I never really liked NFS, so I wanted another way to mount a drive from my QNAP NAS onto my linux machine. As I haven’t found any sort of instruction for that online, I’ll post how I did it here, in case anybody searches for the same thing.

The how is hurdled mostly by the fact that you cannot install SSHFS onto QTS, as the package ist not available for it. But as so often, the solution is Docker. We’ll just create an Ubuntu-Container where we can install SSHFS, and mount the directory we want to share as a volume. This of course requires that you have a NAS with Container Station, allowing to use Docker Containers.

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VisioLab is a startup that creates automated self-checkout registers for canteens, where the meals on the tray are recognized on on-device via an iPad, allowing the customer to pay for their meals within seconds without requiring an employee.

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The Siddata project developed a digital study assistant that helps students find relevant courses, learning resources, and study partners using personalized recommendations. I developed machine learning recommenders and worked extensively on its Django backend, turning a research prototype that previously took days to deploy into a containerized, tested, and easily deployable system. My masters thesis was also conducted in the scope of this project. [Read More]