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LibreDNS has a new AdBlock endpoint

LibreDNS has a new endpoint https://doh.libredns.gr/ads This new endpoint is unique cause it blocks by default Ads & Trackers !   AdBlock We are currently using Steven Black’s hosts file....

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Kubernetes as a Service with Rancer2 at Hetzner using Terraform and Helm

In this blog post you will find my personal notes on how to setup a Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS). I will be using Terraform to create the infrastructure on Hetzner’s VMs, Rancher for KaaS and Helm to...

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a simple DoH/DoT using only dnsdist

In this blog post I will describe the easiest installation of a DoH/DoT VM for personal use, using dnsdist. Next I will present a full installation example (from start) with dnsdist and PowerDNS....

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ipname - hostnames for all

A few day ago, I was introduced to xip.io. TLDR; You can have hostname for any IP Address! ipname.me $ dig +short @ipname.me www.192-168-1-1-ipname.me 192.168.1.1 project It uses the powerdns pipe...

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doh-cli, a simple DoH client

original post on LibreOps A couple months ago, we announced a public and free DNS service, so people can have encrypted DNS in their browsers and systems. We support both DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS...

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How to create an AppImage

AppImage is a brilliant way to have executable linux apps to every distro, without the need of re-packaging or re-build them. Without getting into too many details, it uses FUSE (Filesystem in...

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The importance of culture

Origin Post on LinkedIn, Published on January 6, 2020 Being abroad in Japan the last couple weeks, I’ve noticed that the high efficiency -from crossing roads to almost everything- they do...

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The story of my first job in Tech Industry

The other day I was thinking about my first ever job in this industry as a junior software engineer at the age of 20. I was doing okay with my studies at the Athens university of applied sciences but I...

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restic with minio

restic is a fast, secure & efficient backup program. I wanted to test restic for some time now. It is a go backup solution, I would say similar to rclone but it has a unique/different design. I...

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Tools I use daily the Win10 edition

almost three (3) years ago I wrote an article about the Tools I use daily. But for the last 18 months (or so), I am partial using windows 10 due to my new job role, thus I would like to write an...

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Using LibreDNS with dnscrypt-proxy

Using DNS over HTTPS aka DoH is fairly easy with the latest version of firefox. To use libredns is just a few settings in your browser, see here. In libredns’ site, there are also instructions for DNS...

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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS walkthrough

basic server installation Tag(s): ubuntu, 20.04

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Upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Server Edition disclaimer: at this moment there is not an “official” server version of an 20.04 LTS available, so we we will use the development 20.04 release. Maintenance If this is a production...

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Run your CI test with GitLab-Runner on your system

GitLab is a truly wonderful devops platform. It has a complete CI/CD toolchain, it’s opensource (GitLab Community Edition) and it can also be self-hosted. One of its greatest feature are the GitLab...

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cloudflared as a doh client with libredns

Cloudflare has released an Argo Tunnel client named: cloudflared. It’s also a DNS over HTTPS (DoH) client and in this blog post, I will describe how to use cloudflared with LibreDNS, a public encrypted...

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Network Namespaces - Part One

Have you ever wondered how containers work on the network level? How they isolate resources and network access? Linux namespaces is the magic behind all these and in this blog post, I will try to...

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Network Namespaces - Part Two

Previously on… Network Namespaces - Part One we discussed how to create an isolated network namespace and use a veth interfaces to talk between the host system and the namespace. In this article we...

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Network Namespaces - Part Three

Previously on … Network Namespaces - Part Two we provided internet access to the namespace, enabled a different DNS than our system and run a graphical application (xterm/firefox) from within. The...

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a story about inclusion in tech

last days events, made me rethink of this story. I am not the hero of the story. I was in my early 20s, working part time on the tech lab of my uni. In this lab I met another student, I will call him...

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How to use cloud-init with Edis

It is a known fact, that my favorite hosting provider is edis. I’ve seen them improving their services all these years, without forgeting their customers. Their support is great and I am really happy...

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