Category: Projects
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The Road Beyond 28 Million Viewers
My annual unique viewers for the last year now totals more than 28 million. Getting here has been quite a journey. Choosing what to do next has been the journey of the last several years, and I’m excited to report that while I’m still not quite sure, I have a much better idea than I…
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Open Source Arcade Machine
An open source full-size arcade cabinet which allows users to play a range of open source games. Obviously users could also add their own ROMs. Example list of open source games; https://osgameclones.com/
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Text-To-Speech Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry
The fact that we don’t already have widely available open source tts executables for Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry is perhaps the greatest failure of the artificial intelligence movement to date. Frankly I think it’s insane that this isn’t already a thing. Enter Vall-E which can create TTS models of someone based on just a…
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My New NAS Architecture: DIY Synology Running RAID 51
I have outgrown my two DS218+ Synology NAS boxes. These have served me well for longer than I can remember. I use these to store backups from all my servers and devices, as well as my media library and all my documents and projects. I have had these Synology boxes set up as a main…
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Baking Gluten Free Bread
A lot of people have side effects after recovering from covid. I got lots of new allergies, including gluten, garlic, and onions. This has led to me basically cooking all my own food and rarely eating out. One of the challenges has been bread. Gluten free bread at the store can be great but it’s…
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Current Gear List
Note: I’m working on getting pictures of everything. Self-Hosted Services Self-hosting your services means you aren’t paying monthly fees to rent your services from some provider who doesn’t even care about what you want and only thinks of you as something to be exploited. This way you have the power to change or improve features…
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Ask AI to name a personalized custom fabrication company
Create brand names for a distributed fabrication company specializing in making all sorts of personalized custom things to order using the following sorts of techniques;-Laser cut metal for things like business cards-3D printed personalized chotchkies and office desk ornaments-Custom tee shirts and other clothingThe firm will focus on designs for LGBTQ people which highlight queer…
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Assume This Is Probably A Scam: Here’s How To Check
Every August, an army of scammers emerge to prey on those looking for Burning Man tickets. As a regional chair of Burners Without Borders who has navigated this process many times, I decided to write this short piece about how to identify scammers and how to avoid being ripped off. The most important thing to…
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Web App LAMP Server Setup 2022
Install LAMP Software sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install fail2ban apache2 mariadb-server php php-{cli,bcmath,bz2,curl,intl,gd,mbstring,mysql,zip} sudo mysql_secure_installation Install Certbot For SSL To install SSL, use Certbot. Install Resilio-Sync Install Resilio Sync for Backup transportation and versioning; https://help.resilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/206178924-Installing-Sync-package-on-Linux Add Scripts For Backups And Permissions Various scripts and files (That go in various places)…
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Ask AI to Analyze a Meme About Culture War vs Class War
This post is part of a guest series called Discursive Construction, and was written by an advanced artificial intelligence. The bold at the beginning is the prompt, and the rest was written by the AI. If you’d like to support this project, please buy me a coffee. Advanced AI was invented by soviet communists to help humanity …