Your presenter might not be dead, and a stupid USB cable with large plug needed to “Charge the Logitech Spotlight presentation remote” A follow-up on my previous post on Logitech presenters: Logitech remotes for presenting Did my Logitech Spotlight die, or did the charging cable die? I had not…

url – How can I get query string values in JavaScript? – Stack Overflow Source: url - How can I get query string values in JavaScript? - Stack Overflow

ChatGPT is a language model, which means it does not understand you and you can circumvent the gates added by humans "Tricking" ChatGPT to give you information is about navigating around the gates added by humans: [Wayback/Archive] Gokul Rajaram on Twitter: "lol":

Don’t forget you also have a personal gitignore file in $HOME/.config/git/ignore The question in [Wayback/Archive] git - What will happen when a pull request includes changes to ignored .gitignore? - Super User comes down to: I don't want anybody to change what's in my .gitignore file because it…

@mailbox.org would you please be so kind to post updates on social media or the mailbox forums about outages posted at the status page? web.archive.org/web/20260528... The accounts server was down for about 45 minutes causing login to fail for both the web portal and e-mail login.

Generating ASCII-tables with spanning cells: manual labour still needed Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column. TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.

The GitLab.com risk of having “Inactive project deletion” disabled and “Delayed project deletion” enabled After the 2022 GitLab.com backlash* to auto-delete "inactive" (for whichever metric of "inactive") repositories of free users, I thought they would have multiple checks in place to prevent…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News (and a few links on SEDE – Stack Exchange Data Explorer) Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI -…

KotlinConf’23 video streams (including the keynote by Kevlin Henney which is generic to any programming language or concept) Some of the video URLs of #kotlinconf23 most via [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf'23 - YouTube:

Figuring out which COM Surrogate dllhost.exe process to kill (via The Old New Thing) A while ago, ejecting a CompactFlash card on Windows 10 failed with the dreaded message "The action can’t be completed because the file is open in COM Surrogate." I was in a hurry, and it was a long time since I…

Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden On my list of things to try out when more readily available [Wayback/Archive] Flipper Zero: Amazon.de: Garden Demos: [Wayback/Archive] Flipper test 1 - YouTube [Wayback/Archive] Flipper test 2 - YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Jilles @ DC30/Las Vegas🦩 on Twitter:…

Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight : ExperiencedDevs "Explain it to me like I'm five" works! [Wayback/Archive] Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight :…

Some tools for conference organisers Just in case I ever get involved in organising a conference: [Wayback/Archive] frab | conference management system [Wayback/Archive] frab/frab: conference management system [Wayback/Archive] cbeyls/fosdem-companion-android: FOSDEM Companion for Android…

A source for many batch-file tricks: ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra If you want to improve your batchfile-fu, this might be your start: [Wayback/Archive] ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra After a quick look, I already recognised these tricks:

the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes 15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes TL;DR: (not sugar coated; read the full post and their follow-ups on the why and how)

You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old, wait’ll you see the Intel drivers from 1968! – The Old New Thing Interesting strategy that driver vendors use to prevent their drivers to be installed when newer versions are installed [Wayback/Archive] You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old,…

Some notes on Nikon cameras and HDR (I have F-lenses) Still using Nikon F-mount DSLRs here, though I might upgrade to Nikon Z-mount and appropriate Z-mount adapter to continue using my F-lenses. Anyway: some links on HDR, as for older bodies that require extra steps. [Wayback/Archive] 📷 Nikon HDR…

TrueNAS ZFS: on my list of things to tinker with I totally missed that FreeNAS has been renamed into TrueNAS CORE. Since FreeNAS had been on my list to tinker with, now is TrueNAS - Wikipedia. Relate/via: [Wayback/Archive] TrueNAS has the open source repositories [Wayback/Archive] TrueNAS CORE |…

Ein Blick zurück – das beste Auto der 70er Jahre – YouTube – W116 450SEL 6.9 aus der Schweiz As a memory to our almost identical Swiss W116 450SEL 6.9 a video in Swiss German about it: [Wayback/Archive] Ein Blick zurück - das beste Auto der 70er Jahre - YouTube. This one with fabric, white…

SocialGrep – Social Media Analytics for Reddit Though I have no Reddit account, it has much useful content, so I wish I had known his query site like 15 years ago [Wayback/Archive] SocialGrep - Social Media Analytics for Reddit It looks like very few people mentioned me on Reddit too. Is that a…

When you bump into Mojibake in your development, don’t use table-based solutions to solve it A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Unicode weirdness - VCL - Delphi-PRAXiS . This sketched a mojibake problem where PDF to text converted files had odd looking character sequences. The solution -…

Beeper — All your chats in one app [Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me. On the list to try out somewhere during the year. It is open source; some more links:

An easier to understand first time Scoop install command The Scoop repository lists this first time Scoop install command at [Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows. - installation: Run the following command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop to its…

Ontdek alle Nederlandse bedrijven uit het Handelsregister – OpenKvK.nl Weet altijd waar je zaken mee doet: [Wayback/Archive] Ontdek alle Nederlandse bedrijven uit het Handelsregister - OpenKvK.nl Er is een API van in totaal 4 datasets volgens [Wayback/Archive] API documentatie - overheid.io:…

Know your TypeScript/JavaScript operators… or why having little ceremony sometimes makes programmers life harder Take this cool example I extended from [Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🅰️🇨🇵 on Twitter: "#Typescript quizz What will be the value of result1 and result2 ?" which lacked alt-badge, so I…

default settings – How do I disable all AI features in Chrome? – Super User Few places have the configuration for various platforms on how to prevent Google Chrome from installing the 4GB LLM model that got traction over the last few days. Luckily it is at [Wayback/Archive] default settings - How…

On my list of virtualized network solutions to try: ZeroTier | Global Area Networking ZeroTier looks interesting: [Wayback/Archive] ZeroTier | Global Area Networking. Especially since: [Wayback/Archive] zerotier/ZeroTierOne: A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth open source repository…

SABRENT USB Charging Station 252 W 8-Port PD 3.0 with LCD Display – GaN Charger Charger – Fast Charging Station for USB-C & USB-A Devices, Laptops, Smartphones – PPS, Overcharge Protection: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories This is a cool device as explained in the below video: [Wayback/Archive]…

Rust zacht lieve @karinspaink.bsky.social Dank dat ik je op afstand een beetje mocht kennen vanaf de nl.misc en nl.eeuwig.september tijd. Sterkte aan iedereen die je na was. www.spaink.net/2026/05/08/e... 😢 🕯️

Little Snitch – I was living under a stone; thanks Angrynerds! Boy have I been living under a stone, I wish I had known Little Snitch 2 decades ago (: Little Snitch - Wikipedia: Little Snitch is a host-based application firewall for macOS. It can be used to monitor applications, preventing or…

Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register Reminder from a while back: all your development tools are belong to us: [Wayback/Archive] Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register --jeroen

Wondering if the takeown/icacls/del trick still work to screw up %windir%\system32 (via Patrick Doyle on Twitter) A few years back this trick was shown to screw up %windir%\system32 [Wayback/Archive] Patrick Doyle on Twitter: "@SwiftOnSecurity @RoseAreaZero Delete any file in three easy steps: >…

I Built a Commodore 64 Laptop That Never Existed (PI + EMULATION) – The Portable 64 Concept Design – YouTube Cool to see what 3D printing plus a Raspberry Pi emulating a C64 can do [Wayback/Archive] I Built a Commodore 64 Laptop That Never Existed (PI + EMULATION) - The Portable 64 Concept Design…

AbortController is your friend Cool post [Wayback/Archive] AbortController is your friend starting with One of my favorite new features of JS is the humble AbortController, and its AbortSignal. It enables some new development patterns, which I'll cover below, but first: the canonical demo. It's to…

bash script for $* loop accept command line with spaces in wildcard file names at DuckDuckGo Back when I wanted a more universal solution [Wayback/Archive] bash script for $* loop accept command line with spaces in wildcard file names at DuckDuckGo I got into a mess of tips that either did not…

How to adapt a DucoBox Silent system to make it use Open Source hardware and software for keeping CO2 and humidity levels at healthy levels The hackability of the [Wayback/Archive] DucoBox Silent "smart" home ventilation box with [Wayback/Archive] Flamingo-tech/Open-AIR: Open source system for…

A retro font: Glass TTY VT220 Via [Wayback/Archive] Der Kneisner M100 - oder das “once in a lifetime project” | Computermuseum Visselhövede, about an IMSAI 8080 clone, I bumped into the VT220 based Glass TTY VT220 font and found some links of it and it's modifications which are listed below by…

Arjen Lentz Crystal Ball Vulnerability Prediction: A Wizard’s Guide to Foreseeing the Unseen: NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie, 7 mei 2026, Arjen Lentz over de echte root cause van veel CVE’s en hoe die te fixen Ook vandaag even een herinnering aan de NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie 2026 van (komende)…

Ventoy: an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. When undergoing cancer treatment, I missed the launch of [Wayback/Archive] Ventoy: Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With ventoy, you don't need to…

Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen – De Correspondent Vooruitgang: [Wayback/Archive] Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen - De Correspondent --jeroen…

Some Twitter internals after I found GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives Found this while trying to find the source from which I constructed this Bookmarklet which from a Tweet URL returns the JSON metadata which has all the links to media (like images…

Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub … How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” – mas.to Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages. April uptime not even had…

100 Years of Microsoft Stories – YouTube As a Windows Developer, this was a huge trip down memory lane: [Wayback/Archive] 100 Years of Microsoft Stories - YouTube --jeroen

Digitale toegankelijkheid als waardevolle stresstest voor je architectuur: NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie, 7 mei 2026, Jorrit Geels over eenvoudigere ontwerpen, duidelijkere mentale modellen en beter onderhoudbare code. Donderdag 7 mei 2026 geeft Jorrit Geels op de NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie in het…

In deze agenda vind je tientallen evenementen over privacy, open source en onafhankelijk worden ban Big Tech in Nederland: foss-privacy-bigtech.nl/evenementen/

Big opportunity for Spain to charge €2 million per ship here

Ik zat me af te vragen, waar haalt Israël zelf hun olie en gas eigenlijk vandaan?

We hebben zojuist een FACTSHEET Nachtvluchten gepubliceerd op onze website! Vergeet na het lezen niet de petitie te tekenen :) stichting-s4r.nl/2026/04/04/f...

Ik ben het wel met Caroline eens We moeten gewoon eerlijk laten zien wat de werkelijkheid is en niet wat we graag willen wat de werkelijkheid is. Dus speciaal voor haar is dit mijn voorstel

De ongezouten waarheid over waar je voedsel vandaan komt.