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Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

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If you develop web-sites, be sure their basics work without JavaScript, as JavaScript is a security risk

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/18

I have had JavaScript disabled by default for years now, which means that:

  • if your site requires JavaScript, I will opt for an alternative
  • I will block anything ad related, even if it means I cannot use your site

The reasons are simple:

  1. JavaScript has become a big security threat over time. Be it tracking (hello fingerprinting!), data leakage, direct attacks, supply chain attacks, sloppy code or other risks, JavaScript is not vulnerable just by itself, but especially the eco systems (hello npm – 2 attacks in September 2025 alone – and advertising networks) using it. Just a few references:
    1. [Wayback/Archive] The perils of JavaScript: How we’ve broken the internet’s security
    2. [Wayback/Archive] Most Common Security Vulnerabilities Using JavaScript – SecureCoding
    3. [Wayback/Archive] Supply Chain Security Alert: Popular Nx Build System Package Compromised with Data-Stealing Malware – StepSecurity
    4. [Wayback/Archive] Wormable Malware Causing Supply Chain Compromise of npm Code Packages – Arctic Wolf
    5. [Wayback/Archive] FingerprintJS | Identify Every Web Visitor & Mobile Device
  2. JavaScript has become a huge resource hog. Disabling JavaScript by default increased the snappiness and battery life of my laptops and smartphones significantly. In addition, it makes it way easier to read region-blocked content. Double win!

The below thread by [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz (@christopherkunz@chaos.social) – chaos.social sparked me to finally write why and add some relevant links.

Thread:

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Posted in Development, Infosec (Information Security), JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Security, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Maarten van Smeden “This is why programming is an acquired skill” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/18

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “This is why programming is an acquired skill ” / Twitter

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Big Clive: Lighting tech tool bag tour 2025 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/17

What you carry around in a tool bag is always very personal.

What other people carry around is a great learning opportunity, especially when they have put in self-made or self-assembled tools.

So thanks Clive for releasing this very personal video: [Wayback/Archive] Big Clive: Lighting tech tool bag tour 2025 – YouTube

--jeroen

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Visual Studio Code has had a PlantUML extension for a while now

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/17

During my cancer treatments I missed a lot of fun things, including that, a PlantUML extension for vscode (Visual Studio Code) matured into a well-maintained one.

I bumped into it when revisiting git – How to integrate UML diagrams into GitLab or GitHub – Stack Overflow (GitLab was first to natively support PlantUML; hopefully GitHub follows one day) and found the profile of [Wayback/Archive] Fuhrmanator which mentioned the vscode PlantUML extension.

Some links below, as I think it is a cool one!.

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More invoices: WordPress, Google,

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/16

Query: [Wayback/Archive] download google one invoice – Google Search

--jeroen

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version control – How can I see the changes in a Git commit? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/16

[Wayback/Archive] version control – How can I see the changes in a Git commit? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] laktak, [Wayback/Archive] Nevik Rehnel, [Wayback/Archive] Juuso Ohtonen and [Wayback/Archive] User c z – Stack Overflow)

This looks like a valid question, but in reality it is not.

The thing is: in git, think of a commit not as a diff but as a snapshot*.

A diff is the difference between two commits.

Since most commits have just a single parent, so that’s why many people call a commit a diff. But that’s not true, especially not for merge commits that have at least two parents.

Anyway, the question, answer and comment from the link above already give some insight (note COMMIT everywhere below has to be replaced with the commit hash):

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Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/15

For the yearly administration shizzle, the direct link to Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account (account.proton.me/u/dashboard#invoices) where sometimes you have to visit one of your product first.

The reason is that at the time of writing, this was documented to be in a different place, as per [Wayback/Archive] How to download, customize, or pay invoices | Proton

Log in to your Proton Account at account.proton.me on a computer, click Settings → All settings → Dashboard, and scroll down to Invoices.

You start at [Wayback/Archive] account.proton.me/login and end up at account.proton.me/apps and that is where you cannot choose settings. You can however go to individual products and via that to the above invoices link. That’s cumbersome, it is way easier to just follow that invoices link, but in case you want to go via the products, these are the steps to follow:

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Tabel met apotheekvergoedingen per verzekeraar

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/15

Het is weer midden december, dus tijd om na te denken over je zorgverzekering.

Zoals elk jaar maakte de KNMP een tabel van wat welke zorgmiddelen door de diverse verzekeraarsgroepen van zorgverzekeringen vergoed wordt.

Nieuw dit jaar is een kolom over het preferentiebeleid. Voor diverse verzekeraarsgroepen gaan geprefereerde medicijnen niet meer af van het eigen risico: het voorkomt niet alleen verrassingen aan de balie, maar zorgt er ook voor dat je beter de kosten vooraf kunt voorspellen.

Dat een verzekeraar een zorgmiddel niet via de apotheek vergoedt, betekent niet dat het zonder vergoeding is: zo moet ik mijn incontinentiemateriaal bij Medireva bestellen en dan wordt het toch direct aan Medireva vergoed.

PDF: [Wayback/Archive] baliekaart_vergoeding_apotheekzorg_2026.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Let op bij kiezen 2026 – EllenSocial

De tabel:

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Fritz!Box: remove the confirmation for making backups, exporting support information or

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/15

Most of my Fritz!Boxes are configured as switches, have a unique and strong password, are hung up in hard to reach spaces, do not have phone handsets attached or Fritz app connected. Which means that every time you want to do something sensitive operations (like backing up your data or generating support information from a URL like 192.168.178.1/support.lua) you get a nag screen, so this escape is golden to remove that nag-screen:

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Fake Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Torrent Drops Agent Tesla Through Layered PowerShell Chain – attack vector starts from text in .srt subtitle files

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/12

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/labs/fake-leonardo-dicaprio-movie-torrent-agent-tesla-powershell

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