izabera

A funky shell thingy that I've never seen before

So you're in posix sh and you want to do the equivalent of this in bash:

foo | tee >(bar) >(baz) >/dev/null

(Suppose that bar and baz don't produce output. Add redirections where needed if that's not the case.)

othyn

Intro

Out of the box, my SMB performance on macOS 12.3.1 would top out at around 20MB/s in short ~5 second bursts, which was absolutely horrendous, slow to navigate in Finder and slugish to interact with.

Since making these changes, I now get sustained ~80-100MB/s+ and instant Finder navigation which is superb and how things should be out-of-the-box (OOTB)!

May 2023 update: As of Ventura, the SMB issues were just horribly inconsistent and hard to maintain. Something in the combination of Unraid, macOS and SMB just doesn't play nice. I ended up binning NFS/SMB all together and heading to a locally hosted Nextcloud instance for file syncing, then using SFTP/Ansible Git flow for editing files within appdata.

Sources

jbfriedrich

# /etc/nsmb.conf - macOS 11.3 - 2021-04-29
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SMB configuration for macOS 11.3 <-> Synology
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Additional information:
# -----------------------
# https://support.apple.com/de-de/HT211927
# https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208209
# https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/309016/smb-share-deadlocks-since-high-sierra
# https://photographylife.com/afp-vs-nfs-vs-smb-performance

widdowquinn

Kali Linux Bootable USB with Persistence and Wireless on OSX

Download the appropriate Kali Linux .iso

• Download site: https://www.kali.org/downloads/

I used a 64 bit .iso image, downloaded via HTTP. I downloaded the amd64 weekly version, as the pool linux headers (needed below for installation of wireless drivers) were ahead of the stable release kernel.

Download the SHA256SUMS and SHA256SUMS.gpg files from the same location.

jamesmacwhite

Netflix and direct bypass rules using WPAD

If your like me you might already use a VPN to route your traffic through. The problem is some sites just don't like VPN services and will actively block you from using them without disabling or bypassing it.

Netflix is a prime example of a website that does not like VPN services, because they are seen as a way to circumvent the geo-restrictions imposed on the content library offered.

Below are WPAD rules I use to essentially send Netflix traffic directly and avoid any VPN errors/dreaded unknown error network messages. Error messages that Netflix throws back at you related to VPN usage when streaming might include:

• "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy"
• VPN/proxy error M7111-1331-5059

pgaulon

#!/bin/bash

#
# settings
#
# login data
freenom_email="main@address"
freenom_passwd="pswd"
# Open DNS management page in your browser.
# URL vs settings:

Robertof

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Technicolor AG plus VDNT-S Router VDSL2 - (ba)sh IP renewer
# This script logs into the router and refreshes the IP address by toggling on
# and off the "automatic connection" parameter.
# It *NEEDS* to be configured. Please keep reading.

# Disable globbing, die on undefined variables and errors
set -efu

# Configuration

a-c-t-i-n-i-u-m

#!/bin/bash
 
# settings
# Login information of freenom.com
freenom_email="main@address"
freenom_passwd="pswd"
# Open DNS management page in your browser.
# URL vs settings:
#   https://my.freenom.com/clientarea.php?managedns={freenom_domain_name}&domainid={freenom_domain_id}
freenom_domain_name="domain.name"