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metmac··on Retiring the AWS Documentation on GitHub
This smells more like a result of staff reductions than anything else.
metmac··on A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi
While not a guitar effects box another project that does low latency audio things with an RPI at it’s core: https://monome.org/docs/norns/

Open source version: https://monome.org/docs/norns/shield/

metmac··on Cormac McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32
I believe the Olivetti Valentine famously on display at The Met and the MoMA at one point, were actually just retooled/modified Lettera 32s.

In any case, these little machines are brilliant and I’ve owned around 4 of them over the years.

metmac··on My next Mac might be the last
> .. I feel that the software tools Apple wants me to use today are getting worse and shallower, created or modified according to an equally shallower design concept that prioritises eye-candy over pretty much anything else… Then we wonder why so many people are nostalgic about Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I’m sure that, if a hypothetical ‘super-patch’ could be issued to bring Snow Leopard up-to-date with regard to Internet protocols and the like, many would gladly go back to use it.

+100 frankly.

metmac··on Mainboard Terminal – A Retro-Style Computer with a Modern Core
Feels very much in the realm of Love Hultén’s design language.

All it’s missing is a half sphere dome lens in front of the panel.

https://www.lovehulten.com/

metmac··on Heresy
But like. Seriously @dang, can you provide context here.

Is this a matter of heated discussion or what…

metmac··on Heresy
Why was this post flagged?
metmac··on The state of external retina displays
My dream display would be close to retina PPI + 16:10 ratio.

Still running 2x 30” Apple Cinema Displays because I prefer the 1600px height.

They are awful displays by modern standards. But what I’d give to have a panel that is 5120 x 3200.

metmac··on Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
I’m sorry but how is this surprising or upsetting to anyone. Slack and others have similar metrics. But that’s not the point.

Moreover even if some PM in Microsoft didn’t build this dashboard, the data would most likely be available via API. Look at some of the cloud security products Palo Alto ships. As others have commented, this was most likely built with the intent of showing organizations how effective they are using O365, not perfmon of their employees.

At the end of the day, it’s the onus of the HR teams and leadership of corporations to have reasonable metrics to track performance against, of which we can all probably agree, obscure “productivity” graphs in your Office suite isn’t one of them.

Frankly, if they don’t maintain reasonable methods of performance management, it is an incredibly effective way to limit and lose their talent pool.

metmac··on HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene
So cool to see this revived. I remember stumbling upon it awhile back.
metmac··on Addict: An Active Directory REST API
I think its funny how AD is this mystery box to engineers who live outside the IT space.

This is potentially super useful for folks to build sweet integrations between AD and modern web applications (i.e: Chat, Ticketing, SAML, SCIM, etc) into a very industry standard Directory Service while abstracting away the Microsoft garb, and not having to worry about the LDAP translations with AD. (AD is LDAP compliant, but there are weird nuances.)

As someone who has to live in both worlds, this is super cool start and definitely welcomed.

@DC2 well done sir.

metmac··on Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions
Consider me extremely interested.
metmac··on Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions
I am right there with you...
metmac··on Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions
Any additional questions anyone can think of?
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