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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. Here’s my docker-compose.yml including the mitmproxy from the previous article. version: "3" services: ollama: build: ollama user: 1001:1001 environment: - OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0 - OLLAMA_DEBUG=1 - OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=60m volumes: - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro - ollama_models:/home/ollama/.ollama/models mitmproxy: image: mitmproxy/mitmproxy command: mitmweb --web-host 0.0.0.0 --web-port 8080 --mode reverse:http://ollama:11434@11434 --verbose --anticache --anticomp depends_on: - ollama labels: - "traefik....

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 check what’s actually going on between the 2 applications. And if none of them supports logging requests and responses, you can use mitmproxy for troubleshooting. As the name imply (MITM = Man In the Middle), mitmproxy sits between both applications and intercepts all the traffic....

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 am glad I did. On a major Chinese reseller website, I saw a lot of similar products with the Intel N100 CPU so I had a look at reviews (here here) and boy, this thing is powerful (for its size)....

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 following sections to the service you want to restrict: deploy: resources: limits: cpus: "1.0" memory: 100M memswap_limit: 100M This will effectively limit the container to use at most one CPU and 100 megabytes of memory....

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 OpenSSH version, you can disable the the ciphers by adding “-” before them in the Ciphers and MACs options. This works for both the ssh client config (/etc/ssh/ssh_config by default) and the ssh server config (/etc/ssh/sshd_config)....

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 usually gets one exercise about the topic where she must fill blanks with words from a list. Why not use generative AI for that? I could not achieve good results using a single large prompt, so I decided to explicitly break it into different steps and refer to the whole process later, with “OK” results....

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: there are some document management systems included because they also include a search feature. Open Semantic Search https://github.com/opensemanticsearch/open-semantic-search Last update: March 2023 IResearch search engine https://github.com/iresearch-toolkit/iresearch Last update: June 2023 OpenSearch https://opensearch....