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January 28, 2023
  • coding

Use Google Cloud Storage in Python to Backup and Load your AI/ML Data

Amazon S3 simple object storage represents the industry standard for cheap storage of large files. All modern cloud vendors do offer S3 alternative services that offer the same access and nearly the same conditions in terms of features and prices. One can say that S3 represents the backbone of modern cloud storages offering a scalable, […]

January 22, 2023
  • artificial intelligence

Does OpenAI ChatGPT recognize its own creations?

There is a lot of hype ongoing about the amazing capabilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and how it will revolutionize the writing of texts. Schools and universities are worried that ChatGPT will widely be used by students to summarize larger texts, books or general topics. Those ChatGPT generated texts, which seem perfect in word, sentences and […]

January 6, 2023
  • docker
  • software

Run a private Vaultwarden Password Safe as Docker Container on a Synology NAS

With hundreds of unique, cryptic passwords to manage we all have to admit that we are overwhelmed with today’s security requirements. Password safes along with two factor authentication (2FA) promises some help to organize those large numbers of auto-generated passwords. As Web based password safes became pretty popular for obvious reasons, they also represent a […]

December 31, 2022
  • coding
  • Home automation

How to customize Docker startup parameters in Synology NAS?

You probably found that it is not that easy to overwrite the default Docker container command if you are running it in your Synology NAS. Maybe you came across the following error: “Unable to perform this operation, possibly the network connection is unstable or the system is busy. Please try again later.” Actually, this error […]

December 27, 2022
  • app
  • TabShop

TabShop Android POS App integrates with  WooCommerce

With more than 4 Million shops WooCommerce is one of the most popular ecommerce solutions world wide. WooCommerce is an Open Source solution operating on top of WordPress and is therefore easily accessible to hundreds of millions of people. WooCommerce offers a wide range of features that are necessary to operate a successful ecommerce web […]

December 25, 2022
  • app
  • coding

Android Permission Error in File Cache Loading

Android 11 onwards introduced several more restrictive policies for applications to access the local storage. It is necessary to request the users permission for access in the context of usage not only to declare the access rights in the Android manifest file. See the Android error message below: Some storage directories are accessible nevertheless, such […]

November 5, 2022
  • artificial intelligence
  • coding
  • Home automation

Run a Camera Motion Detector in a Docker Container

For years, I have been struggling with my network camera and its inability to correctly detect motion without generating a storm of false positive images. No matter how I configure the sensitivity of my camera, it is generating thousands of false-positive motion pictures each single day. It seems as if the motion detection intelligence within […]

October 2, 2022
  • monitoring

Observe and Report a Frequent Log4Shell Attack

This short story starts with an accidental discovery of how frequent Log4Shell attacks are executed against businesses and public internet services in general. During my daily work at Dynatrace I come to test a lot of software services along with closely observing those through the eyes of a monitoring platform vendor. I am running a […]

August 21, 2022
  • coding
  • energy
  • green innovation
  • Home automation

Observe your Home Energy Consumption with Home Assistant and Dynatrace

Renewable energy and intelligent management of private and industrial energy consumption are prominent topics today. In a recent post I did show how to use a DIY ESP8266 sensor in combination with Home Assistant in order to collect real time data about your energy consumption as well as about the amount of energy that you […]

August 11, 2022
  • Home automation
  • network
  • software

Secure your Home Assistant with HTTPS using Synology Reverse Proxy

Running Home Assistant Open Source home automation locally offers great advantages, such as optimizing your own energy usage or to simply automate boring and repetitive tasks. In case you own a Synology network disks, such as the Synology Diskmanager DS218+ you can directly run Docker containers on your local network disk and therefore also run […]

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