Weird issue on my Mac with 570GB of disk unaccounted for - unable to determine what was consuming the space with any analysis tool. Reinstalled macOS and restore via Time Machine and I have my free space back. Side note: Time Machine is amazing. First time I've completed a full restore like this.

This is heavy... it's 7:30 and it's still over 40C

Great Scott!

Great Scott, it's hot!

Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests

Having a phone number in 2026 is a liability

Every frame makes for a lovely desktop wallpaper

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

shout out to the Meta exec who thought it was a great idea to turn the native WhatsApp for Windows app into a crappy web wrapper during a RAM pricing crisis

Windows on Arm had another good year www.theverge.com/gadgets/8500...

Framework announces another memory price hike — and it likely won’t be its last

Merry Xmas everyone, be sure to watch a movie that celebrates the season: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br29...

That Invoke-WebRequest security update (#KB5074596) breaking your scripts? A basic search for -UseBasicParsing won't catch code that uses properties like Forms or AllElements - those don't exist anymore. I wrote ScriptAnalyzer rules that find both issues. Try it out, let me know what I missed.

I was 12 when BTTF was released in the cinemas and I've loved these films ever since. It's crazy to realise that I'm now older than Christopher Lloyd was in BTTF parts 2 and 3.

Windows 11 supports web auth at the sign-in page (post provisioning) so anyone can have a simplified password-less auth sign-in experience learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

How the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply www.theguardian.com/environment/... “The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade”

1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers | Encircled www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHYb...

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Local real estate doing some dodgy data collection

I haven't seen anything official, so it may not be the case, but this looks like the end of SCVMM: "Introducing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (vMode)" techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

Can confirm that you can sign into a on-premises Azure Arc enabled Windows Server desktop with Entra ID only credentials #AzureVirtualDesktop

Well that ain't great #Microsoft - flagging your own site via SmartScreen

"Windows back up"? Or is it Windows Backup?

Melbourne friends — next Monday is going to be epic 🔥. I’ll be sharing some seriously cool stuff combining Maester + Lokka at WP Ninja Australia 🇦🇺 🎤 Joining me are legends: Jason Byway, Joel Kino, Aaron Parker & Steven Hosking + host Jose Schenardie! Register at www.meetup.com/workp...

#NowPlaying “Left & Right” D’Angelo spotify.link/YWKE5551sXb This version is soooo good. RIP

Here's a PowerShell wrapper for dsregcmd /status that turns the output into something usable: gist.github.com/aaronparker/...

Here's an article I've written on configuring strong authentication for AVD/W365. It includes a demo of what the UX is like, and why things might not work exactly as you expect. stealthpuppy.com/avd-w365-sec...

If I were born 40 years earlier and ended up as a high school science teacher. Also, seeing me with a beard is extra funny because I can’t grow one

We're thrilled to announce our first speaker for the Workplace Ninja Melbourne event on 20th of October. Aaron Parker @stealthpuppy.com will be "Crafting the Perfect End-User Experience". Registrations still open, secure your spot now www.meetup.com/workplace-ni... #WPNinjaAU

macOS 26 Tahoe final looks to be done

The funniest 1/2 second in cinematic history #JohnCandy

Here's a #PowerShell script to find installed software and create an object that you can pass to Start-Process to execute an uninstall (likely with some adjustments to the argument list) gist.github.com/aaronparker/...

Liquid Glass? More like Liquid Perspex after getting nerfed in the betas... Amiright?

Hardcore Git-Fu! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk13... < excellent talk on advanced #Git configurations and usage by @bjompen.com

The Apple TV icon look real wonky on macOS 26, with the "Liquid Glass" style

Let's take this further and create a pipeline that automatically creates new #Nerdio Manager Shell Apps and updates existing Shell Apps with new application versions, taking away much of the manual administrator effort: stealthpuppy.com/nerdio-shell...

Simple colour output in Azure Pipelines by using $PSStyle with PowerShell 7.2+ learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...

Automating #Nerdio Manager Shell Apps with #Evergreen, Part 1: stealthpuppy.com/nerdio-shell...

Australia, this is what's coming for us in December too.

How to Spot Fake AI Photos www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_P... "Digital forensics expert Hany Farid explains how he helps journalists, courts & governments find structural errors in AI-generated images, offering 4 practical tips everyday individuals can use when facing the internet’s war on reality"

Just when you think you’re on top of packing up a house, you find more to sort and pack

For the parents in the room www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9q...

If you're an #Evergreen user, you'll need to prepare for some changes: stealthpuppy.com/evergreen-ch... I'm finally splitting the per-application functions from the Evergreen module, hopefully making it easier to update

#NowPlaying "Chewing the Fat, Live at 3voor12 Radio" by Franc Moody youtu.be/Mka-Ufqueuc?...

The truth about working from home - that your boss won’t tell you www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NFY... "working from home actually increased productivity—until return-to-office mandates kicked in"

#NowPlaying "Let It Kick In" - Live at Fish Factory Studios by Franc Moody open.spotify.com/track/17KUl5...

#VcRedist has passed 10m installs from the PowerShell Gallery. I've also added an update to better support importing VcRedists into #Intune. Change log here: vcredist.com/changelog/ and here's some sample code to import VcRedists, configure assignment and supersedence: vcredist.com/import-vcint...

You sound like ChatGPT www.theverge.com/openai/68674... "AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others"

Do you want to learn more on how to use Nerdio Manager for Enterprise for remote support actions? Learn more in my latest post on Console Connect: dominiekverham.com/using-consol... #Nerdio #NVP #CommunityRocks @get-nerdio.bsky.social @nerdiocommunity.bsky.social