As an alternative to protecting a public AdGuard Home DoH server with a secret token that is validated by Caddy web server, this approach uses Cloudflare’s tunnel product to do the validation and replaces Caddy. If you are in the Cloudflare environment this approach is arguably more secure and scalable. It also has the benefit […]
A guide for setting up a Caddy web server in front of an AdGuard Home server to provide authenticated DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on the public Internet. While it’s easy to connect an AdGuard Home (AGH) directly onto the Internet, its DoH server uses a typical DoH endpoint URL – “/dns-query”. This means that it’s […]
I maybe late to the NotebookLM train but I’m blown away. From Google’s page “…Audio Overview [turns] your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can […]
Davinci Resolve (DR) is a free, popular, powerful, and fully featured video editor. However, setting it up to edit footage in HDR and exporting HDR clips for Instagram and YouTube can be challenging as there are multiple settings to get right, and a lot of outdated tutorials and FAQs on the Internet. Apple Macbook Pro […]
I haven’t found any examples of how to setup ipv6 vlans on Unifi Network with a /56 prefix. I have a service with Superloop in Australia. Superloop provides customers with a /56 IPv6 address. This means that with the appropriate router, you can setup 256 subnets. However, with Ubiquiti Unifi routers, it’s not clear how […]
Public service announcement for photographers and anyone that add and delete lots of files on their Apple Mac computers. If you’re using a Mac, and your disk seems to be filling up even though you’re deleting files, check if you’re using Time Machine (TM) for backups. If you are, Time Machine’s Snapshots is 99% going […]
I’ve had a Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine for almost five years powering an NBN Fibre Gigabit service. Knowing that the probability of electronics that run 24/7 tend to go bang goes up every year it was time to swap it out for something more current and keep the UDM as a backup router/gateway. Ubiquiti has […]
When Apple created the Macintosh, Steve Jobs also created the Laserwriter. It was Steve’s interest in “typography, graphic layout, and font design” that led to the Apple Laserwriter and the birth of what was then known as desktop publishing. Consumers had for the first time access to beautiful proportionally spaced type and fonts without having […]
The excellent Limit Login Attempts wordpress plugin will detect failed logins and put up its armoury of defences. Nothing showed its usefulness than seeing the number of attempts it detected. However, the plugin still requires WordPress to handle the failed attempt and only login attempts via http and https are handled. XML-RPC attacks and Bot-related […]
I’ve been using Lightroom from the very first version and I’ve now just realised I’ve been reviewing and selecting my images in the wrong mode. Like many, I thought that if I created Standard and 1:1 Previews it would speed up Lightroom in scrolling from image to image. But LR was still excruciating slow in […]
When Apple allowed apps to specify their own encrypted DNS server, this was a convenient way for apps to avoid ad-blocking DNS servers. I got tired of the Gmail app on iOS and iPadOS bypassing my AdGuard Home DNS server, just like it can bypass similar blocking services like PiHole. Another example is Safari browser […]
Apple doesn’t make this easy. When your iCloud storage is full and you want to download 200GB of photos to free up space, one of the options, and arguably the most reliable, is to request Apple to compile the data via a request at privacy.apple.com. You can read about the issue with other methods in […]
I wanted to move a WordPress Multisite from Digital Ocean to a Raspberry Pi running on my LAN. The total size of the sites was just over 1 GB. After checking Google, it seems the Migrate Guru plugin could do the job. After several failed attempts, it finally worked and here are my tips, […]
I was following the excellent instructions on how to Build a LAMP Web Server with WordPress on my Pi running on my LAN. Everything worked fine with the internal LAN IP address. I wanted to have the web server accessible from the Internet and I thought all I had to do was setup port forwarding […]
Took a bit of Googling to find, but here’s the answer on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52021393/link-to-show-google-reviews The answer is to find the placeid and use this stub https://search.google.com/local/reviews?placeid=<place_id> Or use the hack via Google Maps and getting the link to reviews via the embed map popup
If you have several Apple devices and use the Safari browser, iCloud tabs is a convenient way to access web pages you’ve got open on another device. A common problem is that when you close a tab on another device it keeps showing up on other devices. It seems that when you close a tab […]
Public service announcement – if your droplets are crashing mysteriously, check to see if it’s running out of memory and if adding swap space will fix your problem. This is what was in the /var/log/syslog file: kernel: [62413.467900] Out of memory: Killed process 12910 (mysqld)…status=9/KILL Sample instructions here if you’re running Ubuntu. This fixed my […]
Dropbox is a popular and favourite cloud service. Many photographers want to send photos directly from their camera to an editor or colleagues. Modern cameras like the Canon R3, R5, R6, 1DX and the Nikon Z9, D5, D6 have the ability to send images using the FTP protocol either wirelessly via WiFi or with wired […]
In Australia, Amazon’s return window is 1 month. But many products have a warranty period far exceeding 1 month from the manufacturer, and the Australian Consumer Law also requires businesses to provide consumer guarantees for products under $100,000. The Australian Consumer Law also requires the retailer to provide the purchaser with remedies that include repair, […]
To troubleshoot ftp connections, here’s a set of parameters you should have. If you don’t have all of these, you’re unlikely to get it to work: 1 IP Address (or hostname) of your ftp server 2 IP Address of your router and network mask of your network 3 IP Address of your camera 4 account […]
December 2021 saw the release of pro-level mirrorless cameras from Nikon and Canon. Both have autofocus technology that feature subject detection, specifically face and eye detection. This is the most significant autofocus advance over the DSLR era where autofocus was achieved via a sub-system rather than being off the sensor in the mirrorless bodies. While […]
The EOS R3 has an autofocus system that’s different to the R5 and R6. It also allows you to customize buttons to activate autofocus features. The most common customization is commonly called back-button focus. This allows the photographer to separate the release of the shutter from the activating the autofocus. The thinking behind this is […]
If you run your own DNS server like pihole, you can see in the logs that Netgear routers wants to contact a couple of Netgear servers hundreds of times a day. Netgear has been silent on why they need to do this in public forums. Pihole has a pretty simple way to block this request […]
It’s not as glamorous or sexy as wireless, but if you want reliable and fast live transfer of images, this is as good as it gets. Two Nikon D5 cameras shooting football and sending every image live to a cloud service via a shared folder on a M1 Macbook. No external power required. Here’s the […]
