In this guide you will learn how to install a firewall on your Raspberry Pi and enable it without locking yourself out. This guide of course also applies to any Debian or Ubuntu Server, no matter if a Pi or PC. What is a firewall? Firewall illustration by Bruno Pedrozo [...]
In an earlier tutorial, I showed you how to obfuscate Tor bridges with obfs4proxy which required editing the Tor service files. The official Torproject documentation stated, that you needed to edit the systemd service files and change a variable in each, to allow the usage of privileged ports. So, I [...]
Minecraft came out a bit over a decade ago, as a game written in Java that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux but only x86! That's because, while the game is written in Java, it depends on native libraries that are x86 (although I think now they're AMD64 so you [...]
Today I will show you where to get TV channel icons and how to configure them in Tvheadend. Getting the icons First step is to download icons from here (download SRP full and SNP full) and save them on your Linux box under /home/hts/icons which can be done as follows [...]
Minecraft Floating Text: www.sindastra.de is a great stie! You might have seen floating welcome text when joining a Minecraft server. This can be done in vanilla Minecraft (meaning without mods) with admin commands, and today I will show you how. This guide assumes you're on Minecraft Java Edition 1.15 or [...]
While this guide applies to Linux distributions in general, the commands and package names shown here are specifically for Debian/Ubuntu servers and desktops. In most cases, you'll just have to adapt the apt command and package name for your distribution if you're not on a Debian based system. Many guides [...]
We can do this easily using curl, Gotify and a crontab one-liner (cronjob)! I'll show you how! This assumes you already have Gotify installed and set up, you can get the server and app for free on gotify.net (yes it's self-hosted)! Sign in to your Gotify server's dashboard, and then [...]
It's handy to know, so here they are: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt To restore Pi-hole to the default blocking lists, just delete all the lists but these six five lists. Note: There used to be a sixth list, which is now dead so you can safely delete it: https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt [...]
I used to have huge collection of block-lists for my Pi-hole(s) but I was annoyed about all the false positives, and decided to reset to the default lists that come with it. That way, I had no more issues and it would still block ads. But this also meant tracking [...]
While VPN's are great for virtual private networks (hence the name), it is often overkill if you just want to bypass a firewall or get an encrypted tunnel to protect yourself from snooping (e.g. on public Wi-Fi). More often than not, a VPN is also a paid service unless you [...]