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Jul 30, 2022

DALL·E 2 — First Impressions

DALL·E 2 is an AI system created by OpenAI that can create both realistic images as well as art in different styles by accepting natural language instructions from the user. This is a first look of my initial experiments with the newly released beta.

Dalle 2

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DALL·E 2 — First Impressions
DALL·E 2 — First Impressions
Dalle 2

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Feb 20, 2022

How to Install OpenSpeedTest on Docker with Portainer

Testing the network speed to our Docker containers can be beneficial especially when running media services or file sync on a Raspberry Pi at home or in similar situations. We set up OpenSpeedTest as a stack in Portainer to achieve this need. Preparation Before we configure our application we should get…

Openspeedtest

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How to Install OpenSpeedTest on Docker with Portainer
How to Install OpenSpeedTest on Docker with Portainer
Openspeedtest

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Oct 15, 2021

How to Back Up and Restore IBM Cloudant Databases

IBM Cloudant databases can be backed up and restored easily using couchbackup — available GitHub where you can also find more detailed instructions for using this tool. Installing couchbackup Use npm to install the newest version globally: npm install -g @cloudant/couchbackup Credentials Before we start, we need to generate some credentials for our backup and restore operations, find your Cloudant instance in the resource list and click on Service credentials → New credential. Consider selecting a Reader role for extra security if you are just going to schedule a backup job.

Cloudant

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How to Back Up and Restore IBM Cloudant Databases
How to Back Up and Restore IBM Cloudant Databases
Cloudant

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Oct 10, 2021

How to Set Up a Torrent Box With a Raspberry Pi and an External Drive

Updated on 06 March 2023. We set up a simple seedbox using a Raspberry Pi and a containerised qBittorrent install. The focus of this setup is to be easy and maintainable. The security — or lack thereof — is not suitable for applications outside of a trusted home network. What We Need Raspberry…

Raspberry Pi

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How to Set Up a Torrent Box With a Raspberry Pi and an External Hard Drive
How to Set Up a Torrent Box With a Raspberry Pi and an External Hard Drive
Raspberry Pi

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Aug 11, 2021

How to Set Custom 404 Errors with WP2Static and Netlify

Exporting a page for Error 404 in WP2Static isn’t immediately obvious, but thankfully the developers have given us a hint here. To do this with Netlify, follow these steps: Create a page on WordPress for your 404 error. This must be a normal page where you type the error message…

WordPress

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How to Set Custom 404 Errors with WP2Static and Netlify
How to Set Custom 404 Errors with WP2Static and Netlify
WordPress

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Apr 14, 2020

Connecting to a Cloudant Database in Node-RED

Considering IBM’s role in the IoT space and their support for Node-RED that is currently unmatched by any other cloud provider, it makes sense to use their Cloudant service for easy storage of unstructured data. Realistically, the Node-RED product and ecosystem are still maturing, so a novice user can be…

Node Red

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Connecting to a Cloudant Database in Node-RED
Connecting to a Cloudant Database in Node-RED
Node Red

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Mar 1, 2020

How to Set Up Git and GitHub on Azure Notebooks Free Compute

While Azure Notebooks lets us clone a GitHub repository when creating a new project, tracking and committing changes back to the origin is currently not supported. Utilizing Git and GitHub features in our private development environment can be achieved with a little configuration. TL;DR: Go to the end of this post for an automated script for this setup. A note of warning: the way of…

Azure

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How to set up Git and GitHub on Azure Notebooks
How to set up Git and GitHub on Azure Notebooks
Azure

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May 3, 2018

How to Protect Yourself from Phishing When Dealing with Cryptocurrencies

The importance of security around cryptocurrencies and the internet in general has never been more important. Crypto assets make value extremely portable and while this is one of their best features, it also attracts hackers, scammers or other nefarious actors to the space. One of the biggest risks to security…

Phishing

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How to Protect Yourself from Phishing When Dealing with Cryptocurrencies
How to Protect Yourself from Phishing When Dealing with Cryptocurrencies
Phishing

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Nov 29, 2016

Key Points from Akamai’s State of the Internet Q3 2016 Security Report

The Q3 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report represents analysis and research from Akamai based on data from their global infrastructure and routed DDoS solution. Key points and insights from the report include: 71% increase in DDoS attacks between Q3 2015 and Q3 2016. 77% increase in infrastructure…

Security

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Key Points from Akamai’s State of the Internet Q3 2016 Security Report
Key Points from Akamai’s State of the Internet Q3 2016 Security Report
Security

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Nov 28, 2016

External Footprinting Tools for Passive Reconnaissance

dmitry dmitry or the Deepmagic Information Gathering Tool can be used for a variety of reconnaissance purposes. It ships with Kali Linux and can be used to perform a whois lookup on the domain name of a host and save it to a text file like this: dmitry -winsepo example.txt example.com whois …

Security

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Security

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