About a week ago, a massive Google search engine data leak was discovered. Thousands of pieces of documentation on the Google Algorithm were discovered that were accidentally leaked by a Google Search bot. The documentation does not include code, but it does include variable names and brief descriptions of what they do. Some have said…
PubHole is a DNS over HTTPS (DoH) server by archuser.org (at archuser.org) that offers two secure lanes for DNS traffic and standard DNS. It blocks ads and trackers and adds OpenNIC support that is only accessible with a special DNS server. PubHole is run by a single person out of pocket as a hobby with…
The Domain Name System (DNS) enables your computer to locate other computers. In simple terms, DNS records operate like a phone book by retrieving the IPv4/IPv6 address associated with a domain and conveying this information to your computer. Your computer temporarily stores this information based on the Time To Live (TTL) specified in the DNS…
Unbound is a DNS server that’s normally used in more complex environments than PiHole. If you use Linux, you may see it’s even required by many packages. Many companies use it for their own DNS servers, and it makes up much of the internet’s actual DNS infrastructure. Unbound supports complex things like DNS over TLS,…
ZFS is possibly one of the best filesystems out there. Yet still, Linux is only recently getting good support for it. The real ZFS is available on UNIX, like Solaris, and for this article, FreeBSD. Because Solaris has gone under recently, FreeBSD is undoubtedly the best OS for ZFS. However, if you’re new to FreeBSD…
We are starting a new series of tutorials, this time pertaining to minimalism and making your computer systems look pretty. We have created a beautiful desktop background that changes depending on the time, which is available here: https://infotoast.org/homepage/. Try refreshing and you can see that it shows a different image each time. Our background cycles…
The technology known as the “PiHole” has become quite ubiquitous over recent years. The PiHole allows you to create a DNS server that stops tracking entirely, across your entire network. However, what happens when you need to leave home. What happens when you go to work or go to a local coffee shop? Now, you’re…
Yesterday, I discovered ZSH. It’s pretty incredible. It’s a shell, like bash or sh, but it includes tons of features like syntax highlighting, error correction, and more. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure ZSH on BSD, Linux, and Mac, so it’s as cool as I made it sound. Installation…
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a website on a FreeBSD server. We will be setting up a BAMP stack (BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which is basically a LAMP stack but for FreeBSD. This tutorial will not tell you how to actually code your website. You will have to do that…
There are few Operating Systems on the level of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is more secure than even Linux. It is also much more reliable than Linux because it’s a holistic Operating System and not just a collection of packages. That being said, there is a steep learning curve, and the philosophy is different than Linux. FreeBSD…