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Stability AI tryout, for ethical video production:
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"Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Stability AI evaluation"

#AI #Filmsky
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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Stability AI evaluation
I'm on a mission to find an AI for video production that can be used in an ethical way. By ethical, I mean one with bring-your-own media. This time, I'm trying Stability AI.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Runway AI evaluation for ethical video production.
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"Runway AI evaluation - two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast"
This skeet is the "comments" for the article.

#AI #Filmsky
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Runway AI evaluation - two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast
I'm on a quest to find AI video production products that can be used in an ethical way. This time I'm trying out Runway. I'll be forking over some cash to subscribe. My test video will be two seagulls...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Sora evaluation - Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast

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This skeet is embedded in the post for comments

#AI #filmsky
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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Sora evaluation
I'm trying out Sora as part of evaluating a bunch of AI video production products with an ethical lens, including forking over some cash on subscriptions. My test video will be two seagulls fighting o...
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March 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Kling AI evaluation

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This skeet is embedded in the post for a pseudo-comments system.

#AI #filmsky
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Two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast - Kling AI evaluation
I'm going to test a number of AI video production products, including forking over some cash on low level subscriptions. My test video will be two seagulls fighting over a piece of toast. I'll start e...
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March 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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New blog post 👇:
Building an IPv6-only Caddy Docker stack for easy HTTPS with Ghost V5
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#IPv6 #Docker #Caddy #GhostBlog
A golf caddy rides away into an IPv6 tunnel
February 22, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#AWS #S3 #Jekyll
Building a static site with S3, Cloudfront and Jekyll
I experimented with a static site, hosted on AWS S3. After some years, I have decided to preserve the blog basics here in one megapost, and shut down the original "Wordcasa" S3 site.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Wordpress #GhostBlog
Migrating from wordpress.com to Ghost
As part of a big cleanup of my web sites, I am moving a wordpress.com site into my default Ghost Docker stack. It's a flying blog, with a few hundred MB of images.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Ionic #React #AWS #Lambda #GraphQL
Building my app foundation: Ionic + React, Amplify, Appsync, Lambda resolver
In this mega post, I will create an Ionic app that will initiate a query from a mobile front end, issue requests over the internet to an AWS GraphQL API, and via AppSync, invoke a Lambda, to process a...
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February 21, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#AWS
"Moving" my S3 backup bucket to a new AWS region
I have moved the Techroads server from an AWS US region to an AWS EU region. This server and its chums are backing up to an S3 bucket, which has been left behind in the US.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#AWS #Amplify #AppSync
What *are* AWS Amplify and AppSync, and should I use them?
I am old in IT but new in development, and I've been spending time researching what tools and platforms to use for a social-good app I am making. I have some idea now around which Javascript framework...
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February 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Docker #VarnishCache
Get ready for heavy traffic: Adding a Varnish cache to a production Docker stack
All bloggers dream of the day that their site has an article that goes viral, reaching the front page of Reddit, a viral Tweet, or FB share. I've had it happen, and believe me it's an awful, awful fee...
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February 21, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Matomo #Apache #Nginx
Matomo + Apache killed my server. Then Matomo + Nginx killed my server.
When accessing the Matomo console, the VPS memory usage spikes, and kills the server. I suspect Apache is the memory hog.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#DockerCompose
Scheduling a Docker Compose image auto-update in linux
My objective is to have a small script run daily which pulls any new Docker image versions and runs a docker-compose update, capturing the output to a log. The environment is Ubuntu 18.04.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#MariaDB
February 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Docker #rsyslog
February 21, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Wordpress #Docker
This time it's Multisite - Migrating locally installed Wordpress to a Traefik Dockerised stack
I still have a locally installed Wordpress Multisite instance on my old server, and I will need to migrate it to a docker stack too, before I can decommission.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Wordpress #Docker
Migrating a Wordpress local install to a Traefik Dockerised stack
I have two legacy Wordpress sites on a VPS with 2GB memory. I'd like to move them to an upgraded Ubuntu keeping Nginx, and at the same time - Dockerise!
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February 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Wordpress #Docker #Traefik
Building a twin Wordpress stack with Traefik, Nginx and Docker
I am going to build a dual Wordpress stack with Traefik, Nginx, PHP-fpm, and MariaDB in Docker, using Docker-compose. I plan to eventually migrate into this from an older server I have with locally in...
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February 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Matomo #Docker
A move to truly private web analytics - self hosting Matomo with Docker, Traefik and MariaDB
Moving away from Google Analytics has been on my to-do list for quite a long time. As we all know, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product. In the case of GA it's worse, everyone th...
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February 21, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Docker #Traefik
Building a self-hosted Commento system for embedding comments with Docker and Traefik
As part of my mission to build a lean and fast blog with privacy features, I have settled on Commento for my embedded comment system, and need to get it installed and embedded in this blog.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#Docker #GhostBlog
Filling up a 1GB server with a stack of Ghost blogs
I have a kind of rudimentary "Ghost multisite" in the form of a Docker stack, so just how many Ghost blogs can I stuff into a single 1GB virtual server?
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February 21, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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Comparing blog comment systems with privacy features
I am looking for an embedded comment system heavy on privacy features, light and fast, that I can self host in Docker. Time to get installing!
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February 21, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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#AWS
Scheduling an AWS CLI backup to S3 in Linux
I'll cover creation of the S3 bucket, configuration of the AWS IAM security, installation of the AWS CLI, some key commands, and creating a cron job to automate it.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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Create a custom Linux log file with rotation
Rather than drop my custom logs into the vast cesspool that is syslog, I'd like to create a custom log file and automate the rotation, for a AWS CLI function I am running from cron.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Retrospective blog post to use BlueSky for comments:
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Building Ghost in a docker container with Ubuntu, Traefik, and SQLite
My early experiments with installing Ghost presented a curio: it's so light, how do I install without eating a whole VPS server. Or even make use of this one server for more than one Ghost blog, effectively a Ghost multisite.
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February 21, 2024 at 10:24 PM