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How To Install Pi-Hole DNS Ad blocker

April 11, 2020 Team Cook Leave a comment

Pi-hole a Network-wide DNS Ad-Blocker aka A black hole for Internet advertisements. Primarily developed for Raspberry Pi and ported to Linux, it’s lightweight. Just like pixelserv (man-in-the-middle https DNS Ad-Blocker), it is also a DNS server.

1. Install a supported operating system

You can run Pi-hole in a container, or deploy it directly to a supported operating system via their automated installer.

Pi-hole Supported Linux distros:

Distribution	Release	Architecture
Raspbian	Stretch / Buster	ARM
Ubuntu	16.x / 18.x	ARM / x86_64
Debian	9 / 10	ARM / x86_64 / i386
Fedora	28 / 29	ARM / x86_64
CentOS	7	x86_64

Warning:
If you happen to have another DNS server running such as BIND, you will need to turn it off in order for Pi-hole to respond to DNS queries.

Ubuntu users: This is compatible with systemd-resolve (on AWS, it’s listening on 127.0.0.53 so it does not interfere with Pi-Hole).

2. Install Pi-hole

Their automated installer asks you a few questions and then sets everything up for you. Once complete, move onto step 3.

One-step install:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

The installer is interactive.

DNS: choose Cloudflare (fastest) or Quad9 (Secure)

Privacy Mode for FTL: Using privacy levels you can specify which level of detail you want to see in your Pi-hole statistics. This question happens only when you choose to install the web admin interface.

Auto-Update and Cron jobs

Cron jobs are created by the installer:

cat /etc/cron.d/pihole
# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
# (c) 2017 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
#
# Updates ad sources every week
#
# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
#
#
#
# This file is under source-control of the Pi-hole installation and update
# scripts, any changes made to this file will be overwritten when the softare
# is updated or re-installed. Please make any changes to the appropriate crontab
# or other cron file snippets.

# Pi-hole: Update the ad sources once a week on Sunday at a random time in the
#          early morning. Download any updates from the adlists
#          Squash output to log, then splat the log to stdout on error to allow for
#          standard crontab job error handling.
51 3   * * 7   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updateGravity >/var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log || cat /var/log/pihole_updateGravity.log

# Pi-hole: Flush the log daily at 00:00
#          The flush script will use logrotate if available
#          parameter "once": logrotate only once (default is twice)
#          parameter "quiet": don't print messages
00 00   * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole flush once quiet

@reboot root /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/pihole/logrotate

# Pi-hole: Grab local version and branch every 10 minutes
*/10 *  * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker local

# Pi-hole: Grab remote version every 24 hours
9 16  * * *   root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote
@reboot root    PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/" pihole updatechecker remote reboot

3. Status Check

Web UI: Change your password!

pihole -a -p

By default, the web admin UI installed with lighttpd listens only on HTTP:80. You password will travel in clear text if you do not enable SSL!

Web UI Configuration

The web UI showcase logs and point & click configuration. If you chose to install lighttpd, the web UI is available at your pihole IP/admin

To use your existing web server, create a virtual host which points to /var/www/html where Pi-Hole installed its web UI.

Command Line

You don’t need to install the Web UI to check Pi-hole status. Especially on Raspberry Pi for which this Ad-blocker has been designed, a simple command line dashboard is available to check the server status:

pihole -c

You can also follow the DNS logs directly:

pihole -t

4. Use Pi-hole as your DNS server

Depending on what and where you installed Pi-Hole, consider modifying your devices accordingly.

If your Pi-Hole is installed on a public IP server, consider updating your ISP or DD-wrt router to use that DNS as well! You can also share it with your friends! also consider installing it both online and at home, for redundancy.

Example 1 Home router

Modify the home or ISP router to use that DNS instead of the default. All your home connected devices will be protected!

Notice:
Some crappy routers will force you to define two different DNS addresses. Use 127.0.0.1 as secondary DNS or install another Pi-hole server online or at home. The secondary DNS is naver used unless the first one is down.

Example 2 Individual Protection

You can also setup each device individually. This guide will show you how to do it on most platforms including Android, Apple Mac and iPhone.

For instance on Windows, open Adapter Options:

You can also access Adapter Options by running this command:

::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\3\::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

Right-click on your network card and setup the IPv4 DNS manually.

Example 3 Pi-Hole with VPN Server

This is the recommended setup. Not only your ISP cannot track you anymore, but you also utterly destroy any attempt from Ad servers to bug you anymore, transparently and setup-free!

If you are running an OpenVPN server for instance (How To Install OpenVPN Server here), you need to define the new Pi-Hole DNS address in the /etc/openvpn/server.conf file.

To do so, save, then edit the config file, and keep only one line if you have only one Pi-Hole DNS address (replace 1.2.3.4 by your Pi-Hole DNS IP):

vi /etc/openvpn/server.conf
push "dhcp-option DNS 1.2.3.4"

Then restart the OpenVPN service:

service openvpn restart

Pi-Hole used as the main DNS of the OpenVPN server will effectively filter Ads for any client using that VPN. Also setup the home ISP router and your secondary DD-wrt router to use it so even your home devices are protected!

5. Enjoy

I disabled browser Ad-blocker plugins such as uBlock Origin and started surfing over the Ad-bloated Macworld.com and other fake news mainstream medias. I also noticed some Ads on iPhone games were absent but not all of them.

Test Pi-hole Ad-blocking Power

Do you see any ads? If you see Ads, maybe that’s because they are hosted (same url as the main website) aka interstitial Ads. Pi-hole can do nothing for self-hosted Ads and you need to pair it with browser Ad-Blockers like uBlock Origin.

The best of all? Most of the mobile Ads on Apple and Android phones are blocked as well! No more stupid Ad countdown interrupting my son’s games!

Not all of them will be blocked because, again, some are still self-hosted on the game developer’s platform.

Networking, Security

Your Own Cheap VPN for $1/mo

April 5, 2020 Team Cook Leave a comment

People are (rightfully) freaking out about their privacy as the Senate voted the law S.J. 34 to let internet providers share your private data with advertisers. While it’s important to protect your privacy, it doesn’t mean that you need it at all times. Also, VPN is a service that is not free, but I found you the CHEAPEST DEAL AVAILABLE TODAY: therefore, let’s create a VPN in 15mn for $1/mo!

This guide will show you step by step how to do it with Virmach but this is valid for any other brand, provided you accept the price. The whole point is to use a script that does it for you, so you don’t have to spend a whole day doing it. Yes, setting up a VPN Server by hand is very complicated.

1. Get a KVM Server for $1/mo at Virmach

This is the crapiest, cheapest KVM provider I could find as of March 2020. Unfortunately they do not offer $1/mo plans anymore, because it depends on availability. I highly doubt they ever offered these plans in large quantities but you know how business work, yeah?

Select the cheapest KVM from the Virmach plans available here.

You may have a warning saying they are out of stock but they promise to charge you only $1/mo.

Option 2 would be a slightly better bandwidth at $1.25:

2. Create a RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS server

Versions required for the script to work: Supported distros are Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora

Ubuntu 18.04 or higher
Debian 9 or higher
CentOS 7 or higher
Fedora any version

The script that will create the OpenVPN server for you needs to be run on the major versions above. Among the limited options that Virmach offers you for that price, as of September 2021, choose one of these:

The versions shown above are the lowest versions compatible with the script. The rest of the setup in straightforward. Take note of the root password they give you and that’s it.

3. Initial Setup (optional)

Virmach will provide you a root access with a password. All the steps below are optional, especially if you already own an IaaS Cloud server access.

A. Update the System (advised)

The commands below are for Debian/Ubuntu systems:

apt update -y
apt upgrade -y
apt autoremove -y
apt clean -y

That’s it. Most systems are already configured for IPv4 Forwarding so you should be good to go.

B. Setup SSH (optional)

You can change the remote SSH access to RSA key access only instead of using a password, by setting up your identity and the SSHd daemon.

First you need to create your SSH identity (you could also force copy your own from another server):

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Next, add your public RSA key in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (there are 3 ways to do that but this one is straightforward):

echo ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza...IsFA0eGz name>~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Next, tweak the SSHd config file:

sed -i -e "s/^#PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/g" /etc/ssh/sshd_config || sed -i -e "s/^PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/g" /etc/ssh/sshd_config

4. Install OpenVPN

To install OpenVPN and all the dependencies including EasyRSA, simply execute this command:

wget https://git.io/vpn -O openvpn-install.sh && bash openvpn-install.sh

If using Ubuntu 16.04, another script is necessary:

wget https://git.io/vpn1604 -O openvpn-install.sh && bash openvpn-install.sh

That’s it. Now, get the content of the OVPN file generated for your clients:

cat /root/virmach1.ovpn

5. Setup the Clients

Windows Client

With the OVPN file you got, simply import it in OpenVPN GUI and you’re good to go!

DD-wrt Client

This guide will show you how to setup this OpenVPN connection on your home Dd-wrt router so the Wi-Fi is VPN-ized!

Wrapping Up

Let me know in the comments how long it actually took you. It took me much more than 15mn because I was writing the guide at the same time, but I think that 15mn altogether is a fair guess.

As of today, March 2020, Virmach let you pay $1 for a $1.25/mo plan because they “ran out” of cheap plans, but you are limited to 1 only. Also, no other location than within the USA are available, which defeats the purpose of a VPN when you live in the USA. What you really want is an access point in Europe.

Networking

CenturyLink is Garbage

April 4, 2020 Team Cook Leave a comment

CenturyLink blocks Kodi. Centurylink blocks Kodi repositories. CenturyLink filters internet without telling you. CenturyLink caps your bandwidth after 6 months. CenturyLink blocks random websites. CenturyLink is BAD.

After moving, I thought that using any competitor to Comcast would be a good idea. After all, it’s one of these ISP that still provide ADSL. It cannot be that bad?

CenturyLink First Impressions

Well, ADSL is not fast, you know that. Do you? ADSL is a branch of DSL that’s provided through existing phone lines. It is therefore sensitive to electromagnetic noise. And the ping is attrocious: 21ms+

Noise can be emited by crappy electric devices such as dishwashers, washing machines, microwave ovens and whatever chinessium crap is connected close to your home.

It is also sensitive to radio signals on the 1400Mhz band. Chinesium crap devices can also emit on this band and hinder your bandwidth.

I also noticed a drop in bandwidth after 6 months.

CenturyLink Caps your Bandwidth

At the beginning, speedtest.net reported a whooping 80MB download speed. Living less than 1 mile away from the DSLAM, it made a lot of sense. 10MB upload speed was honorable for this kind of connection.

Here we are, 6 months later. Speedtest now reports between 20 and 30MB download speed at Any time.

And This is what you get by living 1 mile away from the DSLAM. Imagine if you live further away…

It’s down from 80MB to 30MB after 6 months, permanently and for no reason. Also, Kodi servers are blocked from time to time.

CenturyLink Blocks Kodi Repos

This post is coincidental with me trying to reinstall a new Kodi build on my Rbox pro set-top box. The previous build refused to update most repos and I was not surprised, since it happened in the past with other builds.

It’s a catch-me-if-you-can game between pirated stream providers and the media Majors, we all know that. Still, I could not even configure new 2020 builds I knew that were working.

I could not even access xanax or slamious home site from my desktop. Only from my phone via Verizon. Isn’t that odd??

Setting up a VPN on the router solved the issue: Kodi works again!

Edit: as of April 2020, they re-opened the access to most build repos. Maybe it was an internal network issue on their side?

Conclusion: Comcast Is a Monopoly, but CenturyLink Is Worst

CenturyLink can block Kodi repos without warning you. CenturyLink also cap your bandwidth after some time with no reason. Maybe they think you won’t notice?

CenturyLink is hindering your freedom of surfing and therefore your freedom of speech. CenturyLink is not a good alternative to these monopolies that are Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. It’s not even cheaper.

CenturyLink plan, including their crappy modem is worth $60/mo and it’s not worth it. CenturyLink is bad, period.

Des batteries quasi éternelles fabriquées à partir de déchets nucléaires

April 2, 2020 Team Cook Leave a comment

Des batteries nucléaires, quasi éternelles fabriquées à partir de déchets nucléaires sont une enieme FAKE NEWS, merci ouest france. Aussi sur que le fiasco des Solar Freakin Roadways que Segolene Royal a voulu tester malgre tout avec votre argent.

@Thunderf00t a debunk cette idiotie depuis le 30 Janvier 2020:

Je ne reviendrais pas sur les calculs effectues, suivez la video et refaite-les vous meme si vous doutez.

Ouest France et le reste des media Francais, en termes de qualite editoriale scientifique, sont tous completement a l’ouest.

Society

SexTape de Benjamin Griveaux

February 17, 2020 Team Cook Leave a comment

Les site relayant la sex tape de Benjamin Griveaux n’etaient pas assez nombreux, Ils sont tous down! La France a toujours assez de courage et d’abnegation pour couvrir les deboirs de ses chers hommes politiques. Impossible d’acceder aux photos ou aux videos, apres seulement 3 jours!!

Summary (English)

picture of benjamin griveaux — You didn’t see that one coming, did you?

A sex video has ended French ruling party candidate Benjamin Griveaux’s hopes of becoming mayor of Paris.

It then alleged that Mr Griveaux had exchanged intimate mobile phone messages with a young woman and sent her a personal video.

Mr Griveaux was not favourite to win the mayoral race in March, but he has been a very close ally of the president Emmanuel Macron, and his political demise is inevitably an embarrassment for the president, the BBC’s Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.

Source: AFP

EDIT 2024

Let’s face it… I was hacked. Weeks after, with the duplicity of Amazon (AWS) which I left since then. I buried my head in the sand for the past 4 years trying to ignore it, improving security, resilience, swaping Clouds, thinking that it was a File System error… But no, there are evidences.

What I can tell when I realized:

recent nginx logs were missing
*all* images uploaded for the past 2 months were missing
database not corrupt but… all media references removed.
- normally, when you delete a picture from the file system, it stays in your media page and shows as missing
- in this case, the media attachments were also missing. Someone indeed did some cleanup
- the post is still there. They left it intact as a warning.
nothing relevant in system log
a server reboot was recorded

Who other then Amazon would give access to my disk space? Why is the post still in place and no visible database alteration other then missing pictures? Why only the last 2 months of pictures uploaded were missing? Only the last 2 months, really? Why wasn’t my site entirely wiped?

This makes no sense, the more I think about it. Hackers or whoever that was, carefully deleted ONLY the pictures under wp-content/uploads, and ONLY the last 2 months. It’s been carefully done: just enough damage, looking like it was Amazon’s fault. I suspected a file system restore as they sometimes do, without telling their customers. But the tempering evidences in the database are too strong.

To top it off, it also happened at a time where I frantically started pasting stuff directly to the site, not having local backups. Lesson learned!

Now I have to fix all those posts for which the pictures were deleted:

How To Install Pi-Hole DNS Ad blocker
Your Own Cheap VPN for $1/mo
CenturyLink is Bad
Des batteries quasi éternelles fabriquées à partir de déchets nucléaires
Let’s start calling the novel coronavirus the CCP virus
WHO: 70% of sick in China have recovered
DUTCH RESEARCHERS FIRST TO FIND COVID-19 ANTIBODIES!
We Found Out Where All Of The Toilet Paper Went!
Coronavirus Cure: Best Treatments
There Are Only 2 Genders
Voir La SexTape de Benjamin Griveaux

Being hacked, or bare-back doored by your own Cloud provider is not a pleasant feeling. What do you think happened? If I was hacked, why did they delete only 2 months of pictures? Why not the database and the whole uploads folder? Why not the post itself?

I’d love to have your thoughts, maybe I’m just overthinking it…?

Images and traces que j’ai pu sauvegarder avant que la Republique ne fasse le menage:

pornopolitique.com

Ce site a clairement ete cree pour cette occasion, et cela ne date pas d’hier: le whois montre un enregistrement au Canada, qui date de Novembre 2019!

waybackmachine.com

La France a meme reussi a bloquer le contenu de waybackmachine,org! Jugez plutot: ce lien liste les snapshots du site pornopolitique.com:

Quand on clique la page se charge mais apres 2 secondes est remplacee par ceci:

Il est interessant de noter qu’il n’y a de snapshots QUE pour les journees du 13 et 14 Fevrier:

jeuxvideo.com

Curieusement, jeuxvideo.com avait aussi une page sur le sujet:

La page est bien sure bloquee:

twitter.com

Pas besoin de mentionner que Twitter a bien sur supprime les comptes de ceux qui relayaient l’information. Ils ont aussi supprime mon compte parceque ces wokes de Californie n’aimaient pas ma pic de profile.

pornhub.com

Certain forums and facebook proposent d’aller fureter sur pornhub… La encore la machine gouvernementale a fait le menage:

boursier.com

Meme des commentaires plutot serieux sur l’affaire sont retires! Jugez plutot:

youtube.com

Aura-t-on plus de chances avec Youtube? Il y a bien un moyen pour retrouver des videos supprimees, mais cela ne fonctionne que si queulqu’un a uploade la video sur un site alternatif…

delutube Dtube Peertube etc

On avait plusieurs sites qui permettaient d’uploader des videos Youtube supprimmees. Non seulement ils n’apparaissent plus dans les recherches Google et Duckduckgo, mais ils sont soit down eux aussi, soit personne n’a eu le temps d’uploader! Sale temps pour la liberte d’expression.

Fallouts

La carriere de ce pourri est peut etre finie, mais pour le russe qui a leaked la video, c’est une autre histoire.

russian performance artist pyotr pavlensky in november 2015. photo by sergei savostyanov via getty images. — Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky in November 2015. Photo by Sergei Savostyanov via Getty Images.

Aparement, ce ruskov est un arsonist. Il fout le feu partout ou il va pour raisons diverses et variees, et se fait prendre en photo devant. Apres avoir gracieusement ete accepte avec sa demande d’asile, il met le feu a la Banque de France en 2017. C’est comme ca qu’il remercie le pays qui lui a donne asile. Et il appelle ca de l’Art. Celui la aussi c’est un sacre fils de pute.

Tous des fils de pute dans cette affaire degueulasse.

Conclusions

J’ai eu plus de chance pour trouver la video de Mr Hand que les photos minables de Benjamin Griveaux.

Qui l’eu cru? Rien sur Google, rien sur Duckduckgo, rien sur Youtube, rien sur Bing, rien sur Yahoo, rien sur Yandex, and meme la wayback machine a ete nettoyee!

Benjamin Griveaux sextape,i was hacked,Benjamin Griveaux,pornopolitique

Sale temps pour la liberte d’expression sur Internet. Depuis sa “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” en 1996, ni Barlow lui-meme, ni sa fondation EFF n’ont pas permit d’ameliorer la situation.

La France est toujours une grande puissance, que vous le vouliez ou non. Elle a des allies partout, le rapide cleanup de wayback machine en est la preuve. Essayez vous-meme d’effacer vos propre archives, vous allez comprendre comme c’est long et difficile.

Appel aux dons

Vous avez sauvegarde la video? Les photos? Vous avez des liens qui marchent? Envoyez moi ca! Je suis curieux de voir comment la France va me bloquer une seconde fois.

Productivity

Cloud Backup Strategy on AWS

February 3, 2020 Team Cook 2 Comments

Always have a Cloud Backup plan.
Mila Kunis

So, you moved to the Cloud and you got yourself one or more server? You host your own data and potentially even client data? What if you got hacked today? Database corruption, File corruption, accidental deletion, all these nice things happen all the time.

Cloud Backup Its Not a Matter “If” but “When”
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Hopefully, AWS offers lots of options when it comes to Cloud Backup and data redundancy. On the other hand, Online Cloud Backup is not free. EBS Snapshots and S3 Buckets are darn cheap, but costs accumulate since you pay by the GB.

What Are My Cloud Backup Options?

EBS Snapshots

Convenient, easy to generate, easy to automate, EBS Snapshots are however the most expensive Cloud Backup option from AWS.

EBS Snapshots = $0.05 per GB-month of data stored
50GB = $2.5 per month

Snapshots are critical for fast data recovery though, they are therefore necessary for your system volumes. Convenient, easy to generate, easy to automate, EBS Snapshots however can become quite expensive in the long run.

Conclusion: You can live with only one snapshot in rotation every 24h per system volume, but for data volumes you certainly do not want that. Also, indeed Snapshots can be automated by aws cli, it makes the Snapshots console neither fish nor fowl. You don’t have this issue with S3 Buckets since you are forced to build scripts from the start.

What are these aws cli scripts you are mentioning?

Check this AWS documentation out.

S3 Buckets

S3 Buckets are a much cheaper Cloud Backup alternative. Pretty much everything to know is said on AWS’ own wiki, but it’s a bit more complex. Depending on how frequently you want to access your data, you can go as low as $0.00099, as of 2020. Look at the prices below

	Storage pricing
S3 Standard – General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data
First 50 TB / Month That’s already half the cost of Snapshots	$0.023 per GB
Next 450 TB / Month	$0.022 per GB
Over 500 TB / Month	$0.021 per GB
S3 Intelligent – Tiering * – Automatic cost savings for data with unknown or changing access patterns
Frequent Access Tier, First 50 TB / Month	$0.023 per GB
Frequent Access Tier, Next 450 TB / Month	$0.022 per GB
Frequent Access Tier, Over 500 TB / Month	$0.021 per GB
Infrequent Access Tier, All Storage / Month	$0.0125 per GB
Monitoring and Automation, All Storage / Month	$0.0025 per 1,000 objects

S3 Standard – Infrequent Access * – For long lived but infrequently accessed data that needs millisecond access	$0.0125 per GB

S3 One Zone – Infrequent Access * – For re-createable infrequently accessed data that needs millisecond access	$0.01 per GB

S3 Glacier ** – For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours	$0.004 per GB

S3 Glacier Deep Archive ** – For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours	$0.00099 per GB

S3 Buckets are clearly cheaper. By default, my 50GB volume backup now costs me only $1.15, that’s 53% LESS than Snapshots. However, you cannot upload a Snapshot to S3. Even though they are hosted on S3, that’s in a separate network administered by AWS. All you can do is upload files. Remember dd? This smells like you need scripts!

How much do S3 Buckets cost?

It’s per GB.
Standard = $0.023 (50GB = $1.15/mo)
Standard _IA = $0.0125 (50GB = 62 cents/mo!)
Glacier = $0.004 (50GB = 20 cents/mo!!)
Glacier Deep = $0.00099 (50GB = 5 cents/mo!!!)

Can you automate them?

Yes. With scripts in bash, using the aws cli commands and a bit of cron.

How far back in time can you go for your $$$?

Since you can automate backup files expiration with scripts, it’s easy to keep the few you need and pay only for those.

What if I want to restore last month backup?

Restore the monthly or the weekly that you have setup. You could also retain 30 snapshots in rotation.

Wait a minute. 30 Snapshots?

Yes, for the price of an S3 Glacier, your 30 snapshots at $12/mo now cost less than a dollar! Access costs are negligible.

How much costs 30 Snapshots?

Standard: 30 * 8GB * $0.023 = $5.52/mo
Glacier: 30 * 8GB * $0.004 = $0.96/mo

Can you backup each week instead?

Why not.

Can you automate the snapshots deletion?

Yes.

What scripting language to use?

Scripts with bash or zsh for loafs like me (rely on the aws cli binaries), and Python for the courageous, or Ruby for the smart. Python and Ruby come with ssl and POST capabilities, which is needed to use the S3 API.

Wrapping up

More on S3 automation and its drawbacks in the next post! The goal being to sleep with your deaf ear up, a bit more efforts and challenge is needed the reach the Graal of the ultimate bargain price possible.

If you prefer convenience and money is not an issue, be my guest and go for hand-managed Snapshots in the console.

IT Cooking

Yearly Archives: 2020

Your Own Cheap VPN for $1/mo

1. Get a KVM Server for $1/mo at Virmach

2. Create a RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS server

3. Initial Setup (optional)

A. Update the System (advised)

B. Setup SSH (optional)

4. Install OpenVPN

5. Setup the Clients

Windows Client

DD-wrt Client

Wrapping Up

CenturyLink is Garbage

CenturyLink First Impressions

CenturyLink Caps your Bandwidth

CenturyLink Blocks Kodi Repos

Conclusion: Comcast Is a Monopoly, but CenturyLink Is Worst

Des batteries quasi éternelles fabriquées à partir de déchets nucléaires

SexTape de Benjamin Griveaux

Summary (English)

EDIT 2024

Images and traces que j’ai pu sauvegarder avant que la Republique ne fasse le menage:

pornopolitique.com

waybackmachine.com

jeuxvideo.com

twitter.com

pornhub.com

boursier.com

youtube.com

delutube Dtube Peertube etc

Fallouts

Conclusions

Appel aux dons

Success is just one script away

1. Install a supported operating system

2. Install Pi-hole

Auto-Update and Cron jobs

3. Status Check

Web UI: Change your password!

Web UI Configuration

Command Line

4. Use Pi-hole as your DNS server

Example 1 Home router

Example 2 Individual Protection

Example 3 Pi-Hole with VPN Server

5. Enjoy

Test Pi-hole Ad-blocking Power

1. Get a KVM Server for $1/mo at Virmach

2. Create a RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS server

3. Initial Setup (optional)

A. Update the System (advised)

B. Setup SSH (optional)

4. Install OpenVPN

5. Setup the Clients

Windows Client

DD-wrt Client

Wrapping Up

CenturyLink First Impressions

CenturyLink Caps your Bandwidth

CenturyLink Blocks Kodi Repos

Conclusion: Comcast Is a Monopoly, but CenturyLink Is Worst

Or Maybe, Just Maybe…

You can protect yourself from COVID-19 by…

Swallowing or gargling with bleach

Taking acetic acid

Taking steroids

Using essential oils

Salt water

Ethanol or other substances

U.S. Census To Keep Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Questions Off New Surveys

Am I required to respond to the 2020 Census?

Summary (English)

EDIT 2024

Images and traces que j’ai pu sauvegarder avant que la Republique ne fasse le menage:

pornopolitique.com

waybackmachine.com

jeuxvideo.com

twitter.com

pornhub.com

boursier.com

youtube.com

delutube Dtube Peertube etc

Fallouts

Conclusions

Appel aux dons

What Are My Cloud Backup Options?

EBS Snapshots

What are these aws cli scripts you are mentioning?

S3 Buckets

How much do S3 Buckets cost?

Can you automate them?

How far back in time can you go for your $$$?

What if I want to restore last month backup?

Wait a minute. 30 Snapshots?

How much costs 30 Snapshots?

Can you backup each week instead?

Can you automate the snapshots deletion?

What scripting language to use?

Wrapping up

Success is just one script away