The Rabbit Hole

Mycroft v1.5-popey

tl;dr: I followed a few videos, documentation sites, reviewed some source repositories, and used Home Assistant's Voice (PE) to make my own "Alexa" with Alan Pope's voice 😁 Going to put a bunch of links here for now, but once I have a more

LittleLinks Automation w/Security

tl;dr: Code is here: https://github.com/elreydetoda/littlelink 1. have an AWS account with CLI access configured and an s3 bucket created 2. Create the IAM Role permissions 3. Use devenv and AWS-CDK to deploy the GitHub OIDC connection 4. Ensure the GitHub (GH) action environment settings are

Mounting USB Drives in TrueNAS Scale

This is not a post about how to use USB drives in your TrueNAS Scale as a dataset, and there are probably better solutions (i.e. udev rules). This was only a quick script and config settings for ingesting data off an external HDD for my dad, so I tried

python

How I install pipenv and why

tl;dr: pip3 install --user pipx pipx install pipenv Background I personally enjoy writing a lot of python code, I've done it for community projects, personal projects, and for work. One of the parts of python, at least for me, (and it seems like for others as well)

development

VSCode modifications + tricks

These are some general modifications I do for my VSCode setup. General "editor.lineNumbers": "relative", // depends on the computer I'm using, and what I'm editing // "editor.formatOnSave": true, Shell scripts "[shellscript]": { // default option "files.eol": "

Preventing 2FA Crises

So...you've heard about using two/multi factor authentication (or 2FA/MFA), and hopefully you've already started using it...😅 A recent podcast episode I listed to detailed the painful process of what could happen if you lose your 2FA codes, and I hope to address how

GitHub action security

This is mainly a high level overview of some best practices I've been thinking about while contributing to an open source project recently, and mainly a note for me on how to use some of the cool features I've been playing with 😅.  This is much more

Deleting versions from a Linode s3 bucket

So...this wasn't as straight forward as I thought... Problem/story Enabling versioning for s3 buckets is standard practice for terraform's s3 backend, which Linode supports...kind of... While yes technically Linode supports the versioning, it doesn't support deleting the versions from the web-ui.

PikaPods

tl;dr: PikaPods is an awesome + cost effective place to host your blog 🥳 quick side-note: first time I've seen a picture of a pika and they are so cute 😅 Uptime I've been hosting my blog on PikaPods for probably close to a month now, and I&

Customizing the Casper theme

So, I think I did this because I wanted to add analytics to my blog and I read somewhere that code injection could potentially be wiped out (which hasn't happened for my css modes yet).  So, I forked the Casper theme GitHub (GH) repo and started making modifications

BYOBin

BYOBin

Quick article on how to build self contained binaries for rust. This is mainly because I had to do this for a pentest recently, because the environment was a very minimal container which only had about 5 binaries in it including bash...so pretty locked down and was missing almost

vagrant

Enabling clipboard support for vagrant-libvirt (vagrant-libvirt clipboard)

So, I think I have mentioned how much I LOVE vagrant 😁 One of the things that I normally never do, is use the GUI of whatever VM I am using vagrant to control. Even if I am using the clipboard for vim or my web browser for my automated vagrant

containers

packer build in a container...? 🛳️🤔

tl;dr: I was able to run a packer build command, for my packer-kali_linux project, inside of a Fedora toolbox container which I had installed HashiCorp's packer and qemu/kvm...and that is just the start of the inception... 🙃😅 So...I am a weird individual... 😅 my normal

proxmox

disaster recovery to Proxmox

Just to clarify I am doing this as more of a retroactive post to show how I migrated from my xcp-ng server ( I had some weird network sh!t go down...and I honestly didn't probably need to migrate but it happened 😅 ) to proxmox. Just wanted to link

powershell

PS for bash converts

PowerShell for bash converts + pentesting goodies Note for the image... while it isn't directly correlated to the right kind of Windows, it is a peaceful picture. Normally I don't associate peacefulness with powershell, it is normally me fighting with the shell and it normally wins 🤕, so

containers

Prevent docker from using runc

🚧🚧🚧🚧 WARNING!!!! Do, NOT do this if you don't know what or why you would want to do this!!!! 🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧~~ I actually attempted this again, and everything seems be working now 😁 Checkout the update at the bottom. Feel free to read about it though 🙂 Preface... So...I don't

meta

Projects

This page is just a page of links, and possibly a small description/tweet talking about it, to things I am currently working on or have worked on that I want to bring attention to. Infrastructure Kali Linux automated installation GitHub Project: elreydetoda/packer-kali_linuxThis is a repository that will

networking

DNS Rebind minimal bypass

NOTE: this is not hacking, this is an infrastructure tip to allow public dns servers to server internal IPs tl;dr pfSense walk through & OPNsense walk through Why? So, I have used pfSense for a long time and recently have switched over to OPNsense ( mainly because of their WireGuard

vagrant

Vagrant-ception or ViV (Vagrant in Vagrant)

Why? Jump down to the next section if you don't care why, and want to get into the details right away. 😁️ So, I run Linux as my main operating system and I enjoy using the native hypervisor stack of linux ( more info in a section below ), because I

zfs

(Open)ZFS tips and tricks

I am still very new to zfs, but I wanted to compliment my Cool shell tricks post with zfs stuff so I don't lose commands that I like. I am not going to give more detail than a simple description, but you should always be able to post

meta

Analytics for this site

tl;dr: here are all the analytics that get collected: https://plausible.io/blog.elreydetoda.site So, I ended up listening to a podcast episode on the changelog about a privacy respecting analytics company called Plausible, and thought I would check it out. I really like it because it is

RedOps

Tracking #RedOps

So, I have been following this space of red team automation for a while... and this post came out of a conversation I had with one of my co-workers about some videos I have been doing at work. So, I am going to try and keep this post up to

zfs

zfs rollback script

So, zfs is awesome (not going to get into that in this post)...and I love automation, so I set out to join the two together. 🙂️ I found the script below here: https://blog.woopi.org/wordpress/?p=60 elreydetoda/all-linux-tingsThis is a repo of all my configurations for different

docker

random docker stuff

First off if you don't understand any of the shell commands I use try and use this website to explain them: https://explainshell.com/ Docker namespace remapping Explaination So, I found this article, and it seems to have some pretty decent ideas for trying to harden docker. I

shell Featured

Cool shell tricks

Updated: This is an aggregation (so I don't loose them 😅️) of different shell tricks I have learned. Other resources Other resources - others Other resources - others - websites * Manipulating Strings - https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html Other resources - mine Other resources - mine