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Reviews / Re: Single Sentence Reviews
« on: May 06, 2024, 02:11:51 PM »
TV Series post!
Halo - Season One: John "Master Chief" struggles with Microsoft Cortana spying on him, meanwhile a prophesied young girl defends a planet.  :)
          Season Two: undoes all that in the first ten minutes and refuses to explain why dead people aren't dead  >:(
Elsebeth - A side character from Good Wife/Good Fight immediately solves a murder the audience witnesses then spends the rest of the episode trying to prove it to boneheaded police  ???
Tracker - Smallville's Green Arrow finds missing people for a price.  :)
Krapopolis - Tyrannus is a self-declared king of early civilization, with supernatural parents and siblings, and ungrateful citizens.  No description does this show justice.  8)
Welcome to Wrexham - Touching, humourous, and exciting documentary about Deadpool and some other guy buying a football team in Wales.  :)
Clarkson's Farm - An idiot from Top Gear / Grand Tour becomes an idiot on a farm, but learns stuff and cares about the community  8)
Taskmaster - Do you like laughing?  Watch this show  8)
Ghosts (UK) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  :)
Ghosts (US) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  Now in American accents!  :)
Roadside Rescue - A guy fixes delapotated vehicles enough to get them running again.  A TV version of Vicegrip Garage from youtube.  :)
Shogun - Masterfully done retelling of the James Clavell book.  Lord Toranaga attempts to keep the peace in feudal Japan, and some Anjin makes for a useful distraction  8)
Physical 100 - Korean tournament of beefy men and women undergoing gruelling physical challenges.  Second season as good as the first  :)

 

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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: April 11, 2024, 01:09:16 AM »
Not mine, but precious.


Dune - The Broadway Musical

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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: April 11, 2024, 12:56:49 AM »
Tried a couple new AI services tonight.  Supposedly Sonauto gives you more control, and lets you name an artist you want the output to mimic.  It sort of works, but often sounded garbled, like a backwards played record.  Maybe it was just the way I was using it.

Then I stumbled upon Udio and generated this song:

Canvas Reverie

Similar to Suno, it generates pairs of output in small chunks, and you have to add sections to extend it into a full song.  It seems to have more allowance for free use, and the output sounds less compressed than Suno.  Generated lyrics can be just as bizarre though.



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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: March 30, 2024, 12:47:08 AM »
Quite proud of this one


Awakening of the Seasons - Nordic percussive folk

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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: March 29, 2024, 09:04:05 PM »
Somehow I got 50 more credits.  Here's a few more songs for your listening pleasure


Gaming All Day - Energetic Rock


Foggy Brain Glues - Aggressive Delta Blues


Lonely Soul - Motown


Soundwaves of my Soul - Guitar-driven Alternative song about the joy of playing guitar, ironically has no guitar in it

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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: March 28, 2024, 07:58:48 PM »
Here's a few more songs I generated with my free credits on Suno:


Hidden Smiles - modern folk alternative


Bedlam - Hard rock


The Fire Within - Goth Metal


Fiery Flame - Rock Anthem

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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« on: March 27, 2024, 09:19:43 PM »
In just a couple minutes, using Replay, I was able to hear what it might sound like if Johnny Cash sang I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders.


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General Discussion / AI Generated Music
« on: March 27, 2024, 08:50:26 PM »
Colour me impressed.  I just played around with Suno AI and generated a couple progressive rock songs about camping in the rain.  Have a listen:
Version 1
Version 2

I would've liked another couple verses of that second version!

The service even generates images for your songs.  I've attached the one for these

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General Discussion / Format USB FAT32
« on: February 18, 2024, 08:14:04 PM »
Often I find a need to format a USB stick with the FAT32 filesystem.  For example, the A500 Mini (half size Amiga 500) requires it.  Windows can format a USB with FAT32 natively, but only if it's a small size.  For anything usable you need to turn to alternatives.  The folks at Retro32 have a solution, and fear the utility may someday disappear.

For that reason I have attached it here.  The zip file contains both a GUI and CLI version of the fat32 formatting tool originally from Ridgecrop Consultants


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News / Update your WinRAR
« on: October 21, 2023, 01:09:32 PM »
It has been a long running joke that so many people have been using WinRAR for free past the 40 day trial period.  Now the joke is on you, if you haven't updated your copy already.  Hackers in Russia and China are using a serious exploit in WinRAR to run malicious scripts on victim's computers.


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Diddlycraft Discussion / Re: Halloween in Diddlycraft
« on: October 18, 2023, 08:58:51 PM »
It's Halloween in Diddlycraft.  As always, find the jack-o-lanterns for treats and XP!

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General Discussion / Docker Update Checker
« on: May 09, 2023, 11:29:29 AM »
Docker is what I use to run a lot of my services (including this web site!).  It keeps them contained and avoids having to clutter my host server with all sorts of dependencies needed by each service.  It also makes staying updated easier.

However.

I used to use Portainer to manage my docker images and containers.  Works great but for one of my services, rather than just downloading the updated image, it would download ALL images from all time for all architectures.  Basically, it would fill my disk if I let it.  So I moved away from Portainer.

Watchtower sounded like it did what I wanted, but I kept reading it was unsupported, then back, then deprecated, then back, then retired.  Not instilling me with confidence.

So I went wholly command line, writing scripts that would download the latest image, create the container, and update.  I still didn't know if there were updates actually available.  I just forced it every so often.

Today I found on Stack Overflow a script that lets me know if there's updates available for any of my running containers.

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#!/bin/bash

DATAPATH='/data/docker/updater/data'

if [ ! -d "${DATAPATH}" ]; then
        mkdir "${DATAPATH}";
fi
IMAGES=$(docker ps --format "{{.Image}}")
for IMAGE in $IMAGES; do
        ORIGIMAGE=${IMAGE}
        if [[ "$IMAGE" != *\/* ]]; then
                IMAGE=library/${IMAGE}
        fi
        IMAGE=${IMAGE%%:*}
        echo "Checking ${IMAGE}"
        PARSED=${IMAGE//\//.}
        if [ ! -f "${DATAPATH}/${PARSED}" ]; then
                # File doesn't exist yet, make baseline
                echo "Setting baseline for ${IMAGE}"
                curl -s "https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/${IMAGE}/tags/" > "${DATAPATH}/${PARSED}"
        else
                # File does exist, do a compare
                NEW=$(curl -s "https://registry.hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/${IMAGE}/tags/")
                OLD=$(cat "${DATAPATH}/${PARSED}")
                if [[ "${VAR1}" == "${VAR2}" ]]; then
                        echo "Image ${IMAGE} is up to date";
                else
                        echo ${NEW} > "${DATAPATH}/${PARSED}"
                        echo "Image ${IMAGE} needs to be updated";
                        H=`hostname`
                        ssh -i /data/keys/<KEYFILE> <USER>@<REMOTEHOST>.com "{ echo \"MAIL FROM: root@${H}\"; echo \"RCPT TO: <USER>@<EMAILHOST>.com\"; echo \"DATA\"; echo \"Subject: ${H} - ${IMAGE} needs update\"; echo \"\"; echo -e \"\n${IMAGE} needs update.\n\ndocker pull ${ORIGIMAGE}\"; echo \"\"; echo \".\"; echo \"quit\"; sleep 1; } | telnet <SMTPHOST> 25"
                fi

        fi
done;
Personally, I commented out the ssh line that does email notification, and will just run the script manually to check my images.  Clearly this was meant as a cron job that would run automatically, which you could do if so inclined.

I just wanted to capture this here should I need to find it again, and for anyone else who might be looking for a scripted solution.

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News / Re: Stable Diffusion
« on: March 28, 2023, 01:36:12 PM »
Microsoft Bing has added AI Image Generation.  This was the one time I intentionally went to that site.  Here is a suitable image I generated.


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News / Re: Zellers Coming Back!
« on: March 23, 2023, 09:40:03 AM »
Zellers Diner on wheels!  They're adding a Food Truck that will appear at different locations to serve up some classic fare.  The schedule thus far is:
March 23: Scarborough Town Centre in Scarborough, Rideau Centre in Ottawa, Sunridge Mall in Calgary and the Kingsway Garden Mall in Edmonton.
March 24: St. Laurent in Ottawa and White Oaks Mall in London
March 25: Erin Mills Town Centre in Mississauga, Cataraqui Town Centre⁣ in Kingston, Cambridge Centre in Cambridge and the Medicine Hat Shopping Mall in Medicine Hat.
March 26: Burlington Mall in Burlington and Pen Centre Shopping Plaza in St. Catharines.


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General Discussion / Re: Board Games Owned
« on: January 24, 2023, 09:00:45 PM »
I've decided that updating the table at the top of this thread is tedious, so am instead maintaining my collection on BoardGameGeek.  A pleasing visual display of anyone's collection can be found on https://gameshelf.io.  Mine is here

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