Previously on Tim's Tech Thoughts, I used the plugin MiniOrange to have 2 factor authentication required for logging into the WordPress admin. This worked fairly well, however during upgrades I had been accidently locked out more than once. Since I've…
A couple months back, there was a lot of hype around Mastodon and the Fediverse - a de-centralized social platform that some people were heading towards away from Twitter. While I won't be migrating off Twitter, I did want to…
With the release of Veeam Backup and Replication v12 on 2/14/23, there's going to be a lot of upgrades happening! For the installs that use Veeam's CDP (Continuous Data Protection) for sub minute, snapshot-less replication, that's means updating the IO…
Thanks to a recent vBrownbag session with Chris Colotti on Cloudflare Zero Trust, I decided to write up how I use Zero Trust Tunnels instead of a VPN to access my homelab resources. Cloudflare Zero Trust encompasses a couple different…
ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3 model, which was designed to perform a wide range of language tasks such as translation, summarization, and text generation. However,…
Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator not only orchestrates recovery from Veeam backups, replication, and CDP replication; but it can also orchestrate recovery from HPE and NetApp Ontap storage arrays. The process is actually quite simple - add the 2 arrays into…
Recently, I decided to switch away from using my Yeti Nano microphone. While it worked well, I had to reduce the gain a lot and run it through Voicemeeter in order to get it to sound clean. But, being a…