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Fedora Captive Portal Issue

Fedora’s default Wi-Fi hotspot detection can fail on many hotel or event networks because of HSTS blocking plain HTTP checks. This means the captive portal sign-in never shows up, leaving you stuck offline. The fix? Point Fedora’s NetworkManager to a simple, non-HTTPS text file you control.

Audiobook MP3 merge

I bought some audiobooks online and ended up with a mess of tiny MP3 files... How I solved merging them into one simple track for my daughter’s MP3 player in a "simple" script.

ColorMyShell - Colored Bash Prompt Generator

ColorMyShell lets you easily customize your bash terminal prompt with a drag-and-drop generator interface, real-time previews, and a color picker. It's a simple way to add personality and functionality to your coding environment, making your terminal uniquely yours.

Exploring Star Citizen's Initial Shader Generation: An Experiment

Investigation into Star Citizen shader generation from the get-go. How quick the game builds shaders even before you're exploring the verse. This article offers you a glimpse into an 18-minute test run, offering insights when the Shaders get really build.

Force docker Containers through VPN using gluetun

Master secure Docker networking with Gluetun—the hassle-free way to route container traffic through a VPN. Guide walks you through setting up Gluetun in Docker-compose, linking containers for privacy, and configuring VPN connections

Keeping a personal Knowledge Base

Nurturing Your Knowledge: Why Joplin is My Note-Taking Champion

Star Citizen - Performance Tuning and get rid of Stuttering

Discover helpful tips to enhance Star Citizen's performance amid ongoing development. Understand realistic expectations, common troubleshooting steps, and the supportive SC community resources for assistance in improving your gameplay experience.

pfSense; Unable to check for updates

Again pfSense suddenly "Unable to check for updates" pkg manager gives "pkg-static: Cannot parse configuration file!" or "pkg-static: invalid url"

pfSense with PPPoE tagged VLAN Connection

Using pfSense with a WAN Connection require a VLAN Tag setup to work proper over PPPoE

Why your local DNS Name does matter.

What to pick as an Domain Name (DNS FQDN) in your local Network or LAN Setup? Does it matter? Or why .local isn't recommended anymore.

Windows DHCP Info / Monitor Tool

Verbose DHCP Information in Windows CLI. Lightweight Information about what's going on DHCP wise in the background.

NUC LED to Display Internet Connection Quality

Simple Cron Script to show the Status of your Internet Connection on the Ring Color LED at a Intel NUC.

pfSense pkg error: Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

Short Fix documentation for pfSense package manager Error: Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

rescreen - Tool to move all Windows to your Win Main Screen

Simple and tiny tool to move all Windows to your main Screen without any prompt or options. Rescue for me when undocking my laptop from the dock and some windows stuck to 2nd Screen.

Cyberpunk Crackling Sound / Audio Noise Issue

Unitymedia / Vodafone Cable with real DUAL-Stack

How to Configure your Vodafone / Unitymedia CableMax in Dualstack with a pfsense behind a AVM Fritzbox as Bridge using a own /32 IPv6 Network for each VLAN.

Unifi L3 Adoption with DHCP Option 43 on pfSense, Mikrotik and others

Making a Unifi L3 Adoption easy with DHCP Option 43 on pfSense, Mikrotik and other Routers. A small Wizzard and config Information Sheet how to add the Vendor Option 43 quickly.

Resilio as Private Cloud

Resilio Sync is a very usefull Software to keep your Data Synced without using any cloud storage. Easy use a private way to keep your data synced over the internet without a cloud provider.

Debian/Ubuntu with automatic APT unattended updates

Debian/Ubuntu with automatic APT unattended updates / upgrades. How to setup unattended-upgrades as auto-upgrades.

EPIC Game Launcher slow Download speed

Slow Downloadspeed in EPIC Game Launcher? This is a small fix helping you to quickly improve the Download Speed in the Epic Launcher for Windows

pihole docker with docker-compose in my LAN

Small how-to to install pihole container with docker-composer and configuring it

letsencrypt auto NGINX reload on renew, doing it right...

The right way to let certbot reload Nginx automatically after a letsencrypt certificate was updated.

A SIP Honeypot Blacklist

SIP Honeypot is a SIP 5060 udp Honeypot Blacklist for use in Firewalls to Block SIP Crawlers and Bruteforcer.

$this->DomainName got Changed

I decided to change the Domain Name of my blog. after 20 Years!!! WTF :p Why?

pfsense xinetd on rampage: readjusting service

One of the "Today I learned" write downs - Today, pfsense XINETD on Rampage spamming "Readjusting service" on high CPU Load

Preventive blocking of bad IPs using iptables

Small bash Script to automatically preventive add iptables BLOCKS to from most dangerous or abusive hosts on your server.

ssh:// Protocol Link Handler Win10 and Mobaxterm

Small How To using a proper ssh:// link Handler to open a custom SSH Client like Mobaxterm in Windows

Using clamav to scan only new files

Small trick to use Clamav to only scanning new or recent modified files

Links: Privacy & Awesome Selfhosted

Just a tiny recommendation with two Links I want to put here. One for a good privacy Information / tool Page and another one with a great collection of selfhosted opensource Alternatives.

Finally new home router based on pfSense

I upgraded my home router to pfSense. pfBlockerNG, unbound and 2x OpenVPN with AES-NI.

Blackout a different NAT Error

cod blackout port forwarding lobby issues with different NAT type. Lobby is not joinable due to different NAT Type. How to avoid that error.

Ubuntu Subsystem Windows und Keepass KeeAgent / pageant

Use a windows based SSH Agent (pagent) for Passwordless Authentication at the Linux Subsystem for Windows WSL

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