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The Cyborgs Are Coming!

2 Dec 2022 2 minute read 1 comment JSL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...