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.
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.