SSA (2LO) cannot access ACC file contents while 3LO works – what APS permissions or app settings are required?

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Summary This postmortem analyzes the integration of Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) with FME Flow using Secure Service Accounts (SSA / 2LO). The core failure is that while service account authentication (2LO) successfully lists project metadata, it fails to access or download file contents. This behavior contradicts the expectation that SSA provides full unattended automation capabilities … Read more

Email Claim is always missing in the startup.auth.cs but it present in the Token

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Summary A .NET 4.8 application using OWIN middleware (Microsoft.Owin.Security.Jwt) is failing to populate User.Identity.Name or map the preferred_username claim to the NameClaimType. The Root Cause is a mismatch between the expected NameClaimType configuration and the actual JWT token claims (a v2.0 token), compounded by the OWIN pipeline potentially intercepting the token parsing before the application … Read more

How to generate AI videos and images using PixVerse AI?

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Summary The question revolves around AI-based tools for generating images and short videos using text prompts, with a focus on PixVerse AI. This tool is highlighted for its ease of use and creative styles, making it accessible for beginners and content creators alike. The inquiry seeks performance insights, limitations, and potential alternatives to PixVerse AI. … Read more

How can I develop an iOS app with capacitor and AdMob?

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Summary This postmortem addresses a common failure scenario when porting a web-based React application to native iOS using Capacitor, specifically integrating AdMob. The core issue is not code logic but dependency management and build environment configuration. The frustration stems from the intersection of a web-native hybrid framework (Capacitor), a native SDK (Google Mobile Ads), and … Read more

Docker compose struggling with permission setting up Hashicorp Vault

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Summary A deployment of Hashicorp Vault using Docker Compose on Debian failed due to filesystem permission and capability conflicts. The core issue manifested as a permission denied error when the container attempted to initialize its storage backend, followed by chown errors when attempting to fix permissions. The failure stems from a mismatch between the container’s … Read more

Performing a reduce operation with Metal under Swift

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Summary I encountered a bug while porting a Metal reduction kernel from the official specification. The original code contained an out-of-bounds memory access due to a race condition, and my attempted fix introduced a logic error that caused the reduction to silently fail. The root cause was a misunderstanding of how threadgroup memory and SIMD … Read more

VirtualBox Ubuntu 22.04: Is it safe to switch between NAT and Bridged networking using two adapters and ip route without rebooting?

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Summary A user reported slow download speeds when using VirtualBox’s Bridged networking mode on an Ubuntu 22.04 VM compared to NAT mode. To avoid the time-consuming process of rebooting the VM to switch modes, they implemented a workaround involving two virtual NICs (one Bridged, one NAT) and manually switching the default route using ip route. … Read more

How to extract financial statement tables from PDF using Python?

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Summary This technical postmortem analyzes the common failures when extracting financial statement tables from PDFs using Python. The primary issue stems from treating all PDFs uniformly, ignoring the fundamental distinction between digitally native PDFs (text-based) and scanned images (requiring OCR). A typical failure scenario involves attempting to parse a scanned 10-K report directly with pypdf … Read more