Homelab

You might had heard of the Dark web or the Deep web, well the first one is just a small part of the latter. The Dark web is populated with darknets which is an overlay network within the Internet that can only be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization. These darknets can be small peer-to-peer networks or large as the I2P Anonymous Network, Freenet and the most popular Tor Project. In this case, we will focus in the Tor network and how to use it to connect to your home network for remote control. ...

AdGuard Home is a… Privacy protection center for you and your devices Free and open source, powerful network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server. It has a windows, Mac, Android and iOS app. Also a web extension, it is also offering a DNS service, VPN service and a package for OpenWrt. We will focus on the latter, I wrote briefly about it the Ad Blocking, simple & fast entry. This post is based on this forum entry. The only difference is that it will be installed in an external HDD connected to the OpenWrt router. ...

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application(…) Yeeeah baby! good soup! Have you ever hated your wireless router so much that you wanted to smash it to the wall because it is just a piece of useless shit? ...

We all hate ads. According to Wikipedia, Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods. So you have choices I am not going to detail but give the practical and useful information about the fastest and easiest way to block ads Browser extensions You need, always, no matter what, a web browser ad block extension. It will, of course, block ads only for the web browser. Main alternatives are: ...

I have been very very busy with work. Regardless COVID, I did homeoffice for about 2 weeks (and only due to suspicion of infection), work load increased considerably and therefore, I really abandoned this blog and I regret it, but I will try to keep writting it regardless the work. So, Let's start with the entry: Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet. ...