Merkel speaks. She is the only true leader of Europe. Listen.
Do not assume US still aspires to be a world leader. Differently put: it is time for a EU army. She also said: the UK will have to “live with the consequences” of Boris Johnson ditching Theresa May’s...
View ArticleDat er geen gevaar is
Na een zware periode waar ik zelf angst heb gehad, bedacht ik me een paar uur geleden: Niets blijkt moeilijker te zijn dan te accepteren dat er geen gevaar is. Ik heb besloten dat dit de nieuwe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Earth isn’t flat. It’s square!
The earth is a cube. It’s a Pyrite crystal that didn’t stop growing. Here is the earth scaled to my size: I’m telling you; it’s Pyrite cubes all the way down.
View ArticleErg krachtige quote
Ik vind deze zin van Jordan Peterson erg krachtig (en ik wilde die op een oud medium zoals blogs doen voortbestaan): I do believe that each of us participate in the transformation of what could be,...
View ArticleAvast, Qt6 announcing new QPromise and QFuture APIs
Qt published its New_Features in Qt 6.0. Some noteworthy items in their list: QPromise allows setting values, progress and exceptions to QFuture QFuture supports attaching continuations I like to think...
View ArticleImproving Qt
We are a few years further. A few years in which we all tried to make a difference. I’m incredibly proud of my achievement of QTBUG-61928. At the time I thought I could never convince the Qt...
View ArticleHow to make a movie from the history of wikipedia images
Install some software apt-get install imagej wget imagemagick bash Get a JSON with all the versions of a image on Wikipedia Let’s assume you want to watch how the invasion in Ukraine took place....
View ArticleGoing around media bans
For the people who want to know how to get around the ongoing media bans: Do a Google search and type in ‘free ssh country‘. Use as ‘country‘ the country where the media is that you want to reach....
View ArticleWe moeten
Een eigen Europees leger starten. Waarbij ieder Europees land haar eigen expertise in de groep werpt. Afspraken maken met Rusland over de energievoorziening van Europa. Een nieuw veiligheidspakt met...
View ArticleBelgian blue stone with white stains.
Here’s a scenario: ten years ago, you renovated your bathroom. As a shower, you chose a walk-in shower with a Belgian blue stone which is porous and is a limestone. That’s why you have to be careful...
View ArticleOCR for your old printer/scanner
Modern printers can do OCR on your scans. But as we talked about last time, aren’t all printers or scanners modern. We have a scrap computer that is (already) catching all E-mails on a badly...
View ArticleOCR for your old scanner/printer’s E-mails
Yesterday I explained how to make a scrap computer do OCR on your scanner/printer’s scanned PDFs in case you have a SMB file share (a Windows file share) where the printer will write to. I also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bestway Lay-Z-Spa motor #58113 fix
A lot of people have or are buying those cheap inflatable Bestway hottubs. A lot of people have in the past realized after about half a year of continuous running that the water pump unit is of very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Descaling a Lay-Z-Spa water pump unit with my own contraption
The Bestway hottub’s water pump must regularly be descaled. It’s not easy to add huge amounts of chemicals to your pool water to have a meaningful effect when you have serious calcium buildup in your...
View ArticleThe bypass paywalls on a phone
Bypassing paywalls is a sport for some. And it ain’t hard for Desktop Browsers. Just install a addon in your favorite Desktop Browser. Unfortunately this didn’t work on a Android or iPhone phone. Nor...
View ArticleBattle casualties
Waterloo: The combined number of men killed or wounded reached nearly 50,000, with close to 25,000 casualties on the French side and approximately 23,000 for the Allied army. Bakhmut: Western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shoe repair shop
With my Youtube addiction I learned from channels where they rebuild cars, how to renovate your car’s leather seats. From there I started wondering: can’t I do this with shoes too? I’m a big fan of...
View ArticleAugust is no more
Today my rooster August(us) was not standing well on its legs. Because it’s getting winter and more importantly because my woman is pregnant I decided that this time we wouldn’t try to save the animal...
View ArticleBattle casualties, again
A while ago I wrote a article comparing Waterloo with Bakhmut. That was in August 2023. We are in February 2024 and I predict that soon I will have to say the same about Avdiivka. The city is about to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Troi to be alive
Beste andere Belgen Venera en ik hebben een bébé gemaakt. Hij is Troi en naar het schijnt lijkt hij erg op mij. Hier is een fotooke van hem en zijn mama. Troi is uiteraard heel erg schattig:
View Article