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    Running a Pi-hole securely on Azure

    On December 2, 2020 By Marcel

    Pi-hole is a popular DNS resolver, advertised as a black hole for Internet advertisements. I …

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    A global Dark Mode for your browser

    On June 26, 2020 By Marcel
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    Mass converting and image processing of scanned 35mm slides

    On March 22, 2020 By Marcel

    Digitizing my 35mm slides, finally

    On March 21, 2020 By Marcel

    Using the exiftool on a Synology NAS

    On February 28, 2020 By Marcel

    Running NxFilter on a Synology DS115j NAS

    On February 3, 2017 By Marcel In Uncategorized

    To free up my other Raspberry Pi from being a DNS server and to use an already existing NAS on my local LAN, I decided to try to install NxFilter (my favourite DNS filtering solution) …

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    The web, with (your) Style

    On October 5, 2016 By Marcel In Uncategorized

    While the web (besides time machines) is styled much nicer than ever, this does not always mean, it’s your style, nor that user experience is much better for you. Two powerful tools, UserStyles and Greasemonkey (Tampermonkey …

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    Installing the Samsung C480W printer on Ubuntu Linux

    On September 6, 2016 By Marcel In Uncategorized

    tl;dr; As Linux user, do yourself a favor and consider the Samsung C480W printer. Update: When scanning after Ubuntu upgrade does not work I wanted to get rid of my old HP PSC 1215 All-in-One …

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    Controlling a Playmobil® crane over ssh

    On January 3, 2016 By Marcel In Uncategorized

    One of my sons recently received this fine, Infrared (IR) remote controlled crane model as a gift. Would it be possible to rebuild the IR remote control with a Raspberry Pi? Catching the signal To …

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    Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi

    On October 16, 2015 By Marcel In Uncategorized

    NxFilter is the best free solution for a self-hosted DNS server/filter I have found so far. Today I got my Raspberry Pi, so how about running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi in a family’s home …

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