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RASPBERRY PI UPDATE LOOP

If you are stuck in a loop where you try updating your Raspberry Pi, and no matter what, it says it is updating but you run apt-get upgrade, and you still see the same packages over and over…here is how you fix it

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade –fix-missing
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg –configure -a
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

You are welcome!

CREATE A VANITY .ONION URL

Unfortunately for the dark web, you do not have the ability to create a fully custom url….you need immense power to be able to create a fully custom key. However you can create a partial custom, vanity url. Here is how

On an Ubuntu system:

Open a terminal

type:
sudo su –
apt-get update
apt-get full-upgrade
apt install gcc libc6-dev libsodium-dev make autoconf
mkdir vanity
cd vanity
git clone https://github.com/cathugger/mkp224o.git
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
./mkp224o -d vanitykeys tacticalware

This will create a custom URL with the first part of it named tacticalware….which takes an immense amount of time to do… The result will look like this:
http://tacticalwarecr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

I did not create a tacticalware onion url….because it was going to take years at the present time to do it. I did create one for my personal onion site and here it is:
http://longleycr37tvhhrxmbs3buk3ze6vtpyouz3gy6uytdqqfvoiqrf3yyd.onion

ARIA2C FOR DARKWEB DOWNLOADS ON KALI

Here is a quick how-to for using ARIA2C for downloading things

First install:
tor
torbrowser-launcher

Next:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If you do not know how to do that, find the articles on this site.

Then configure this:
nano /etc/tor/torrc

Add in the following info at the bottom of the file:
SocksPort 9051
ExitNodes 27E1B97D9491013EF48479D4F47002F3358E0D92
StrictNodes 1
MaxCircuitDirtiness 999999999
NewCircuitPeriod 999999999

Save and exit the file

Next
sudo apt-get install aria2 -y

Reboot for good measure. You can restart services but I find mixed results when doing that.

Now open another terminal and start tor
tor

Then start a new terminal and open
torbrowser-launcher

Navigate to the site you want to download the info from and copy the link, for example you can get the onion from here:
https://www.ransomware.live/groups

once you have the link, open a terminal, make sure you have enough space for the download, and then run
torsocks aria2c –continue=true –max-tries=0 –retry-wait=30 –async-dns=false –file-allocation=none -s 10 -x 10 -k 1M -o Tacticalware.log http://longley4hay3dwh4rirth5xaomle34524523435id.onion/Tacticalware.rar

After the download completes, rename Tacticalware.log to Tacticalware.rar, and use 7z to open it.

If at any point the download fails completely, rename Tacticalware.log to Tacticalware.rar and you can also use 7z to open the file. You will have access to all the data that was downloaded within that zipped file, up to that point. SO all is not lost

RUN DEEPSEEK LOCALLY USING OLLAMA AND DOCKER

To begin, make sure you set up your system properly. You can do so using this link:
https://tacticalware.com/running-ollama-on-ubuntu-24-04-with-nvidia-gpu/

Next once it is setup, you will be able to download the following models by running the command below it in bold:

DeepSeek-R1
ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:1.5b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:7b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:8b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:14b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:32b

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
ollama pull deepseek-r1:70b

Once you have downloaded and are running the model, Navigate to the web page and then select the model as shown below:

tacticalware.com and Jay Longley showing how to install DeepSeek

And that is it. You can run it locally now

UPDATE NODE.JS ON A HOMEBRIDGE

Running a homebridge on a raspberry pi, to connect all of your IOT is fun. However node.js does not update automatically when updating the pi.

to update node.js

Open a terminal

type:
sudo hb-service update-node

The package will update

reboot

And your Node.JS is now up to date

DESTINATION PATH TOO LONG – ERROR

We are in 2024, entering into 2025, and most people still suffer from this ridiculous error, even after enabling long file names in GPEdit and also in the Registry.



To get around it, use ROBOCOPY

Open a command prompt as administrator

cd into the directory you want to copy from

know the path to the directory you want to copy the files to.

execute the command

the format will look like this:
robocopy . “D:\DestinationDirectory” /E /COPYALL /R:0

robocopy .
means robocopy everything in this directory and its sub directories

CONFIGURE NFS ON A SYNOLOGY

Here is how I configure NFS on my synoloy so that I can copy files from my synology over to my Ubuntu 22.04 AI system that uses a JBOD

Login into your synology

Click Control Panel

Click File Services

Select the NFS Tab at the top

Place a checkmark next to Enable NFS

I use NFSv3

Then Click Apply or Save/

Go back to Control Panel

Then select Shared Folder

Click on the Share that you want to Enable NFS on

Click Edit

Then click NFS Permissions

Select Create

Type in the IP for your Ubuntu 22.04 computer and make sure the rest of the settings are set just like the picture here:

Click Save

Then on your Ubuntu box you will want to

Open a Terminal

sudo su –

cd /mnt

sudo mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/volume1/Folder /mnt/synology

replace Folder with your actual folder, and use the ip of the share you want to copy from

cd /mnt/synology

cp -R -v /mnt/synology/* /media/ubuntu/JBOD\ Disk\ 5/

this will copy everything from the synology folder that is connected to your synology, and it will place it into JBOD disk 5 (change the paths to whatever you need for you)

WINDOWS 11 CONFIGURE JUMBO FRAMES

I have jumbo frames enabled on my Physical wired connection because I only use that for large data transfers, otherwise all my traffic is wireless.

Here is how I enabled Jumbo Frames

Right Click on Network Connections

Select Properties

Select the Physical NIC

Right Click and go to Properties

Click the Configure Button

Select the Advanced Tab

Scroll to Jumbo Frames and select it

Set the value to 9014 Byte

Thats it. It is enabled.

SPEED UP YOUR SYNOLOGY WITH THIS

By default your MTU is 1500. Here is how you increase it to 9000 to enable Jumbo Frames, with no network impact. It will speed up your system because it does not have to repeatedly send the header info on every small packet.

Login into your Synology

Go to Control Panel

Select Network

Then go to Network Interface

Select Lan 1

Then press Edit

Checkmark MTU and set the value to 9000

Click Ok

Click Yes

Then do the same for Lan 2

Thats it. You now have jumbo frames