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Ollama, open-webui, mitmproxy in a docker compose stack, behind traefik

Reading Ollama discord channel, I notice many people want to self-host their chatGPT with Docker and don’t know how to do it. Here’s how to host the whole stack with docker compose.

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Troubleshoot HTTP API requests with mitmproxy

Sometimes you connect a new tool to one of your servers and it doesn’t work as expected. You are sure you follow the documentation or tutorials but you don’t get the expected results. Before you throw away everything, you should … Continue reading

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Intel N100 CPU performance review

I have just bought a mini PC based on Intel N100 CPU. Initially, I was going to buy another Raspberry PI or a used “TinyMiniMicro” PC, but I decided to have a look at the current mini PC offering. I … Continue reading

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Restrict docker container resource usage with docker compose

By default, resources available to containers are not limited. However, sometimes, you want to make sure a container is not going to use too much processing power or memory. To achieve such a thing, in the docker-compose.yml file, add the … Continue reading

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OpenSSH CVE-2023-48795 mitigation

If you cannot upgrade your OpenSSH client and/or server to fix CVE-2023-48795, also known as the Terrapin attack, the way to mitigate it is to disable the vulnerable ciphers as Red Hat explains very well. If you have a recent … Continue reading

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Using generative AI to learn vocabulary

I wanted to help a friend learning English who has trouble learning new vocabulary. She often gets new list of words at school and it’s difficult for her to know how to use them, or remember what they mean. She … Continue reading

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Open source document search engines

Some websites post lists the best of open source document search engines available, unfortunately, they don’t seem up to date or they don’t care about unmaintained projects. Here’s my updated list as of July 2023, in no particular order. Note: … Continue reading

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