Tired of all the absurd news that makes me feel we are living in a clown world. The best part I can ask gemini to describe it. Gemini generated clown world! AI will replace us, but we discover that most of the companies just fake it. We have AI companies that get busted for using… Read More: AI clown world »
Long time ago (More than 10 years ago) I had some business trips to Zambia. My trip to Zambia was incredible! Seeing Victoria Falls was amazing, but the highlight was definitely the wildlife. I got to see elephants crossing the road like it was no big deal, and even played with some cheetahs. The little… Read More: Old pictures from Zambia »
When setting up https for Grafana we need separate files to set the security. One with the certificate chain in PEM format and another with the private key. Step 1: Convert the JKS keystore to the PKCS12 format. After that it will be easier to extract the certificate chain and the private key. Step 2:… Read More: Secure Grafana with HTTPS: Extracting Keys and Certificates »
In the world of network administration and troubleshooting, there are countless moments when you need to verify connectivity. Is a specific client successfully reaching a server on a designated port? Is the server responding? Or is something silently dropping the packets? For these scenarios, the command-line tool tcpdump is an invaluable asset – powerful, versatile,… Read More: Bash one liners: Keeping an Eye on Connections: Using tcpdump… »
At times when closing Grafana with a kill command SqLite can get corrupted. This is the one liner that saves the day:
I own my family name as an internet domain with several country codes. It’s not every day you get to claim your heritage in the digital world like that. However, this seemingly harmless act has turned me into an unexpected recipient of a rather peculiar type of email: the multilingual ransomware scam. My inbox, normally… Read More: My Family Name Domain and the Multilingual Ransomware Scam »
This Vlad the Impaler meme might be a dark joke, but it highlights a point LinkedIn influencers often make: it’s never too late for a new chapter. Vlad didn’t start his… unique career until his mid-30s. We see inspiring stories of people finding success later in life, proving that career paths aren’t always linear. Influencers… Read More: Late Bloomers: Even Vlad the Impaler was one »
It’s surprising how many people want to invest without fully understanding how banks, brokers, stock exchange, fintechs works. Let’s break down some key concepts:
I had a bit of an epiphany today. Picture this: me, sipping coffee at some decadent resort in a warm country, contemplating the great existential dread of our time – AI taking all our jobs. It’s the big scare, right? Skynet’s coming for our spreadsheets and our artisanal cheese-making gigs. But you know what? It… Read More: Coffee, Flip-Flops, and AI Overlords: Maybe We Can Relax? »
When archiving a big database it is very important to free up space after that. After running the archival scripts that basically deleted old data from the production database, some extra steps were necessary to actually clean up the used space in the database. To first check how much space we still use after deleting… Read More: Clean #Oracle schema used space after an archival »