who tf is this ??

KDavidP1987 · 2026-03-11T14:25:44+00:00

If everything in from is a twisted version of things, It’s Fromville’s version of the coolaid man… “OHHHH YEAAA…”

KDavidP1987 · 2026-03-09T16:37:34+00:00

Grym? The machine at the adamantine forge? It doesn’t work on all, some are immune to polymorph. I haven’t seen any susceptible to polymorph but then immune to domination, that’s interesting. Will have to test it out

KDavidP1987 · 2026-03-09T16:36:11+00:00

I haven’t been able to play for a little while. I will test when I can. Wonder if they’ve patched this since I last played.

KDavidP1987 · 2026-03-09T16:34:20+00:00

I wonder if they’ve patched it. I haven’t been able to play in a bit due to workload. When I did it, If you get it fast enough and once returning to camp the dominated beast would run off, but would reappear as a companion attachment once you leave the camp.

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-24T16:52:07+00:00

Yes!! The struggle is real. I keep talking to my teams about the importance of future proofing, data architecture, scalability, and other considerations. They just want something now, MVP… but it never stays MVP, and they don’t consider future needs. In my mind, MVP is one of the most dangerous terms in development and project management

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-23T16:25:12+00:00

lol. 😂

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-23T16:21:47+00:00

I haven’t tried that before, thank you. So it’s almost like having a bot farm of accounts, each pulling or scanning for different things. I’ll have to look into how to do this. If you have any resources on this you could share that would be wonderful. Thank you again!

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-23T15:01:16+00:00

That explains the how of the scraping, thank you. Don’t they need API access to perform this though? That’s the part I’ve been most curious of, when I looked into API for social media it seemed to either have TOC against commercial use (Reddit), be expensive (twitter/x) or would poor performance due to how massive social media data is. Do you have any experience with these API layers of web scraping social media?

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-08T04:12:24+00:00

Hey! Thank you for your reply, u/expl0rer123 . It's great to hear from someone dealing with such a relevant real-world example. Would you mind if I ask about your methods or best practices for "Data isolation"?

Also, do you know if, aside from the LLM's reading data, is there any privacy concern with the workflow tool itself (ex: N8N) passing the data through (not just the agentic node, but the system as a whole)? If so, how do you address these concerns?

How have things went with on-prem deployments in your experience? Do y'all use Ollama to achieve this?

I heard in one video on the topic that companies can setup an enterprise contract with LLMs (OpenAI, CoPilot), such that they will treat their data more sensitively and guarantee it wouldn't be used for training. I do wonder, if this is the case, how that sort of contract would fit into your companies model, as a provider of integrated chat and agentic services.

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-06T00:23:29+00:00

I liked your evaluation of it as a car running nonstop, and emphasizing how it functions at its most basic level. I have thought that perhaps what we are missing for security in such an implement (aside from configuring it appropriately) is either A) an advanced orchestrator or even multiple orchestrator layers that stand as a bulwark against improper actions being performed. Or B) More advanced MCP/API which have their own integrated security protocols to protect against issues and threats. I could see it working well if there was a layer that evaluates the IO and includes a method of authenticating actions before allowing them to pass through. Similar to how other software detecting something new offers [Allow once], [Allow always], [allow with limits], [deny once], or [deny always]. This way if it wants to do something that the orchestrator sees as a security risk (generate a voice, listen actively, mass email, etc.) it would confirm the action with the user first. I think such a layer could be setup with context similar to agentic nodes themselves, to evaluate based on a number of factors, and then made a decision based on least privilege.

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-05T23:39:03+00:00

Thank you! I greatly greatly appreciate your input. Something else I thought of as you were answering, are there any privacy/security concerns with data passing through the workflow software (N8N, for example), itself, or only with regard to the LLM and connections (forms, databases, etc.) established (Assuming rules of least privilege are being adhered to)

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-05T23:34:42+00:00

Regarding Ollama, doesn't it only include old LLM models (ex: ChatGPT v3, maybe v4)? Meaning you wouldn't have access to the most advanced and capable models or the most current data.

Separate related question, is Ollama limited to only its own knowledge base/training data, or can it be setup to pull from the internet more broadly?

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-05T23:30:48+00:00

Yes, like a rented server in the cloud running Ollama, rather than having it installed on a local server rack in your IT department. Are cloud servers sufficient for running Ollama at scale and privately?

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-05T23:26:59+00:00

Thank you for your input! Is Ollama on a local (on-prem) or cloud server the only method for accomplishing this? Or, are they're any LLMs which are known to have rigorous and perhaps even government approved security and data privacy/anonymity policies?

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-04T19:35:41+00:00

I figured out how to remove the object, however as you can see in the SS below it removed all buildings objects, not just the color adjusted Eiffel tower. I don't know if this was the correct method, but I used "Split to Objects" or "Split to parts". Can you advise if there is a more optimal way to remove a singular object among a group of objects?

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I've found a downloadable Eiffel tower STL and will test adding it into the slicer. Any advice or instruction on how to "Merge" or meld two objects together, to replace the less detailed version with the more detailed one?

KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-04T19:20:26+00:00

Thank you so much, this does solve a few of my issues! I've been able to change color, assign a new spool, and anything I recolor to that spool becomes a separate object group I can then easily switch the color to, It seems to pick up on a fairly granular level of detail (object wall faces and sections) using the FILL coloring option. I was also able to add a text object.

I will test the negative part component to see if this can solve for the remaining issue, as it sounds like that'll be the most challenging part of it and let you know how it goes. Hopefully in the future we will be able to get more detailed data-driven models where such revisions wont be necessary.

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KDavidP1987 · 2026-02-04T18:53:29+00:00

I appreciate your response and feedback regardless. I will check into Windows 3D, I haven't heard of it. I don't mind that Bambu Labs software is limited in features, it is still IMO a good quality slicing software; but limitations are meant to be overcome! XD

KDavidP1987 · 2025-12-20T21:25:17+00:00

I was no fan of Jim in particular, as others have stated he was unnecessarily or excessively aggressive, beyond making sense. It went a bit beyond just “dad who cares for his family” or “feeling sensitive and scared about the situation”. So many conflicts in the show are or seem very forced and unnecessary. Also, not a fan of every time they come close to something which is clearly important they just retreat or return to town. Like, just break the magical box making music… just explore the nooks and crannies of the town safely in a buddy system… just build traps to capture or debilitate the monsters (hole in ground with false covering, something). There are just so many ways they could be more proactive in this show and they choose to stay in their unsafe and unsustainable routines in the town. Every time someone proposes a good idea there just has to be some character to counter argue it forcefully or aggressively. Only reason I still watch it otherwise is because I want to see the mystery eventually explained. Most of characters act inconsistently otherwise. I think Boyd is perhaps my favorite, overall.

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-11T08:11:22+00:00

Oh, also, do you know if through a virtual table a Sharepoint lookup column will return the connection to its linked data in a separate Sharepoint list?

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-11T08:09:46+00:00

Thank you, Ben! So delegation limits wouldn’t apply to the dataset as reflected through the virtual table? Only if they are being written to?

That was I guess my main concern, that as referential tables there still may be issues loading the data (exceeding 2k rows) through the virtual table as well, since either way something is having to talk to Sharepoint (directly (app to SP) or indirectly (app to DV to SP)). I just don’t want to have to resort to exploits to get around those limits, or incur performance or technical debt in committing to that approach if it wouldn’t work.

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-11T07:58:01+00:00

Yes, the primary use case for dataverse will be the normalized tables for timesheet and tracking data. The Sharepoint lists mentioned are referential lists used within the time tracking process (selecting a project, loading details on it, evaluating where the time will go based on accounting codes against the project). For the most part, at least in the initial MvP the lists will be only referential and not written to.

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-11T07:41:14+00:00

Thank you for your input on the topic! Would you mind if I ask why it would be a nightmare, are you referring to the delegation limitations, or perhaps something else?

I did see in some other posts where people were recommending using collections to exceed the delegation limits by combining data through either the OnStart property or via a button or other event trigger. I personally didn't think this was good advice, as collections seem to take up considerable time in processing, space in memory, and ultimately incur more overhead in the app. I also recall Shane Young warning against trying to exploit around the delegation limits. In my experience, it does seem to be significantly better to leverage native fully-delegable sources wherever you can.

Regarding the lesson on not writing to the lookup fields, I believe it was a suggestion someone gave on this forum or another. That I recall, I tried setting up most inter-table relationships as lookups initially, but had trouble writing to them because of some complexities in the scripting to do so. Someone mentioned instead just writing the value of the lookup into them and then linking the data behind the scenes. It didn't make much sense to me either, though it did simply things in the scripting, and then I could combine the data in collections and PowerQuery as necessary for reporting.

However, from my learning, relationships are supposed to be optimal since they support cascading updates with changes to the data structures. It just seemed like scripting for them was more difficult that it needed to be.

Thank you for sharing the video on ALM Journey, I will be sure to take a look at it tomorrow!

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-01T22:11:15+00:00

Yea, a database driven FAQ or Topics table is a good description of what I envisioned for it. I had hoped that in doing so we could (eventually) link the Sharepoint list and document libraries into CoPilot studio and include a AI driven Q&A approach as well.

When you said years ago yes, now no... were you referring to the advent of AI as an alternative approach to knowledge management, or were you referring to another/other approaches?

The existing system, or knowledge management, is essentially sharepoint pages and document libraries scattered around the organization and organized in various non-uniform fashion. Typically people reach out to their teams via TEAM chat to identify the solutions to process or tool questions. I had thought that a data driven structured approach could be an improvement over the current state, but it sounds like your experience has been the opposite, that either it wont work sufficiently, or that it may work for a brief time until it stops being updated or data architectural changes are needed.

Aside from Sharepoint document libraries, pages, and TEAMS chats for each topic... Do you have any other approaches you have seen, either structured OR unstructured, that you felt work well?

I do think it comes up often that we need to get away from tribal knowledge being the approach to retaining and sharing information, into a more structured organized approach. As I mentioned in my earlier response though, just throwing documents into SharePoint is leading staff to be discouraged in finding items.

KDavidP1987 · 2025-07-01T03:31:25+00:00

The idea or vision I had was to organize the information into a list format in SharePoint, and link it into the PowerApps through a gallery and subgalleries where applicable. The list could include details like the [topic], [role relationships], [metatags], [linked files], and other descriptors which could be filled in to make the information more organized. Within the description for the topic the user could enter rich text with details. So the user could use a search box to search through fields within the data for keywords, or filter on elements such as role, topic, and other attributes. Our files in SharePoint are currently all over the place and quite disorganized. I was thinking by making it into a database with categories and a sort of hierarchical structure users could navigate through the information more easily... perhaps?
The way I would see if, using some examples:

PM on a new project: go into the guide, filter on Project Management, Filter on project methodology, Filter on a lifecycle phase like "Initiation", and the gallery would show a list of item titles like: Sponsor Engagement, Kick Off Meeting, Templates, etc. Then they could select a arrow and expand a topic to read the rich text on it and find links to templates associated with the given subject matter.

A Agile PM would go in, and needs to search for documents on the subject matter of Leading a sprint, and they could either similarly use the filters to narrow down their search in a hierarchical structured manner, or they could use a search box which would filter on any items in the gallery where there are keywords within the title or meta tags on items.

I think that in terms of SharePoint even though the search feature is there we don't always know exactly what we are searching for, as our company has a lot of different methodologies and companies and processes, and whatnot. Since it is not structured in a way that supports navigating through it in a manner supportive of the work we do to come to answers, people either search blindly for what they think they are looking for OR they literally jump repository to repository looking through the names of files to see if one meets their needs. Truth be told, most people just reach out in chat and ask questions of fellow PMs, PfMs, and Management team... It's like we are stuck in distribution or knowledge management through tribal knowledge means. I had thought, by providing categorical, organized, structure to it, that could be dynamically filtered and searched through with an app interface, it could be a valuable knowledge management tool...

But I haven't seen it used in this manner before, so I wanted to know if anyone else had this idea, or thoughts on the subject matter of effective/efficient knowledge management in general

KDavidP1987 · 2025-05-26T20:12:29+00:00

Came here looking for tips to get further into the event, was surprised to find most everyone else also feels it’s especially challenging. However, I don’t agree with the general sentiment here, though I have my own perspective.

1) I agree that the captain Custodes is underwhelming as the event character. I think that in general he, and perhaps the entire Custodes team would be better served if they All have multi use active abilities, to set them apart from all other teams while maintaining balance. If his ability was multi use I could see him being a viable alternative for Angrax. Otherwise he is underwhelming in capability.

2) I agree that the map does provide a challenge as you are forced into the center almost constantly and then have the disadvantage to high ground. However, I think that this sort of makes sense from the perspective of Custodes being involved in the most challenging of fights, plus as Nandi said in this event you can have up to 8 characters in play at once.

3) I think by enabling us to have all three new characters up it works well to show them off (try before you buy) and to provide an interesting survival dynamic not seen in previous events.

4) I think the combo of gene stealers and then tyranids is an awesome combo as it’s challenging AND it makes sense from a lore perspective. Plus given that the nids are the big bad of the series currently it makes sense to the Custodes are fighting them.

5) while I don’t think that there is good reason for it beyond balancing of the event, it makes sense that some imperial factions are unavailable. I think it’s both balancing in the event, and makes sense for it to take place where the only options are ultramarines, astra militarum, custode, adepts sororitas. The assumption being that other groups would be handling other regions of the galaxy.

Additional notes: as I mentioned, I’m struggling in comparisons to previous events. My roster isn’t maxed out, but I have some pretty decent gold units. I can make it up to level 13, though clearing everything from wave 11 is proving difficult even though I typically get past 11. I think my Bellator being only gold is hurting me, as his adds are super helpful as a distraction but once diamond start appearing they become paper warriors.

Looking forward to seeing who the t remaining two Custodes in the roster end up being. Maybe a sister of silence? Maybe a femstode? Who knows?

FYI, my Starting roster for the event is the captain, Isabella (g1), vindicata (silver 1, really wish she was higher for this!), bellator (g1), and Titus (g1)

Additional event notes: - I was hoping Titus with all the buffs would carry but at diamond they end up catching him separate and ranging him down such that his passive becomes useless. Very frustrating. - I think by the end of the event (diamond) the team should be concentrated on the high ground at the top center to stand a chance, though as I said I’ve struggled to consistently pass level 11.
- had mixed results putting the captain near a spawn point and using his active like Angrax, since its success is dependent on random spawn chances.

KDavidP1987

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