Technology
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Open-AI is transforming how I live
Read more…: Open-AI is transforming how I liveI occasionally need to create a script at work (or home) and I usually use Bash. I’ve become fairly proficient. I’ve been studying for Red Hat certification. In college, I was trained in Java so I can read and write Java. When it comes to a quick script though, I need something like Bash, Python,…
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Chat-GPT is changing how I learn and work
Read more…: Chat-GPT is changing how I learn and workI’ve heard horror stories about how students are using tools like Chat-GPT to write papers for them in school. That is the dumb way to use an AI tool. You don’t learn anything. The SMART way to use it is to help you learn. I’ve been studying for my Linux RHEL Admin certification. I’m self-taught…
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Nextcloud is the bomb
Read more…: Nextcloud is the bombI’ve been using ownCloud for many years, maybe a decade or close to it. Every once in a white, something has happened where I decided to reinstall it. I’ve run it on bare metal an in a VM and it’s worked great for years. But it has an achille’s heel. It’s a real pain in…
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How to make a strong password you can remember
Read more…: How to make a strong password you can rememberI recently acquired some files containing over 78,000 username/password combinations. I won’t say where or how I got them, but I broke no laws in the process and simply possessing these files are perfectly legal. After all, they’re nothing but lists of words and numbers. Sadly, there is no additional information. I don’t know…
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Kick Google out of Firefox
Read more…: Kick Google out of FirefoxOne of the first steps you can make in kicking Google out of your life is to use a browser like Firefox, Safari, Brave, Opera, or any other you can find. As an engineer who spends a lot of time on the Linux command line, I actually like to use the all-text Lynx from time…
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Googlisms
Read more…: GooglismsGoogle does two things very well: search (which they’re now ruining) and maps. They talk a lot about how “innovative” they are, yet they’ve failed to come up with anything new since Maps. Me-too projects like Sheets and Docs don’t count. There’s nothing really new or revolutionary about half-baked and bug-ridden garbage like Hangouts, Chrome,…
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People still don’t want self-driving cars
Read more…: People still don’t want self-driving carsThis probably won’t stop companies like Google, Uber, and Tesla from throwing shareholders money away by developing technologies no one wants (like Google Glass and touch-screen computers), but self-driving cars are a myth altogether. I’ve long argued that self-driving cars would appeal to people who cannot drive due to a physical disability. Fantastic, let’s build…