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DNS blocklists I use for Pi-hole, AdGuard Home and pfBlocker-NG

March 9, 2025March 9, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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These are the blocklists I use:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/doh-vpn-proxy-bypass.txt
https://adguardteam.github.io/HostlistsRegistry/assets/filter_2.txt
https://justdomains.github.io/blocklists/lists/adguarddns-justdomains.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/AmazonFireTV.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/android-tracking.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://justdomains.github.io/blocklists/lists/easylist-justdomains.txt
https://justdomains.github.io/blocklists/lists/easyprivacy-justdomains.txt
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-blocklist/master/domains
https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/klabacita/pmoreno-list/main/proxies.txt
https://perflyst.github.io/PiHoleBlocklist/SmartTV.txt
https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/tiktok.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows/master/hostslist
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bambenek/block-doh/master/doh-hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dibdot/DoH-IP-blocklists/master/doh-domains_abandoned.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dibdot/DoH-IP-blocklists/master/doh-domains.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oneoffdallas/dohservers/master/list.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall/master/TheGreatWall.txt
https://big.oisd.nl/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/tif.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/ultimate.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/fake.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/popupads.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/native.amazon.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/native.apple.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/native.winoffice.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/domains/native.lgwebos.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareAdGuardHome.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/noai_hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blocklistproject/Lists/refs/heads/master/smart-tv.txt

Pi-Hole

Upgrade Pi-hole v5 to v6 – prep and execute

February 22, 2025February 22, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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Now that v6 of Pi-hole has been released for a few days, and there are some patches available to fix the problems every .0 release of software has, it is time to upgrade. Here are the steps on how to prep and execute a successful upgrade.

Apple

Limit location access on iOS per app – get control of your privacy

February 16, 2025February 16, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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Limit apps to have access to location data. In most cased, the app can be totally blocked from using location information. And why do all the apps actually need to have access to your location? It makes no sense I would say. Here is how to get back control of location sharing for apps!

Synology

Use the high performance M.2 NVMe Storage Pool to run apps

February 7, 2025February 7, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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Keep those apps on your Synology NAS running faster and make use of those M.2 NVMe drives in there. Run the complete applications and their workloads from a pool running on those fast M.2 NVMe drives now!

ML & AI

DeepSeek AI on VMware Homelab – no GPU needed

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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Instead of throwing hardware and resources at AI models, let’s actually try and make them efficient while running it locally without the need for internet connectivity. Ohw, and let’s make it so we don’t need all those very expensive GPU’s either! This is exactly what DeepSeek does with their AI model. This is groundbreaking and performing very well in a self-hosted homelab. The efficient AI model is here!

Command list to install this in your homelab:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

systemctl is-active ollama.service

sudo systemctl start ollama.service

sudo systemctl enable ollama.service

sudo apt install python3

python3 –version

sudo apt install python3-pip

pip3 –version

sudo apt install git

git –version

ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

sudo apt install python3-venv

python3 -m venv ~/open-webui-venv

source ~/open-webui-venv/bin/activate

pip install open-webui

open-webui serve

UniFi

Upgrade UniFi Network Application software with this clever script

January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 - by Vikash Jhagroe - Leave a Comment

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If you have UniFi equipment, you are (hopefully) self-hosting their Network Application software to manage it all. This is an easy script, written by community member Glenn R. to help you maintain you UniFi Network Application software. Amazing script and makes (UniFi) live easy.

Glenn R. website: https://glennr.nl/scripts

Unifi forums: https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Installation-Scripts-or-UniFi-Easy-Update-Script-or-UniFi-Lets-Encrypt-or-UniFi-Easy-Encrypt-/ccbc7530-dd61-40a7-82ec-22b17f027776