Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:31:04 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Zo, zaterdag mag ik m'n 2e #booster halen, mooi op tijd voor de winter.

#corona

corona

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Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:35:57 +0200

Quantum

QuantumAspect@mastodon.social

@hans Ow, ik had woensdag gekozen, omdat ik dacht dat je een werkdag moest kiezen. Prutser ik

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:39:53 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Quantum Ik had ook morgen al gekund, maar dat komt qua werk niet lekker uit.

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:41:15 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Hans Vanwege ziekenhuisbehandeling, neem ik aan?

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:45:41 +0200

Quantum

QuantumAspect@mastodon.social

@hans De overheidscommunicatie hierover is overigens belabberd. Zie jij dagelijks op het journaal welk jaar er nu aan de beurt is? Ik niet. Het is dat ik toevallig vorige week de minister op TV zag zeggen dat binnenkort lagere leeftijden dan 60 aan de beurt zijn. Toen ben ik het maar zelf in de gaten gaan houden.

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:47:02 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Quantum

Toen ben ik het maar zelf in de gaten gaan houden.

Yup, ik ook. Ik kijk sinds maandag elke dag ff, en vandaag mocht ik een afspraak maken.

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:03:20 +0200

HernanLG

hernanlg@diaspora.anjara.eu

Ik ben nog aan het wachten =/

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:40:12 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Vanwege een positieve #corona test, wil ik niet fysiek boodschappen gaan doen, dus ik dacht even de online service van #AlbertHeijn te proberen. Via #Tor, uiteraard.

Daar wil Appie niet aan, helaas. Minutenlang blijf ik "transferring data from www.ah.nl..." zien, maar er komt niks. Ik kan het natuurlijk proberen met het knopje "inloggen met bol.com", maar van mij hoeven Bol.com en Albert Heijn niet van elkaar te weten wie ik ben. Maar goed, een nieuwe account aanmaken gaat niet. Tor zal wel net iets te privacybewust zijn.

Luister, Heijn, ik wil je een lijstje boodschappen geven en die je bij me aan de deur komt afleveren. Verder niks, geen "aanbiedingen", geen reclame en geen dataverzamelingen. Als je geen website kunt (of wilt) maken die dat kan, dan kan je de (insert enge ziekte) krijgen.

internet privacy ergernis rant

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Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:45:29 +0100

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

Ik gebruik Crisp (veel beter spul als van de Appie, de ingevroren afbak croissants zijn hemels!) & Picnic, beide via een smartphone app. Picnic voor het doorsnee supermarkt voorraadkast gebeuren. Kwam goed uit, we zijn nu ook officieel in quarantaine. Maar wel (nu) met genoeg in hus voor 14 dagen 🎉

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:55:13 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

No ff'ing way dat ik een app op mijn telefoon zet voor zoiets. Als het niet via Toe kan (mag?) dat zal het wel dingen willen doen die ik niet wil.

Ik heb het heel analoog opgelost: een vriend van me heeft even boodschappen voor me gedaan.

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:55:59 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Tor, niet Toe. Stomme autocorrect...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:57:48 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I got my #booster shot, should be alright for a while.

#corona

corona

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Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:04:41 +0100

Wilco Roos

wroos@diasp.org

We are also (both) boostered, my son will go tuesday, now lets hope one booster will be enough, as i am not overly fond of needle jabs. Not that this one is painful (other than a sore arm for a few days) just, the whole process that i find annoying and irritating.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:06:38 +0100

@hans
Great to hear it. I haven't got boosters yet since it has not been half a year since my second shot. I should get a booster since there are lots of news stated that two shots of Sinovac vaccines do not protect us well from the new variants of the virus.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:14:20 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Wilco Roos#

the whole process that i find annoying and irritating.

It was smooth sailing here. I didn't even have to go to Middelburg, they had set up a jabbing station a few blocks away from here. It was well organized: check ID, check questionnaire, sit down, get a jab, wait 15 minutes and done. Took little over half an hour, all-in-all.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:18:58 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Filbert Salim

two shots of Sinovac vaccines do not protect us well from the new variants of the virus

Same here. I've had 2 shots of Pfizer, but after half a year that seems to be rather ineffective against the new Omikron variant. I got a Moderna shot this time.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:27:17 +0100

@hans
You got Moderna as the booster. Hmm, actually I would like to ask a question which is "Can you choose the booster you want to get?"

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:28:59 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

No, you don't get the choice here. At least, not up to now. There's a new one on the market, a traditional vector-vaccine, and I think you can choose that once it's ready. That could be a reason for people who don't trust mRNA-vaccines to get vaccinated anyway.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 13:53:03 +0100

@hans
There is also a vaccine developed by an Indonesian doctor called "Vaksim Nusantara" although I do not really understand the way it works. It said that the method is similar with the one to treat cancer. https://www.infid.org/news/read/vaksin-nusantara-look-concerned-scientist
Since I do not understand well about the vaccine, I don't know whether it is similar with traditional vector vaccine that you mention. But, the most distributed vaccines here are Sinovac and Astra Zenecca. Pfizer and Moderna are a bit less.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 14:26:42 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

I'm not an expert either, but for what I know there are 2 types of vaccines. The traditional one works by using dead parts of the actual virus, that the body can use as "training material". The mRNA version works by directly providing your cells the instructions to produce the antibodies.

It's mostly Pfizer and Moderna here. I think they stopped with AstraZeneca when there were a few cases of blood clotting.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:23:27 +0100

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hubzilla.fediversum.de

@Hans van Zijst

The mRNA version works by directly providing your cells the instructions to produce the antibodies.

AFAIU, instead of providing a deactivated virus or its harmless fingerprint, it provides the messenger RNA to build this fingerprint (only in the outer part of the cells), so for a short period of time, the cells pitch some clay pigeons for target practice to the immune system.

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:52:56 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Witcraft

clay pigeons

Ah, so those are the "spike proteins" then. Thanks for clarifying.

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:15:28 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Goed... Dus eerst klaag je steen en been dat #ivermectin verboden is en moeilijk te krijgen, en als je dan toch een vage manier hebt gevonden om het te krijgen, klaag je dat je bent opgelicht...

https://twitter.com/BeedeGee/status/1472247439084167168

#wappies #corona

corona

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:33:31 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Booster campaign is speeding up. If they keep it up like this, I'll be able to make an appointment during christmas.

https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/people-born-in-1968-1969-1970-invited-for-covid-19-booster-vaccination

#corona #covid19 People born in 1968, 1969 and 1970 invited for COVID-19 booster vaccination | RIVM

People born in 1968, 1969 and 1970 can now schedule an appointment for a COVID-19 booster vaccination by the Municipal Public Health Services (GGDs). This can only be done online, via www.coronavaccinatie-afspraak.nl.

corona

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Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:00:52 +0100

@hans The numbers there are really high. I feel sad for that fact. I wish the numbers can decrease ASAP so everyone there can go back to their pre-pandemic activities.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:16:56 +0100

mfierst [old account]

mfierst@pluspora.com

It is picking up a lot of pace and running smooth and efficient at the GGD sites, I have heard. No paper invitations, no SMS invitations as far as I have heard, but once registered the operation runs well. My personal experience was at Amsterdam RAI last week when I accompanied someone else. They were putting jabs in arms between 08:00 and 22:00, 18000 injections per day on that single site. No queues but never empty, it was a steady stream of customers from car park, checks, injection, 10m pause to check for allergies, back to the car park. We were back at home in 1h15m, including travel time from another city 30km away. Not a bad experience.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:33:20 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Filbert Salim

wish the numbers can decrease ASAP so everyone there can go back to their pre-pandemic activities.

That will take a while, and may never happen if new variants keep popping up.

We'll only really be out of the woods if we have a vaccine that protects 100% and the vast majority of the world population has been vaccinated. Seeing how Pfizer and the likes are mostly interested in making as much money as they can, that moment may never come.

We'll have to adjust, play by the rules of evolution, like all life forms on this planet.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:52:07 +0100

@hans Well this reminds me of what @aral posted previously.

"Money is just another god created by man; capitalism, just another religion."

The booster and/or vaccination rates should be more rapid than the emergence of the new variants. About making money as much as possible by firms, we should restructure the forms and the aims of firms. The CEOs are in tough position too as they need to satisfy the investors. Anyone should introduce the new forms.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 14:54:02 +0100

@hans I do not mean that what CEOs are doing are right. I am just trying to think from the perspectives of the CEOs. To solve a problem, we need to think from both opposing parties.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:00:30 +0100

@hans maybe there is an exception. We have to really blame for CEOs of health-sector companies who list the firms into stock exchanges.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 15:50:32 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Filbert Salim

The CEOs are in tough position too as they need to satisfy the investors.

Well, governments have invested incredible amounts of money in it, they should be kept happy.

The problem is with shareholders: they are the ones that own a part of the enterprise and therefore decide the direction it should take. And most of those are unscrupulous money-grubbers. That's how capitalism works.

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:18:50 +0100

@hans yeah we need to re-regulate anything related to money. Because of pursuing for money, people tend to anything (I don't want to bullshit since I am pursuing for money and we can't live without money today) I see FOSS as a great and potential sign to start decapitalising.

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:43:56 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Man, am I sick and tired of those #corona measures... I've always been a loner, but I'm fed up with having to live as a hermit. Don't get me wrong: I understand the rules, I support them and I live by them, but after a year it starts to feel as if I'm slowly choking. I yearn for the time when it's once again normal to go out with friends, eat in a restaurant or go to the cinema.

It's good to see that they've started to do "test events", to see if it's possible to allow people to come together again by means of strict testing and only allowing people that test negative. Let's hope we can do that in the summer, so that we don't have to cancel all festivals again. At least one music festival a year has been one of my personal traditions for the last 20 years or so, and I miss it. Three or four days of music, entertainment and social interaction, I want it!

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Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:49:56 +0100

I am fully for a covid passport. Let those who did get the shots spend money going to events

I might watch the larger concerts online or on tv but I would love to go out to a restaurant. I even have planned to go to Amsterdam if the certain Japaneese restaurant still exists.

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:21:41 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, Japanese... I've wanted to invite a good friend of mine to a Japanese restaurant for almost a year now. Tantalizing to have a good Japanese restaurant at less than 100 meters from my front door, but see them confined to takeaway only

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:26:50 +0100

The one in Amsterdam I visited, a long time ago b.t.w., was a joy to go too. There was this Asian cook with lot's of knives and skills. I know that when going there I will need a hotel too since driving home with a full belly isn't my kind of joy

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:32:23 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Ah, the meal that comes with a show. I love that.

This one doesn't do that kind of show, it's the kind where you just sit at a table and order your food. "All you can eat" but "only" five rounds in total. I eat a lot, but I've never completed a fifth round though...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:37:43 +0100

I did visit those too, nice, but I would love to go to the one I mentioned. At that time I worked for Terena and that was our Christmas dinner. I left earlier then most of us since I needed to catch the Train to Nijkerk. Once I was in Amersfoort they told me the train would only ride to Zwolle. The 'machinist' looked at me and stated "Hop on, we will find a way to get you there"

A very nice experience. They simply let it stop in Nijkerk too

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:29:19 +0100

Martijn Vos

mcv@pluspora.com

I to have had enough. I support the principle of a lockdown to stop the spread, but it's been almost a year now, and I'm really ready for this to end. Not just for me, but especially for my kids. My oldest has barely been to school, hasn't gone to any clubs or sports. I would love to get my youngest to music lessons and he really needs to learn to swim, but everything is closed. It's the development of my kids that I'm most worried about.

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:20:06 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Crap. I was looking forward to my lessons #Russian, but #Corona threw a spanner in the works. At least for now. Everything has been postponed for at least two weeks..

Authenticated Jitsi for the win

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 03:46:09 +0200 last edited: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 04:42:25 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Most people by now know that #videoconferencing in times of #corona / #covid19 is hot, and that #Zoom is not. Well, not if you're the slightest bit concerned about #privacy. There are a number of alternatives, and because I just love #OpenSource, that's what I picked. #Jitsi for the win!

The standard installation is not only open source, but completely open. That is, everyone can connect, start a room and invite people. I don't have unlimited resources, so I figured I had to arrange for something a bit more restricted than that. That turned out not to be very difficult.

First I installed Jitsi, as explained on the Jitsi Quick Install. Smooth sailing there: Jitsy in a jiffy.

Then I changed the default domain from anonymous to authentication and added a guest domain for unauthenticated users, see Jitsi Server Authentication. So now I could login with my specially made account and invite others.

Nice, but I'd like my friends and family to have that power too. Incidentally (well, not quite) they have accounts on my #LDAP server for #email, #Nextcloud and #Hubzilla, so I figured that if I could have Jitsi authenticate users against LDAP too, I'd be done.

After a bit of #DuckDuckGo-ing, I found this nice post that describes just that. So I installed the modules, created my ldap.conf.lua and changed authentication from "internal_plain" to "ldap2". After that I created a service account for Jitsi in LDAP and restarted #Prosody. And lo and behold: it works. My own Jitsi, that should not be so easily abused by every Tom, Dick and Harry who stumbles upon the URL.

Didn't take too long to set this up. All in all a few hours work, including a fresh installation of Debian.

Man, I love Open Source