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ChatGPT – A Short Story
ChatGPT is an interesting tool which gained popularity in the recent present as an AI model capable of a range of activities from answering basic questions from a vast amount of common knowledge, to writing creative texts, to providing basic programming frameworks which a developer can then expand upon. Tonight I happened to click back…
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Home Assistant and WAN tracking
It looks like I was not able to make good on my promise to more frequently post content I find interesting, as it has been almost two years since the last post and almost five since any actual content was posted! However, today I would like to come back and start talking about home automation.…
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Raspberry Pi (2011) model B as Unifi Controller
I have setup new networking equipment to provide a large upgrade to my home network. One component that was required was a small server to manage the access point, a Unifi AP AC Pro. One option is to purchase a small device from Ubiquiti called a Cloud Key that has the management software pre-loaded. Another option…
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Linux Authentication Testing
I am coming out of a very long hiatus of posting to my site to start posting content I feel is interesting. You, however, may be put to sleep by it! Today we are going to take a look at how to test various Linux authentication methods. As an example, let’s assume we have an…
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Comcast, Alternative DNS and CDNs
Recently I started noticing problems with our Comcast service that although speed tests were very speedy, as were certain downloads – primarily torrents of Linux distributions, other content downloads were pathetically slow. These would include items such as iTunes downloads, streaming content and the like. It wasn’t until I switched my router from using Google…