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Comment · 1 month ago
Do we even need to have a suite of tools for users to create spreadsheets, paste images into them, save them as a PDF, download to their local machine, sync to sharepoint, change permissions to include everyone in the entire universe to be able to see the file, email the link to another human in the company who opens it, uses a PDF editor to copy paste it back into excel, barely scratch the surface of tools within Excel to sum a column, reply back in a password protected word doc saying looks good to me.

I would much prefer to be using something like NixOS and not be depending on Microsoft etc but I can't imagine what the stack will look like if we don't revolutionise the work. Sensitivity labels, DLP, etc. are relics of people treating information on computers as if they are physical documents, and I can't see how I will have been paying for BP/E3/E5 licenses for users and then suddenly start to argue we don't need those features anymore after spending so long insisting users need to use them.

Comment · 9 months ago
I had the most intensely coloured lights visible in the west of Ireland. I've seen them a few times before but never like this. Phones were capturing them in video not just long exposures.

Not sure what the best service is to be alerted ahead of time. Apparently it'll be strong here again at 6am according to some of the apps some random people were waving around.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
For a moment I thought this was somehow about putting solar PV panels inside an engine and getting energy from the light from the detonation.... I need a cup of coffee
Comment · 1 year ago
This sounds like the Irish Eircode system

7 characters made up of letters and numbers let you find a specific building.

Comment · 2 years ago
I really enjoyed that writeup. I wonder has anyone played with DPUs in a similar way? I have been trying to think of how to hairpin traffic through some standalone DPUs like an nvidia bluefield or pensando. To make my own >100G east west stateful firewall for a small fraction of the cost of a real option.

Switch like OPs with all traffic passing to and from a DPU to make a poor man's Aruba CX10000

Comment · 3 years ago
I use security onion for this, sysmon generates events and they are shipped to security onion using winlogbeats. Stuff like whoami execution shows up on my alerts. I wouldn't mind making some canary tokens for files inside shares with sensitive information as a warning for me to be prepared to be fired.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's down for me too. I would love to know if there's any alternative because I've become addicted to using it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I pay monthly for adobe. Well I see the invoices that are paid for my subscription. Around €90 per month including VAT.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is it an Alienware? From experience they have an unstable overclock from the factory which is applied by software not in the bios.

I was pulling my hair out trying to diagnose crashes on a laptop for someone else. A bonus is if you install docker or WSL, the alienware control software could no longer turn off the overclock. So that whole time I thought there was no way it was overclocked because the option to overclock wasn't even visible in their software. it was a 2022 Alienware with a 12900k 64GB ddr5 and a 3080ti

Comment · 4 years ago
Would be cool to have it like geolayers 3 meets Google earth studio, with added collaborative map editing and be able to export nice animations

I'm sure there are a lot of people who could be making interesting map videos / news / explainers who don't already have geolayers3, and who don't want to pay a mapbox sub on top of Adobe CC. Or people who have the After effects skills could benefit from other experts updating their maps content while they work on the animation.

I make map animations from time to time at work for news and I spend a decent amount of time wrestling with overpass turbo to export features to overlay in Google earth studio as a kml.

Comment · 4 years ago
Would NDI (https://www.ndi.tv/ ) work or am I not understanding your requirement?

It's around 200mbps for 60Hz 1080p but if you are just going from a local PC to a local mac it won't matter much

Comment · 4 years ago
Is there any way to write commands where I could give my own time weighting to certain types of roads for route finding?

Google maps, organic maps, osmand+, I still have to double check what crazy suggestion it has made. Single track gravel roads over a perfectly safe alternative a lot of the time.

I have the avoid unpaved roads options ticked... it would be great to have some machine learning magic take a look at a street view picture and decide if there is grass growing up the middle of the road and add a weighted chance of needing to reverse 200 metres when there is other traffic

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