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Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/17

Tips rond overstappen tussen ISPs:

[Wayback/Archive] Goedkoop vast internet is soms best duur – Wordt dit de zomer van goedkoper internet? – Achtergrond – Tweakers

--jeroen

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Hacking in Progress or HIP ’97 – corbosman on Twitter: “Just found this highly advanced drawing of the network setup at HIP97. The ??? probably meant we didn’t have the hardware for it yet.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/17

Such a cool historic artefact: [Wayback corbosman on Twitter: “Just found this highly advanced drawing of the network setup at HIP97. The ??? probably meant we didn’t have the hardware for it yet.”

It is a nice addition to the existing HIP97 information, of which some is at:

This is the diagram of the unique network [Wayback/Archive] corbosman on Twitter: “@bwgveer @Quux_NL The fact we were able to bring 6mbit into a field in the middle of no where in 1997 (the era of dialup) was quite a feat.”:

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Een paar linkjes waar Jan Disselkoen genoemd wordt

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/16

Het is al bijna 20 jaar geleden dat Jan Disselkoen overleed, en doordat hij al in 1995 permanent werd uitgeschakeld is er vrijwel niets op internet over hem te vinden.

Toch jammer, want hij was naast een aimabele man ook een erg goede radiotechnicus bij de NPO en haar voorlopers.

In de studio de rust zelve, dat kun je op deze twee video’s zien (de eerste een fragment in zwart-wit, de laatste ruim 12 minuten in kleur waarop Jan rond 10:00 achter de mengtafel zichtbaar is tijdens de allereerste uitzending van Radio Veronica als Veronica Omroep Organisatie in het publieke bestel om 08:00 op 28 december 1975 tijdens de opening van Hilversum 4).

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More Apple ][*, //* II* and classic Macintosh hardware upgrades

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

The mini micro classic Apple emulators related post last week became way too big, so here is the classic Apple 2/Macintosh hardware upgrade part follow-up I announced in Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators.

Last week, I mentioned [Wayback/Archive] ARC Javmaster – YouTube. Let’s continue from there for an even bigger post (:

Javmaster actually has a shop at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the 8-bit stuff store – 8 bit stuff cool retro computer 3D gadgets and geekery with a lot of interesting (mainly Apple ][ era related) retro things like:

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Wlz PGB tarieventabel 2025 (voor budgethouders met indicatie voor verblijf)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

Ik had dit vergeten te schedulen: [Wayback/Archive] r248773-202409-zk-tarieventabel-pgb-2025-web.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

Het wordt belangrijk omdat we overwegen van Wlz gebaseerde Zorg in Natura terug te gaan naar Persoonsgebonden Budget (PGB).

--jeroen

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Some notes on running Postfix inside a docker container

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14

The plan was to run a Postfix secondary MX inside a docker container.

Below are many links that might help me to get that going.

For now, I think this is the shortlist of solutions to try:

  • Docker Mailserver
  • Mailcow
  • Mailu

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Best 404 page ever? : ProgrammerHumor

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13

While doing some ASCII art blog-post drafts cleanup, I bumped into the (now deleted) [Wayback/Archive] Best 404 page ever? : r/ProgrammerHumor which pointed to the (also now deleted).

I got there via my (not deleted!) blog post Why I like PlantUML.

So I dug up the old archived copy of that PlantUML 404-page and made gist out of it.

I soon realised this was all encoded stuff, seemingly a mix of a ROT13 variation and some other shifting around.

Luckily the original page mentioned in the Reddit post was way easier, so I put that in a gist too.

Bot are below the blog-signature. Enjoy!

Oh, and the full text of course above the signature:

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2023 PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13

From a while ago, but this 2023 PDF magazine about building GUI applications with Python using guizero is still very fun to read:

[Wayback/Archive] PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi

Via: [Wayback/Archive] MagPi Nederland on Twitter: “PDF special voor alle leden: gui’s programmeren met python #raspberrypi #python”

Download:

[Wayback/Archive] https://www.magpi.nl/files/attachment/35 (202209131320GUI NL.pdf).

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This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.…

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12

I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….

ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.

Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!

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roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12

This finally made me perform the (long overdue) migration from Sendmail to Postfix:

The Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) is a technique to forward mails from domains which deploy the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) to prohibit other Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) from sending mails on their behalf. With SRS, an MTA can circumvent SPF restrictions by replacing the envelope sender with a temporary email address from one of their own domains. This temporary address is bound to the original sender and only valid for a certain amount of time, which prevents abuse by spammers.

[Wayback/Archive] roehling/postsrsd: Postfix Sender Rewriting Scheme daemon

Via a long queste to figure out why Gmail every now and then bounces forwarded messages because of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Below are a few of the links that brought me here in mostly reverse order, but first some links that should help me further on the topic of Postfix virtual aliases.

The sendmail setup had some features not covered below (like a catch-all forward for email to addresses virtual domains not covered by a virtual alias) which I hopefully can cover later.

One thing learned both over the past decades and related postfix material: use separate servers or containers for each of your functions. So do not mix web-hosting, outgoing mail, incoming mail, fail2ban and others on the same server.

Links:

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