Jul 032023
 

I was going to write up a blog post about setting up a self-hosted Zerotier server when I came to the realisation that there wasn’t really any good management tools for the CLI for ZeroTier.

The “Getting Started” guide from ZeroTier is pretty sparse on explanations on what things do, with some curl commands thrown into the mix to do things like create networks, authorise members, and things like that, but that is nowhere near convenient to use on a command line, though that is made pretty clear by the end of first page where they say

You’d likely build yourself something fancier around this API.

And they were right! I built something slightly fancier! Introducing Zerotier-Console!

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Jun 292023
 

Onto Part 2 of my series on VPNs, this guide will show you how to set up an OpenVPN server on my Linux distribution of choice, Debian.

Debian is available as an image on a lot of VPS providers, and even services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, making it the perfect base to start your self-hosted VPN journey on.

You can help keep my site up and running by checking out the VPS providers that I use via the Affiliate links over on the left hand side there!

A Quick Introduction to OpenVPN

OpenVPN is a popular open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) solution known for its security, flexibility, and cross-platform compatibility with apps for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OSX.

In this guide, we will walk you through the process of setting up an OpenVPN server on Debian 11.

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Nov 232017
 

I bought a pair of cheap USB headphones yesterday so I could test out whether my sound issue on my computer was due to my sound card, or another issue.

The issue I after plugging them in however, was that I could not easily switch the sound output to the USB headphones.
I don’t run pulseaudio, so I was left with playing with configuration files to try and switch the audio over.

If I had been running pulseaudio, I’m sure this blog post would have been much shorter!
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Mar 022017
 

I was poking around in a Swann NVR to see whether I could customise it to suit my needs a bit better.
The NVR was easy enough to pull apart with only 5 screws on the outside holding the case on.
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Jan 202016
 

My home Zabbix instance was running out of space today, so I had to resize the partition that it lived on so that it would last a few more days while I worked out how to migrate it from my VMWare host to my ProxMox host.

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