Some Bitwarden Family Plan notes

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Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen updated • The Register

For my link archive because - for offline usage - sometimes Windows XP is still useful to run tools that have never been made compatible with less ancient hardware/software combinations. The xp_activate32.exe mentioned below emulates the phone-activation response and is the important bit for me as I can re-use existing Windows XP license keys that I already have. The WindowsXPKg…

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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered

I forgot to schedule this post, but it was great news: a 50+ year old Unix V4 tape that was discovered in November 25 and digitally restored in December 25. This was a big step forward in restoring the History of Unix. There was a lot of coverage, but I think this thread was was the coolest part. It starts at [

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Wikipedia articles with special keyboard modifier keys (and their symbols): Control, Shift, Alt, Option, Command, Menu, Windows, Meta, Hyper, Super, Fn including their symbols

Somehow I find these hard to find back on-line, so here is a list for my easier reference Modifier key - Wikipedia Control key - Wikipedia, mostly described as Ctrl (Control or Ctl) and usually symbolised with a ^ like ^ Ctrl (^ Control or ^ Ctl) though by now the official symbol is ⎈, so the descriptions should be ⎈ Ctrl (⎈ Control or ⎈ Ctl).

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Eten en leven met kanker, Joke Boon, 9789023017431

English (Nederlands hieronder): The same thing happened Joke Boon as to me: she got rectumcancer with full treatments. Unlike me she already was a book author, and decided to write a book about the whole process, with the second half of the book dedicated to recipes that worked well during and after her treatments. The rest of the post is in Dutch.

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Increasing your web archiving impact: Guide to Setting Up Your 2nd (and more) ArchiveTeam Warrior in VirtualBox (Windows, MacOS, Linux…) or docker

With both the ever increasing amount of internet data, and ever increasing number of web sites pulling the plug, archiving them into the Internet Archive is ever more important. The thread at [Wayback/Archive] Double Your Archiving Impact: Guide to Setting Up Your 2nd ArchiveTeam Warrior in VirtualBox (Windows) : Archiveteam has great tips on running ArchiveTeam Warrior instances, even running more than one on a machine.

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SKÅDIS series – IKEA

[Wayback/Archive] SKÅDIS Series - IKEA SKÅDIS is an extremely versatile pegboard that you can rearrange endless times. Add containers, shelves, letter holders and elastics and keep your things organised and tidily gathered where you can always find them. In your kitchen, hallway, study or bathroom, it’s perfect for keeping things handy. Related: [Wayback/Archive…

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No, the Delphi IfThen functions do perform do lazy evaluation

Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling people that these do not perform lazy evaluation of the then and else parts which the if/then/else statement provides. The newly introduced if/then/

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What happens this year? (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, … France takes nuclear reactors offline amid record heatwave | Euronews)

Last year, again at least France had to shut down multiple nuclear power reactors. A very to the point comment was made: [Wayback/Archive] André Vatter | @avatter: ""Grundlastkraftwerke" 🤣…" - Mastodon (German Grundlastkraftwerk is base load power plant in English): He quoted [Wayback/Archive] Frankreich schaltet Atomreaktoren wegen Hitze ab | Euronews which has an English version too at [

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Pack of 30 NFC Tags NFC Cards NFC 215 Day Ntag215 NFC Tag ios Rewritable NFC Card Compatible with iPhone TagMo and Amiibo, 504 Byte Memory Fully Programmable for NFC Enabled Devices (25 mm) : Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Pack of 30 NFC Tags NFC Cards NFC 215 Day Ntag215 NFC Tag ios Rewritable NFC Card Compatible with iPhone TagMo and Amiibo, 504 Byte Memory Fully Programmable for NFC Enabled Devices (25 mm) : Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: "@ilthea @elborro NFC Tags NTAG215 NFC Ronde Kaarten NFC 215 Kaarttag Compatibel met TagMo en Amiibo, 504 Bytes Geheugen Volledig Programmeerbaar voor NFC-apparaten (30 stuks)" --jeroen

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GitHub – yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code

I wanted to detect the programming language of some code I wasn't sure what it was written in. A quick search found [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code Apps powered by Guesslang Microsoft Visual Studio Code, automatic language detection That was cool, as I always have vscode installed. Query: [Wayback/Archive] detect programming language of source code at DuckDuckGo --jeroen

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Sketchplanations on Twitter: “The curb-cut effect: when we design for disabilities we make things better for everyone. From Angela Glover Blackwell at @policylink”

So true in any line of work (especially web applications!): [Wayback/Archive] Sketchplanations on Twitter: "The curb-cut effect: when we design for disabilities we make things better for everyone. From Angela Glover Blackwell at @policylink" Image ID: The curb-cut effect: A range of people of all ages next to a crossing, road, and park show how the curb cut design for disabilities benefits everyone

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Some notes on syncing/transferring Android apps and settings to another phone

Because of my tweet series starting at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: "Migrating from an Android phone to a new Android phone is still a horrible experience. Most apps need you to re-authenticate. Few support password managers. Even fewer migrate settings well (like browser bookmarks and open tabs, launcher preferences, backup folders, etc)" Since then I assisted a few other migrations as well, so below are the notes I made during the migrations.

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GitHub – Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux

This is way easier than I thought (but you need Raspberry Pi 5 or it will be dead slow on earlier models): [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux And yes, there are other write-ups for doing this, but this repository is so much easier and reliable than the others. Did not test it outside of Raspbian yet, so not sure on which other distributions it runs.

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Artikel 13 WBR voorkomt dubbele belasting bij doorverkoop

In artikel 13 van de Wet op belastingen van rechtsverkeer (WBR) staat dat je geen dubbele belasting betaalt als een huis twee keer van eigenaar wisselt binnen zes maanden. Bij de tweede overdracht krijgt de nieuwe koper een korting op de overdrachtsbelasting. Dit noemen we ook wel het artikel 13 verschil. De wet gunt dit voordeel aan de koper, maar in de koopakte kun je afspreken dat dit voordeel aan de verkoper toekomt.

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“You need to learn to delegate” … That’s not always easy due to a variety of situations out of one’s control : @hhariri on Thread Reader App

A year ago, Hadi Hariri wrote this very important Tweet which I preserved through [Wayback/Archive] Thread Reader App because the Space Karen hates the Wayback Machine so much that it still can't archive tweets ¹: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @hhariri on Thread Reader App "You need to learn to delegate" Learning to delegate is not that hard.

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@NL_Wetenschap on Twitter: “Hier een overzicht van de wetgeving over mantelzorg. De regels gaan over hele verschillende situaties/onderwerpen, de doelgroep is vaak anders, de toegangsvoorwaarden verschillen en de uitvoerende instanties zijn niet voor elke regel hetzelfde. Het is echt een lappendeken!”

Hier een overzicht van de wetgeving over mantelzorg. De regels gaan over hele verschillende situaties/onderwerpen, de doelgroep is vaak anders, de toegangsvoorwaarden verschillen en de uitvoerende instanties zijn niet voor elke regel hetzelfde. Het is echt een lappendeken!

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The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration uses JetBrains MPS with a their self developed DSL

Cool: part of the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (Douane / Belastingdienst) uses JetBrains MPS (Meta Programming System) with a DSL (Domain Specific Language): [Wayback/Archive] MPS_DTO_Case_Study.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] Agile Law Execution Factory (ALEF), is an IDE developed with JetBrains MPS that uses a natural language to specify services, fact patterns, tax rules, and test cases.

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Julia posted a challenge: Implement DNS in a weekend

Missed the original announcement of [Wayback/Archive] Implement DNS in a weekend Even after a few years, it is still a fun project to take on. Via [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: "it's fun to see all the different languages people are implementing DNS in a Weekend in (implement-dns.wizardzines.com) -- so far I've seen C#, Rust, Kotlin, Clojure, Golang, Elixir, Typescript, and Python"

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Since more than 40 years, `c:tmp.txt` is a valid file path on Windows (because of MS-DOS 2.x)

Some are surprised but because of MS-DOS 2.x compatibility: `c:tmp.txt` is a valid file path on Windows Since each drive letter remembers the current directory and that memory bit is not thread-local nor process-local, so relying on it is bad practice. The above is a quote from [Wayback/Archive] Oleksii Holub 🇺🇦 on Twitter: "So I was trying to understand the difference between…

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Wayback Machine search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs

A long time ago, I wrote about Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs. Well, not long after Embarcadero totally messed up their DocWiki installation, ditched all DocWiki history cand causing a multi-day DocWiki outage (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.

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bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

Took me a while to notice this is open source: [Wayback/Archive] bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android Via [Wayback/Archive] Gergely Orosz on Twitter: "Wow. The other Blue site open sourced their app (The protocol is already open sourced) Unlike Twitter’s recommendation algorithm that is a fork (and not the real thing), both these are the prod thing. This developing in the open is new, and encouraging! " Related: Staging: [Wayback/Archive] Home (staging.bsky.app) [Wayback/Archive] bluesky-social --jeroen

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII [Blu-ray]: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray

On my wish list, which is supposed to be the Bluray edition: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII : Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray - Blu-Ray box And note that this is not the DVD, but a CD in DVD packaging: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray - DVD Amaray (style) Box…

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Enorm optimistische weergave van Schiphol: Woon ik onder een vliegroute?

De heel optimistische weergave in plaatjes [Wayback/Archive] Schiphol | Woon ik onder een vliegroute?. In werkelijkheid buigen veel vliegen nog veel eerder af, vaak al als ze onder de 500 meter hoogte zijn, en komen daardoor laag en vol gas over woonwijken heen. Idem voor naderend verkeer. Het komt geregeld voor dat ze vol gas wisselen van een toenadering naar de Zwanenburgbaan om dan vol gas laag over Nieuw-West en Badhoevedorp naar de Kaagbaan te vliegen. --jeroen

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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

The USA now have data to prove this: [Wayback/Archive] 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why We knew bigger cars were killing more pedestrians; now there's data to prove it. They are not cars (like the EU currently regards them), but trucks that can go as fast as cars, but don't have the extra safety measures that regular trucks have.

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Help:Interlanguage links – Wikipedia

For my link archive in case I need to connect two articles on the same topic written in different languages: Help:Interlanguage links - Wikipedia Help:Interwiki linking - Wikipedia Query: [Wayback/Archive] wikipedia connect two languages of the same topic - Recherche Google --jeroen

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A while ago I encountered the GitHub unicorn page and saved it in a gist as it is a nice HTML example of embedding images

I hardly do web development, so every once in a while I encounter something that I forgot about. In this case it was embedding images with base64 encoding in the HTML of a web page. The GitHub unicorn page reminded me of that, so I saved it in a gist and a JSFiddle: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub unicorn page copied after posting · GitHub…

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yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News

Learned this a while ago as someone linked to a video on it: [Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News [Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be: Invidious Related: [Wayback/Archive] Octoco-de/ffx-yewtu.be This Firefox extension provides a simple and convenient way to automatically redirect YouTube video URLs to yewtu.be without the need for user interaction.

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