Meet the Yubikey. A hardware 2FA (two factor) authentication token because people are cunts and may duplicate/clone your mobile phone and render software 2FA pointless. Now, you may think that sounds cool. But not only do you have to buy one of this at 55 quid, you have to buy…
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I Dream of EuGenie
Meet EuGenie. She’s a beauty, and obviously as she is female she is better than Eugene. This is the DXP4800 Plus. My backup server that replaces the old rackmount Synology RS812 that I bought from eBay for £100 (which is still hanging around, I mean ffs how do I even…
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SFP Media Buddy
This is the SFP Media Buddy. It’s amazing. It may look like a weird Raspberry Pi, and it really does, but this allows you to rescue your WAS110 SFP stick back to default settings using just Putty and a serial connection. Bear in mind, I had no idea how to…
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Replacing the Virgin Media Hub 5x
This was a long and arduous journey. I cannot emphasize this enough. Whilst there was no blood, there was certainly sweat and tears. Hear me out. I live in the UK, I have a fibre (fiber?) deal with Virgin Media, and I use their 5x Hub. Note, I also use…
Eugene Is No Longer
I realise that I have spent the last day justifying to myself as to why I was going to be happy with an erroneous purchase. As such, Eugene is going back to the Amazon, and I’ve ordered his bigger brother, the Plus SKU to hopefully fill in the gaps and…
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Meet Eugene – UGREEN DXP4800 (non-plus)
I couldnt help it, it was just over £400 and I have been looking for a solid backup NAS solution, and I’ve been following UGREEN’s releases into the NAS world since their kickstarter. I mean, it just looks great. This is the non-plus model, I was a little disappointed when…
Installing Core Keeper on Docker
Excerpts from the above. I am paranoid about losing things on the internet and have only copied this here for reference. Full credit to the article above, its better formatted over there and Ive definitely cut chunks out that I dont need. TLDR, go to the above link. Summary: 6….
CasaOS – Full Drive Allocation
sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE -r /dev/mapper/ubuntu–vg-ubuntu–lv
MS-01 Microcode Patch
Cross post from a different site, left here for the knowledge! Microcode Install Instructions:1) Install Proxmox 8.12) Add non-free-firmware to debian repo in sources.list– Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Add non-free-firmware to the 1st line so it looks like this—– deb Index of /debian bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware3) Save Changes4) #apt…
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Deepseek – 1 badger, 5000 ants
I am a bit confused, dear reader, but the LLMs that Deepseek users – primarily here we are using the 8b model vs the 1.5b model. Here’s the answers: 8b model: 1.5b model: As you can see, the two models for the same Deepseek AI program offers conflicting answers. 8b…