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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?

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This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?

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    scrambo
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    First time posting in this thread, I think! I recently got bit my the motivation bug so I'm using the old RPI that's been sitting around doing NOTHING for years! Raspberry Pi Specific I've set up...

    First time posting in this thread, I think! I recently got bit my the motivation bug so I'm using the old RPI that's been sitting around doing NOTHING for years!

    Raspberry Pi Specific

    I've set up Pi-Hole with a static ip, and directed my router to direct all DNS requests through it. Now I get less network traffic, ads, and reduced processing time on all devices on lan :)

    I've also started running new docker containers using podman which I'll start to configure, integrate, and automate over the coming months:

    • HomeAssistant for all the smart home needs
    • grocy for tracking the foods in my pantry, and automating adding and removing items using the barcode scanner
    • gotify for setting up push notifications between all the above services, as well as my phone (when im on the home network)

    Router Specific

    While digging through my router settings, I also discovered it allows me to connect a usb device and broadcast it on lan as a samba device. So now I've connected a 2TB backup drive which I'll be using as a multi-purpose local-media-streaming / backup target.

    Smaller things

    Apart from that, I've updated my keepass database to exist on the lan drive as the primary copy, which then syncs to the copy on Google Drive so there won't be any more issues updating it remotely and clobbering changes locally.

    Finally, I've updated my personal site "blog" with a link to a libli that I set up a couple months ago, which I'll be using as a personal, read-only form of "twitter". It would be cool to set it up later with an rss feed or something, but I'm not too concerned about it now.

    Next up will be integrating Cactus Chat comments into the existing posts (and any new posts) that are on the blog!

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      helloworld
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      My Pi-Hole blocks 0.8-8% of all DNS queries, which seems quite low compared to internet anectodes. 90% of them being 2 domains, Firefox telemetry and an ad network. I do run unlock on allachines,...

      My Pi-Hole blocks 0.8-8% of all DNS queries, which seems quite low compared to internet anectodes. 90% of them being 2 domains, Firefox telemetry and an ad network. I do run unlock on allachines, and my phones generally get malicious packages disabled but that alone doesn't quite explain it. Anyone have any ideas?

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      1. scrambo
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        What I saw from docs I saw around is that the Pi Hole team have a conservative hosts list. That, combined with the fact that DNS hosts blocking won't work for ads streamed inside http requests for...

        What I saw from docs I saw around is that the Pi Hole team have a conservative hosts list. That, combined with the fact that DNS hosts blocking won't work for ads streamed inside http requests for "regular content" means pi hole is going to block less than something like unlock. I use both, pi hole for network blocking, and ublock for "after loading" content blocking

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