nickbatchelor

Empowering teacher and student creativity through better ICT in schools. @[email protected]

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@NathanMcNulty @Bett_show We stuck with it because the professional digital arts software ran only on Windows/mac, as did the main school database, and Outlook. All of that is gone now. Macs and PC are at cost parity in the middle ground, and chromebooks have always been “better” at the low end.

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@NathanMcNulty @Bett_show It took until about 2019/2020 and the n4120 w/eMMC5.2 for Windows to have true have a competitive Chromebook-class device.

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@NathanMcNulty @Bett_show It’s 2026, so people finally can (thanks to their personal Claude subscriptions) build powerautomate flows to glue things together, the bar of entry to just solving problems is so much higher than it ought to be. Folding “new” Forms into Dynamics was a huge error.

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@NathanMcNulty @Bett_show Yet I still keep bumping into limitations on the office web apps that should be solved by now. forms and excel just can’t do things that teachers learned about and built around in the early 2000’s. Things that workspace just does effortlessly.

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@awakecoding Most of my powershell writes to AD or Entra, so reading what ever state is there is how things persist. Other times i just write what ever object I need to keep track of out to an xml and load it back in next time. But generally things are one-and-done.

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@hoyty @NathanMcNulty Hi @hoyty, just trawling my twitter like and bookmarks… did you get anywhere with this problem (vpns)?

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@horizon_secured Twenty five years. Twenty five years. Oh my god.

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That’s 50 minutes and not one of the last nine (or was it ten?) bus has been in service. Nothing reported on your website by way of an explanation (or just acknowledgement)

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@TfL why aren’t any busses stopping @59067. The last four over the last twenty minutes have all been out of service. API reporting busses were due as expected.

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That’s 10 buses, yet 73 and 476 reporting as good service.

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@UK_Daniel_Card Soft vs hard power. implies/infers/creates the opportunity for a response to breach of policy. Laws are just policies with a firmer response for breaching them, and laws definitely are controls. Still need systematic defences in place to monitor/guard against bad actors.

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@NathanMcNulty @Slav636 Damnit @techspence got there first.

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@NathanMcNulty @Slav636 Maybe pitch it as “Basically in the same state ADUC has been in for the last 15 years”? 😂

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@acjuelich @IntuneSuppTeam ..though it seems to be working now.

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@acjuelich @IntuneSuppTeam Ours broke on Friday. No response on ticket yet.

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@UK_Daniel_Card Come work in a school. A bitlocker bypass is a right pain. But then again so is appx/msix store apps and there’s basically nothing sane that can be done about those. Cc @hoyty

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@TfL afternoon! What’s up with the 73 and 476? They were running late and now have just been terminating at/near Newington Green for the last 45 minutes?

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@csharpfritz If they’ve ever logged onto a work or school account, the org might have a copy in Entra.

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@UK_Daniel_Card Yes most sites. Every school in the country does this, often via their isp who have dedicated a platforms and engineers to keep things working. It still breaks things, the cloud providers are far from perfect about maintaining their “do not inspect traffic” lists.