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July 5, 2020
GIGABYTE G32QC Monitor Review After 1 Month

GIGABYTE G32QC Monitor Review After 1 Month

A great monitor on paper, but after using it for 1 month, the true experience is less than stellar. Here is everything right and wrong with it.

April 25, 2020
How to update containers in Portainer with 3 clicks

How to update containers in Portainer with 3 clicks

Yes, it really is as simple… with one condition. Disclaimer This will only work if all of the relevant data/settings are in external volumes or were passed in as ENV variables. It depends on what tag you are using for your image, most people will be running some form of “Lastest” which is what I …

September 24, 2019
Creating Static IP addresses in a Docker Network

Creating Static IP addresses in a Docker Network

I self host a lot of different software in my network. Databases, applications, and test VM’s that require the use of static ip addresses in Docker. I researched the problem and found out there was no easy way of just assigning a default static ip address. IP’s were given out on a first boot first …

June 23, 2019
How to use a phone or tablet as a CEMU GamePad

How to use a phone or tablet as a CEMU GamePad

Learn how to use a phone or tablet to make a Wii U GamePad in CEMU

Uncovering a “Bitcoin Generator” exploit scam

Uncovering a “Bitcoin Generator” exploit scam

June 18, 2019

*Note after a year of putting this article in the draft folder I decided to publish it as is. The accounts are no longer up and the websites are also down from what I have checked. Be safe and enjoy! As Benjamin Franklin once said “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, …

Easy privacy guide for surfing the web

Easy privacy guide for surfing the web

January 1, 2019

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend Tek’s blog. I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) Let me start out by saying this guide is going to be different than most others. A lot of guide pretty much just suggest browse in …

Why the FCC went from Friend to Foe

Why the FCC went from Friend to Foe

December 7, 2018

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend tek’s blog which can be found here: https://teklordz.net/why-the-fcc-went-from-friend-to-foe I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) It would be quite an understatement to say that when the FCC voted to approve net neutrality laws in 2015, the …

Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

Network Wide Ad Blocker (Pi-hole)

December 4, 2018

(This was a blog post that I originally wrote on my good friend tek’s blog which can be found here: http://teklordz.net/pihole I decided to move this over to my blog to consolidate and preserve it here.) Ads… whether they are necessary/good or pure evil is outside the scope of this article. One thing that can be …

How I keep track of time with my NFC implant

How I keep track of time with my NFC implant

August 16, 2018

I recently got an NFC implant in my hand while I was attending Defcon, the famous computer security conference. Originally I did not have any one specific purpose in mind but thought that I could figure something cool to do with it. At the very least I would put my contact info on it or …

Fixing Localization settings in Ubuntu

Fixing Localization settings in Ubuntu

February 9, 2018

I had some problems installing certain python, as well as system, packages due to my VPS not having proper localization settings. The problem I was having was the following: View the code on Gist. I did some Googling but couldn’t find anything that would work. Finally I found out that you can re-generate your localization …

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