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May 20, 2021

A Month of Cryptomining (Part 3) Conclusions

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Paul Kelly

This is the final part of a three part series about Cryptomining for a month. The first part covered how to get setup, second part covered how to use the coins that were generated, this part will cover my conclusions from the experiment. Overview There are several moving pieces when it comes to Cryptomining. You need the hardware to be able to mine, you then need some kind of mining software to actually do the mining and pay you for it.

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May 13, 2021

Yi Home Camera Firmware Update for Home Assistant and Motioneye

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Paul Kelly

Why am I doing this I have 2 Yi Home 1080p camera’s in the house which I have used in the past for checking on kids getting up in the night, security etc. However, they are tied to the Yi Home app which is fine for basic functionality, but there are a lot of limitations. To get the full experience you need to sign up for the Kami Cloud Plan so you get full length recordings, retention and all the other things you might need.

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May 5, 2021

A Month of Cryptomining (Part 2) Selling your coins

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Paul Kelly

A month of Cryptomining (Part 2): Using the coins earned from NiceHash This is the second part of a three part series about Cryptomining for a month. Part 1 covered how to get setup, this part will cover what to do with the BTC generated from mining and the final part will be the conclusions I came to. Transferring out of NiceHash To be able to transfer out of NiceHash you will need another wallet for the BTC to go into.

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May 4, 2021

A Month of Cryptomining (Part 1) Setting up NiceHash

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Paul Kelly

Originally this was going to be a single post about how I mined for a month, what, if any, profits I made and finally any conclusions I had. As I got to writing everything up and went through the whole process I found that one post was not going to cover everything. Therefore, I have split it up into 3, this first post will be about getting setup, the second post is about what to do with the coins you mine and the third post will cover all the conclusions that I came to.

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April 12, 2021

Orientate Images for Hugo Blog Posts with Mogrify

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Paul Kelly

After posting the previous article I noticed that all of the images other than the header image in the post were rotated 90 degrees to the left. This was a bit strange as all my other posts with images had published correctly and the images also appeared to be the correct orientation when I viewed them in file explorer or any other image viewer. I was puzzled. However, seeing as it was only the post images and not the header image I soon deduced it was the the img shortcode I am using that had caused the problem.

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