Pi-hole is a popular DNS resolver, advertised as a black hole for Internet advertisements. I use it as a DNS filter for parental control as well as an ad and tracking domain filter. As a …
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Pi-hole is a popular DNS resolver, advertised as a black hole for Internet advertisements. I use it as a DNS filter for parental control as well as an ad and tracking domain filter. As a …
Continue readingThe other day, I wondered how to enable dark mode on any of those bright shiny websites. Before long, I found darkmode-js. Here’s how to use it with Tampermonkey.
Continue readingI have scanned all my slides into TIFF images. Now, I want to improve the color curves a bit and convert them into shareable JPEG files. Marking the files As a first measure, I wanted …
Continue readingFinally, I took the time for digitizing all those slides I had packed up in boxes and magazines some time ago. It’s more than 3200 slides and I wanted to avoid the costs of a …
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Continue readingI tried to leverage the exiftool to help me manage my photo library, especially my received WhatsApp image files. These image files are quite heavily, lossy, compressed when sent and stripped of nearly all useful …
Continue readingThis is mainly an iteration of a previous post A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress (see there for details on the sensor) but this time publishing to an MQTT topic. Setting up the …
Continue readingHow to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.
Continue readingSince I have set up my first Azure Windows VM, I wondered how to best access it. There are many options, with their own limitations: RDP (requires an internet-facing open port) Bastion (requires quite involved …
Continue readingNote: This post is mostly a revisit of my older post Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi, using the Zero W model and the current NxFilter version. NxFilter is the best free solution for a …
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