@IRJ said in Astrophotography:

Can you explain your setup a bit?

Updated posts with additional info.

Mars
Christmas night, 2022-12-25.
Alt: 71°

A better image capture of Mars than last time. It was higher up in the sky, so a little less atmospheric disturbance. I also tried some processing to bring out any detail.
Mars was 56,563,608 miles from Earth when I took the photo. That's about 5 minutes for light to travel from Mars to my camera.

Setup:
5" SCT + 2x Barlow, ASI224MC @ ~2500mm f/20
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
FireCapture, shutter 5ms / gain 183 / histogram ~37% (I have more to captures from that night to process that may be better than this, I'm still experimenting)
20% best of 10k light frames
AS!3 + RegiStax6

Happy holidays all!

Jupiter
Christmas night, 2022-12-25.
Alt: 38°

Less than ideal seeing conditions and lots of light pollution, but was still able to bring out some detail!
Jupiter was 456,134,146 miles from earth when I took the photo. It took almost 41 minutes for light to travel from Jupiter to my camera. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, has 80 moons, and is large enough to fit about 1,300 Earths inside.

Setup:
5" SCT + 2x Barlow, ASI224MC @ ~2500mm f/20
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
FireCapture, shutter 13ms / gain 221 / histogram ~64%
20% best of 4k light frames
AS!3 + RegiStax6

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

is it time to change password managers?

I am. The fact they were so damn sketchy about it and happened so easily more than once. No thank you.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Time to change all of my passwords and get rid of LastPass

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/12/23/lastpass-finally-admits-they-did-steal-your-password-vaults-after-all/

Time to replace Lastpass was years ago when they started tracking everyone.

Really, this isn't a reason to panic and change ALL your passwords unless you don't trust how Lastpass was designed.... If that's the case, why were you using it in the first place? Change your master password, done.

Read the article.

I haven't read this specific article, but I have seen lots of panic reporting saying "Change all your passwords right now!"

Which is only good advice if you've got a bad master password and no 2FA enabled.... Do the basic security things that you should be doing already, and no problem exists.

Yeah you really need to read that article.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Time to change all of my passwords and get rid of LastPass

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/12/23/lastpass-finally-admits-they-did-steal-your-password-vaults-after-all/

Time to replace Lastpass was years ago when they started tracking everyone.

Really, this isn't a reason to panic and change ALL your passwords unless you don't trust how Lastpass was designed.... If that's the case, why were you using it in the first place? Change your master password, done.

Read the article.

Time to change all of my passwords and get rid of LastPass

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/12/23/lastpass-finally-admits-they-did-steal-your-password-vaults-after-all/

@stacksofplates said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

@Obsolesce said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

not have the typical shitty editor like GitHub has

Huh? GitHub has VSCode as well for an editor now.

It does? When I hit edit, it uses the shitty editor. I don't see an option for VSCode?

Found it, "open in github.dev" does it. I never tried that option, but also it's rare I ever edit in the web browser.

@Pete-S said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

@scottalanmiller said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

This is a really cool update to GitLab. Microsoft's VS Code is now the web IDE used online in GitLab. So you can use VS Code without needing to install it. This is the coolest!!

That's interesting.

Editing on the webserver breaks the idea of how git is suppose to work though. Basically makes it a central version control and repository, instead of a distributed one.

Good to know that it exists though!

Of course, it totally depends on what you're working on. Now that that's out of the way...

You can still do a lot the same as far as branching and PRs. If you're not compiling or testing things locally or need local resources, then there's not much other benefit doing it on your local PC versus some more simpler editing directly, besides some efficiency factors. But that other stuff should be done automatically anyways when you (for example, create a PR) via automation / pipelines.

If I need to fix something real quick and don't have my local environment ready or for whatever reason, it seems nice to not have the typical shitty editor like GitHub has, and I can easily create a new branch and make the changes, create a PR, and get it merged in in the end. It's not a bad thing to be able to do it from the browser, the same as you would from your local environment in VSCode (if what you are doing works out that way). All the testing, cleanup/linting, security checks, building, etc. should be kicked off automatically anyways no matter from where your changes come from.

@scottalanmiller said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:

This is a really cool update to GitLab. Microsoft's VS Code is now the web IDE used online in GitLab. So you can use VS Code without needing to install it. This is the coolest!!

That is really freaking awesome

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce yes, with standard home toilets.

Really? All data shows public restroom / commercial water jet toilets. I can't find a single reference to a home toilet test or study. Nothing at all.

Until then, I have no reason to think a home toilet is at all as bad or even remotely close.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

I've always taken a lot of flack for being "anal" about keeping toilet lids closed. New study shows what people should have known all along because it is obvious...

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2022/12/19/flush-toilet-no-lid-lbb-cprog-orig.cnn

They didn't use the typical home toilet. It looks like they used one of those commercial type that uses a crazy water jet to flush. I'm sure nobody has ever had any doubt about those throwing 1000 kg of aerosols into the air lol.

I don't think any commercial type toilets ever have lids on them to begin with. A high percentage of public rest rooms I go in to, the toilets never have lids anyways.

The home toilet flushes very slow, I doubt there's much aerosols that get thrown into the air at all. And even if there is a tiny bit, it's no big deal in the home. We all live with each other anyways. It's not like that would much help prevent the spread of any common cold.

@BraswellJay said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay you don't need one with word. In Word, just export as pdf.

I can't do that in bulk that way though, can I?

My user may have 50 or so word files and she wants to convert them all to separate PDFs without having to open each one individually in word.

I thought there may be a tool that would just let her bulk select all and convert them all at once.

You can do it with PowerShell. Make a simple script for the user to run.

@BraswellJay you don't need one with word. In Word, just export as pdf.

I did this in the past, but not sure how relevant it is for you here?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/17916/ubuntu-setup-for-steam-play-and-lutris-gaming-with-nvidia-graphics?_=1670778770294

I've just been gaming on Windows lately, bottom line is it's just easier and less time consuming for some of the games I play. So it's dependant on that.

@Carnival-Boy said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

I don't own a personal laptop.

@Carnival-Boy said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

I'm not really IT

Are you?

@scottalanmiller said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@notverypunny said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@gjacobse said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@Dashrender said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

are you needing a free solution?

I wouldn't expect Teamviewer to give you unattended access for free. Heck they start nagging and possible disabling the use if they see you abusing the 'free' option.

This is for a 70+ year old club member for his own personal use between his laptop while in Florida and his home computer... so needs to be super simple and reliable and repeatable and - yea... free. And stupid simple.

Then try Ultraviewer: https://www.ultraviewer.net/en/

EDIT: It is free to but it has some ads.
Also, I'm not sure whether the free license allows you to wake up system if it goes to sleep.

Honestly doubt that any solution will be able to wake the remote machine if it's in sleep and it's the only client on the far end. The products that I've used or looked at usually rely on another "awake" node at the same site to send WoL. If it's just the 1 machine in FL and 1 machine at home, there's nothing available to kick the sleeping machine... Unless there's something that I'm missing?

yeah, for sure, by definition it can't wake it if it is asleep. It has to be awoken by another machine on the network. The program can't run to wake itself up.

There may be a bios setting to automatically wake or start the device on a schedule. Maybe that can be part of it, along with in-OS sleep setting to prevent that, so that he can shut it down manually when done for the day.

@scottalanmiller said in I am looking for a PHP / MySQL programmer for odd jobs:

@JasGot NTG has developers now for exactly this reason. This past year our requests for development work have exploded and it has gone from something we didn't do to half our billable hours in three months, it's crazy.

Which languages are most in demand? Or do you limit the work you accept?

@DustinB3403 depending on what you want, you can also:

$app = Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall' | Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object -Property DisplayName -EQ "Microsoft Edge"

$installDate = $app.InstallDate