Chrome Ad Blocking

OpenDNS, Cloudflare, etc. DNS are not effective behind school wifis, I would suggest https://ublockorigin.com/ After trying all the different adblocks, this one just works without training. Good work.

Solar Mining

The process of converting photons to fiat currency with the least amount of work and cost. Currently crypto mining with solar is the most cost effective option. What’s the most efficient miner right now? Right now according to https://whattomine.com/miners?cost=0.1&cost_currency=USD&sort=efficiency_desc, the most efficient is the iPollo Mini Plus at 232W an generates about .89 cents per…

Battery Sizing

Shopping for AGM batteries for your motorhome, power plant, or solar sump can be a hassle with varying voltages and amp hours and kilowatt hours. Lifepo4 batteries are still out of reach for alot of folks, and sealed AGMs are still the way to go. Especially with a solar charge controller, AGMs are the best…

Quick Lab Rollout

Here are some links to the basic VMs you are going to need to set up a baseline lab for Cybersecurity and CEH classes that teach Kali Metasploit use. Virtualbox:https://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Kali Linux:https://kali.org/downloads Metasploitable:https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable OWASP Broken Web Apps VM:https://sourceforge.net/projects/owaspbw/ Windows Server 2012 r2:https://www.microsoft.com/enus/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2 Windows 10 Enterprise:https://www.microsoft.com/enus/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise

Dark Days of Winter

It is cold and raining and dark here. Even in the most expensive to live places on earth, you will suffer under the iron fist of the seasons. There is not much power on the solar panels. My inverter makes an awful scream when the battery voltage goes below 11.4. I am sitting here taking…

Iranian Hashwars

In 2023 money, information and electrical power, and the ability to compromise or secure it, can be measured by hashpower as hashrate. The global crypto mining map is the terrain of hash power. https://ccaf.io/cbeci/mining_map Iran has suffered under sanctions for decades since they kicked out our puppet dictator Reza Pahlavi and under US Foreign policy…