The Elflord – ~FaerieCX~

Diving into Maltego in 2025

03/01/2025 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Happy 2025 Welcome back to another year of random tech stuff. Let's see what's new in the last crazy month Raspberry Pi 5 WiFi 7 (coming tomorrow) Maltego (OSINT) More IoT stuff around the place Gaming (Smite 2?) Cryptocurrency news (waiting for next boom/mining) New monitors/setup Throwing out a lot…

Samsung Note 9 : Reclaiming into LineageOS 23

12/09/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Basically started on the journey of reflashing the old phone from Hermes. This is a brain dump and will be cleaned up over time. Linux: Install Heimdall Linux: Install adb Bring up Download Mode (varies per phone) Bixby, Down - plug power for S9 Note Download: TWRP Flash it heimdall…

Terraform, Cloudwatch, Grafana – Integrations

08/07/202308/07/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Sometimes we just want a pretty graph for Cloudwatch monitoring on Grafana. Working with Terraform it's now great to set up a basic block to auto create this. This is the way I did it Terraform Setup Set up a new feature in variables.tf variable "features" { description = "Features…

Crypto Mining: CFX mining test (via NiceHash/NBMiner)

22/05/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

I've gone from full focus mining on my mini server-rig to part time, so occasionally I look up what's most minable. I have a script that switches it from one to another with a few tweaks. I will publish this one day ;) In the mean time, one of the…

Puppet 8.0 is FINALLY released – no AlmaLinux 9 server

06/05/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Been waiting for Puppet release for months now as AlmaLinux 9 was not on the official support list for "puppetserver" and.. STILL it's not there. Latest puppetserver as writing is still EL8 :-/

Almost 1 month in (4 wks into job)

29/04/202305/05/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

Definately finding the job good. Nice daily routines and facilities. Great team, and definately good to be appreciated and get to contribute to the growth of the IT section of the company. Having some trust to do what I am doing anyway definitely relieves a lot pressure/stress. Growing again in…

3rd week into new Job

22/04/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

No secret, I've reentered the workforce. Working with a bunch of good people and supportive environment. Working a bit of AWS magic but mostly IAAC and Linux skills. Not disclosing much publically but it's been great.

Stormgain : Free mining review

12/01/202312/01/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

❌ Summary: NOT worth it Est. income: 0 for at least months, then miniscule (too high withdrawal fees) Summary hook [true] Basically free BTC to play with, for clicking once every 4 hours. "on the house". Earn "up to 8%" passive income which is actually quite low in Crypto world.…

Random Crypto wanderings : QRL

06/01/2023 by The Elflord

The Elflord

QRL _ Quantum Resistant Ledger looks like a nice small niche coin that I stumbled across today. CoinQuantum Resistant LedgerSymbolQRLHomepagetheqrl.orgResources/LinksCoinMarketCap MiningPoolStatsTrading on* Bitrex (QRL/BTC)* CoinTiger (QRL/BTC) Basically I'm looking to set up a mining node as a Speculative first in the FaerieNet Crypto Club/Pool. Just a first project test. Looks…

WordPress Themes: Athena

25/12/202225/12/2022 by The Elflord

The Elflord

OwnerSmartcat solutions (smartcatdesign.net)LicenceFreemuim (Upsell to Athena-Pro)Demo(Here until next year)http://demo.justfreewpthemes.com/?theme=athena Pros Free Clean, slick and installs on latest Wordpress Cons Hidden cripplewareDoesn't show as a Lite theme, but has features that you can't really customize to encourage upgrade to Pro version Locked features Background colour Removal of first slider (see workaround…

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