Vleesetende plantjes
Evolutie van twee bakken deze lente/zomer. Die kunnen goed tegen de hitte!
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De wereld vandaag
En plots was er de drang om iets te schrijven. Het is niet nagelezen, het is gewoon mijn gedachtenstroom vandaag, op mijn blog. Klinkt het niet, dan botst het, en dat is ook oké! fertiliteit Ik kwam daarnet deze video tegen van de Financial Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFXmDk-tps Het gaat over de correlatie tussen smartphonegebruik en het aantal kinderen dat geboren wordt. Hun theorie…
Vleesetende plantjes
Bekers van mijn vijf oudste Nepenthes. Trompetten van enkele Sarracenia.
lastb on Debian
So there is this post which says: "Yes, the people who are likely to care are admins with cobwebby homebrew cronjobs that regularly generate painstakingly formatted security reports and send them to the fax machine, or whatever." ...I feel extremely personally attacked by this :) (Replace fax with mail, or whatever.) I want my freshly upgraded to Debian Trixie Raspberry Pi to keep sending this…
more?
How can ' more ' take 100 percent CPU? The command was grep -i start */* | more
middle-of-screen subtitles
I stop watching and downvote the moment your video has middle-of-screen subtitles. Idem ditto for huge forced subtitles.
stty: /dev/ttyACM0: Inappropriate ioctl for device
This command on a Raspberry Pi 3: stty -F /dev/ttyACM0 ispeed 9600 ospeed 9600 raw Resulted in this error: stty: /dev/ttyACM0: Inappropriate ioctl for device This happened after the sd-card (with the OS) of the Pi entered failsafe mode so it is read only. I used dd to copy the 16GB sd-card to a new 128GB one: dd if=/dev/sdd of=/srv/iso/pi_20250928.iso dd if=/srv/iso/pi_20250928.iso of=/dev/sdd The…
Nieuwe hobby: Venus Vliegenvangers
Tot zover de nieuwe hobby. Venuskes zijn niet de gemakkelijkste om gelukkig te maken.
Nieuwe hobby: Sarracenia
Enkele van de Sarracenia zoals ze nu buiten staan. Die eten veel insecten, vooral wespen.
Nieuwe hobby: Nepenthes
Nieuwe hobby sinds 2021; vleesetende plantjes kweken. Hier vijf bekertjes die Nepenthes mij geven.
2025 = (20 + 25)²
2025 = (20 + 25)² 2025 = 45² 2025 = 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ 2025 = (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)² 2025 = 1+3+5+7+9+11+...+89 2025 = 9² x 5² 2025 = 40² + 20² + 5²
book: Gabor Mate, Scattered Minds
A book written by a doctor that has ADD himself, and it shows. I was annoyed in the first half by his incessant use of anecdotes to prove that ADD is not genetic. It felt like he had to convince himself, and it read as an excuse for his actions as a father. He uses clear and obvious examples of how not to raise a child (often with himself as the child or the father) to play on the readers emotion.…
Dissapointing Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition
What a disaster this is, the DIY framework laptop. The box... ...contains more boxes. The parts are few... ...so the laptop is assembled in less than a minute?! Unpacking the thing took longer than assembling it! Reading this webpage took longer than assembling it! Installing the DDR5 memory took 1 second: click and done. Installing the nvme took 3 seconds: unscrew one screw, click and screw.…
four books
Charlie Mackesy - The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse (2019) In so far as you can read this book, I read this book. This book allows you to read one page, and then ponder on it for a week. It's a story, but it is also not a story but more a psychological insight into humans. I will probably open this book again several times this year to discover even more about the meaning of a single page.…
three books
It took a while, but here are three books I've read. Kevin Mitnick - The Art of Invisibility (2017) I have been interested in Kevin Mitnick since his 1980ies hacking. He is mentioned in several books that I read in the past. This book is about all the personal data one leaves behind when using the internet (or devices connected to the internet). It is a rather simple guide on how to increase your…
Software I am thankful for
An alphabetical list of software that I really like. Apache : Not as popular as it used to be, but I know it and so still use it apt / aptitude / apt-get : The origin of all 'apps' and the most user friendly and secure way to manage software Audacity : Or is that too controversial now with their telemetry? bash : The best interface to my computers convert : From Imagemagick , for batch converting…
tmux resurrect
Why did I not know about this until now? https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect It restores all windows, all panes, all ssh sessions.
Drie boeken
Door omstandigheden wat minder kunnen lezen, maar bij deze nog eens drie boeken: De Hel van Deurne-Noord is een verzamling getuigenissen van voetballers en trainers, en reporters, over hun ervaring op den Bosuil . Het dateert van 2016 ofzo denk ik, dus het is vooral dromen van een groot Royal Antwerp FC . Ik denk niet dat er toen iemand was die Naingolan of Alderweireld als spelers van den Antwerp…
HifiBerry AMP2
Setup of a HifiBerry AMP2 ...on a Rapsberry Pi 2. First attempt was with Volumio, as advised by a friend. Well that works, but I personally find the interface a horror, and I seem to lose control of the Pi since Volumio is a full OS that seems only accessible by web interface. No thanks. Using Raspberry Pi OS: - download Raspberry Pi OS lite (command line is fine) - extract the image - dd the…
Vier bezoekjes van de voorbije maand
XPO Space Zeker doen als je interesse hebt in ruimtevaart, er staan enkele boeiende objecten op ware grootte en dat geeft toch een andere indruk. De geschiedenis van de ruimtevaart wordt er goed in beeld gebracht, helaas gaat de rest van de XPO enkel over de Verenigde Staten, Rusland en een beetje ESA. Geen woord over de Indische , Japanse of Chinese ruimtevaart van de laatste tien-twintig jaren.…
Scripting FreeCAD with Python
A wise person recently told me: "Release early, release often!" So here goes... I know a teeny-weeny bit of Python and have recently learned to enjoy FreeCAD. This morning I discovered that FreeCAD can be scripted using Python, so here's my first attempt . Any hints are welcome. The script creates a (very flat) cube, attaches four smaller flat cubes that serve as tenons, and then cuts out four…
Three books
Two books about The Witcher and eentje over onze maatschappij. I never played The Witcher game, but I did see the TV-series ' first season in the months before Covid-19. The books are about the same characters, Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer and the others, but the story details differ from the TV-series. I saw the second season before I read any of the books. Some dialogues are identical in both books…
Three books
An emotional book about shame, a historical book about Constantinople and an interesting take on prehistory (and society). Brene Brown has a world famous Ted talk , though I must admit I didn't really understand it back in 2010. But when a beautiful South American lady gives you a book, then you read it. I read this in the summer of 2019 I think, before Covid-19. This book about vulnerability,…
Scary car software updates
I have a user account (yes really) in a Hyundai Kona electric car. A while ago there was a software update and now the owner cannot play radio (or any other music) through the car when Bluetooth on her smartphone is active. The car demands that music is played through the smartphone?! Disabling Bluetooth on the smartphone solves this problem, but then phone calls are not handsfree?! The owner…
Three books
One book about science, one book about spying and eentje over mensen. I finished "Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelder last month. It is a story of her interviewing scientists that try to find order in (mainly) the smallest of elements. The gist is that while there is a lot of (mathematical) beauty in science (think how nice the atoms are for example), that most scientists are distracted by beauty…