Ten Years Later, I Finally Received My First Google AdSense Payment
Today my Google AdSense payment arrived. I first applied for AdSense back in 2013, got approved in 2020, and today, in 2023, I received my first AdSense payout: $100.
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Page 2 of 27Accelerating E-commerce Ad Material Generation with Grounded-SAM on Amazon SageMaker [1]
This post covers generating marketing materials with Grounded-SAM on Amazon SageMaker for the e-commerce advertising industry: 1/ code-free image editing with ControlNet's Canny model, and 2/ code-driven image editing with Grounded-SAM (Grounding DINO and Segment Anything). Compared with the previous version, this solution adds ControlNet model support and the new US West (Oregon) region.
github.renfei.net No Longer Fully Proxies GitHub Pages — Only Specific Files
github.renfei.net used to fully proxy GitHub pages to work around slow GitHub access from Mainland China. But the service ran into problems, so it no longer proxies full pages — only specific files.
Review of an Open Source Webmaster Push Tool (Baidu / Bing / Google)
As of this writing, Bing indexes within one minute and Baidu within thirty. The tool I use is one I built myself — and of course I'm going to promote my own stuff.
Setting Up a Free Amazon Remote Desktop
Want to know what Los Angeles looks like at 4 a.m.? Spend ten minutes setting up a free remote desktop in Los Angeles and you'll see. Using Amazon's global availability zones, you can even stand up remote desktops matching your needs anywhere in the world.
Installing Windows 11 on an Old Computer: Skipping the TPM, RAM, and Secure Boot Minimum Requirements
Plenty of people still have older computers lying around and want to install Windows 11, but the Win11 installer runs a hardware check that includes TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and 4GB of RAM. Here's how to skip those checks and install Win11 anyway.
Someone Hammered My API Last Night — Who or What Was Behind It?
At 12:15 a.m. yesterday my phone lit up; emails and text messages poured in one after another — network traffic alerts, CPU alerts. There must be something unspeakable behind this. Why do hundreds of threads keep dropping? Why do callbacks take forever to return? Why does MySQL keep getting assaulted?
Hands-On With Cloudflare R2 Storage: My Experience and Take
Not long ago I got accepted into the Cloudflare R2 Storage beta, so I can see it and use it now. Here's my hands-on experience and my take on it.
Teardown: Western Digital WD40NMZW 4TB Elements Portable Drive (2060-800041-003)
If you like tearing things apart: this drive served me four years and couldn't be saved. Today I'm taking it apart to show you, letting it give off its last bit of warmth and leaving DIY electronic enthusiasts with some final bits of knowledge.
Notice: This Site Was Scanned Again
A week ago someone kept hammering my traffic — see the post Notice: This Site Was Recently Hit by Malicious Traffic. Today, past 4 a.m., every monitoring channel started howling at me through app, DingTalk, email, and SMS: another scan. Fortunately, having been burned last time, I already had countermeasures ready, so there was essentially no damage.
