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Merlin Deramaix
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Freelancer - Entrepreneur - Business Owner - Microsoft 365 Specialist - Business Consultant
Maybe it's also time to rethink how we easily trust a lot of players with our most sensitive content?
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
July 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Merlin Deramaix
For anyone looking for an alternative: Wormhole is free and uses end-to-end encryption. (I have no affiliation with them!)

wormhole.app
Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing
Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.
wormhole.app
July 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Very good that the @ec.europa.eu is taking those steps with regard for privacy and even more, with OSS. This is leading by example, giving companies the correct tools to abide by the regulations.
Commission makes available an age-verification blueprint
To help online platforms implement a user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification method, the Commission is developing a harmonised approach in close collaboration with the Member States.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
July 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
17 papers, 14 institutions, all found the same trick independently?Classic parallel discovery under pressure. And notice - we only know about academics because they publish everything. Corporations discovering prompt injection in their AI workflows? They're keeping quiet about those close calls.
July 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Already 1.0.3 :)
Tested it, and won't be uninstalling any time soon. Works very well, easy to use and I'm sure with the amount of presentations and screen shares I do this will come handy!
Remember 1.0.0 of PresentInk a few days ago? Well, we're at 1.0.2 already :-) The latest version allows you to set different hotkeys for the various actions (go to the settings, scroll down). I also added a version check on startup (runs once per 24 hours, and only if you start it). presentink.com
PresentInk - Draw Anywhere During Your Presentation
Enhance your presentations with live drawing and annotations. PresentInk allows you to draw over any application, highlight key points, and make your screen sharing more interactive.
presentink.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The difference in value between people with knowledge & skills vs people just executing tasks is just gonna skyrocket. In more domains than just soft dev

nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-...
New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
Something’s been bugging me about how new devs learn and I need to talk about it. We’re at this weird inflection point in software development. Every junior dev I talk to has Copilot or Claude or GPT ...
nmn.gl
July 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Copilot in terms of responses, although correct or advanced prompting, remains lacking in some cases. Its responses are of less value. We’re doing a comparative “study” of different tools and in a lot of cases business users, of different exp. and sector, still prefer another AI tool.
This is a terrific article by Kirsty.

I discovered her Wheel of Fortune for #M365 a couple of years ago and reference it repeatedly.
However, her insights on #Copilot & #AI adoption are top notch.

M365 'Wheel of Fortune' 45th Edition - top 10 Copilot Insights
www.linkedin.com/pulse/m365-w...
July 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Good article by @practical365.bsky.social but it’s so clear that @microsoft.com is trying to push Copilot without a clear vision of governance. Governance is a second thought, that’s clear from the scattered approach with Copilot.

practical365.com/copilot-stud...
A Microsoft 365 Administrator’s Beginner's Guide to Copilot Studio
There's a lot to learn about Copilot Studio, especially for hard-pressed Microsoft 365 tenant administrators who already have too much work to do. This article gives administrators the essential detai...
practical365.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM