want: [Wayback/Archive] William Le’s Perpetual Motion Machine ver.2 – (plz visit my Amazon sto – LovelyWings
I think I like the transparent version most, but the wood versions (yellow or brown) of course have more mystery.
There are more products in [Wayback/Archive] Wooden Kinetic Sculpture for Art Lovers – LovelyWings.
You can buy some of them at [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.com: LovelyWings, for instance the brown version of the [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.com: Perpetual Motion Machine – Infinitive Marble Machine – William Le’s Perpetual Motion Simulator : Handmade Products.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] You can’t hide the batteries when it’s transparent! – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/12
From [Wayback/Archive] ESS design and installation manual: 6. Controlling depth of discharge:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09
For my link archive: finally Apple had to broadly accept apps to allow other forms of purchases than through Apple itself.
[Wayback/Archive] Apple has never lost this hard before – YouTube
focussing around this quote from the court order (full PDF below):
Apple willfully chose not to comply with this Court’s Injunction. It did so with the express intent to create new anticompetitive barriers which would, by design and in effect, maintain a valued revenue stream; a revenue stream previously found to be anticompetitive. That it thought this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation. As always, the cover- up made it worse. For this Court, there is no second bite at the apple.
More details in for instance:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09
The delete trick below not just works for the Chrome Omnibox, but for any autocomplete list in Chrome.
[Wayback/Archive] How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] cmcculloh, [Wayback/Archive] Gaff and [Wayback/Archive] User 张 源 – Super User):
Q
I’ve got a URL in Chrome “local.mysite.com” that autopopulates when I start typing “local.my” into the URL bar.Note that this URL DOES NOT EXIST in my browser history (at chrome://history/#e=1&p=0) because it isn’t a real site and therefore couldn’t ever be successfully visited and therefore never shows up in my history.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08
Having used less for 40+ years now, I wonder how moar measures up to it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.
Features I at least expect are in [Wayback/Archive] less: display the contents of a file in a terminal | less Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Johan Walles recently commenting on [Wayback/Archive] linux – How can I have less automatically decompress xz files like it did with gz files on my old SUSE distro? – Super User.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08
[Wayback/Archive] Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard – Seaside Testing.
Reminder to self: figure out where parameters for /etc/default/keyboard are documented in case I want to use USB keyboards:
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Kämper (@seasidetesting@mastodon.social) on Twitter: “Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
For my link archive:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Home: buriedbits which also brought wabarcbot to my attention:
@wabarc_bot: Snapshot webpages to Internet Archive, archive.today, Telegra.ph and IPFS.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 