Aaron Parker

@stealthpuppy.com

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Developer of #Evergreen & #VcRedist. Senior Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO @GetNerdio. Born at 329.56ppm. https://stealthpuppy.com. Microsoft MVP (2011-2018, 2025)

Screenshot from my Unifi Gateway showing a message "IPv6 Detected on WAN1. IPv6 is available from your ISP". An "Enable" link is on the page which will take the user to a screen to enable IPv6

98% of Australians live by the sea. This is not because they like to swim, it's because the couldn't be arsed going further inland.

Headline that reads “Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store”

‘Dig and drill’: Angus Taylor says Australia should fast-track mining and coal projects amid fuel crisis

Close up photo of an Australian Redback spit. The spider is hanging upside down with its abdomen towards the camera. A large and bright red colouring on the abdomen is visible

Close up photo of an Echidna

Code listing for fixfinder shell function for macOS

Two men - Marty and Doc Brown from the Back to the Future Part II poster, with surprised expressions stand together; hot weather details for Cheltenham, VIC are displayed in the foreground showing 43C.

Two men - Marty and Doc Brown from the Back to the Future Part II poster, with surprised expressions stand together; hot weather details for Cheltenham, VIC are displayed in the foreground showing 41.8C.

A smartphone call log shows four recent calls from flagged numbers labeled as spam, telemarketer, or fraud, with timestamps ranging from 12:21 pm to 12:56 pm.

Windows 11 sign-in screen showing the Entra ID web-sign in dialog box

Flyer from a real estate agent - the flyer has the following printed on it:

SANTA CLAUS
IS COMING TO TOWN
With Christmas just around the corner, I'm so excited to let you know that this year we have made direct contact with Santa Claus!
Now, Santa has sent me on a mission with an important question for you. We would like to know if any of your kids would like to receive a personalised letter from him, Mrs Claus and all the reindeers and elves wishing the little ones a Merry Christmas?
If you would like your kids to be surprised with this letter, please provide your details in one of the following ways and Santa will deliver these letters personally addressed to your children in December:
Your Full Name:
Your Child's Full Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Take a photo of this form filled out and send it to us by Friday 12th Dec:

A screenshot of a Remote Desktop session via the Windows App on macOS, connecting to a Windows Server 2025 desktop via Azure Virtual Desktop. The target VM is hosted on an on-premises Hyper-V server.

A screenshot of Microsoft Edge on Windows showing the site https://m365.cloud.microsoft as a dangerous site as flagged by SmartScreen. The error is shown in a full page red background and white text

Screenshot of the Windows 11 desktop showing the "Windows back up" application and shortcut

AI generated photo of me as a man in the 1970s with a brown suit and tie, and a beard

Reaction shot from Trains, Planes and Automobiles. John Candy has a surprised look on his face, looking through a taxi window with people in the background, but it's inside the airport

Liquid Glass highlights on icons in macOS 26 visually skew the icon so that the top and bottom edges of the icon don't look parallel

Screenshot of an Azure Pipelines run showing log output with lines in green, blue/cyan and yellow using the $PSStyle variable in PowerShell

Morrison, the prime minister from August 2018 until May 2022, is also among the 14 people appointed companion of the order, with his leadership in Australia’s contribution to Aukus singled out for mention by the council overseeing the honours.

Screenshot showing a Packer build of Windows 11 on Azure taking over an hour to install Windows updates and a language pack

Screenshot from powershellgallery.com showing the Evergreen PowerShell module at 9,157,317 installs

Side-by-side view in Visual Studio Code of a GitHub workflow and the Azure Pipelines version, automatically translated by GitHub Copilot

Screenshot from the Azure portal showing the question "How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with portal.azure.com?" with responses for "Very dissatisfied to Very satisfied

Screenshot of a Packer log via Azure Pipelines showing a time duration of approximately 34 minutes to install the en-AU language pack

Windows 11 language pack install via PowerShell failing with "Install-Language : Language pack or features could only be partially installed. ErrorCode: -2147009295. Please try"

A screenshot from Windows 11 showing a VMware Virtual NVMe Disk with a temperature value of 11759°C

Screenshot of VMware Fusion on macOS attempting an update and receiving the error message "A certificate error occurred while connecting to the update server"

Default Windows 11 22H4 desktop showing the Bing search bar on the desktop and the default Start menu and taskbar, both with a search bar showing

Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot on macOS

Copilot answering the question "How many pixels in 8 x 5K displays?" which is 117.96 million pixels

Shopping cart on apple.com listing a Mac Studio with a 32 core M3 Ultra, 512GB RAM, 16TB SSD & 8 x Pro Display XDR displays with Nano texture glass & stand @ $115,733.00 AUD

Photo of a USB fingerprint reader

This image is a screenshot of a system monitoring tool displaying the performance metrics of an Apple M4 Pro processor. The interface shows detailed information about the CPU and GPU cores, including their current operating frequencies and power draw.

At the top of the image, there is a status bar with the following information:

M4
2.7 GHz
338 MHz
52°C
1000 rpm
SSD NAND I/O
42°C
Power Supply 1
40°C
Below the status bar, the main section of the interface is divided into two parts: CPU Cores and GPU Cores.

CPU Cores:

The CPU section lists 10 cores, with some cores labeled as "Idle" and others showing active frequencies:

Core 1: 1.31 GHz
Core 2: 1.4 GHz (E)
Core 3: 1.54 GHz (E)
Core 4: 1.48 GHz
Core 5: Idle
Core 6: Idle
Core 7: 2.32 GHz
Core 8: 2.15 GHz
Core 9: 1.81 GHz
Core 10: 2.7 GHz
Core 11: 2.18 GHz
GPU Cores:

The GPU section shows the GPU operating at 338 MHz with a multiplier of 20.

Power Draw:

The power draw section indicates a total power consumption of 0.22 W, with the breakdown as follows:

CPU: 0.14 W
GPU: 0.08 W
NPU: 0 W
The image provides a detailed real-time overview of the performance and power consumption of the Apple M4 Pro processor, which can be useful for monitoring system efficiency and performance.

Screen capture of a MacBook booting and showing 13 available macOS installers. When unplugging the disk with the installers, each macOS installer disappears in a cloud

Screenshot of Spotlight on macOS searching for the term "winword" and showing the results, including a listing for Microsoft Word via Siri

Screenshot of Activity Monitor on macOS showing the Pages process consuming 52.6% CPU

Captain Haddock, seemingly quite drunk, asking Tintin from The Adventures Of Tintin comic book series, "What a year, huh?" with Tintin responding, "Captain, it's February."

Mac mini m4 power button

Windows NT 3.51 sign-in screen

Product photo of the Onvis motion sensor

$Url = "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/deviceManagement/virtualEndpoint/supportedRegions?`$filter=supportedSolution eq 'windows365'"
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "CloudPC.Read.All" -UseDeviceCode
$Request = Invoke-MgGraphRequest -Uri $Url
$Request.value | Select-Object -Property "regionGroup", "displayName"

Post for Dune (1984) by David Lynch

Screenshot of the initial commit for Evergreen on GitHub in November 2018

A screenshot of Visual Studio Code showing the 'Use Copilot for Free' button in the sidebar

A screenshot of htop running on macOS via ssh showing the high CPU usage for the /usr/libexec/audiomxd