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Creating a digital “death / afterlife” file , passing along your important information

While many of us probably don’t think much of our demise (or incapacitation) , inevitably it will happen, what’s worse particularly for our loved ones is when it happens unexpectedly , and with so much of our modern life lived online , there’s often a bunch of accounts and files…

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google?

The latest rage sweeping the Internet circa December 2022 is chatGPT, What is chatGPT? Here I’ll let it (chatGPT) answer that question itself (The paragraphs below were created with this chatbot) ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat ) is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3…

Mid Journey , DALL·E 2 , Computer AI generated Artwork, possibilities and limitations

In case you’re unaware , there’s a new crop of beta and public AI artwork generation technologies, that actually create some impressive looking artwork and imagery from relatively simple textual descriptions. Among the current crop of popular systems, these include: MidJourney, Dalle-E 2 , Stable Diffusion and many others… What…

How to detect IP change and send email alert (bash & powershell)

A common thing folks that run any kind of home server, need to do, is detect when they’re IP addressed normally a DHCP assigned address via they’re Internet server provider changes, by doing this is allows them continue to communicate with they’re server. Below are a couple of script one…

DeepMind new AI coding engine is the beginning of the end for your average software engineer as a career

Yes, I know the headline sounds very click-baity but, after reading the recent Deepmind accomplishment over here DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer, and putting the pieces together, you realize the kind of accomplishment does spell the beginning of the end…