I've been using paperless-ngx to manage all my documents, but every once in a while I'll get a .docx file to deal with... Turns out Libreoffice has a headless mode a pdf converter built-in! libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf /path/to/file.docx ... read more →

ChatGPT Prompt: Stable Diffusion is an AI art generation model similar to DALLE-2. Here are some prompts for generating art with Stable Diffusion. Example: A ghostly apparition drifting through a haunted mansion's grand ballroom, illuminated by fli ... read more →

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0 -c:v libx264 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a copy output.mp4 read more →

I was introduced to tiling window managers through i3, which I use heavily on one of my machines. I have switched to Pop_OS! at home though, which has a tiling window mode but the keybindings are not what I'm used to for i3. I wanted to at least nav ... read more →

I was getting (publickey denied) when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempted ✗ ssh [email protected] -vv ... debug1: Will attempt key: /home/nic/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: W ... read more →

Playing around with Modal Labs One of the first things I tried was a regular cron job... @stub.function( schedule=modal.Period(minutes=59), secret=modal.Secret.from_name("my-dummy-secret") ) def say_hi(): now = time.ctime() sec ... read more →

ssh-copy-id -i my.key.pub <hostname probably from tailscale> this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP read more →

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error read more →

I have a bash script called syncoid-job which boils down to a barebones - #!/bin/bash syncoid --no-sync-snap --sendoptions=w --no-privilege-elevation $SYNOIC_USER@$SERVER:tank/encrypted/nas tank/encrypted/nas I want to run this script hourly but a ... read more →

in /lib/systemd/system/docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told the daemon what hosts to setup. But I added the "hosts" key in my daemon.json and ... read more →