TL;DR: I figured out how to override and stop YouTube Shorts. It’s harder to block a specific website element as opposed to an entire domain. Dangers of short attention span Social media has served to bring many of us together proving the potential importance of it and the good it can achieve. However, it has …
With so much focus on ChatGPT, Bard, and other Language Models, I wanted to bring to light a useful tool that is not as heavily advertised, Text to Image Generation. What is Text to Image Generation? You are probably familiar with Dall-E, the program from OpenAI that was the precursor to ChatGPT. It was one …
Text to Image (Visualize ideas) – What, why, how Read More »
As almost everyone is aware, ChatGPT and other LLMs (not to be confused with MLMs or LLCs) are here and starting to break into multiple industries. In this article, I will show how to setup your own local AI chatbot as well as explain some of the different models and functions. What is an LLM? …
AI [as a local service] – Why, what, and how (plus benchmarks) Read More »
ChatGPT can truly do some amazing things. With its popularity and awareness increasing daily, I wanted to show two unique ways I have discovered to give a better picture of some avenues that it branch out to. Software Metering Over the years I became very experienced using many Endpoint Management Tools. I started with Altiris, …
TL;DR: I made a completely new website and then migrated from my paid AWS infrastructure to a free OCI one. The first revision I did of this article was using documentation from Ubuntu on setting up WordPress which worked well except it did not have clear instructions for getting SSL certificates to work. However, Linode …
Trimming the budget, WordPress Migration (AWS to OCI) Read More »
TL;DR: Recently, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. It has opened a pandora’s box of possibility. For me, the first time I heard about ChatGPT was December 13th. The email chain I was added to was concerned how it would impact learning in schools. Until that point, I had never heard of OpenAI ChatGPT, but …
TL;DR Recently, my EERO Home Wifi System alerted me that it would be end of support this month. That meant I would need to replace it at some point and it gave me a crazy idea. Could a small form factor computer replace some of the functions of a router? What about a server? Could …
TL;DR: For this article, I wanted to write about something that many people are not familiar with, namely the WHY, WHAT, and HOW of migrating services from an on premise datacenter to a public cloud. If you have ever wondered why you should move, what it would cost to do so, or even how to …
IT – Demystifying the cloud – Part 1 (AWS: Why, What, and how) Read More »
Initial Thoughts: During an AWS seminar, a person mentioned Wasabi and how they use it for their S3 storage. I took a look and they sound pretty good for a variety of reasons. They are one fifth the cost of Amazon and do not have any ingress or egress charges. Their pricing is $5.99 per …
Crazy Idea – Using Cloud Storage as Local Storage [Initial Testing Included] Read More »
TL;DR In continuing our free multi-cloud build out, we will setup free backups using Google Drive, install our WordPress website, migrate an existing WordPress website, and setup SSH keys to make logging in easier. Building further upon the last article, we analyzed and setup two servers on two different cloud providers. We setup a domain, …
