Month: February 2023

Set Up a Fully Functioning Home Network Using OPNsense

In an effort to help those individuals, I decided to write my most comprehensive guide to date. I will discuss how to build an entire network using OPNsense and other network hardware in order to demonstrate how all of it works together. Much of the guide will be focused on OPNsense configuration since it lies at the core of the network infrastructure, but managed switches and wireless access points will be discussed as well.

Source: Set Up a Fully Functioning Home Network Using OPNsense (Home Network Guy)

ChatGPT Desktop App – Unofficial open source OpenAI ChatGPT desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux menubar

Although I have considerable misgivings about trusting AI for anything at this point in time, given its propensity to occasionally just make up answers that are total bulls&!t and invent facts out of thin air, a lot of people are still playing with it, and this software could make it more convenient to do so. Note that I have not personally tested this, so install and use at your own risk.

OpenAI ChatGPT desktop app for Mac, Windows, & Linux menubar using Tauri & Rust (Sonny Lazuardi / GitHub)

How to Set Up Peer-to-Peer VPN with Tinc on Ubuntu 22.04

Tinc is free and open-source VPN software that can be used to create mesh VPN networks. It is a small and powerful VPN daemon that can be installed on multiple platforms. Tinc uses encryptions and tunneling for creating a secure private network between multiple hosts.

Tinc provides additional features such as encryption, compression, and automatic mesh routing. This allows you to create secure and distributed private networks between servers in different locations.

In this tutorial, you will set up a peer-to-peer VPN server with tinc using multiple Ubuntu 22.04 servers. You will set up a peer-to-peer VPN with three different servers. Each server will be able to connect via a secure VPN connection.

Source: How to Set Up Peer-to-Peer VPN with Tinc on Ubuntu 22.04 (Howtoforge)

LuLu – a free alternative to Little Snitch?

If you use MacOS and you would like the functionality of Little Snitch but don’t want to pay for it, this might be an alternative to consider. I haven’t tested it, nor have I done a feature comparison between LuLu and Little Snitch, so this is just to note that it exists and nothing more.

In today’s connected world, it is rare to find an application or piece of malware that doesn’t communicate with a remote server.

LuLu is the free, open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections, protecting your privacy and your Mac!

Source: Objective-See: LuLu

Open source video captioning on Linux

In a perfect world, all videos would have transcripts, and live videos would have captioning. It’s not just a requirement for people without hearing to be able to participate in pop culture and video chats, it’s a luxury for people with hearing who just prefer to read what’s been said. Not all software has captioning built-in though, and some that does relies on third-party cloud services to function. Live Captions is an application for the Linux desktop that provides instant, local, and open source captioning for video.

Source: Open source video captioning on Linux | Opensource.com