today's howtos
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A comprehensive guide to Serverless Containers includes 3 services to run them
So it is clear that in the serverless model, the provider takes care of the server management and capacity planning. As the consumer, you use it as a pay-per-use. This equates to two things, first one is, the developers can focus on writing and deploying code without worrying about underlying infrastructure and scaling it. The second and most important one is the cost is linear to the usage, which means if you use the compute power/bandwidth once you pay 1 cent for instance if it is used 100K times you pay 1K dollars.
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Is Good Enough...Good Enough?
Blot would allow me to write in plain text, just like I do now, then dump it into a folder and forget about it. Blot would do the rest and I wouldn’t have to worry about Ruby having a meltdown the next time my Mac updates.
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Remove the background from an image with this Linux command
You have a great picture of yourself and want to use it for your social media profile, but the background is distracting. Another picture has a perfect background for your profile picture. How do you combine the two? Some smartphone apps that do this kind of photo manipulation but are too expensive or are riddled with ad-ware. And they aren't open source. Rembg is up to the challenge!
Rembg is written in Python, so install Python 3 on your computer. Most Linux distributions include Python 3 by default. You can check your version with this simple command:
Rembg requires at least Python 3.7 and no greater than Python 3.11. In my case, I have Python 3.10.6 installed.
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Use chattr Command in Linux
The chattr (character attribute) command allows you to set certain attributes by which you can secure files by accidental modification or deletion, even if you're root!
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How To Install Trisquel 11 with Dualboot, UEFI and External Drive Methods
This tutorial will help you install Trisquel GNU/Linux 11 operating system to your computer. Version 11 is the latest release marking nineteenth years of Trisquel and it is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In this tutorial, you start by preparing the disk storage, bootable medium, and go through ten steps of the setup. Finally, you can practice this into PCs as well as laptops with a note that generally Trisquel will recognize hardware better with PCs. Happy installing!
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How To Install MySQL Server on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04
MySQL community server is a free open-source, popular, and cross-platform database management system, which supports both SQL and NoSQL and has a pluggable storage engine architecture.
Additionally, it also comes with multiple database connectors for different programming languages, allowing you to develop applications using any of the well-known languages, and many other features.