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mastodon

Uninstall mastodon

How to Uninstall Matodon completely from your server. I set up a mastodon server. The experience was not great and the platform is not great either. It is hard to troubleshoot – difficult to inspect if you are not familiar with ruby. It is difficult to find similar issues of the problems faced. It is […]

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network-traffic-debugging

Traffic Interception Tools

Want to inspect your traffic on your personal computer of mobile device? A few tools you will find helpful for that task: mitmproxy – free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy Proxyman Questions Why can Proxyman see the headers or HTTPS traffic that it has not decrypted? As far as I know the whole packet […]

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mac

Convert your Macbook with a Damaged Screen into a Home Server

Do you have a macbook that has a broken screen but still has everything else working okay. You can convert it into a home server to store files and backups, a media server or a webserver. Perhaps something else like a home ad-blocking DNS server So how do you set it up? The macbook needs […]

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bitcoin

How long does it take to download the Bitcoin Blockchain for your Full Node?

So how long does it take… The machine The machine I am using for my bitcoin node is a raspberry pi 4 8GB. It is used solely for bitcoind mainnet and bitcoind testnet. I am using a external hard drive that is 1TB in size and is formatted to ext4. The Network and Theory Calculations […]

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anonimity

Beware sharing PDFs – there is hidden information in them

I needed to upload a pdf to a website. I did not want this PDF traced back to me. I looked at the file and noticed there was a lot of information that could trace that specific pdf back to me. Read the Metadata on the file There are various methods to view meta data […]