Review Of Retevis RT29
Background So, yes I am a radio guy – or rather a guy who enjoys radios. I use radios for many different uses: Not all radios are created equal, not all radios are good nor have most of the features desired. Sometimes it’s hard to find a radio that has exactly what you want – […]
Read MoreSetup Fail2ban With NGinx And Cloudflare
Background So I have setup a combination of things as part of a multi-faceted defense for this site. It has been a learning exercise for me for sure. Here’s an example where knowledge is power, power to stay on the air. Most of the time, we get scanned by bots, many of which are the […]
Read MoreSimple Log Shipper To AWS S3
Background I had a need to ship uncompressed application logs to an S3 bucket. Logs were originally CSV files created by a specific application, and not standard .log type files that were converted to JSON. You could use this shipping method for just about any file with minor modification. This guide assumes you already have […]
Read MoreAI Generated Art
Background AI is all the buzz and hype these days. From chatGPT to DALL-E (both OpenAI projects). I decided to see what it’s all about. I created an account on openai.com and set out to try a few things. ChatGPT So I tried some interaction with ChatGPT. I asked it about what role AI will […]
Read MoreNginx – Prevent Outside Access To URLs Containing
Background Recently, this site was under attack with attackers also trying to brute force the admin/login URLs. As you probably know, I run this site on WordPress and it now sits behind both Cloudflare and an Nginx reverse proxy. I generally only update and write on the site from home, so I wanted to ensure […]
Read MoreA Screen Macro Recorder For Linux – ATBSWP
Background Ok so I had a situation where I needed to perform a repetitive task (like deleting a bunch of bogus library object referrals on a system with some corruption. I was not able to use a bulk tool, but rather had to use the GUI to perform the task over 1130 objects! Who the […]
Read MoreEspressif To Release A Dual Band Chip
Dual Band IoT Sweetness I was excited to read today via a press release on Espressif’s website, an upcoming chip release that now supports dual band (2.4 & 5GHz) wifi networks! This new chip, the ESP32-C5 will be able to take advantage of 5GHz networks, and therefore lower latency wireless connectivity in IoT environments from […]
Read MoreInstalling Home Assistant on Linux KVM
Background I never wrote this up, and I think it’s time I did. For the past couple years, we’ve been using Home Assistant (HA) as our home automation platform and it has been AWESOME. The Home Assistant team has put together one of the best home automation platforms out there. Home Assistant is also open […]
Read MoreSetup An Nginx Reverse Proxy – Ubuntu 20.04
Background Since moving to an area served by gigabit fiber, I decided I didn’t want to pay for web hosting anymore, now that I had excellent connectivity. In addition to this website you are reading right now, I also host other web properties as well. I only have a single static public IP address but […]
Read MoreSangean CL-100 – A Review As Emergency Alert Source
Background We live 4 miles from a nuclear power plant, and we also have a GMRS repeater station that we use for Community Watch in our neighborhood. We also live in an area that tends to have severe thunderstorms and sometimes tornado warnings. I was looking for a way to pipe automated emergency warnings (nuclear, […]
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