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My Favorite Firefox Extensions - Alexandru Nedelcu
https://alexn.org/blog/2025/03/15/firefox-extensions/
On programming and personal projects
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domain-crawler/crawler.py at master · Joozty/domain-crawler
https://github.com/Joozty/domain-crawler/blob/master/crawler.py
Domain crawler. Contribute to Joozty/domain-crawler development by creating an account on GitHub.
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signalfx/collectd-example
https://github.com/signalfx/collectd-example/tree/master
Contribute to signalfx/collectd-example development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Monitoring OpenWrt with collectd, InfluxDB and Grafana – Just another Linux geek
https://blog.christophersmart.com/2019/09/09/monitoring-openwrt-with-collectd-influxdb-and-grafana/
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Monitor home network with OpenWRT and syslog-ng
https://balagetech.com/monitor-network-traffic-openwrt-syslog-ng/
Monitor outgoing network connections of your home network with OpenWRT and Syslog-ng and Elasticsearch Security.
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Show Collectd Data From OpenWRT in Grafana
https://centurio.net/2023/10/10/show-collectd-data-from-openwrt-in-grafana/
Introduction It all started with internet connection problems. Since the end of 2022 I’m using a Raspberry Pi Compute Model 4 with a DFRobot router board as my main internet gateway and router. This proved to be a good decision so far, but after a recent maintenance of my provider I’ve started to have some connection dropouts. A collegue advised me to setup collectd on my OpenWRT router so that I can track connections problems. Collectd is configured in such a way that it pings 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 to indicate connection problems. While this may not be the perfect solution for proving problems, it was a great start and got me thinking. The metrics and graphs look ok, but in its default configuration the data is lost after a reboot of the router and the graphs aren’t modern enough for my liking. So I’ve thought why can’t I just visualize this data somehow in Grafana, which I’ve already used for other use cases?\n
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OpenWRT Traffic Monitor with collectd and InfluxDB | Jake’s Blog
https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/02/24/openwrt-collectd-influx.html
This post shows how to log traffic (and other router health metrics) to a remote InfluxDB over the collectd protocol.
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Sync current config to netbox : r/Netbox
https://www.reddit.com/r/Netbox/comments/1g1basq/sync_current_config_to_netbox/
peering-manager
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ArnesSI/netbox-inventory: Manage your hardware inventory in NetBox
https://github.com/ArnesSI/netbox-inventory
Manage your hardware inventory in NetBox. Contribute to ArnesSI/netbox-inventory development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Network Configuration Assurance With NetBox and Ansible - NetBox Labs
https://netboxlabs.com/blog/network-configuration-assurance-with-netbox-and-ansible/
In a recent webinar we explored how to get started with Network Automation using NetBox and Ansible, and one of the tasks we automated was backing up network device configuration files. We then took that one step further and compared the running configuration file ie. the actual state of the device with the intended state...
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SystemPrinting - Debian Wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#CUPS_as_Print_Server_for_Windows_Machines
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netenglabs/suzieq: Using network observability to operate and design healthier networks
https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq/?tab=readme-ov-file
Using network observability to operate and design healthier networks - netenglabs/suzieq
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How to Generate Device Configurations with NetBox - NetBox Labs
https://netboxlabs.com/blog/how-to-generate-device-configurations-with-netbox/
In this blog post, we explore how to generate device configurations with NetBox using NetBox 3.5's new built in Jinja2 templating features.
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Tib3rius/AutoRecon: AutoRecon is a multi-threaded network reconnaissance tool which performs automated enumeration of services.
https://github.com/Tib3rius/AutoRecon
AutoRecon is a multi-threaded network reconnaissance tool which performs automated enumeration of services. - Tib3rius/AutoRecon
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Scheduled Nmap Scanning - Daily or Weekly Checks
https://hackertarget.com/scheduled-nmap/
Schedule periodic Nmap port scans to test open ports. Be alerted when ports or hosts change on your network and servers. Nmap port monitoring service.
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21y4d/nmapAutomator: A script that you can run in the background!
https://github.com/21y4d/nmapAutomator
A script that you can run in the background! Contribute to 21y4d/nmapAutomator development by creating an account on GitHub.
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nmapAutomator: Installation, Usage, and Examples
https://securitytrails.com/blog/nmapautomator
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How to Detect CVEs Using Nmap Vulnerability Scan Scripts
https://securitytrails.com/blog/nmap-vulnerability-scan
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Automating nmap scans - SANS Internet Storm Center
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/26138
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jamaicada/librenms-guacamole: Integration Apache Guacamole with LibreNMS.
https://github.com/jamaicada/librenms-guacamole
Integration Apache Guacamole with LibreNMS. Contribute to jamaicada/librenms-guacamole development by creating an account on GitHub.
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colloqi/piSignage: Digital Signage Player Software for Raspberry Pi, more details at
https://github.com/colloqi/pisignage
Digital Signage Player Software for Raspberry Pi, more details at - colloqi/piSignage
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Pi Presents | A Multi-media Toolkit for Museums, Visitor Centres and more running on the Raspberry Pi
https://pipresents.wordpress.com/
Pi Presents is a toolkit for producing interactive multimedia applications for museums, visitor centres, and more. There are a number of Digital Signage solutions for the Raspberry Pi which are generally browser based, limited to slideshows, non-interactive, and driven from a central server enabling the content to be modified frequently. Pi Presents is different, it…
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The TV that's not: NEC's Pi-powered 55" Display | Jeff Geerling
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/tv-thats-not-necs-pi-powered-55-display
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tcpdump - record contents of packets dropped in iptables - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/174107/record-contents-of-packets-dropped-in-iptables
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Logging Dropped Packets in IPTables? - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25692685/logging-dropped-packets-in-iptables
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SlackPirate Set Sails Again! Or: How to Send the Entire “Bee Movie” Script to Your Friends in Slack | by Daniel Mayer | Jan, 2025 | Posts By SpecterOps Team Members
https://posts.specterops.io/slackpirate-set-sails-again-or-how-to-send-the-entire-bee-movie-script-to-your-friends-in-slack-d9c691ae33f5
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GitHub - Goldziher/kreuzberg: A text extraction library supporting PDFs, images, office documents and more
https://github.com/Goldziher/kreuzberg
A text extraction library supporting PDFs, images, office documents and more - Goldziher/kreuzberg
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On Naming Things \\ The Deck of Many
http://11spades.net/posts/on-naming-things/
A most foundational practice.
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Setting up OSSEC - Step by step guide
https://dcid.me/notes/my-ossec-setup-guide
Setting up OSSEC - A step by step guide on how to install and configure OSSEC.
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Software developer
https://kylerego.github.io/
Development blog with notes on Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET Core web development
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Make your backend more reliable using Nginx caching proxy
https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/nginx-caching-proxy/
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Blog | Herman's blog
https://herman.bearblog.dev/blog/
Hi I'm Herman Martinus. I'm a maker of things, rider of bikes, and hiker of mountains.
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The prevalance of productivity porn | Jannes on the web
https://jannestimm.com/posts/productivity-porn/
Productivity porn is becoming ever more prevalent in our lifes.
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Ultimate Web Development Guide For Clients | My Blog | Enindu Alahapperuma
https://enindu.com/blog/ultimate-web-development-guide-for-clients
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Build Composable Customer Portals with Ease | Open Self Service
https://www.openselfservice.com/
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Atlas of Surveillance
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
to make Rayhunter as easy as possible to install and u
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NotAwful · GitHub
https://github.com/NotAwful?tab=repositories
NotAwful has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Grafana, Telegraf, Smokeping, oh my… – The Cruft Of My Brain
https://thecruftofmybrain.com/2016/12/17/grafana-telegraf-smokeping-oh-my/
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stfc/Netbox-utils: Scripts and Utilities for querying and updating information in Netbox
https://github.com/stfc/Netbox-utils/tree/main
Scripts and Utilities for querying and updating information in Netbox - stfc/Netbox-utils
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UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council
https://github.com/stfc
UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council has 185 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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nf-HiPAC: High Performance Firewall for Linux Netfilter
http://www.hipac.org/index.html
nf-HiPAC: High Performance Firewall for Linux Netfilter
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centos - iptables, blocking large numbers of IP Addresses - Server Fault
https://serverfault.com/questions/119937/iptables-blocking-large-numbers-of-ip-addresses
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Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed
https://tech.marksblogg.com/satellogic-open-data-feed.html
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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The Story of Dwayne Richard Hipp and the Development of SQLite in 1999 | HackerNoon
https://hackernoon.com/the-story-of-dwayne-richard-hipp-and-the-development-of-sqlite-in-1999-yc4v356q
hundred mi
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SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better At Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale
https://rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-misunderstood
We're Rivet, a new open-source, self-hostable serverless platform. We've been in the weeds with SQLite-on-the-server recently and – boy – do we have a lot of thoughts to share. Give us a star on GitHub, we'll be sharing a lot more about SQLite soon!
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More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/09/23/colo/
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warewulf/warewulf: Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems.
https://github.com/warewulf/warewulf
Warewulf is a stateless and diskless container operating system provisioning system for large clusters of bare metal and/or virtual systems. - warewulf/warewulf
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URLs: It's complicated...
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/urls.html
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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When Did I Start Getting Cancer? - Nautilus
https://nautil.us/when-did-i-start-getting-cancer-1195935/
An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia
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Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didn’t Know We Had | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/
If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screec…
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jsloane/solar-monitoring-stack: The aim of this project is to simplify the setup and configuration of monitoring a SunSpec compatible solar system.
https://github.com/jsloane/solar-monitoring-stack
The aim of this project is to simplify the setup and configuration of monitoring a SunSpec compatible solar system. - jsloane/solar-monitoring-stack
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bonzo81/netbox-librenms-plugin: Netbox plugin to sync data between LibreNMS and Netbox
https://github.com/bonzo81/netbox-librenms-plugin?tab=readme-ov-file
Netbox plugin to sync data between LibreNMS and Netbox - bonzo81/netbox-librenms-plugin
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jiramot/airControl: Ubiquiti airControl2 Server
https://github.com/jiramot/airControl
Ubiquiti airControl2 Server. Contribute to jiramot/airControl development by creating an account on GitHub.
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manuel-freire/ac2: Source code plagiarism detection tool
https://github.com/manuel-freire/ac2
Source code plagiarism detection tool. Contribute to manuel-freire/ac2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe
https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64
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Querying Database with CollectD, InfluxDB & Grafana
https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/querying-database-collectd-influxdb-grafana/
Using CollectD and plugins to query database for business transactions and plot results with InfluxDB and Grafana for seamless monitoring.
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debian - ISC DHCP client (dhclient) alternative? - Server Fault
https://serverfault.com/questions/1108989/isc-dhcp-client-dhclient-alternative
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Support for RTL838x based managed switches - For Developers - OpenWrt Forum
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-rtl838x-based-managed-switches/57875
Hi,
I have coded basic support for the RTL838X SoCs which are used on many low-end managed switches, see https://gitlab.com/bkoblitz/openwrt-rtl838x
At present, there is rudimentary support for the
Zyxel GS1900-10HP…
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MajesticFalcon/Optimizing-CPE-Deployments: A combination of tools to automate service provider installations
https://github.com/MajesticFalcon/Optimizing-CPE-Deployments
A combination of tools to automate service provider installations - MajesticFalcon/Optimizing-CPE-Deployments
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wutcat/netbox-nas
https://github.com/wutcat/netbox-nas
Contribute to wutcat/netbox-nas development by creating an account on GitHub.
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renatoalmeidaoliveira/nbrisk: NIST 800-30 Risk Management for Netbox
https://github.com/renatoalmeidaoliveira/nbrisk
NIST 800-30 Risk Management for Netbox. Contribute to renatoalmeidaoliveira/nbrisk development by creating an account on GitHub.
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iDebugAll/phonebox_plugin: A Telephone Number Management Plugin for Netbox and more
https://github.com/iDebugAll/phonebox_plugin
A Telephone Number Management Plugin for Netbox and more - iDebugAll/phonebox_plugin
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Capturing LLDP Packets Using tcpdump | Baeldung on Linux
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/tcpdump-lldp-packets-cli
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Linux Bonding, LLDP, and MAC Flapping
https://packetpushers.net/blog/linux-bonding-lldp-and-mac-flapping/
Sometimes a painfully troublesome networking problem can have a complicated and brain-twisting root cause, one which you dread having to explain to peers and managers. However, sometimes the root cause is dead simple and makes you feel silly for how long it took you to find it. Today, I had one of the latter and... Read more »
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LLDP Traffic and Linux Bridges – always tinkering
https://alwaystinkering.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/lldp-traffic-and-linux-bridges/
This post content is actually taken from Nir Yechiel's blog "The Network Way" it has since fallen off the internet but the content was very useful and so I've pulled it from the wayback machine in an attempt to preserve it here. Enjoy! ################################### In my previous post I described my Cumulus VX lab environment which is…
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gnuTUBE | Artist & Band Marketing | Live Music Capture – gnuTUBE & Fam Mercantile
https://gnutube.live/
Fanbase Acquisition & Insights, Artist & Band Marketing, Live Music Capture
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
l, called Linux, which originally used the MINIX f
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A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Operating_System
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LLDPd - Know your network neighbors
https://tobru.ch/lldpd-know-your-network-neighbors/
An introduction into LLDP
What is LLDP?
LLDP is a network layer 2 protocol, called "Link Layer Discovery Protocol". It
transmits many information about the device and ports to all
network neighbors. It is vendor independent and specified in IEEE 802.1AB
[http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1AB-2009.
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Comcast BVE / Business Voice Edge settings you should hopefully never need – KG4CYX
https://www.kg4cyx.net/comcast-bve-business-voice-edge-settings-you-should-hopefully-never-need/
Useful info for the Comcast Business Voice Edge service: The portal login is at – at the time of this writing the security certificate is expired (way to go Cumcast) To log in as admin, you m…
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c-r.de: How to tell tcpdump to filter mixed tagged and untagged VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q) traffic
https://christian-rossow.de/articles/tcpdump_filter_mixed_tagged_and_untagged_VLAN_traffic.php
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Multiple Wireless Access Points On The Same Network - 7 Rules
https://www.madebywifi.com/blog/multiple-wifi-aps-on-the-same-network/
There are best practices that need to be followed when deploying multiple wireless access points on the same network, learn more on our blog!
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Cat6 Low Voltage Cabling in Metro Atlanta & Southeast -
https://justinhallconsulting.com/
We Construct Business Technology. A leader in low-voltage Cat6 data cabling, security systems, and device installations in Metro Atlanta, GA, and the Southeast.
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Xyphen IT
https://github.com/Xyphen-IT
Xyphen IT has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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OSISM
https://github.com/osism
Managing the world's cloud infrastructures. OSISM has 62 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Evaluating animal consciousness | Science
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4990
hese birds learn to selectively self-administer the analgesic when experiencing leg problems (8).
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al13n321/nnd: A debugger for Linux
https://github.com/al13n321/nnd?tab=readme-ov-file
A debugger for Linux. Contribute to al13n321/nnd development by creating an account on GitHub.
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How we built a VR Headset that sees people through walls. (Treehacks ‘25) | by redJ | (Jared M.) | Feb, 2025 | Medium
https://0xredj.medium.com/how-we-built-a-vr-headset-that-sees-people-through-walls-treehacks-25-e517cb805b9c
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Shadow IT, shadow research, and democratizing research | go ahead, mac my day
https://www.nadynerichmond.com/blog/2025/02/21/shadow-it-shadow-research-and-democratizing-research/
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znscli/zns: CLI tool for querying DNS records with readable, colored output.
https://github.com/znscli/zns
CLI tool for querying DNS records with readable, colored output. - znscli/zns
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curl those funny IPv4 addresses | daniel.haxx.se
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4-addresses/
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Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack - Engineering at Slack
https://slack.engineering/introducing-nebula-the-open-source-global-overlay-network-from-slack/
“What is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?” If you want our answer, it’s Nebula, but I recommend that you read the rest of this short post before clicking that shiny link. At Slack, we asked ourselves this…
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Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
https://schumacher.sh/2021/05/10/running-a-private-mail-server-for-six-years-easy-peasy.html
Motivation The Right Reasons Tech Stack Implementation Mail rate and Spaminess Ongoing Maintenance Alternatives Conclusion
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veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything: How to systematically secure anything: a repository about security engineering
https://github.com/veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything
How to systematically secure anything: a repository about security engineering - veeral-patel/how-to-secure-anything
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Forms.md: Developer-first, open source Typeform alternative
https://forms.md/
Forms.md is a free and open source JavaScript library that lets you build powerful multi-step forms with minimal code.
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Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building Modern Embedded Linux Images
https://vpetersson.com/2025/02/21/yocto-rockpi-and-sboms.html
Insights on DevSecOps, cloud architecture, and building secure, scalable systems. Sharing practical experience from running tech companies and implementing software supply chain security at scale.
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Shared post - Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
This article was originally published in December of 2022, exclusively for subscribers to The Lunduke Journal. It is being re-published now -- free for all -- as the importance of this topic (and the bizarre questions surrounding Mozilla) continues to grow.Mozilla, the Foundation behind the Firefox web browser, is absolutely mammoth — with over One Billion Dollars in assets.Where does all that money come from?Where is it being spent?With Firefox marketshare in a nosedive, how is Mozilla reacting?The Lunduke Journal spent some time with Mozilla’s financial disclosures and came away with some wild observations — bizarre expenditures (including to companies that don’t even seem to exist) and political organizations with no relationship to Mozilla’s core business.There’s a lot here. Read to the end. It gets wild.What, exactly, is Mozilla?There seems to be a great deal of confusion about what sort of organization Mozilla actually is. Many seem to be under the impression that it is simply a Non-Profit focused on the development of Firefox. And, while that is partially true, it is only a small part of the much bigger picture.At the top exists the Mozilla Foundation. A not-for-profit corporation that operates out of California.The Mozilla Foundation is the sole owner (100%) of two for-profit corporations: Mozilla Corporation and MZLA Technologies Corporation.Both the parent “Foundation” and the wholly owned “Corporation” are run by the same CEO and Executive Chair: Mitchell Baker.In fact, the “not-for-profit” and “for-profit” aspects of Mozilla are so tightly intertwined that the auditors report makes a point of calling the collective group of three organizations simply “Mozilla”… and reports on their finances as a single entity.One other misconception that many have is that Mozilla’s primary focus is the development of the Firefox web browser. That does not appear to be the case. These are the three “Areas of Focus” according to The Mozilla Foundation. Rally Citizens. Connect Leaders. Shape the Agenda.A strange set of areas to focus on, as you’ll see.One other item to remember as we go through these details: Firefox market share has been in a free-fall for some time. Depending on the source, it fluctuates between 3% and 7% of the total web browser market.How much money does Mozilla have?As of 2021, Mozilla (including the Foundation and the wholly owned For-Profit Corporations), had total assets worth over $1.1 Billion USD. That’s Billion. With a B. This includes close to $400 Million in cash. Overall assets jumped by roughly $200 Million over the previous year.As you would expect with such numbers, Mozilla saw a significant increase in revenue in 2021. Up over $100 Million (to just over $600 Million). At the same time as total revenue was skyrocketing, overall expenses went way (way) down. By roughly $100 Million. With the deepest cuts being focused in “Software development”. To put it another way: If Mozilla stopped earning money today… it has enough assets to fund their current expenses for roughly 3 years. Thanks in large part to rising revenue combined with cutting software development work.Where does that money come from?If you look at the “Change in Net Assets” chart above, you’ll notice that the vast majority of revenue comes from “Royalties” ($527 Million), with advertising and subscriptions ($56 Million) and Contributions ($7 Million) as the next two largest line items.“Contributions” is donations from people like you. Mozilla actively seeks donations because, as they put it, “We rely on donations to carry out our mission.” It is worth noting that this statement is not true.Mozilla does not, in fact, “rely on donations” to carry out their mission. In fact, if you removed donations from the yearly revenue entirely, it would have no impact on Mozilla’s ability to pay for any of their expenditures. And Mozilla could not pay more than a small fraction of their bills from the yearly donations.Since “Royalties” makes up such a large percentage of Mozilla revenue, let’s drill into that a little bit. Royalties for what, exactly? According to the Foundation’s 2021 report:“Royalties - Mozilla provides Firefox web browser, which is a free and open-source web browser initially developed by Mozilla Foundation and the Corporation. Mozilla incorporates search engines of its customers as a default status or an optional status available in the Firefox web browser. Mozilla generally receives royalties at a certain percentage of revenues earned by its customers through their search engines incorporated in the Firefox web browser.”Got it. Search engine deals. That’s the cash cow. And, while the annual report is light on the details, it does provide this key bit of information…“Approximately 83% and 86% of Mozilla’s revenues from customers with contracts were derived from one customer for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Receivables from that one customer represented 69% and 73% of the December 31, 2021 and 2020 outstanding receivables, respectively.”In other words: The vast majority (roughly 70%) of all of Mozilla’s yearly revenue comes from default search engine placement of just one customer.That customer, while not named in the report, is obviously Google (and parent company, Alphabet).Without that revenue, Mozilla could not continue to operate at their current level of expenditure without eating into their assets.How much does their leadership earn?While we’re on the topic of expenditures, it’s worth taking a small detour into the compensation of the Mozilla leadership. From the Mozilla Foundation’s 2021 Form 990: The head of Mozilla earned roughly $5.6 Million during 2021. The rest of the executive team ranged, more or less, from $100k to $300k.Interesting to note that the Mozilla CEO earned nearly as much ($5.6 M) as Mozilla received in donations ($7 M).Also interesting that the CEO received a bonus of nearly $5 Million… considering the precarious position that Mozilla is in (being dependent on a single client continuing to pay for Search Engine placement). Unless there’s a secret deal going on, that looks like a company teetering on the edge to me. Strange to reward a CEO for that sort of future uncertainty.Where, exactly, does all that money go?Mozilla is a Billion dollar corporation. While their flagship product is the Firefox Web Browser, the software development needs of Firefox — including manpower, services, and other expenses — do not fully utilize the massive revenue of Mozilla.Not by a long shot.Which begs the question… what is all of that money being spent on?Here is a short sampling, based on available public documentation, of exactly how much money is being spent… and where.MCKENSIE MACK GROUP During 2021, Mozilla paid $387 Thousand dollars to someone called “MCKENSIE MACK GROUP.”“[Mckensie Mack Group] is a change management firm redefining innovation in the white-dominant change management industry.”From their LinkedIn page, Mckensie Mack Group describes itself thusly: “Black-led and nonbinary-led, MMG is a global social justice organization”.Mckensie Mack is a public speaker who regularly discusses her anger at “White Colonialism” and her dislike of “CIS” men and women. The “Mckensie Mack” company website blog primarily discusses abortion and Trans related issues.Why would a company that develops a web browser want to pay her close to half a million dollars (in one year)? That remains unclear. It is, however, worth noting that this is a far larger expense than any of the executive team of Mozilla earn in salary (other than the CEO).ACTION RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE $100,000 was paid to an organization listed as “Action Research Collaborative.”What, exactly, is “Action Research Collaborative”?That is a surprisingly difficult question to find an answer to, as they have no website whatsoever.One of the few references to it is in a Cornell newsletter from earlier this year, where one of the founders states that Action Research Collaborative is a “standing institutional home that can support action research projects that bring together researchers, community members and policymakers, to be able to work together and address pressing issues as they arise.”Which… doesn’t really tell you much of anything. No product or project. No client. No website. Nothing.That founder, Neil Lewis Jr., appears to have focused his career on “vaccine acceptance”, problems with “white” people, and his theory that “white people” can not be victims of discrimination.What does this “Action Research Collaborative” actually do? Why would Mozilla need their services and be willing to pay $100,000 for it?That remains entirely unknown.While The Lunduke Journal does not like to delve too deeply into the Political Woods (tm), it should be questioned why so much money — possibly millions of dollars donated by individuals who thought they were supporting a web browser — is being funneled into highly political organizations that seem to have no involvement with the World Wide Web, Web Browsers, or any related standards.Weird Discretionary Spending $30,000 to “MC Technical Inc.” in 2021. Who are they? Well, they don’t have a website, that’s for sure. The business registry listing is about the only thing of the company that seems to exist. The listed address is someone’s house.How does a mostly-non-existent company, with no online presence at all (no website, social media, reviews, etc.), get paid $30,000 in “discretionary” money from Mozilla?That’s just straight up weird. And then there’s the $375,000 in discretionary spending given to “New Venture Fund.”According to Influence Watch:“The New Venture Fund (NVF) is a 501(c)(3) funding and fiscal sponsorship nonprofit that makes grants to left-of-center advocacy and organizing projects and provides incubation services for other left-of-center organizations. The fund focuses primarily on social and environmental change.”Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, gave $375,000 to a “Fund” that specifically exists to provide money and services for political organizations of one particular “alignment”.Why? In what way does this help Firefox? Or Firefox users?So many questions…The deeper we dig into Mozilla and their financials, the more questions come up.Why does Mozilla give so much money to political speakers that have no relationship to their core business?Why does Mozilla seem unconcerned with alienating a large portion of their user base (which is already shrinking)?Why do some of the recipients of Mozilla money appear to be nothing more than empty shells of companies — not even having a simple website?Why does Mozilla continue to take donations if it doesn’t need them?Where does Mozilla spend those donated dollars? Do they go to the strange discretionary spending or political organizations?With the 70%+ reliance on Google (a competitor) for revenue, why is Mozilla spending money on projects that have no goal of being profitable (and have no relation to their core business)?What happens when the Google funding goes away? Mozilla appears certain that it never will (based on their spending)…. why is that?Why is Mozilla decreasing software development funding when development of Firefox is the cash cow?And that is, literally, the tip of the iceberg.The Lunduke Journal has sent out numerous questions and requests for comment to organizations listed here (among many others) to find answers. Will any be forthcoming? It will be interesting to see.August 5th, 2023 Update: To date, no request for clarification or additional details has been answered.
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