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For my link archive: Power (and Energy) | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/20

Since the prices of solar panels have fallen considerably and the prices of batteries are expected to fall as well:

making the  conclusions of [Wayback/Archive] Power (and Energy) | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp the most important bit of his article:

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Nederland: Overzicht schoolvakanties 2024-2025 | Schoolvakanties | Rijksoverheid.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/20

[Wayback/Archive] Overzicht schoolvakanties 2024-2025 | Schoolvakanties | Rijksoverheid.nl

Voor Nederland zelf:

Vakanties schooljaar 2024-2025
Regio Noord Regio Midden Regio Zuid
Herfstvakantie 26 oktober t/m 3 november 2024 26 oktober t/m 3 november 2024 19 oktober t/m 27 oktober 2024
Kerstvakantie 21 december 2024 t/m 5 januari 2025 21 december 2024 t/m 5 januari 2025 21 december 2024 t/m 5 januari 2025
Voorjaarsvakantie 15 februari t/m 23 februari 2025 22 februari t/m 2 maart 2025 22 februari t/m 2 maart 2025
Meivakantie 26 april t/m 4 mei 2025 26 april t/m 4 mei 2025 26 april t/m 4 mei 2025
Zomervakantie 12 juli t/m 24 augustus 2025 19 juli t/m 31 augustus 2025 5 juli t/m 17 augustus 2025

--jeroen

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Linear Algebra | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/20

In case I ever need to refresh my linear algebra knowledge, this series of videos is where to start: [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare

The videos: [Wayback/Archive] Video Lectures | Linear Algebra | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Santiago on Twitter: “The best linear algebra course out there. PERIOD. For Free! MIT’s Professor Gilbert Strang. Go through these videos, and you’ll never ever have a problem with linear algebra again!”

–jeroen

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GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19

Who needs AI (:

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥

Sourcecode at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – codenoid/github-roast: Spicy GitHub Roast 🔥

Via [Wayback/Archive] Dennis Schubert: “okay, I finally found a good u…” – Mastodon

okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
github-roast.pages.dev
this thing is brutal

In addition, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] lokal.so · GitHub: Supercharged HTTP/TCP/UDP Tunneling Software

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“Koning Willem-Alexander is bij de viering van het honderdjarig jubileum van Woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh. Met twee cliënten opent hij de tentoonstelling ‘100 jaar Willem van den Bergh’”.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19

Dit is een voorbeeld waarom zorg belangrijk is:

[Wayback/Archive] 100-jarig jubileum woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh | Activiteit | Het Koninklijk Huis

Foto’s van Koninklijk Huis (van het ANP):

[Wayback/Archive] Artikel Leids Dagblad “‘Majesteit, mag ik met u op de foto?’ Bewoners van woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh in Noordwijk willen allemaal een glimp opvangen van de koning” ([Wayback/Archive] foto)

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet: “Woonzorgpark Willem van den Bergh bestaat 100 jaar! Op het park wonen, werken, leren en recreëren 700 mensen met en zonder (verstandelijke) beperking. De Koning is bij de jubileumviering en opent de tentoonstelling ‘100 jaar Willem van den Bergh’. koninklijkhuis.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/09/09/koning-bij-100-jarig-jubileum-woonzorgpark-willem-van-den-bergh

[Wayback/Archive] Artikel 112 Duin- en Bollenstreek: “Koning Willem Alexander brengt bezoek aan ’s Heeren Loo Willem van den Bergh in Noordwijk” met veel foto’s van Flashlight Fotografie.

--jeroen

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Hopefully by now the choco client will be more resilient and informative about Chocolatey maintenance windows (and maybe even about any disruptions mentioned at status.chocolatey.org)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19

Reminder to check-out of the 2015 issue mentioned in the tweets below has been had any progress.

At the time of tweeting, choco has no notion of [Wayback/Archive] status.chocolatey.org which would be very helpful to point to in case of errors on time-outs on chocolatey server calls especially if it could interrogate and inform of maintenance windows and outages when things fail on the client side.

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scaling != high availability (you more often need the latter than the former); microservices != modularisation (you hardly need the former; you *need* the latter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/18

Important posts:

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GitHub – chip-red-pill/MicrocodeDecryptor

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/18

A few years back the way Intel Microcode updates were distributed deciphered so it became possible to extract and research the microcode of some processor models.

Repository: [Wayback/Archive] chip-red-pill/MicrocodeDecryptor

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The codewali on Twitter: “How API works?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/17

[Wayback/Archive] Wayback (Video further below)

[Wayback/Archive] K9pQFPQr3KM4HSYj.jpg (720×966)

Videos:

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Wow: inside DOS Doom version 2, you can run another Doom (even arbitrary other code)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/17

Repository:

A Video that way better explains how the hacks work to make this happen is at [Wayback] You can run Doom inside (DOS) Doom, for real. – YouTube

I have found a code execution exploit in the original DOS Doom 2 and ported a Chocolate Doom to it. And then Chocolate Heretic.

Attention: This does only work on the original DOS Doom2 version, no GZDoom or other source ports. This is a good thing as you don’t want code execution exploit on modern systems. People would abuse it to spread malicious code.

DOS version is available on Steam and you can use DosBox emulator to run it.

Copy kgdid.wad to the directory where you have doom2.exe and then in DosBox start it with command “doom2 -file kgdid.wad“.

(Copy other files too if you want to try them. Game injection has to be renamed to doomsav4.dsg)

Related:

–jeroen

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