AI Singularity is a bit off
Normally, I’m an AI fan, but my experience with Claude AI today serves as proof that
Singularity is in a future far far away!
Watching the DNS Wheels
For several years, I utilized Pi-hole with Unbound for internal Domain Name System (DNS) and Network-wide Ad Blocking. However, as my DNS requirements evolved, I found myself outgrowing Pi-hole.
READ MOREAs text editors go, Vim is the GOAT
My first encounter with Vim was in 2000 when my then employer decided to port our main product (Bandwidth Control System) from Windows NT to Linux. Linux was a fresh experience for me, and it opened the door to diving into Emacs and Vim for text editing. I recall reading an Emacs vs. Vim article in a magazine or trade-rag a while back that really piqued my interest. Even now, Emacs still feels a bit out of reach for my…
DNS over HTTPS & Fewer Ads
Lab fun with Docker, Pi-Hole, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Cloudflare Tunnels. My goal was to create a DNS over HTTPS Docker-compose stack that is portable and easy to deploy. With DNS over HTTPS (DoH), DNS queries and responses are encrypted and sent via the HTTP or HTTP/2 protocols. DoH ensures that attackers cannot forge or alter DNS traffic. DoH uses port 443, which is the standard HTTPS traffic port, to wrap the DNS query in an HTTPS request. DNS queries…
Disabling LEDs on Raspberry Pi
Lately, I’ve been on a tear shutting off as many device LED’s as I can. Note to self: stop walking around in the dark. Love me some Pi, but wish they made LED management consistent across versions or provided a utility to do this automatically. The terminal can display which model of Raspberry Pi is currently in use, including the name of the family and the version. To have the terminal display the model of Raspberry Pi Add the following…