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.
The eligibility criteria was clear for the pilot[1] and has not been announced yet for the scheme from 2026 onwards. They selected 2,000 for the pilot which was due to end in June 2025 and was extended to early 2026 and in the 2026 budget was changed to reflect TFA.
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
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
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.
One that comes to mind is this AMCDX Video Patcher [1] made by Alex Mogurenko. I've played around with it and it's very cool. There is the frame editor to overlay a PNG or file to file where you can insert all or some of another video over your target file. I haven't used it in production but I've played around with it. The file to file tool seemingly only touches the effected blocks of video and there's no rendering.
I just did a test where I was able to cover a persons face with an image. Alex has a video showing him blurring a section but I think blurring option was removed in favour of being able to overlay an image. [2]
The video needs to be Prores and I'm not able to guarantee it's not touching any other part of the frame but it feels like it's just the effected section of the video frame that is getting changed.
If you are trying it out make a copy of your original video before you start, it does the edits in place.
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
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.
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
I have issues with webRTC and OPNsense at home. I presume from NAT type. I end up being stuck on TURN sometimes. I've tried adding a 'static port' as an outbound hybrid NAT rule which improved things but not in every scenario.
Other than that opnsense on an old ewaste HP SFF PC has been excellent. My only upgrade would be something lower power and fanless. Or to add it virtualised on my homelab R330, but security and no Internet when I break that wouldn't be a better situation than now
I think the statute of limitations is up at this point so I am free to share this with you. It was me all those years ago who downloaded and edited the html for google.com adding my name to the page. I showed my mother the result of this pure vandalism before spending the next desperate few minutes putting it back how it was before. I regret nothing
I work in news and that's common. I don't mind what anyone uses to edit or transcode but for our equipment to broadcast it, at some stage it has to become 1080i50 and its quicker for someone to submit that directly. It's a small feature that Resolve would benefit by having imo.
If they send in xdcamHD 50 or avc intra 100 it'll be ready for us to check and send to playback as soon as the file transfer is done. If they are transcoding it themselves, or expecting us to do it that can cost another 2-3 minutes minimum. Thsg time makes a big difference sometimes.
We accept basically anything though, the current thorn in my side is HDR video from phones. I have an ffmpeg command to make them rec709 but they still look awful and we are really only using phone footage when time is an issue.
At work I regularly transcode a Resolve editor's video to AVC-Intra 100 50i using Avid Media Composer or Adobe Media Encoder because Resolve can't export interlaced video properly.
Looks like they still haven't improved interlaced video support which is a shame because the rest of the software is great but it just isn't fit for purpose for me
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.