Category: IT

These people don’t exist

If you refresh this website you’ll get a human face, except they’re not real humans—they’re AI generated. Importantly, it’s not a collection of pre-made images getting loaded. They’re all generated on the fly.

How to Delete Facebook

After I completed these steps myself, there was no sense of closure as I had expected. That’s probably because I knew I might end up reversing the Facebook deletion for the sake of writing instructive articles like this one. I have 30 days to decide.

Virgin Media Hub 3.0: The perfect place for a backdoor

At that point, it was possible to copy all the files and dump the partitions over SSH, so we had the full unpacked firmware and started to hunt for other bugs and understand why and how what we’d already tried did or did not work.

Do not go gentle into that good night – written with Google speech to text

Just been messing around with Google speech to text add some background music from Interstellar. You can do basic punctuation and it seems quite useable – not perfect but useful for transcribing recordings I would have thought.  Just start a doc in Google cloud or G-Suite and visit tools / import text.

Dogger, forties, cromarty – weather station for work

It’s not strictly-come-dancing true as it’s currently measuring the temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure in my kitchen but it will be shortly. Very straight forward to get working all that is required is: an account with the Weather Underground Raspberry Pi Sense HAT   A python script reads the measurements from the sense hat every 10 seconds and every 10...

How to make your internet faster with privacy based DNS Service 1.1.1.1

This is great.  Ive added it to my PiHole DNS server– Privacy -Speed – Advert Free!! via How to make your internet faster with privacy based DNS Service 1.1.1.1

Performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers

Usual good post and intersting DNS service from Cloudflare. via DNS Resolvers Performance compared: CloudFlare x Google x Quad9 x OpenDNS

Raspberry Pi Jam – Birmingham 28th April

This event has been re-scheduled for Saturday 28th April. Get your tickets here > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birmingham-raspberry-jam-big-birthday-bash-lets-party-again-tickets-44304106776 https://blog.welchspace.co.uk/2018/02/raspberry-pi-jam-birmingham-3rd-march/  

Pi-hole®: A black hole for Internet advertisements

This is great for using at home.  It’s a very simple piece of software which you can run on a RaspberryPi to filter out a lot of internet adverts.  Some of the features are: Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains – Known ad-serving domains are pulled from third party sources and compiled into one list. Block Advertisements On Any Device –...

How to use HashCheck on Windows 10 for SHA-256 and SHA-512 file hashing.

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