Shrirang Kahale

Internet as we know today, emerged from ARPANET, which was a research network made by the US DoD. Technologies like TCP/IP formed the basis of ARPANET, being the the first network to use IP based communication. ARPANET was eventually dissolved, but new networks were formed and w…

I run a non-profit FOSS mirror service which serves thousands of people daily. India is a vast country, and with increasing popularity of FOSS more and more mirrors are needed, when compared to other countries we have very few mirrors. We are working to improve the situation. Cu…

It’s late, I am sitting in my chair with my laptop in my lap, a drizzle of rain is falling outside and I can hear constant plunk plunk plunk sounds of the rain hitting the floor, a cool breeze is running through my room. A table fan is running pointing away from myself because o…

Infrastructure is fascinating, atleast to me. Recently I have been reading up about the infrastructure required for research at The South Pole. A lot of the things which we take for granted while we carry out our daily lives are not readily available there. The average annual te…

I don’t know why but since 2020 (COVID era) festivals don’t feel the same anymore. I had the excitement and would eagerly wait for Holi (and other festivals) before. Maybe it’s because I have grown up? But that doesn’t explain why others feel the same. Somehow I think this is re…

I write this as when India has successfully landed and is carrying out it’s Chandrayan-3 mission. This is a very proud moment for each and every Indian. India has become the first country to land on Moon’s South Pole, I’d like to congratulate all the people who were involved in …

What exactly are Insider Threats? An insider threat is a perceived threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization’s securit…

Yesterday, I was just sitting and thinking about my time spent in COVID lockdowns. It was a harsh period for the whole world. It was a terrible year for everyone, millions of people died. While all my friends were stuck inside their homes playing video games, watching movies and…

I’m a 19 y/o who has a strong interest in Networking, DevOps, Aviation, RF and technology in general. I’m also experienced in working with Linux-based servers and enjoy tinkering with them to improve my skills. I am a believer of the free software philosophy and I contribute to …

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Even though Bharti Airtel (AS9498) is an upstream of Vodafone Idea (Vi) the routing between the two ISPs is consistently bad. While this heavily affects P2P traffic, it also has other impacts. ➜ VoWiFi (Voice Over WiFi) is very useful for places which have poor cellular coverage…

Termux mirror.albony.xyz/termux Its added to the termux mirrorlist so you should get it automatically soon, if you want to add it manually: termux-change-repo (part of termux-tools package) can be used to modify sources. Another way of doing it is by using apt edit-sources and a…

mirror.albony.xyz Currently mirroring 11 repositories. (archlinux, endeavouros, linuxmint, artixlinux, cachylinux, fdroid, manjaro, armbian, termux, blackarch and chaotic-aur) This mirror has 1Gbits/s bandwidth and it’s hosted in Nagpur, India. I get more than 14TB in traffic an…

The Problem when I did sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I noticed that it was trying to connect to the ubuntu mirror over IPv6 (and failing) My ISP hasn’t enabled IPv6 for me, so I can’t connect over IPv6. and I don’t have any IPv6 DNS servers. But still apt was trying to …

How to make proxmox UI beautiful I use proxmox daily for virtual machines and LCX containers, It is one of the best virtual machince platform that utilizes KVM And it’s FOSS but the default UI is too bright and I prefer darker themes Discord-PVE Discord-PVE is a discord theme fo…

Setting DNS in a docker environment I have a DNS resolver running on my homeserver (adguard home) which also acts as an adblocker. But the host firewall is configured to only accept traffic from my home LAN (10.0.1.0/24) The containers meanwhile are isolated and do not share the…

What is whoogle ? Whoogle is a privacy friendly (meta) search engine. It uses google for it’s data but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. It’s Free and opensource software. Why use whoogle? If you didn’t knew, a great chunk of google’s reven…