The Mikrotik family of routers are known for their extensive configurability, offering enterprise level features such as PoE, custom routes, VLANs and more. It runs a custom Linux distribution known as RouterOS which offers a WebGUI and terminal interface, as well as SSH.
I wanted to replace my old Singtel WiFi Gigabit Router AC Elite, after it started intermittently dying.
Previously on Windows, I was using MediaMonkey to manage my music. It offered wireless syncing (over LAN) for the associated Android client, and worked well.
When I switched to Linux, I had to look for a replacement. I wanted a solution that was free and open-source, could be self-hosted on a server, and supported features such as bookmarks, playlists and transcoding (for clients not supporting certain formats).
Having your own VPN can be useful for bypassing geo-restrictions and censorship, as your IP address is that of the exit node. Your traffic is also encrypted and this protects you against sniffing attacks when using public WiFi.
However most VPN services are paid. So if you have a physical server/VPS running somewhere, why not use that?
Tailscale is an awesome open-source VPN service which lets you create a secure peer-to-peer network between your devices. It's built on the open-source Wireguard protocol which is faster than the IPsec and OpenVPN protocols.
My Google Photos account ran out of storage recently (since 2021 June, Google has stopped providing free storage for photos in High Quality), and I was looking for a self-hosted, open source replacement, with similar features to Google Photos (fast gallery view, facial recognition, object detection).
Running an Android VM in a web browser lets you run Android applications from any computer. This lets you test out apps, or even suspicious programs without compromising your actual device.
The setup:
virt-manager in Docker, which exposes virt-manager in a browser window, and also acts as the VNC server for the Android VMThis guide will let you use a NVIDIA GPU in a Docker container (e.g. for Tensorflow/Pytorch).
Prerequisites:
After completing this guide, you will have a Windows 11 headless virtual machine that can be accessed via:
Self-hosting your own services has been catching up in popularity: the selfhosted subreddit has over 180K members as of 21/5/22, and the number of self-hosted solutions has been growing exponentially (see a huge list here).
Few of us could live life without jotting down our thoughts somewhere. Throughout the years we have developed some sort of note-taking system, either cobbled together slowly by ourselves, or something off the shelf.
I use electronic notes primarily as they are more accessible compared to paper notes and can be backed up easily.
Previously I used a Word document synced on Google Drive. However, this came with several limitations:
Update: I discuss more on the measure of intelligence in this post.
Every decade, huge advancements are being made in the field of artificial intelligence, and each time we are amazed. In the 1960s we had ELIZA, a convincing human-like chatbot. In the 1980s, the world watched as Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. In the 2010s, the resurgence of deep learning completely transformed prior approaches in nearly all domains, from images and video, to text and speech.