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Maubic (www.maubic.es) CEO since 2011, and geek since a lot more time. Passionate about eLearning, software optimisation and system administration...

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Nice! I’ll try this soon, and I’m afraid I’ll end up using it a lot.

@jrswab, do you think it would be feasible to limit outgoing connections to a whitelist of domains, URLs, or IP addresses?

I’d like to automate some of my email, calendar, or timesheet tasks, but I’m concerned that a prompt injection could end up exfiltrating or deleting data. In fact, that’s the main reason why I’m not using Openclaw or similar projects with real data yet.

Not the same thing.

- Libreoffice can edit Word and Excel files.

- There are several tools to read a PST file. Anyway… pst files are not commonly being shared with other people so the need to accessing it is uncommon unless you already use outlook.

- Autocad and Quickbooks are far less used (less people) than PDF.

I also wonder why there are no more tools to edit PDF files. Maybe licensing issues?

Edit: formatting

I second this. Maybe I'm missing something in the value proposition, but we already generate PDFs from .docx/.html templates using open source libraries and Docker microservices.

Do not misunderstand. A Stripe for generating PDFs can be great, but for a small team, $0.50/PDF is way more than I can afford (after all, you can create a small number of PDFs without too much fuss). Maybe you are oriented towards large companies?

Nice work, congrats!

I do love visual programming and I use n8n a lot for my side projects. I really like its "delayed debug" features, so that I can analyse each step of the flow weeks later than it happened (i.e, I can see why a webhook failed long ago and even replay it step by step).

One missing feature that I've been working on is a "export workflow to code" feature. This way, once you are finished working on a workflow, you could run it everywhere without the need of installing the full IDE.

Again, nice work!

Surprisingly this is something that I have been thinking on for the whole 2023.

I myself am really bad at documenting findings while doing research or bugfixing so I started at recording all my daily activities for both replaying research sessions and also for my future me in case something is not clear in the docs.

Then I knew rewind and I was happy to know that I am not alone. This REM is the confirmation that this definitely has great use cases :)

I’d rather prefer the recording phase to be as lightweight as possible so I am recording the full mp4 video and plan to re-encode at a lower rate at night. But there is a compromise between recording quality and file size, I do not want end up with several Petabytes of videos.

What codec do you recommend for this use case? Lossy video codecs usually are very efficient for real images (just like the comparison between jpg/png) and I am sure a video format that is PNG based should be more efficient in space while preserving text quality.

I am very interested in read your thoughts about this.

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Actually hairdressers will probably be impacted also because people would like to see how they will look like after their haircut :)

Yes, that is what I was trying to point out. With Yubikey or other 2FA devices you can not see the transaction details of what are you signing unless the device has a screen so a screenless device does not protect much more than this virtual yubikey.

So if your device is compromised, the attacker could trick you into entering 2FA for some minor action while it actually is transferring all your funds.

If your PC or smartphone is compromised nothing will prevent you from losing control of your accounts.

Slightly off-topic: according to what I read, it is a lightweight proxy written in golang that is capable of starting a vm when receiving network traffic and 10 seconds after the last request it turns off the fly machine.

I've been looking for something similar for some time to use in my development docker instances (specifically with dokku). I have many services that, although they consume little CPU time, they do have a high overall consumption of RAM, but they are actually used for a few minutes each day.

I don't want to use kubernetes for this as it adds too much complexity for the benefit I would get.

Do you know any solution similar to this, to turn on / off docker containers when network traffic comes in?

Hey! I did the same with my first check that I got from Altavista, many years ago.

It was a $35 USD check and bank fees were higher than that amount, also in Europe.

I’ve it framed at my office and feel somewhat nostalgic every time I look at it.

Time flies!!

Because

1.- speakers do not need to know how to record their stuff and send it by some means.

2.- There is no need of somebody putting them all together before broadcasting.

As far as I understand, both processes are automated so that speakers just open the web app and record, and everything is ready on time.

Maybe it’d be a nice feature for services like Streamyard, allowing to introduce recorded videos in live events.

We’ve working on this for one of our side projects. When you have hundreds of calendars and need to find availability for some of them on a timeslot, or fetching the slots for a period of time (I.e, a week) it becames hard really fast.

We are evaluating if it may be interest on it to release as a separate SaaS.

You can find my email on my profile if you want to discuss further your needs.

"We can improve upon this by making local edits using a language model that has been trained on lots of monolingual data to score sequences of words in such a way that fluent sentences score higher than ungrammatical or poorly constructed sentences."

Does anyone knows some references / corpus in English language for this?

Father of two (aged 4 and 5) and running an small company of 14 developers.

Before they were born, I always reserved some tasks for weekends, and spend several hours coding at night during workdays.

It took me almost three years to realise that this was absolutely not compatible with family. I used to "steal" sleep time instead of family time, so I ended sleeping between 2 and 4 hours a day. Even productivity was good, I was always tired and in bad mood.

While it was really difficult to change long term habits, I work now from 9.00 to 17.30 with 15 minutes commute time, I dedicate most of my non working time to my kids and wife, and I am now a extremely happy person, and also the people closer to me :)

And productivity has grown because I can focus on the really important things, both at home and at work.

That is the point. It is a terrible idea to provide full administrative privileges to something you are testing. I.e, it does not need to remove EC2 instances so it is a bad idea granting it against you AWS account.

If the tutorial provides a policy ready to copy & paste with all the required privileges, you will be able to customise it better or just using it as it is.

Why so many of this frameworks insist in using an account with administrator privileges?

From the docs: "search for a Policy named 'AdministratorAccess', click next and confirm".

It would be much more convenient to request only the needed privileges while teaching the user what is the tool doing in the background.