Installing VirtualBox on MacOS via VNC – just use a real mouse
At work the other day I was testing our Ansible instructions on how to get a development environment set up. Given that this was supposed to be platform agnostic and […]
Easy Pi-Hole and Stubby on Orange Pi Zero & Raspberry Pi 3
Skip to the install guide if you just want to know how to set up your Pi easily ;) Otherwise, read on for a little background. Introduction I’ve been deep […]
Bootstrap SSH on Ubuntu Core with out Ubuntu SSO credentials
I was playing around with Snaps and I wanted to try out Ubuntu Core as well. I still had some of those Orange Pi Zero boards laying around and when […]
Teaching Kids About Busy Signals with a PBX on LXD for $15
The other day the kids and I were at our local, awesome Goodwill store. I guess they’re all awesome, eh? I was looking over the pile of small electronics while […]
Deploying a PGP SKS server on Ubuntu 18.04
Intro While the venerable Matt Rude has a great write up on compiling the latest SKS server for Ubuntu 18.04, using the one that ships with Ubuntu 18.04 is considerably […]
Support the EFF and others in the face of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
I’ll keep this short and sweet: When I read the headline, “EFF sues to kill FOSTA, calling it ‘unconstitutional Internet censorship law’”, I realized how proud I am to support […]
SYN Shop Class: SSH Keys with free VMs for members
As part of putting some good hardware to use, I taught a class on how to use SSH Keys the other week. As this was the first time I taught […]
USB-C accessories I like (and some I don’t)
After buying USB-C power adapter that didn’t work out, I’d been on the hunt for a replacement. After getting a Chromebook for video chats and music (and curiosity :) which […]
Hardware disabling the mic on WyzeCam v2
I’m testing out using two of these cute, cheap security cameras: It’s the v2 of the WyzeCam and it’s only $25 shipped. While they’re easy to set up, there doesn’t […]
Stubby + Pi-Hole + Quad9 + LXD
Intro For some time now, really since last November, I’ve wanted to do two things: Encrypt all my DNS traffic leaving my house LAN and run an instance of Pi-Hole […]