Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.
It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;
And it is open source too:
Is it Pokémon or Big Data?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03
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Useful physical keys
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/02
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Good Reddit thread regarding updating Tumbleweed: difference between zypper up (zypper update) and zypper dup (zypper dist-upgrade) repository priorities and more
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/02
Sometimes the best information is outside vendor forums. I think it is the case for this Reddit thread: [Wayback/Archive] Regarding updating Tumbleweed; what is the best way to do it? Appper, zypper dup, zypper up. Which one am i supposed to use? Should i be worried about the vendor changes? And why do i get a message when using ‘zypper up’ saying “The following 35 package updates will NOT be installed”? : openSUSE
Note that specific to openSuSE Tumbleweed you should prefer zypper distr-upgrade over zypper update as per [Wayback/Archive] TUMBLEWEED zypper dup default behavior changed: what is the difference to zypper up?
Be aware this thread is about Tumbleweed, the method to update is byusing dup since it’s a new snapshot. At this point it’s your choice toupdate or not depending on your requirements. If your running out ofkernel modules supplied by third parties, then your tied to theirschedule…. Using zypper up will in the long term create more issuesas well as not supported.
This is especially true as --no-allow-vendor-change has been the default for zypper dist-upgrade for almost a decade now: [Wayback/Archive] PSA: Tumbleweed: –no-allow-vendor-change now default zypper dup behaviour : openSUSE
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Reddit – PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29
[Wayback/Archive] PSA: Fast way to complete the “Use 10 super effective charged attacks” field research : TheSilphRoad
TL;DR: Use a 1500 CP Poliwrath with Mud Shot and Power-Up Punch against Blanche in Great League, and don’t swipe any bubbles. Quest is done in 1 battle or 3 minutes.
This has been posted before when people were working on the 200 super effective charged moves for the level 43 quest, and I personally learned the trick from that post. But now that we have regular field research quests that reward Mega Energy for 10 SE charged moves, I figured it might be worth a repost.
What you need
A Poliwrath under 1500 CP, with fast move Mud Shot and charged move Power-Up Punch.
What you do
- Do a training battle with Blanche in Great League. This can be found at the bottom of the “Battle” tab.
- Use Poliwrath in the lead, followed by two random 1500 CP Pokemon. (Blanche always uses Sneasel, Sealeo and Snowy Castform.)
- In the battle, use a Power-Up Punch whenever it’s charged up.
- Do not swipe any bubbles during the charged move animation, until you already reached ~10 charged moves. This will ensure you do minimal damage (25% of the move’s actual power).
- Once you count to 9 or 10 charged moves, you can then swipe all bubbles to do full damage.
Without any bubbles, it typically takes 3-4 PuPs to kill Sneasel, 4-5 for Sealeo, and 4-5 for Castform. So I typically don’t swipe any bubbles against Sneasel and Sealeo, then swipe all or most bubbles against Castform (would take 2-3 PuPs to kill it). This works even if you’re not consciously keeping track of how many charged moves you’ve used.
Many alternatives are available, such as Medicham with Psycho Cut/Power-Up Punch against GL Blanche, Politoed with Mud Shot/Weather Ball against GL Candela, or a Mud Shot/Mud Bomb user (Whiscash, Marshtomp) against GL Candela.
(If someone wants to make a video of this, go ahead.)
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Tip to get 200 super effective charged attacks (level 43 requirement) in less than an hour : TheSilphRoad
- [Wayback/Archive] Reddit – Help with “super effective” charged attacks? : TheSilphRoad
Choose battle menu option and fight blanche using Magnezone, Skeledirge, Jolteon. If used in that order against Blanches 3 Pokemon in her order, every charged attack will be of the super effective charged attack type. Magnezone and Jolteon can switch their order if preferred. I.e., Magnezone and Jolteon will tick off the super effective attack count against Blanches first and last Pokemon. Enjoy!
--jeroen
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Old xs4all stuff
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29
In the past xs4all.nl had a shell server. In the shell you had a WWW directory which was the route of your personal web-site.
For instance, I had a file there in ~jp/WWW/route/route.html which was served at:
- [Wayback/Archive] http://www.xs4all.nl/~jp/route/route.html
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.xs4all.nl/~jp/route/route.html
- [Wayback/Archive] http://jp.home.xs4all.nl/route/route.html
- [Wayback/Archive] https://jp.home.xs4all.nl/route/route.html
Almost 25 years after KPN bought xs4all, it switched off the shell servers and these links, so I was glad with this warning [Wayback/Archive] Koen de Jonge on Twitter: “Morgen stopt #kpn4all met het aanbieden van shellaccess. Wij willen dat met #Protagio ook gaan aanbieden. Wil je ook #shellacces houden, kijk dan snel op: … #eerlijkecloud”
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SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28
Ordered because all of a sudden, my scanner would only charge over USB, but not connect to any computer any more over USB (likekly because the Micro-USB connector on the mainboard was broken which is odd after just a few 100 inserts which is odd as it should last 10k+ cycles according to USB hardware – Wikipedia) [WaybackSave/Archive] SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store.
It costs only USB 0.00, so I hope they will send it outside of the USA.
When ordering, you have to agree with these:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] Terms of Sale
- [WaybackSave/Archive] PFU America Privacy Policy – Ricoh Scanners
When I don’t receive the manual, hopefully the translated version of this video will be of help: [WaybackSave/Archive] Reparación Scanner Fujitsu ScanSnap – Puerto De Carga Micro USB – YouTube -> Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanner Repair – Micro USB Charging Port – YouTube.
Como me pasa muchas veces esto grabe este video. Me piden que repare algo que ya intentaron reparar de la manera incorrecta.
->
As this happens to me many times, I recorded this video. I am asked to repair something that they already tried to repair incorrectly.
Queries:
- [WaybackSave/Archive] “repair” “iX100” – Sök på Google
- [WaybackSave/Archive] scansnap ix100 repair usb – Google Video Suche
--jeroen
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Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28
Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”
The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.
–jeroen
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Some links on 12V ~18Ah UPS replacement batteries
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27
The cells for the APC RBC7 and RBC55 UPS battery packs are all the same: 12V varying from 17Ah to 22Ah, has M5 leads for mounting the cables, and dimensions of ~76.5 * 181.5 * 167.5 mm
These cells are collectively named UB12180 but searching that term will get you prices that are not far from the APC ones, and APC wants to charge you an arm and a leg for them (around EUR 75 per cell).
Searching for the individual cell capacity will get you better offers.
Related blog posts:
Some links for finding them; maybe around Black Friday (it’s in a few days: 2024-11-29) I can really good deals:
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IPv4 subnet/CIDR table from OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation …”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27
I wrote about programs and scripts doing IPv4 subnet calculation, but sometimes it is easier to have a table at hand, so here is the one I found at [Wayback/Archive] OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation #networks #networkbasics #subnetting #infosec #networks4hackers #cyberwarrior #cyberwarrior #networkbasics #networkbasics subnet”
Notes:
- it is by far original, as a quick image search revealed lots of other sources, for instance the 2011 post [Wayback/Archive] Subnet Mask Quick Reference | Academic PCs Blog
- there is a much better table below adapted from Classless Inter-Domain Routing: IPv4 CIDR blocks – Wikipedia
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Jeffrey | JKCTech on X: “Dit is echt 1 van de aller mooiste edge cases voor een licht sensor die ik ooit heb gezien… https://t.co/wkm8ztbHI9” / X
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/26
[Wayback/Archive] Jeffrey | JKCTech on X: “Dit is echt 1 van de aller mooiste edge cases voor een licht sensor die ik ooit heb gezien… “
It references a movie by Dutch humor site (often on the wrong side of humor) Dumpert:
[Wayback/Archive] DUMPERT – Ambulance naast lichtsensor flat =
which they also put on YouTube: [Wayback/Archive] Ambulance + lichtsensor = flatrave! #shorts – YouTube.
It teaches to adjust the light sensors so they don’t kick in turning the light off too soon after it gets dark.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 