Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | frzen's commentslogin

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.


There are several apps that do a good job of alerting users. I use "Aurora Pro", which I prefer because it checks cloud cover and lets you set alert thresholds based on viewing probability.

I woke up to a notification from aurora pro today, I'd forgotten I had the app. This would explain it

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.

[1] https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...


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


[flagged]


Since the title said "internal combustion" my first thought, too, was could they make an engine a bit more efficient with some electrical process that increases the efficiency. The actual article was much more nonsensical than this take.


This sounds like the Irish Eircode system

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


This seems more interesting, as it's not a code for a physical address but a lookup key for one.

You can update your code to point to a new address when you move:

> Their digital addresses will not change even if their physical addresses change. Their new addresses will be linked to the codes if they submit notices of address changes.


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


Bluefield can also run regular Linux distros and it can run standalone without a host (but you have to power it somehow). https://www.servethehome.com/zfs-without-a-server-using-the-...

All other DPUs seem to be NDA-encrusted.


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.


It's down for me too. I would love to know if there's any alternative because I've become addicted to using it.


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.

[1] https://mogurenko.com/2021/01/29/amcdx-video-patcher-v0-6-7/ [2] https://youtu.be/T-EJRB-xAdU?t=44


I pay monthly for adobe. Well I see the invoices that are paid for my subscription. Around €90 per month including VAT.


You pay monthly, but the subscription is for a year - at least in the US.


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


>Is it an Alienware?

Asus Zephyr G14 with AMD insides. Could be that they are indeed overclocking it for some reason. I didn't seem to get it to be 100% stable even with removing some boosts et al.

But that doesn't matter. On Linux I don't have to tweak anything, it just works. Which is amusing.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: