I have been playing with Stable Diffusion for over a year now and seen a lot of erroneous information online about how to train LoRAs (Low-Rank Adaptation). I've specifically been experimenting with taking 3D game characters and training LoRA models based on these game character images to create photo realistic images after they are passed through the Machine Learning Model (because it's really not AI at all!).
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a laptop was whirring, even those with a mouse;
The screens were all flashing with an eerie red glow
All Files Encrypted, All your secrets we know!
All the presents were nestled all snug in the sleigh
But poor Santa had no clue with whom they should stay.
After moving his list to a computer based tracker
It's all now encrypted, and in the hands of some hacker
After all the other network enhancements I have been working on, it was time to get some centralized logging going on. While I considered Logging Made Easy (LME) from CISA - this looked like just an abstraction on top of the ELK stack. Since I already had implemented that years ago, I elected for the latter and the die was cast.
Given the option, I present at the Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA) National and CARA West conferences each year. This year I have been fortunate enough to have been granted enough time for a double session at their CARA West conference.
I've been running Nextcloud at home for almost a decade now. It's been invaluable and I don't really think we could easily live without it at this point. The time had come to migrate from my fairly old server to a new one backed by our internal network storage. Here's the story (complete with gotchas & tweaks) that got it running under Ubuntu 22.04.
Since it has been a few years since I needed to set up a new web site, I haven't been to the Observatory for a while. For those that don't know, it's an excellent way to check your web site against modern standards for configuration. I'm glad to see Mozilla still has it up and running and (at the time of writing) is planning a new version!
To use it, simple visit: https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/
Edit the URL to add the site you wish to analyze eg:
... let's drop a green monster into the mix.
Years ago I ran OpenVAS on my home network as a vulnerability scanner. It was great but updates were challenging and once my old VM host started to show it's age I turned down that VM. With all the other new updates I have been implementing, it was time to get scanning again.
After quite a hunt, we managed to find a fairly clean, responsive theme, that actually works. Granted that doesn't sound like it should be a difficult thing, but trust me.,, it is!
Many themes were not as advertised, not as pictured, or just didn't work at all. In the end a GPL based theme (thank you University of Indiana!) just needed some modifications to work. We also adjusted the theme to host CSS, JS, and fonts locally rather than pulling from their repository (not sure that was their intent, but they published it that way)
