The final measure of any financial negotiation is the feeling of whether or not you got a “deal”. That prior sentence… makes no sense. I wrote “measure,” and then six words later I wrote “feeling”. A feeling is never a measure, but yet, when you hand over your hard-earned money to buy a...
For a long time I used Discord webhooks for notifications from my services. It was easy, it worked and almost every application knew how to send something to Discord. Create a private channel, copy a webhook URL, paste it into a service and wait until something breaks. Very advanced engineering....
I updated Immich to v3 on Unraid and the web UI stopped loading entirely, no error on the page, just connection refused. Checking the main Immich container logs showed the following: Error: No vector extension found. Available extensions: vchord, vector Turns out Immich 3.0 dropped...
The MeshCore hardware scene has changed a lot since we last updated this guide. New devices launched, old recommendations got dethroned, and a handful of use cases emerged that simply didn't exist when we wrote the original post. This is a full rewrite, not a refresh.We kept the same goal: help...
A fresh macOS install out of the box is fine. But "fine" is not what we want. With the right tools, settings, and a couple of hours of setup, you can turn that brand new MacBook into a serious productivity and development machine that fits the way you actually work.Why Bother Customizing macOS at...
If you've read my Meshtastic getting started guide, this is the other side of the coin. MeshCore is the newer LoRa mesh firmware that's been picking up serious momentum, and after running it for a few weeks on a Wio Tracker L1 Pro and a SenseCAP T1000-E (companion plus a repeater), I figured it's...
Stop configuring MQTT brokers. Stop fiddling with uplink and downlink toggles. Stop depending on a public server with a zero-hop policy that barely works. The Flaresat Relay Bridge gives you live, bidirectional sync between your off-grid mesh and anyone online, in about 20 seconds.The MQTT...
I was looking for something to keep findings, scan results, and reports in one place instead of dumping everything into a notebook. For pure bug bounty work, I still think a normal notes app such as Obsidian is often enough. It is faster for testing, writing down ideas, storing screenshots, and...
The official Meshtastic app is an incredible tool for managing your radio. It handles channels, encryption, and firmware perfectly. But it wasn't built for group coordination. It shows you a node list and a chat box. That's it.For a long time, if you wanted shared pins, live routes, or marked...
For years, iPhone users were locked out of the Meshtastic + TAK combination entirely. ATAK runs on Android. The plugin architecture Apple uses doesn't allow external plugins the way Android does. iOS users were told to buy an Android device or sit this one out.That changed in February 2026. The...
I have always used automation for bounty hunting or quick tests. Automation allows you to run multiple tools one after another without wasting time manually executing commands. There are always two problems. The first is that you have to choose the right tools, not too many and not too few. Tools...
What is Meshtastic?Meshtastic is an open-source mesh networking platform that enables decentralized, long-range communication without relying on cellular networks, WiFi, or internet infrastructure. Using affordable LoRa (Long Range) radio hardware, Meshtastic creates resilient networks where each...
Integrate an LTR390UV ultraviolet light sensor into your ESP32-based LoRa Meshtastic Node for UV index monitoring, sun safety tracking, and environmental UV measurements.Hardware1x LTR390UV Module - AliExpress Price: 8.00 USD | Amazon US Price: 12.99 USD4x Female to Female Pin Connector AliExpress...
This article is about building a HexStrike AI Lab with Kali, Fedora, Roo Code and DeepSeek. Enjoy!
HexStrike AI popped up in the Parrot 7.0 release notes as a new “AI Tool” category.
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Yesterday I bought myself a new VPS. Why not? Also because the other three I have are already at full capacity. I was a Tor relay operator twice in the past, for several years each time. I have now decided to gather all my notes together and review the project requirements once again. I have set...
Everyone in IT has lots of flash drives. Each one has something different on it. But they’re all important and useful. Sometimes only once a year, but still useful. I decided to tidy up my USB drives and put everything in one place. I thought it would be difficult, but it turns out there is a very...
I looked all over for the answer to this before I purchased them! The camera module itself rotates to almost any angle within the mount, so you can easily angle it in any direction. All the pictures online depict the camera as being mounted upside down which led me to the impression it might only...
I am a pentester and red teamer at work, and an ethical hacker, blogger, gamer and pseudo-developer outside of work. Sometimes I’m a slacker at work too, but I prefer to call it ‘professional’ – meaning I automate my tasks. If there are no red team activities planned for Friday, I don’t do...
I created this based on various internet sources for a company that is planning to carry out threat modelling. It is a general outline and preliminary proposal that you can adapt to your needs. Hopefully someone will find it useful. Experts in this field may be able to provide more information,...
I recently needed an encrypted container to store files on a Linux virtual machine (Debian 13 with XFCE). I didn’t want to encrypt the entire disk so that it wouldn’t take up too much space, so I decided to create a simple, encrypted container that I could mount and store important files on....
When the zombie apocalypse comes and the world as we know it ends - when GPT Chat and all other AIs are no longer available online, and even Uncle Google is gone - your own little stupid AI will come in handy. You’ll need to know how to get water, hunt, kill zombies, identify which mushrooms are...
Backing up data is important. Anyone who has ever lost data would agree. There is also a golden rule: “There are two kinds of people in this world—those who back up their data and those who will.”
Be smart and start doing this before you lose your data. I currently use Fedora (since
As I moved my virtual machines and labs from VirtualBox to Virt-Manager, I shared some tips about my new configuration. Maybe they will be useful for someone else who is also migrating. If you are looking for Windows 11 tips, you can also check out the article Windows 11 virtual machine on
Before I get into the details, I should mention that we are not hacking the Tor network here. We are not breaking the security of the network or the software itself. Also bear in mind that this tutorial doesn’t cover all the ways to hack hidden services. Today, I’m focusing on simple steps that...
I will start the new year with a simple entry. Specifically, monitoring my own services. As time goes by and you have more and more websites or servers that like to stop working from time to time for various reasons, it is worth monitoring their status. Especially when they are sites or services...
Some time ago I started migrating my virtual machines from Virtual Box to Virt-Manager. Mainly because of performance, the fact that sometimes things don’t work in Virtual Box as I would like them to, and of course KVM is harder to configure so I’m going to be a real pro h4ck3r and advanced user...
Sometimes people try a simple way to hide access to parts of the site using the basic access authentication method based on HTTP user agent. It’s not very sophisticated, or super effective, but you can often come across this solution. It will definitely block a regular user
You may or may not remember my article Mount Synology NAS in Linux. Being the lucky owner of a Synology DS720+, I sometimes do some interesting things on it besides the standard stuff. And since this site is also my online notebook, I have collected all the things I have configured on my NAS in...
I have switched back to Linux as my daily operating system. For virtualisation I have always used Virtual Box and still do, but I have always wanted to try VirtManager. In the past, I was put off by the number of configurations, and there was always something not
This is going to get messed up. And, in fact, the goal was order. I recently did some tidying up of my commands and steps for checking a service/pen testing/bounty hunting/hacking/red taming/messing around. I decided to write it down in one place and expand it as needed. Here is my list of steps...
Normal people prepare presentations in PowerPoint (or Libre’s Impress or Google’s Slides), but it’s boring. I mean, presentations are generally boring and should only be a background for a speaker, and making them in a software like a PowerPoint makes them even worse (too many options to distract...
Yo yo yo my dear readers. A chaotic article today about several things at once. Because why not. I wasn’t sure if I could handle this month’s article, if I’d write something meaningful or just a quick entry in the worth checking series. Whenever I have a busy month, I always leave an entry until...
When I enter the company (if I am hired to make a mess, not to break in), the first thing I do is look for the low hanging fruit. If there are a lot of them, I know the job will be easy and the company will have a lot to do in the next few months or even years if there is a mess in
I needed to re-install Windows 10 on my PC after an SSD failure, but after reading many tutorials online, the best I could get was booting to the install screen and it getting stuck at 0% then erroring. After many hours of trying, I eventually found the solution to my problem on Superuser. I’ve...