Canon also released an app during lockdown to make your DSLR or mirrorless camera into a webcam too. Shocking how quick companies can do things when a global pandemic pushes them after years of odd tethering and window screen capturing mess I've had with canon before hand for live streaming.
CCJ: "You may get a county court judgment (CCJ) or high court judgment if someone takes court action against you (saying you owe them money) and you do not respond." https://www.gov.uk/county-court-judgments-ccj-for-debt
Sure it's already been done but I'm sure a similar thing could be made on Azure Functions well within the free tier per month. Can also host static web apps for free or even have GUIs served by the functions themselves. And as people stated before this seems a gross miss use of GitHub Actions. Whereas at least the above outlines a solution Microsoft actively encourages.
I feel like people are overstating this as gross misuse to be honest. Curling some http based endpoints on a CRON isn’t really a gross misuse of actions.
There are a million ways to do this. I could also tell you using Azure functions and having a dependency on Microsoft is overly complex for something that could be done with collectD and cron built into the OS on most VPSs
I built my own version entirely within AWS Lambda's free tier, works well until you're into "continuously running serverless" territory - at that point any random VM would be significantly cheaper.
OCI free tier would be good for this sort of thing.. their free tier is pretty nuts. You can have Ampere 4 OCPU + 24G RAM + 200G block storage spread across 1-4 instances.
Yeah that's pretty wild. I managed to fit my entire serverless stack (roughly 1.2m checks per week) into 2x 256MB VMs and 1x 512MB VM, you could run a monster server on that.
I was so happy when I discovered this. As a UNIX and Linux user for my entire career I was so surprised that something built into every Cisco, Juniper, Arista etc etc network device wasn't built into many cli tools on Linux.
I know I can create aliases and whatnot, but I'm a consultant, when I was still hands on with the tools I'd log into 30+ different customer's environments every year. Many were isolated from the Internet and whilst I did carry my dotfiles around on a USB (Along with some binaries of useful tools that are so often lacking on enterprise systems) I couldn't always use them.
Interesting it also says it shouldn't be connected to a Airplane Seat Adapter yet I'm sure my QC 35'S came with a airplane adapter. Wonder what happened there.
"We know our product is unsafe and shouldn't be used in this way, but this is a huuuuge use case for our product, so we will make it appear as if it's designed for it, while warning the user to not use it in a manner that they bought the product for. Genius!"
Maybe just one card with multiple ports in it would solve that problem. I get the design decision but using one usb c port to a singular function does feel wasteful, when you can plug a dock in that has three USB 3.0 A ports, USB C passthough, ethernet, HDMI, SD card reader all into a singular USB C port (looking at my $40 laptop dock on my desk currently for how many ports they squeezed into it!)
What do you use instead? In a similar position GitLab as current and bosses wanting to go Azure DevOps which I'm sure is going by the way side quickly with how much they are changing Azure to work with GitHub. We're still on TeamCity
I've migrated my company's CI and CD to self-hosted Concourse. It's slower due to polling (which might change soon), rather annoying to set up, but it's incredibly flexible.
all of our CI/CD stuff is in Jenkins. It's not perfect, but it has a ton of plugins, and works well enough. The main thing I like is that its dedicated, and independent. Though I've been using it for years, and I'm still not sure if I like groovy or hate it.
