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Get toast notifications in windows for gotify

Below is how to recieve toast-notifications for gotify on windows We have to allow powershell scripts run set-executionpolicy remotesigned as admin in powershell Install BurntToast in powershell. Open powershell as admin then type Install-Module -Name BurntToast it will ask some questions just hit yes to all of them Download websocat_win64.exe from Github HERE Below is the script param ($domain="p.domain.com", $token="AAAAAAAA") C:\Users\user\Downloads\websocat_win64.exe "wss://$domain/stream?token=$token" | %{ convertfrom-json $_ } | where-object {$_.
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Proxy website through NGiNX to get on the TOR network

This tutorial assumings the set up below NGINX CLEARWEB (web site hosted via SSL port 443) -> NGINX (reverse proxy for HTTPS website, converts website to HTTP and rewrites all 'DOMAIN.COM' to new .ONION address) -> TOR PROXY SERVICE Install Tor apt install tor Configure Tor nano /etc/tor/torrc Add the lines below to the file above HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/domain.com/ HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:4879 Find Tor hostname cat /var/lib/tor/domain.com/hostname Now it’s time to configure NGiNX
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Install Debian using RS232 serial cable

The following is for Windows Download Putty Choose serial and select the COM? you can find the com number from device manager under [Ports (COM & LPT)] Now that we have a serial connection go ahead and plug in the netinstall iso usb drive created using Rufus from Debian website hit tab to enter cmd to boot remove quiet after the --- and replace with console=ttyS0,115200n8 example below. This will make the installer use the serial port
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Speedtest-cli with Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf

HERE is the script that you can add to cron. Don’t forget to update the file with your influx creds and provisioned upload/download. mkdir /root/scripts wget https://leffler.tech/uploads/2021/09/28/speedtest2influx.sh -O /root/scripts/speedtest2influx.sh echo '0 * * * * root /root/scripts/speedtest2influx.sh' >> /etc/cronab HERE is the json for the dashboard
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Simple router using Debian and Firewall-cmd as a base

Here is a quick rundown on how to make a simple Debian box into a router Removed un-needed items apt purge iptables Install required items apt install bridge-utils firewalld dnsmasq Enable IP Forwarding sed -i 's/#net.ipv4.ip_forward=1/net.ipv4.ip_forward=1/g' /etc/sysctl.conf Find NICs ip a to find the NICs Now we create the bridge. This is assuming your device has three NICs and you want two for LAN and one for WAN nano /etc/network/interfaces
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HDHomeRun metrics using Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf

nano /etc/telegraf/telegraf.d/input-hdhr.conf [[inputs.exec]] commands = ["curl http://<IP-OF-DEVICE>/status.json"] timeout = "5s" data_format = "json" name_override = "HDHomeRun" tag_keys = ["Resource"] [inputs.exec.tags] device="<IP-OF-DEVICE>" HERE is the json for the dashboard This might get updated, might not.
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Blog Backend

How this blog is deployed ClearNet: gitea (main repo) -> metroline (custom hugo build container) -> github release (via custom container to clone from gitea and push to github) -> cloudflare pages (this is auto when there’s a commit in the github repo) TOR: gitea (main repo) -> metroline (custom hugo build container) -> rsync (custom container to push to web server) -> webserver (proxied via link HERE ) I had to do it this way since CloudFlare Pages only work with Github.
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Fix Nextcloud Issues

Below is how to fix the Your web server is not properly set up to resolve /.well-known/webfinger /.well-known/nodeinfo error if using NGiNX since everything else I could find was for Apache/HTTPD. Add the following to your NGiNX config file for nextcloud. Usualy found in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ or /etc/nginx/conf.d/ location = /.well-known/webfinger { return 301 $scheme://$host/index.php/.well-known/webfinger; } location = /.well-known/nodeinfo { return 301 $scheme://$host/index.php/.well-known/nodeinfo; } ACPu errors when doing stuff on the command line.
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Git fun

Here’s some simple things to do with git When updating a repo this is the simplest way to do it git config --global user.name FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME | this sets the person who made the commit (first/last name) git config --global user.email [email protected] | this sets the person who made the commit (email) git diff | this is the see any lines you’ve changed git status | this will show which branch your on and which files have changed (not the contents of the file like git diff, but just the files themselves)
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Restic systemd

init repo apt install -y restic export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='KEY_ID_HERE' export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='ACCESS_KEY_HERE' export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="REPO_HERE_IS_USE_MINIO" export RESTIC_PASSWORD='RANDOM_PASSWD_HERE' restic init Service time nano /etc/systemd/system/restic-backup.service [Unit] Description=restic Wants=restic.timer [Service] Type=oneshot User=root Group=root Environment=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='KEY_ID_HERE' Environment=AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='ACCESS_KEY_HERE' Environment=RESTIC_REPOSITORY="REPO_HERE_IS_USE_MINIO" Environment=RESTIC_PASSWORD='RANDOM_PASSWD_HERE' ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/mysqldump --defaults-file=/root/.my.cnf --all-databases > /opt/backup/mysqldump.sql' ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/restic --exclude={/dev,/media,/mnt,/proc,/run,/sys,/tmp,/var/tmp,/var/lib/mysql,/swap*} backup / && /usr/bin/restic forget --prune --keep-daily 5 --keep-weekly 15 --keep-monthly 15' ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rm /opt/backup/mysqldump.sql [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Timer time nano /etc/systemd/system/restic-backup.timer [Unit] Description=restic Requires=restic.service [Timer] Unit=restic.service OnCalendar=daily AccuracySec=1h Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=timers.
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perl/awk/sed/cut fun

sed With the last g all text is replaced not just the first Replace text inline using sed (does not work with symlinks) sed -i 's/TO_BE_REPLACED/NEW_TEXT/g' FILE_HERE Replace text output to stdout sed 's/TO_BE_REPLACED/NEW_TEXT/g' FILE_HERE awk Show specific column of line awk '{ print $N }' where N is column number cut cut -d' ' -fN where d is the delimiter and N is the colum number perl Replace new line with space
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Vi/m Fun

I’m honesly not sure if these are vi or vim specific as I use a mac and Debian machine, but here’s some fun stuff I’ve learned over the years. I started as a nano person, but am finaly sitting down and using vi/m more and more. In command mode (make sure to hit esc) Go to start of file gg Go to end of file G Delete from line to start of file dgg
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tar.xz Max Options

To use max XZ compression and all cores add export XZ_OPT='-T0 -9' to the end of your ~/.bashrc file. To use all cores add export XZ_OPT='-T0' to the end of your ~/.bashrc file. To use max XZ compression add export XZ_OPT='-9' to the end of your ~/.bashrc file. Then exit terminal and go back or source ~/.bashrc
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urBackup Appliance Fun

Here’s some fun stuff to learn about the urbackup appliance By default there is no firewall, but it’s locked down so one’s not needed, but I installed one anyway You should be able to sudo su - from the admin user, if not; shut the appliance down, then in grub hit e, then add init=/bin/bash at the end of the line that says quiet, then CTRL+X to boot, then echo 'admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.
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Storj Non-Docker using SystemD

This is just basic hints, not a full guide This assumes you have some basic linux knowledge Download identity and storagenode from github (I like to download these things to /opt/storj/) Create auth token HERE Create identity HERE (This took about 4 hours on my node | E3-1280 V2) storagenode setup. This will create config file and other needed files in ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/config.yaml and ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/storage Now you need to edit ~/.local/share/storj/storagenode/config.yaml and make changes as needed (wallet, identity files and data storage locations, email, storage size)
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htpassword generation opnsense/bsd

On most Linux distros it is possible to generate the htpasswd file entries simply using the htpasswd command line util. On FreeBSD the easiest way to accomplish the same task is using OpenSSL itself openssl passwd -apr1 >> /path/to/htpasswd.file Enter the password twice and the hash will be printed into the file Then open the file and add the username followed with a : before the hash It will look like username:password_hash
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urBackup Appliance on ServerCheap

This is still a WIP. Prepare image Download Appliance Unzip unzip urbackup-app-10-0.img.zip Now upload unzipped image somewhere public. Backblaze/S3 would be a great use for this Write image to disk in ServerCheap.net Create new instance Shutdown new instance Enable Rescue Mode SSH into rescued device using creds given Install required software apt update; apt install curl Download image and burn to disk curl https://URL-TO-FILE/urbackup-system-disk.img | dd of=/dev/vda You should now be able to disable rescue mode and boot it up
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Modoboa not sending email

By default the policyd is using IPv6. This needs to be forced to use IPv4 since the VPS I’m using doesn’t seem to have IPv6 enabled nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/policyd.conf Replace command=/srv/modoboa/env/bin/python /srv/modoboa/instance/manage.py policy_daemon with command=/srv/modoboa/env/bin/python /srv/modoboa/instance/manage.py policy_daemon --host 127.0.0.1
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Modoboa using mariadb

git clone https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa-installer cd modoboa-installer ./run.py --stop-after-configfile-check domain.com nano installer.cfg Add the folloing to installer.cfg [database] engine = mysql host = 127.0.0.1 install = true
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How to create keystrokes on Debian

This is very useful when working with VPSes where you can’t paste into the VNC connection (maybe I’m doing something wrong and you can?). Below is a quick piece of code I use. This should be ran as the user and not root. This sleeps for 5 seconds so you can navigate to where you need. sleep 5s; xdotool type CODE_TO_TYPE_HERE This is very easy and simple, but since I just switched to Debian full time from Windows it was a nice/easy way.
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Fix battery drain while sleeping with laptop

I recnetly decided to switch to Debian full time for my personal laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 3), after using it for a week or so I noticed that when I closed the lid it would die after less than a day. After some googleing I found the answer and they are below. I also noticed that the machine never seemed to wake up like it did on Windows (just open it and it should come alive), after switching over to deep_sleep it fixed that issue.
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dd Tricks

Here’s a couple tips and tricks while using dd on Linux You can view the status of an on-going dd command (I always forget to run with progress or the version you’re using doesn’t have it) You will need another terminal window. Not a problem for me as I always use tmux, some people say screen it better. Find PID of dd process -> ps aux | grep -v grep | grep dd
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