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HOWTO: Receive SMS via 4G/LTE Huawei stick on Raspberry Pi 4 and forward them via Telegram

I live abroad and have only 1 sim card slot in my phone. It holds the SIM card of the country that I am in right now. But I also have another SIM card from my home country which receives my banking SMS codes. I can't afford to lose the "home" SIM card, so I decided to keep it in my house and forward the SMS messages to my main phone and computer via Telegram (just like Whatsapp, but so much better).

I also made a choice to use a 4G/LTE stick instead of 3G, because the 3G signal in my area is getting worse in worse due to operators upgrading their equipment.

Prerequisites

Raspberry Pi 4
Huawei E8372 (but can be any similar)

Step 1 - Get the Huawei card to work properly with Raspberry

Extend Gitlab Access Tokens

Gitlab enforced token expiry limits to 365 days last year, and the time is now upon us.

They don't have an opt-out for this, and haven't provided a way to easily extend tokens in the web interface. They have also gated their credential management interface behind their Ultimate license.

This quickly thrown together script will allow you to add an extra year to all tokens that expire in the next 30 days. It will not reactivate tokens that have already expired.

Requires the python-gitlab module. Edit your self-hosted Gitlab instance details into the script and run it. It will dump out CSVs of all expiring tokens, and then dump out a list of commands you can paste into a gitlab-rails console session to extend the expiry date by another year. If you need them to be active for longer, change 1.year.from_now to the value of your choice, e.g. `10.years.fro

How to ssh to termux the right way

Requirements

Termux (From F-Droid)
ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
USB Cable (Wireless connection is also possible but it's slower)

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Update: I've disabled comments as of 2025-01-26 to avoid everyone having notifications for something a year on if someone wants to suggest a correction. Folks are free to email to suggest corrections still, of course.

Background

HOWTO: Receive SMS via 4G/LTE Huawei stick on Raspberry Pi 4 and forward them via Telegram

I live abroad and have only 1 sim card slot in my phone. It holds the SIM card of the country that I am in right now. But I also have another SIM card from my home country which receives my banking SMS codes. I can't afford to lose the "home" SIM card, so I decided to keep it in my house and forward the SMS messages to my main phone and computer via Telegram (just like Whatsapp, but so much better).

I also made a choice to use a 4G/LTE stick instead of 3G, because the 3G signal in my area is getting worse in worse due to operators upgrading their equipment.

Prerequisites

Raspberry Pi 4
Huawei E8372 (but can be any similar)

Step 1 - Get the Huawei card to work properly with Raspberry

iLO Remote Console

This small script lets you start iLO Java-based console from shell.

But why not HTML5?

iLO 2/3 doesn't have HTML5 console
Mounting local (from the client computer) ISOs is PAINFULLY slow via HTML5 client

TL;DR

If you just start it, it will ask you for everything:

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import argparse
	import os
	import shlex
	import sys
	import tempfile
	import yaml

	config = yaml.full_load(open(os.path.expanduser("~/.config/sandbox.yml")))

	#!/bin/sh
	# Cleans apt-cacher-ng cache
	# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Stephan Lachnit <[email protected]>
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
	systemctl stop apt-cacher-ng
	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/*
	rm -rf /var/cache/apt/*
	rm -rf /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/
	mkdir -p /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng/{headers,import,packages,private,temp}
	chown apt-cacher-ng:apt-cacher-ng -R /var/cache/apt-cacher-ng

	def decode(msg):
	text = ""
	for i in range(0, len(msg), 2):
	text += unrot(msg[i: i + 2], i // 2) # add position as extra parameter
	return text


	def unrot(pair, pos, key=ord('x')):
	if pos % 2 == 0: # "even" position => 2nd char is offset
	pair = pair[1] + pair[0] # swap letters in pair

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Down all running Docker Compose projects
	#

	docker ps --filter "label=com.docker.compose.project" -q \|\
	xargs docker inspect \|\
	jq -r 'map( .Config.Labels ) \|
	map({"
	project": ."com.docker.compose.project",