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Tiago Stoco

Tiago Stoco

I.T and technology enthusiast with a creative mind working in a data centre and dedicating his free time to fun tech-related personal projects and family.

openWRT - DNS Traffic Hijack

openWRT - DNS Traffic Hijack

We previously have deployed a pihole to serve DNS queries to our network and block undesired queries for ads and tracking, however, any host can manually define its DNS server and reach the internet, therefore, bypassing our pihole. We will deploy a set of iptables rules to capture all traffic

Ghost Blog - How to Update

Ghost Blog - How to Update

The first step is to make a backup of the blog in case things break. I copied the ghost folder to a backup folder: cp -r /var/www/ghost-blog /home/ghost-blog/backup/2024-02-25-12-00/ Also, exported a backup with the frontend option at : We are now ready for the update. 1)

Ghost Blog - Create a New User Without Email

Ghost Blog - Create a New User Without Email

Because my infrastructure still does not have an email server or solution implemented and the ghost blog kind of need email configured to work properly especially allow the creation of new users. Since we are unable to create new users through the GUI there is a manual solution described on

Docker - Pihole Container

Docker - Pihole Container

This blog post will detail how to create a custom pihole [https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole/] container with a pre-loaded script to update our block and allow lists automatically. To have this custom container we will have to create our own custom docker image. First let's

Docker - Container with MACVLAN

Docker - Container with MACVLAN

I have recently heard from Peter Mckee from Docker on the talk python to me podcast episode 308 [https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/308/docker-for-python-developers-2021-edition] that we should not assign IP addresses to our containers. He compared containers to food that we should cook, consume and when hungry cook another

openWRT - BT Home Hub 5 how to install

openWRT - BT Home Hub 5 how to install

There are plenty of tutorials out in the internet with extensive explanation about the pros and cons of installing openWRT in a home router. This tutorial is to meant to grab only the relevant steps of the installation process : Pinout for the TTL to USB ConnectionThe table below is very

Linux - List Serial Ports

Linux - List Serial Ports

A quick and easy way to list your serial ports is : HP-8470 > tiago > ~ > dmesg | grep tty [ 0.053907] printk: console [tty0] enabled [ 1.042355] 0000:00:16.3: ttyS4 at I/O 0x4090 (irq = 17, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A [96426.870180] usb 3-4: cp210x converter