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My apologies for having misread the tone!

I'd guess you have the module(s) you're trying to update imported into a PowerShell session somewhere (probably the one you're using to try to update). You can try `Remove-Module -Name 'moduleName'` or close and open new session then try again. Don't forget VSCode or similar counts as well.

Secrets in the Shell: Securely Entering Secrets in PowerShell Users of PowerShell may have encountered or make use of the SecretManagement and SecretStore modules to securely handle their passwords, API keys, and other sensitive secrets both for daily use as wel...

You might be *storing* your secrets securely in PowerShell, but are you *entering* them securely?

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#PowerShell #pwsh #SecretManagement #SecretStore #Passwords #Credentials #APIKeys #SystemsAdministration #Automation #Security #CommandLine #Terminal #Shell

Even the free version. Just enter an email address and away you go. The paid version has a chat feature which I've not tried yet.

There are definitely sooo many tools these days, and they all keep merging, getting acquired, dying, etc. Hard to keep up with it all.

Yeah, it was. But the VSCode extension is still available as of right now. I only use it for completion prediction. It seems like it's quite decent at understanding what you're trying to do and anticipating the next place in your code you'll jump to, and what changes you might want to make.

At my last company our infra team had ChatGPT. Here it was nothing until M365 CoPilot. It's not the worst, but still not my favorite.

My favorite thing I've found is Supermaven and that's what I use at home.

Only one: Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Wish it was something else.

It's pretty decent at generating icons for stuff. I use it to generate icons for PowerShell modules and such that I publish.

Whew, maybe not my strongest performances, but both puzzles in just a couple of minutes felt good.

#Connections
Puzzle #853
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Anyone else had some extreme flakiness with the #BlueSky #Android app this past week? Or just me? It'll just sit spinning. Tried clearing cache and storage, uninstalling and reinstalling, rebooting, etc. no recent updated version according to Google Play Store. Kinda confused.

Oooh, I'll have to check this out when I get home! I'm a SecretManagement evangelist at work and my rig at home is Linux so this may be something I use!

PowerShell will definitely get tasks done faster! There are so many things I've had to do in my career that would have taken magnitudes of time longer without it!

Close up of a Corgi-Aussie mixed breed dog wearing a cone at the vet.

Poor girl got bit pretty good by another dog this evening. She'll be fine, thank goodness.

That said, I definitely see where you're coming from with the 'keep it simple' principle, and that's a good principle.

It's gotta be all PowerShell all the way for me, personally. Much more powerful, more readable, more flexible, and still built into the OS (Windows PowerShell). Also has an extremely robust and active community around it, along with active development.

PowerShell is fun :)Using -OutVariable in PowerShell It’s one of the Common Parameters, but not used that often :) In this brief blog post, I will outline its advantages and explain why you should consider using it.

It's one of the Common Parameters, but not used that often :) In this brief blog post, I will outline its advantages and explain why you should consider using it.

#PowerShell #CommonParameters

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Pasting via right-click is a mandatory requirement for any terminal emulator I use for this very reason haha.

Wayland is becoming the default display protocol on Linux.

Avalonia is getting native Wayland support.

Embedded comes first. Compositors follow. Existing apps remain safe through XWayland.

Explore the challenges: avaloniaui.net/blog/bringi...

I make this mistake frequently. Too many years of daily Reddit use, I suppose...

But if we got that feature in the bsky app, that would make reading long-running multi-threaded responses significantly easier!

+1 to all of this!

Huge for sure! It has been literally life-changing. 😁

It's been 1 year at the new company and I can honestly say that I'm happier than ever in life!

To be completely fair, there could have also been *other* things wrong with the improperly made image, but we did identify part of it as duplicate SIDs. Been some years now, would need to go find my old notes on the situation.

It can definitely still cause problems. At a previous org, there was an image that a technician improperly created and cloned to a bunch of machines and it got super messy. Lots of oddities were ongoing including with SCCM.

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

My day has consisted of PowerAdmin, Docker, Caddy, an F5, and OIDC for Microsoft Entra ID. Could have been better. Could have been worse.

That is certainly one of the ways one could do that. A well-customized and version-controlled INI file is definitely the way to go, particularly in envs where you're often standing up fairly standardized SQL servers!

I don't even like Crocs that much, but these are SO COOL!

A sticker saying You can be anything be kind in colourful lettering on a white background

I think that's a huge thing a lot of people miss. Beauty comes from understanding and understanding takes time. And time is a high-friction/high-expense thing for most people.