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The Cyborgs Are Coming!

2 Dec 2022 2 minute read 1 comment JSL $0.15

Elon Musk and his team at Neuralink is now practically at the forefront of brain–computer interface(BCI) technology. They have further demonstrated at their recent presentation how much they have come a long way from their previous advancements which...

Remote Access OpenVPN on pfsense

19 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo $0.09

How to grant remote access OpenVPN on pfsense. In my home network I wanted to create a virtual private network (vpn) to allow me to access my home servers remotely. In this working blog I go through the steps I took. Part 1 After logging into pfsense...

Home Lab NTP Server

25 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments powersjo $0.02

How to create your own home lab NTP server? While I’m not an expert on NTP (network time protocol), I decided to create my own NTP server for my home network. This was for multiple reasons: To learn about NTP servers and clients. Take the load of NT...

Create iSCSI datastore in ESXi

23 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments powersjo $0.10

This is how to create an iSCSI datastore in ESXi. In my case, I got a QNAP which allows for iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections to the storage. Briefly, iSCSI is a layer on top of TCP/IP that uses an initiator to connect to a...

Challenges in Artificial Intelligence

15 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.47

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a technique created by humans. Artificial intelligence or AI as it is widely quoted in the news media is a top technology buzzword. If you are on social media platforms, such as Twitter, you will find that AI is of...

How To Generate Any Image From Text: The Wonders of AI in Computer-Generated Imagery

7 Aug 2022 4 minute read 6 comments Cryptoindulgence $0.99

As a technology enthusiast taking a hiatus from writing on cryptocurrencies, I shall indulge myself today in sharing an interesting discovery I made on the Internet (well, it is not exactly a ground-breaking piece of technology that just emerged, but...

List Veeam VM backups w/Powershell

1 Jul 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo $0.03

How to list Veeam VM backups with PowerShell? Recently I came across a use-case where you may want to list out all of the Virtual Machines (VMs) backed up with Veeam. If you have multiple Veeam servers that backup 100’s of VMs, creating a list of VMs...

How to code a calculator web app

24 Apr 2022 7 minute read 1 comment powersjo $0.02

Creating your own calculator web app is a useful project to help beginners learn code and website hosting. When I started this project, I figured the hardest part to code would be the Javascript. This is because I thought since the logic lived there,...

Update ESXi from command line

23 Apr 2022 1 minute read 0 comments powersjo $0.00

First, ensure you have the right ESXi "offline bundle" from VMware. In my example, I have a Dell server. In order to update ESXi we need the DellEMC custom image from VMware. At the time of this blog, the most update to date image in the 6 series is...

Introduction to Computer Science - part 1

27 Feb 2022 15 minute read 2 comments lingy $0.01

Follow me on Odysee I was reading a text that I found on a portal on the Gopher network and I thought "hey, this is interesting, I'll take it to the people at Odysee". So I started translating the texts little by little and making slight modification...