u/Dead-_-Alone

Switched to Ace a few weeks ago after getting tired of jumping between tabs and ChatGPT for little things. Mostly I just wanted a normal browser that could also help me when I'm stuck.

So far I've used it to clean up a photo (removed some random guy in the background of a vacation pic) and to rewrite a couple of emails I was dreading sending. Both worked better than I expected for not opening any separate app.

Curious who else here is actually using it day to day and for what. Trying to figure out if I'm underusing it or if this is basically what it's for.

We're a small-ish security team (4 people) covering about 60 EKS clusters across two AWS accounts plus a bit of GKE from an acquisition we're still absorbing. Current setup is agentless posture scanning and we are drowning. Something like 1,200 "critical" findings open, and nobody believes the severity ratings anymore because half of them are on images that never get pulled or workloads with no network path to anything.

Renewal on our current CSPM is coming up in about six weeks so leadership wants us to actually look at alternatives instead of auto-renewing. The thing we keep coming back to is runtime context. We want the tool to tell us which of those 1,200 are actually reachable and running, not just that the CVE exists in a layer somewhere. A finding that got marked low last quarter turned out to be on a pod with a public ingress and we only caught it by luck.

Upwind keeps coming up when I search for runtime-based CNAPP, alongside Wiz and Sysdig which we're also putting on the shortlist. On paper Upwind's whole pitch is the runtime/posture fusion thing we want, but I can't tell how much of that holds up once you're actually living in it every day.

So for anyone running Upwind in anger: how noisy is it really once it's deployed? Does the runtime data actually collapse the posture backlog or does it just add another dashboard? And how painful was the agent/sensor rollout across a bunch of clusters? Trying to go into this eval with realistic expectations rather than the demo version.

We're a platform/security team of about 8 running a mix of EKS (prod) and GKE (a couple of data teams insisted) plus the usual container sprawl. Our current CSPM throws thousands of posture findings a month and nobody has time to work through them, so we're looking at CNAPPs that add runtime context to cut the noise.

Upwind is one of three we're putting through a POC. The sales pitch is the usual runtime + posture fusion and near-zero false positives, which sounds great in a deck but I've been burned before by tools that demo beautifully on a clean cluster and fall over on our actual workloads.

What I want to figure out during the eval is whether the runtime piece actually changes which findings get surfaced, not just decorates the same list. So: does a vuln marked critical drop in priority once it sees the package isn't loaded at runtime? Does it catch something reachable that our current scanner buried as low?

For people who've actually run an Upwind POC (or any of these), what did you deliberately test to separate real signal from a nice dashboard? How long did you run it before the runtime data was worth anything? And did you throw deliberately bad things at it to see if it caught them, or just watch what it found on its own? Trying to build a test plan that won't get gamed by a vendor who knows which cluster we're watching.

Has anyone else found lethato dress shoes to run a little large? I ordered my usual size and ended up with more room than i expected. I am debating whether to try a different size for my next pair so I’d be interested to hear what size other people ordered compared with their usual dress shoe size. Did you stick with your normal size or size down?

We post on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Engagement is decent good comments, growing followers, content gets shared. But every quarter the CMO asks "how many leads did social generate?" and I have no real answer.Is there a way to actually connect organic social activity to business outcomes? Like post-level attribution that goes beyond "someone clicked a link"? Or is social media ROI always going to be a guessing game?

Been sitting on this for a couple of days because I keep going back and forth on it.

We're about 49% off the October high, price has been glued to the mid 60s for weeks, and realized vol is about as dead as I've seen it. Everyone I know is either quietly DCAing or has just stopped opening the app.

Watched a Milk Road interview with Matt Crosby, onchain analyst, and his argument is basically that the capitulation already happened. He walks through several indicators that hit levels which historically only show up around bear market bottoms, and his take is that waiting for a clean $50K wick, or for an October bottom because "that's what usually happens," is anchoring to a pattern instead of reading the actual data.

The part I found more interesting than the number was the framing. Long bleed, then sideways at low volatility, is what bottoms look like in hindsight, and it never feels like an opportunity while you're sitting in it. Bottoms are boring, not dramatic.

Where I'm skeptical: onchain bottom signals have fired early plenty of times before. And most of those indicators were calibrated on cycles where BTC didn't have this much ETF and institutional flow underneath it. The holder base is structurally different now, so I'm not sure the historical comparisons carry the same weight they used to.

Real question for people who have been through more than one cycle: do you still weight onchain metrics for timing, or has that stopped being useful for you? And does this stretch feel like late 2022 to anyone, or is that just what we all want it to feel like?

I'm trying to decide which of the Reykjavík attractions is actually worth doing and getting a bit overwhelmed with the options 😅

We’ll already be spending a day walking around Reykjavík, so ideally looking for one experience to add rather than filling the whole day with attractions.

Right now I’m looking at **Perlan, Volcano Express, FlyOver Iceland and Lava Show**. We’re especially interested in Iceland’s volcanoes, but more interested in the experience than spending hours in a museum.

For anyone who has done a couple of these, which one would you choose if you could only do one? And are any of them too similar to bother doing together?

been running a small consulting side gig for about 18 months. first year i used basic flat business cards from a big box print shop, like 250 for 25 bucks. they did the job but honestly the card would hit someones hand and go straight into a pocket or a bin. nothing made them want to hold onto it.

as a solopreneur you only get one shot with most people you meet. if the card doesnt do something, if it doesnt make them actually look at it for a second, its dead on arrival. so last quarter i upgraded to metallic foil printed cards. paid like 40 bucks for 250 with foil on the logo.

tracked it informally, from the foil batch 4 of 50 people i handed them to actually emailed me within a month. from the old basic batch the ratio was like 1 in 50.

not saying foil is magic. but the card becomes a conversation starter and people dont throw it away. for anyone running solo where every connection counts, the extra 15 bucks per batch is nothing.

ill update when i finish the next batch.

ive been doing postcard printing for my freelance client pipeline, like 200-300 per quarter to warm leads. vistaprint used to be my go-to but they bumped the minimum on the size i use and the per unit jumped with it. moo has good quality but its like 2x what i was paying before. anyone got a printer they actually like rn for postcard bulk printing, 250 to 500 qty range, 4x6 or 5x7, decent stock? open to anywhere in the us, ideally free shipping.

I used AutoHDR for a while and I’ve tested a few other AI editing tools since, but honestly I haven’t been that impressed with any of them.

Most either look too processed, mess up windows/colors, or just aren’t consistent enough for me to trust on a full batch.

Curious if any of you are actually using an AI editor regularly in your workflow and genuinely happy with it. What are you using?

I’ve always been curious how other agents handle listing photos.

Do you hire a photographer for every listing, or are there some properties where you’ll just take the photos yourself?

If you hire a photographer, do you usually cover the cost yourself, and what are you typically paying per listing?

And for agents who take their own photos, is it mainly to save money, save time, or because professional photography just isn’t necessary for every listing? And what makes you decide whether a listing needs professional photos or not?

first time hiring an external dev team for a proper B2B product. got burned once before with a team that demo'd great but disappeared after deposit

what questions or signals actually helped you figure out if a team is legit before signing anything

been evaluating WMS options for 3 months. every vendor says they can handle our workflows but when we dig into it there's always a "minor customization" that costs as much as the license

at what point did you decide off-the-shelf wasn't worth the config cost and just go custom

looked into join relentless and almost fell out of my chair when i saw the pricing lol. like who is actually paying thousands upfront AND a cut of their first year salary just to have someone apply to jobs for them??

im not calling it a scam or anything, im genuinely asking if theres a type of person this actually makes sense for, because at first glance it seems kinda insane to me. talk me into it or out of it

which is best for trt? I am 42, have all symptoms and free t was 218 a month back when GP looked at it. Dont care for anything like peptides I just want to have optimal test and feel better

Thinking about chartering a yacht next summer in the Adriatic, probably in June or July. Been eyeing the Sunseeker 88, especially the 2023 ones. Last time we were out there, chilling and swimming off the back of the boat was the main thing, so wondering how the beach club area looks on these?

Also, kinda unsure about the food situation. We usually roll with a chef, but do folks around here let the crew sort out meals and stuff? Would love to just take it easy and not fret over provisions.

And any casual sailing paths between Croatia and Montenegro? Just wanna catch some nice views, nothing too rigid.

Me fui el viernes a la UAA para ver el blockchain summit esperando que nos aclaran algo de la RG47. (Para los que no sepan, aca esta [https://www.dnit.gov.py/web/portal-institucional/w/resoluci%C3%B3n-general-dnit-n%C2%B0-47/26\](https://www.dnit.gov.py/web/portal-institucional/w/resoluci%C3%B3n-general-dnit-n%C2%B0-47/26) )

Y bueno habló el titular de la dnit y cuando empezaron a pregunar cosas no supo responder prácticamente nada. Se divago un poco, vueltas, generalidades, etc. La sala se fue en contra y en un momento basicamente se rieron. Vergüenza total. Me da rabia.

Mi familia trabaja en el rubro inmobiliario. Casi un tercio de las operaciones se pagan con cripto — sobre todo compradores de afuera. Nuestros clientes están preocupados de que la DNIT no sepa cuidar esos datos. Este año nomás tuvimos el ransomware al IPS y las filtraciones de la Policía andan dando vueltas hace rato. Lo que quiere la DNIT es un desastre total: Wallets, montos, fechas, todo atado a tu cédula. Eso no es un dato tributario, es un mapa de patrimonio persona por persona. En un país donde pasa lo que pasó en Jade Park el otro dia, se filtra eso y dos días después tenés visita de madrugada.

Vendor quoted us 3 months for a FHIR R4 integration with our EHR. Everyone i talk to laughs at that timeline. what was your actual experience?