I had the most intensely coloured lights visible in the west of Ireland. I've seen them a few times before but never like this. Phones were capturing them in video not just long exposures.

Not sure what the best service is to be alerted ahead of time. Apparently it'll be strong here again at 6am according to some of the apps some random people were waving around.

The eligibility criteria was clear for the pilot[1] and has not been announced yet for the scheme from 2026 onwards. They selected 2,000 for the pilot which was due to end in June 2025 and was extended to early 2026 and in the 2026 budget was changed to reflect TFA.

[1] https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...

For a moment I thought this was somehow about putting solar PV panels inside an engine and getting energy from the light from the detonation.... I need a cup of coffee

This sounds like the Irish Eircode system

7 characters made up of letters and numbers let you find a specific building.

I really enjoyed that writeup. I wonder has anyone played with DPUs in a similar way? I have been trying to think of how to hairpin traffic through some standalone DPUs like an nvidia bluefield or pensando. To make my own >100G east west stateful firewall for a small fraction of the cost of a real option.

Switch like OPs with all traffic passing to and from a DPU to make a poor man's Aruba CX10000