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walkman
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Technology DIY Item
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Sep 12 13:17 UTC 2021 |
Post your DIY tech projects here
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walkman
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Sep 12 13:18 UTC 2021 |
Pi-hole DNS Server PT1
https://pi-hole.net/
Network-wide Ad Blocking
I have had a Pi-hole set up near my cable modem for at least 1-2 years
now? Time moves differently for me for the last 18 months. Regardless,
my Pi-hole device just sits there, filtering out ads from the network.
I highly recommend setting up a Pi-hole for your home. It's cheap,
easy, effective and efficient!
What is it?
A cheap Raspberry Pi computer with an SD card. Gets power from a phone
charger and connects with a simple Ethernet cable. Runs passively
without any fans at about 37 degrees C.
How do you use it?
You can set it up as a Wifi source, or you can add the IP address in
your wifi settings for DNS server. Use the same IP address in your web
browser to see a web interface. From there you can modify the
whitelist/blacklist and see in real time how many ads are being
rejected.
How do you set it up?
There are many guides. Here is a good one:
https://www.instructables.com/Pi-Hole-Setup-Guide/
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walkman
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response 2 of 70:
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Sep 12 13:18 UTC 2021 |
Pi-hole DNS Server PT2
Essentially, what is involved?
You flash a linux OS for Raspberry Pi onto your SD card using something
like the Balena Etcher. I prefer "dietpi", which is a low resource
Debian distro.
https://dietpi.com/
A simple 8GB or higher card will suffice. Then you install Pi-hole on
it.
How do you maintain it?
Every now and then, it's good to log into it with SSH and run a "sudo
apt update/upgrade" (if you choose a Debian distro). That's it.
I have over 4 million domains on my blocklist and it makes a HUGE
difference when I load websites without Pi-hole DNS configured in my
wifi settings.
Bonus: You can SSH into it and install lynx, mc and any other useful
linux terminal programs and have fun with it. As a double-bonus, you
could even run a website or music streaming service using it!
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tod
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response 3 of 70:
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Sep 27 23:59 UTC 2021 |
mimikatz
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walkman
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response 4 of 70:
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Oct 3 13:53 UTC 2021 |
#3 There are countless Youtube videos from South Asia explaining how to
use "ethical hacking tools" (LOL) like HASHCAT & Mimikatz yet the leader
of the free world was banned. Go figure. I'm sure Windows 11 will fix
everything.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake,
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
The real prize is IOS though.
"zero day" attacks for sale on the black market
I'm 100% sure alphabet agencies and the PRC can figure out how to use
bitcoin.
What a world.
The fact that everyone and their uncle is demanding your real phone
number, biometrics and other private data to operate without anonymity
should be a concern. But facebook and candy crush.
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tod
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response 5 of 70:
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Oct 10 01:42 UTC 2021 |
How many likes can I get for this
Shorted stocks right now...what's happeppeeennning to our EMPIRE
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walkman
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response 6 of 70:
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Oct 12 16:56 UTC 2021 |
I don't know anything about shorting stocks.
NASDAQ goes up forever man. To the moon!
LMAO
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kentn
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response 7 of 70:
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Oct 14 00:32 UTC 2021 |
Will look into the pi-hole idea, walkman. Thanks for posting it. I
vaguely remember reading about years back but never had the time to
deal with it. Now I have a few Raspberry Pi computers and only one
is really doing much right now. That's the old 2B I use for uploading
weather station data.
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walkman
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response 8 of 70:
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Oct 16 13:37 UTC 2021 |
If you are into various "retro" computer systems and video games,
there's a Hardware emulation platform using FPGA created by Terasic
called "DE10-Nano Kit". An open source hardware add-on called MiSTer
gives the FPGA hardware additional functionality, including an
integrated USB hub, SDRAM, VGA video, analog out via headphone jack, and
many other functions. DE10-Nano Specs: 110K LEs; 5570 Kbits Embedded
Memory; 6 PLLs; 2 Hard Memory Controllers 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9
Process; 1GB DDR3 SDRAM; 32-bit Data Bus 1 Gibabit Ethernet PHY; USB
Micro-AB Connect; Mirco SD Card Socket
The board can run linux and comes with an SD card with linux pre-
installed.
I setup a guide to set this up here:
https://distantdark.com/2021/10/16/the-mister-fpga/
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walkman
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response 9 of 70:
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Oct 25 02:47 UTC 2021 |
Meet an unsung hero of the emulation scene. I have fond memories of
using his MSX emulator on the ancient 386 with Windows 3.11 (at work
circa 1997). It (the pc) was slow as hell but Marat s emulator ran full
speed.
Marat Fayzullin
https://fms.komkon.org/
He created the second Nintendo emulator in history and end up doing work
on many other systems.
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walkman
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response 10 of 70:
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Oct 25 02:52 UTC 2021 |
Back then, I think most professionals had much newer computers at home
than they did at work. I think in 97 I had a 233 mhz pentium and
upgraded to a pentium ii which wasn t that much faster.
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kentn
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response 11 of 70:
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Oct 25 23:10 UTC 2021 |
Absolutely, walkman. I've always had a better computer at home than
at work. They don't seem to mind if you sit there and wait for things
to happen at work. Makes no sense to me. Where I work, you have to
wait 5-6 years to get a new computer, but it won't be new. It'll be
one they pulled after someone left. I didn't like the first laptop they
gave me so I had to have a vice president approve (he said he had no
problem). It's still not very fast but much better than the dual core
laptop they gave me to replace my old dual core laptop. Go figure.
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walkman
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response 12 of 70:
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Oct 27 19:37 UTC 2021 |
#11 Same here! I've had my HP laptop for six years already and it wasn't
new when I got it. When I'm doing heavy work, the fan on the side is
super loud and blasts hot air. I figure eventually it will just cook
itself. LOL I looked up my work laptop on ebay, which averages about
$200. Fancy!
There's never enough money in the budget for new laptops but they can
spend money letting me spin my wheels waiting for processes and starting
over when applications crash. *slaps forehead*
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walkman
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response 13 of 70:
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Oct 27 19:42 UTC 2021 |
This the same model laptop. Same specs and everything.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234257499118?
hash=item368ad5c3ee:g:s~4AAOSwbiRheGNz
Just think, a big corporation has people working "from home" 8-10 hours
a day on ancient $200 machines. Seems incredible to me.
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