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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Stability AI evaluation I'm on a mission to find an AI for video production that can be used in an ethical way. By ethical, I mean one with bring-your-own media. This time, I'm trying Stability AI.

Stability AI tryout, for ethical video production:
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"Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Stability AI evaluation"

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Runway AI evaluation - two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast I'm on a quest to find AI video production products that can be used in an ethical way. This time I'm trying out Runway. I'll be forking over some cash to subscribe. My test video will be two seagulls...

Runway AI evaluation for ethical video production.
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"Runway AI evaluation - two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast"
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#AI #Filmsky
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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Sora evaluation I'm trying out Sora as part of evaluating a bunch of AI video production products with an ethical lens, including forking over some cash on subscriptions. My test video will be two seagulls fighting o...

Sora evaluation - Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast

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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Kling AI evaluation I'm going to test a number of AI video production products, including forking over some cash on low level subscriptions. My test video will be two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast. I'll start e...

Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Kling AI evaluation

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#AI #filmsky
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I've been waiting for this for a long time, thank you! 🙏
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A golf caddy rides away into an IPv6 tunnel

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Building an IPv6-only Caddy Docker stack for easy HTTPS with Ghost V5
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#IPv6 #Docker #Caddy #GhostBlog

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Building a static site with S3, Cloudfront and Jekyll I experimented with a static site, hosted on AWS S3. After some years, I have decided to preserve the blog basics here in one megapost, and shut down the original "Wordcasa" S3 site.

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#AWS #S3 #Jekyll

Migrating from wordpress.com to Ghost As part of a big cleanup of my web sites, I am moving a wordpress.com site into my default Ghost Docker stack. It's a flying blog, with a few hundred MB of images.

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#Wordpress #GhostBlog

Building my app foundation: Ionic + React, Amplify, Appsync, Lambda resolver In this mega post, I will create an Ionic app that will initiate a query from a mobile front end, issue requests over the internet to an AWS GraphQL API, and via AppSync, invoke a Lambda, to process a...

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#Ionic #React #AWS #Lambda #GraphQL

"Moving" my S3 backup bucket to a new AWS region I have moved the Techroads server from an AWS US region to an AWS EU region. This server and its chums are backing up to an S3 bucket, which has been left behind in the US.

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#AWS

What *are* AWS Amplify and AppSync, and should I use them? I am old in IT but new in development, and I've been spending time researching what tools and platforms to use for a social-good app I am making. I have some idea now around which Javascript framework...

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#AWS #Amplify #AppSync

Get ready for heavy traffic: Adding a Varnish cache to a production Docker stack All bloggers dream of the day that their site has an article that goes viral, reaching the front page of Reddit, a viral Tweet, or FB share. I've had it happen, and believe me it's an awful, awful fee...

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#Docker #VarnishCache

Matomo + Apache killed my server. Then Matomo + Nginx killed my server. When accessing the Matomo console, the VPS memory usage spikes, and kills the server. I suspect Apache is the memory hog.

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#Matomo #Apache #Nginx

Scheduling a Docker Compose image auto-update in linux My objective is to have a small script run daily which pulls any new Docker image versions and runs a docker-compose update, capturing the output to a log. The environment is Ubuntu 18.04.

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#DockerCompose

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#MariaDB

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#Docker #rsyslog

This time it's Multisite - Migrating locally installed Wordpress to a Traefik Dockerised stack I still have a locally installed Wordpress Multisite instance on my old server, and I will need to migrate it to a docker stack too, before I can decommission.

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#Wordpress #Docker

Migrating a Wordpress local install to a Traefik Dockerised stack I have two legacy Wordpress sites on a VPS with 2GB memory. I'd like to move them to an upgraded Ubuntu keeping Nginx, and at the same time - Dockerise!

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#Wordpress #Docker

Building a twin Wordpress stack with Traefik, Nginx and Docker I am going to build a dual Wordpress stack with Traefik, Nginx, PHP-fpm, and MariaDB in Docker, using Docker-compose. I plan to eventually migrate into this from an older server I have with locally in...

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#Wordpress #Docker #Traefik

A move to truly private web analytics - self hosting Matomo with Docker, Traefik and MariaDB Moving away from Google Analytics has been on my to-do list for quite a long time. As we all know, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product. In the case of GA it's worse, everyone th...

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#Matomo #Docker