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With open source LLMs and the tools the community keeps shipping, AI is finally within everyone's reach. Plenty of people can now run large models on a local laptop — but laptops are underpowered, and they have other work to do; you can't keep a model running on them around the clock. I prefer PVE, so here's my deployment walkthrough, a guide for my future re-deploys.
Sometimes you can't install MariaDB with apt/yum, or you want every node in a database cluster running exactly the same MariaDB version. My motivation this time was building a MariaDB cluster with identical versions across nodes for easier management.
Now that Google Chrome has been pushing HTTPS hard, almost every website is served over HTTPS. Have you heard of HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)? It makes your website more secure and faster to load.
This post shares my personal high-concurrency Nginx configuration on a 2-core 2 GB Ubuntu box. Other Linux systems may differ — take it as reference only.
What's a cron expression? If you're reading this, you probably already know what it's for: when setting up scheduled tasks on Linux, Spring or Quartz, you write a cron expression to define the execution cycle. Cron is pronounced /krɒn/ — like 'chron' in chronology.
At the UOS Ecosystem Conference on December 20, Liu Wenhuan, General Manager of UnionTech Software Technology Co., Ltd., formally announced the company's new 2023 strategy and released a free usage license for the UOS V20 server operating system.
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.
We're always setting permissions on folders and files in Linux with chmod 777. Those 777 digits are the permissions — just three numbers expressing three kinds of permission for three kinds of role. Let's break them down one by one.
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.
Starting 2022-04-27 22:18:22, this site came under hostile traffic from a China Telecom residential broadband line in Jinjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Here's the post-incident breakdown. Please browse this site normally and politely.
