Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to the Twitter service, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and moderation policies.

Microsoft tightened the security of Windows 11 by adding TPM and Secure-Boot as the minimum requirement to install it. This article show how to enable TPM on KVM host and enable Secure-Boot for Windows 11 VM.

Commento is open-source privacy-focused commenting platform, It’s fast, bloat-free and can be self-hosted. This article guide you to install required dependencies like PostgreSQL (Ubuntu 20.04), setting up required Commento configuration and it’s SystemD to start the server automatically on when the system boot up. Additionally (but recommended), use Nginx as reverse proxy to serve Commento instance using HTTPS.

A few days ago, I received an email from Plex (an American streaming media service and a client–server media player platform) informing me that they had a data leak. They ask their users to be aware of an incident involving their Plex account information.

I use Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager GUI for libvirt) to easily manage virtual machine on my personal laptop. It’s easy and works great for “normal use” of KVM/QEMU. But, you may need to do little extra steps to be able to share data between host and multiple Linux guests.

Sometime, I get a problem when running Tor daemon under Linux Container, usually related to AppArmor after I upgrade the system. Meanwhile, my Tor service needs to be turned on all the time and reachable to all my “workers” who fetch .onion addresses listed on my Monero remote node monitoring service.

Dear future me who read this: Yes, you read it right. I’m running Matrix Synapse on HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC (g7-1260us). When this article is published, it’s 11 years old laptop with broken battery, 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM and Sandy Bridge CPU (i3-2330M), plus the fan on the CPU headsink is not working.

I am interested in researching the phenomenon of “trading bots” which has recently gone viral in Indonesia. There are several trading bots that have been proven to be scams and some still expected to be able to return to their activities again. At first I thought it would be a little difficult and take a long time, but it doesn’t seem like it will take that long.

Regarding my previous post about MikroTik, DNS-over-HTTPS and AdGuard, there is one product that I actually used several years before.

I was using PiHole as DNS forwarder and DNS sinkhole of my main DNS servers (BIND). During 4 years using PiHole, I rarely experienced significant problems in maintenance, upgrade or troubleshoot process. In terms of reliability, I think PiHole definitely deserves a mention.

Before I begin, I’d like to tell you that in Indonesia, every ISP need to follow government policy. One of those policy is to block millions of website which according to them fall into specific category like porn, pirates, gambling, hate speech, scam and drugs.

Since the Monero remote nodes that I monitor are increasing and my page that displays a list of Monero remote nodes MAY contains Google AdSense (where very likely track users behavior and interests), I decided to create an API endpoint so that power users / developers can use it without visiting my site.