Let me know if this sounds familiar. You set up a fresh GPU instance on RunPod, fire up ai-toolkit to train a Flux.1-dev LoRA, and even smartly run an rclone job in tmux to push backups to your Google Drive. You step away to help the kids with homework or play a quick round of your favorite video game. When…
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If you are spinning up a GPU instance on RunPod, you probably want to connect to it via SSH to manage your files and run scripts. RunPod is great, but getting your Windows machine to talk to their Linux pods using PuTTY can be a little frustrating if you aren’t used to handling SSH keys. As a dad of four,…
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The most useful thing in an incident isn’t a scary-looking file. It’s the sequence of events. By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com After I had enough evidence to know which files were malicious, I wanted to answer the question that had been bothering me since the beginning: When did the attacker actually get in? This sounds simple. It isn’t. A compromised server…
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The files that finally made me stop guessing and start believing the evidence By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com At some point during the investigation, I stopped asking: “Was the server hacked?” That question was already answered. The better question was: “What exactly did the attacker leave behind?” That changed the investigation completely. Instead of staring at thousands of normal WordPress files,…
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What I checked after the websites came back online By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com There is a very satisfying moment during a server recovery. You start Apache. You start MariaDB. You open the browser. And: After two days of downtime, that feels like the finish line. It isn’t. It’s more like the point where I can finally start checking whether the…
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If you’ve been playing around with local AI models or trying to get the AI Toolkit running in a Docker container on RunPod, you might have hit a wall of red text. You hit “run,” and instead of generating images or training a model, Python throws a handful of confusing errors. I was working on a similar setup recently after…
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