We hear more and more about the pros and cons of AI. There is a movement to regulate the use, movies about dangers of sentient robots, and those who think AI will free humanity from any boring work, or work that involves a lot of repetitive tasks. Going back to the 1950s and 1960s, what they called AI (or what we might call small shell scripts these days) were supposed to “Augment Human Intellect” as the great Doug Englebart wrote about in his 1962 article https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/138 or Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” from 1945, available at https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/. What is an LLM? A large language model (LLM) is a type…
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Obtain a bearer token using curl
In the following, we set a variable called BearerToken using a simple curl to the contents of a bearer token. We do so by running a curl with data in the header for “userid” although sometimes we see this as just “user” or “username” and then a password. This hits an endpoint called authenticationendpoint although sometimes we see that called “auth” or “authenticate” – in this specific case we’re pulling the bearer token out of “id” and it’s nested in there with a name of “token”: BearerToken=$(curl -s -X POST -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"userid”:”{userid}”,”password":"{password}"}' https://krypted.com//api/authenticationendpoint | sed -E 's/\},\s*\{/\},\n\{/g' File | grep ‘”id” : “token”’) Once…
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Get Your CustomerID From G Suite
There are a few ways to grab your CustomerID from G Suite. This is important when configuring SSO or when interfacing with G Suite programmatically (through their lovely API). The first and easiest way is to look at the web interface. This isn’t the most intuitive. To find the key, open Google Admin and then browse to Security in the menu in the upper left-hand corner, clicking on Dashboard. Click on Single Sign On and then scroll down until you see EntityID. The EntityID is going to be everything after the = such as C034minsz9330 as follows You can also find it by visiting the GooglePlay at https://play.google.com/work/adminsettings?pli=1 where it’s…
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Using The WordPress API
WordPress has an app. That means there’s an API to normalize communication using a predictable programmatic interface. In this case, as with many others, that’s done using a standard REST interface to communicate. The easiest way to interact with any API is to just read some stuff from the server via curl. You can feed curl the URL to the API by using your URL followed by /wp-json – as follows, assuming a URL of https://www.krypted.com: curl https://krypted.com//wp-json To view header information: curl -s -D - https://krypted.com/ -o /dev/null In the below example we’ll ask for a list of posts by adding /wp/v2/posts to the URL: curl https://krypted.com//wp-json/wp/v2/posts You’ll see…
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Precache Updated
Fixed an error that was causing downloads not to run. Enjoy. https://github.com/krypted/precache
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Programmatically Figuring Out When VPPTokens Expire In Casper
The JSS has the ability to upload multiple .vpptokens, and using those, you can upload separate tokens for sites and then provide App Store apps to different sites based on each having some autonomy by having their own token. This is a pretty cool feature. And using the GUI, you can see when each token expires. You can also see a list of tokens using the API. To see a full list of all the tokens, we’ll just use a basic curl command here: curl -s -u myuser:mypassword https://kryptedjamf.jamfcloud.com/JSSResource/vppaccounts This provides an array of output that has the number of tokens in <size> and the id of each along with…
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Connect Amazon Echo To Spotify
Do you have a Premium Spotify account? Before you start this, please note that only Premium Spotify accounts can be linked to Amazon Echo. To link your Spotify account to an Amazon Echo, first open http://alexa.amazon.com and then click on Music & Books. Then, click on Spotify under the Music section. When prompted, click on “Link your account” Click Log In To Spotify (unless you don’t have an account, then click “Sign up for Spotify” to setup an account) I use my Facebook account for Spotify, so I’ll click “Log in with Facebook” Then, grant access when prompted. Now, you can say “Alexa, play Halloween mix on Spotify” and you’ll hear…
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Connect Amazon Echo (Alexa) to IFTTT
IFTTT makes the possibilities practically endless for what you can do with an Amazon Echo running Alexa. IFTTT provides workflows that connect Alexa to many of the most popular cloud services on the Internet. For example, Alexa can make a spreadsheet of all the songs you listen to using your Prime account, Email you a shopping list, sync To-Dos to Evernote, find your phone, set reminders on your phone, extend Alexa to manage your TV using Harmony, run Wink shortcuts, print files, manage a Wemo bulb (Belkin), control otherwise unsupported thermostats, control items within apps (e.g. make all your Hue lights a given color), time things (e.g. turn on the air conditioning for an…
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Huffington Post Article: 20 Cool Things You Can Do With Box.com
My latest Huffington Post article, Twenty Cool Things You Can Do with Box is online here. It begins: If you are looking for a secure and uncomplicated and file sharing service, you will find box.com to be a wonderful way to share files from any device. Today, it is easier than ever for businesses to operate globally regardless of how large or small they are. This is because of the digital age that makes works products easy to share or transfer. Here are twenty cool things that you can do with box.com. For more, click here.
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Scripting Azure On A Mac
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud services. Azure can host virtual machines and act as a location to store files. However, Azure can do much more as well, providing an Active Directory instance, provide SQL database access, work with hosted Visual Studio, host web sites or provide BizTalk services. All of these can be managed at https://manage.windowsazure.com. You can also manage Windows Azure from the command line on Linux, Windows or Mac. To download command line tools, visit http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/downloads/#cmd-line-tools. Once downloaded, run the package installer. When the package is finished installing, visit /usr/local/bin where you’ll find the azure binary. Once installed, you’ll need to configure your account from the windowsazure.com site to…