Xavier «X» Santolaria·Jan 4Member-onlyMonitoring My EPSON XP-8600 Series Printer using Prometheus and GrafanaIntroduction Playing around with my Pi-hole Raspberry Pi, I thought I could expand its mission and started looking into Grafana and Prometheus. One thing leading to another, I though why not monitor my printer. Running out of ink is very common. It’s always when you need that print, that you can’t…Open Source4 min readOpen Source4 min read
Xavier «X» Santolaria·Nov 5, 2022Member-onlyCreate a Verified Keybase Link on your Mastodon profileAs I recently joined (#TwitterExodus) the free, federated, and open source Mastodon social network based on ActivityPub, going through my profile setup, I noticed that it allows you to verify yourself as the owner of the links/resources you can set in your profile (EDIT: it’s working for me on infosec.exchange…Mastodon3 min readMastodon3 min read
Xavier «X» Santolaria·Sep 7, 2022Member-onlyConnecting Your Raspberry Pi to the IBM Watson IoT PlatformHaving your logs in a one centralized, secure, and resilience location is definitely the easiest way to gain visibility on your assets. That is also true for home networks, full of smart devices and other Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Having recently setup yet another Raspberry Pi, I thought I…IoT6 min readIoT6 min read
Xavier «X» Santolaria·Jul 7, 2022Member-onlyProtecting the Family — Blocking one ad at a time with Pi-Hole®Introduction I can’t think of anything positive when mentioning the word Ad. They are annoying, make websites perform worse, clutter the interface, some can lead you to click to trick you into something either costly, or worse, dangerous. All in all, there’s nothing good about ads. …Pihole8 min readPihole8 min read
Xavier «X» Santolaria·Aug 3, 2022Member-onlyLooking to Contribute to Open Source? My Top 5 Tips to Get StartedGetting started in open source can be done in many different ways, and not everyone will follow the same path. I’ve recently been asked by one of my mentees, how to get started contributing to open source. As with many things, if it’s new, you usually don’t know how to…Open Source5 min readOpen Source5 min read