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New Public Monero (XMR) Node: xmr.grub.net:18089

As the recent flooding attacks on the Monero network were going on, I decided to set up a new Monero node to do my part for this amazing project. It went live April 6, 2024. Initial testing was with a small group of acquaintances and I expanded that out by publishing the node on Monero.fail. […]

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Hacky Crud

Simple Script to Block YouTube Ads with Pi-hole

I was going over far too many MB of tcpdumps trying to figure out the problem of YouTube ads. It looked like just before an ad would roll, a lookup was done for a googlevideo.com hostname that would often return a different IP than the one that it had been returning earlier. What if the […]

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WordPress, eh?

Moved to WordPress because I would prefer to tinker with things other than brain-dead web design. Remember when “Web Masters” were a thing?