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Exploring AI Models with ZapGPT: A Simplified Approach

Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0530

zapgpt - Introduction

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, experimenting with different models can be daunting. ZapGPT simplifies this process, allowing users to easily switch between models, customize system prompts, and monitor usage effectively.

By using API, not only can you save a lot of bucks, you can get the flexibility that you wanted.

🚀 Key Features of ZapGPT

Provider Flexibility: Currently select from OpenAI or OpenRouter.
Model Flexibility: Easily switch between various AI models to find the best fit for your needs.
Custom System Prompts: Add and modify system prompts to tailor the AI’s responses.
Usage Tracking: Monitor usage statistics to optimize your interactions and manage resources effectively.

🛠️ Getting Started

To get started with ZapGPT, follow these simple steps:

Anonymous AI Chat with different models

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0530

If you ever wished that you did not have to login or could use AI chat with anonymity, then you are in luck and right place, read on.

Head over to DuckDuckGo search. Click on the Hamburger menu in the right hand top side. In the drop down, select AI Chat, you will see it somewhere in middle of the menu.

Now, you can click “Get Started” (after reading the information on the page).

What's New in Nmap: A Look at the Latest Features

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0530

Introduction

The Nmap (Network Mapper) tool has long been a favorite among cybersecurity professionals and network administrators for its robust scanning capabilities. Whether you’re performing a network inventory, managing service upgrades, or simply checking for potential vulnerabilities, Nmap is an indispensable tool.

With the latest release (v7.95) released on 2024/April/23, Nmap continues to evolve, adding new features, improving performance, and expanding its capabilities. In this post, we’ll take a look at the most notable changes and enhancements that come with the latest version.

Short url to full url

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0530

Most of the Social sites will shorten the links. There are a lot of ways to check the url before you go to the url and get phished :)

For example, for bitly you can just add a ‘+’ at the end of the url. For example, you can enter the following in url bar https://bit.ly/2KEOXNx+ and see the details of the where the url takes you. This is just a example url that I got from google but you get the idea.

Run X11 applications on docker or podman

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530

Found x11docker project in github. This is a very nice project if you are trying to run GUI applications in dockers. It takes the hassle out and helps you run the GUI applications very easily in docker.

Whats more, if you are on Fedora, you are in luck. You can install this tool with

`1`	`sudo dnf install x11docker`

and if you are not on Fedora, then head over to their github. Some other distributions also have it packaged but otherwise also it is very simple to install.

Show Local IP

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0530

Show local IP

You can see the local IP of the machine with the command - ip a. However if you have to use the address in some variable in a scrit. It becomes little tricky, something like

Show the interfaces in one line with ‘-o’
Show only IPv4 address’s with ‘-4’

and the command looks like

`1`	`ip -4 -o a show dev eth0\|awk '{gsub(/\/.*/,"",$4);print $4}'`

Replace eth0 with then correct interface name.

Openvpn files to nmcli connection

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0530

Openvpn files to nmcli connection

Many times you get openvpn file and when you want to connect to the VPN server, you have to start the vpn client from the cli. How you wish that this was added to NetworkManager so that you could connect to it with one click. If this is the case, then you can use these commands to do the same ane enjoy :)

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nmcli connection import type openvpn file test.ovpn
nmcli connection modify test vpn.secrets 'password=mypass' vpn.user-name 'username'

You will need to modify few things in above command