In one line… Xiaomi Mi 360° 1080p Home Security Camera (MJSXJ02CM) is ideal for monitoring, but lacks essential features as a security camera. Some people in Amazon and Flipkart found my reviews helpful. So, I thought of writing this extended review as re-submitting my reviews take times to reflect on...
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Fighting malware on BSNL broadband network
Have you seen malicious popups (only) on BSNL broadband network?
BSNL broadband users have been seeing a malicious pop-up upon clicking anywhere on a page that is unsecured. A popular example of unsecured site / page is www.bsnl.co.in itself. Secured sites have the URL in the form of https://. Unsecured sites have the URL in the form of http://. Can...
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My pi-hole.net setup
Save your internet by running your own DNS
Pi-hole.net is a self-hosted DNS service that you can install on your own machine (such as in a USD5 per month VPS) and let us create a black hole for internet advertisers. While there are other free DNS services available on the internet, such as Google DNS, Cloudflare, Quad9, none...
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Jekyll on macOS using MacPorts
Get started with Jekyll SSG (Static Site Generator) on macOS using MacPorts.
Jekyll grows fast. Keeping it updated to the latest version is easy, if we keep every dependency to the latest version too, starting with ruby! The previous article on installing Jekyll on mac Sierra is too old to be used now. Also, it used the ruby version comes by default...
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One-way Backups
The correct way to take backups of your site using AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage.
Taking backup is important. How we take backups is even more important. I use AWS S3 for most of my backups, not just because of its cost, but because of its ability to fine-tune your backup strategies. For example, for my other site tinywp.in that is running on Google Compute...
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