The main purpose of this log mostly concerns computer topics. But I do have other interests. So if it’s something I find interesting and tech related, it may show up here. Recently, because of the price of auto insurance… I’ve been looking at ebikes. So I was watching a review of one, and the reviewer …
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Ollama
Watched an interesting video on YouTube about Ollama. Ollama is a free and open-source project that lets you run various open source LLMs (Large Language Models) locally, with a command-line interface on Linux, MS-Windows and MacOS . You can think of it as your own private Chat GPT. I don’t have the horsepower right now …
YubiKey hacked?
Watched a YouTube video that said version 5.7 and below of the firmware (which is not upgrade-able) has this copy issue. Also the hacker still needs physical access to the key. It’s not exactly simple or like some script kiddie will be able to exploit this. Also a user would still have first level password …
ffmpeg time calculations
My previous post on the Time Calculator, mostly came about because I used the ffmpeg “-t” switch for ending time calculations. So if my desired clip began at one minute “-ss 00:01:00” and I wanted it to end at 5 min 20 sec. I would have to first subtract 01:00 from 5:20 to get “-t …
Time calculator
Was watching “7 Apps Better Than The Defaults Your Distro Ships” on YouTube and learned of Qalculate. I’m particularly interested in time calculations, that their webpage says it can do. It may be useful sometimes when editing/trimming videos with ffmpeg. Time calculations weren’t covered in that video. I usually do these calculations with an android …
Stupid buzz words
Lord knows there are plenty in the computer field. I have recently been looking at less-lethal guns which is how most of the YouTube videos describe them, however if I google that, most of the first results returned are for non-lethal. Perhaps less-lethal is a better description, because some of them are pretty powerful, and …
Linux spell check… Sucks!
And because I sometimes suck too… I don’t want it to suck. I’m not always the best speller, but usually I know when I spell a word if it’s wrong. So I’m typing something in Linux desktop Signal, something about US citazins. I knew when I typed it that it’s wrong… and it looks wrong. …
Looking for MilkDrop like plugin
For Linux. I loved the MilkDrop plugin for Winamp on MS-Windows. I’ve been through this before, but apparently I didn’t document it.
Bitwarden scare
This is concerning! Went to signon to gMail, as I often do, and Bitwarden didn’t find the signon. I say a little scary because I have 2FA on the account. Hopefully it’s protected. Since I haven’t used Firefox in a while, it wanted me to sign back on to some accounts. A problem that I …
Back to Firefox?
So Brave has been much quicker, to start/use than Firefox. But maybe my bad habit of having lots of open tabs has caught up to me. Because if I try to scroll my tabs right/left, which is what a person with many open tabs will often do… it will just stop for several seconds before …