FreshRSS and Fail2ban

Based on my prior installation success with FreshRSS, I felt it was necessary to put it behind a fail2ban filter to drop inbound traffic from abusive external IPs. My FreshRSS installation is using the simple tarball on top of webroot method; I’m not using containers or anything. It’s all bare metal, so it’s piggybacking off …

Permanently Disable Tracker in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Gnome Desktop comes with a background service called Tracker that runs a bunch of other sub-services such as tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract, tracker-store, etc., that do the job of scanning and indexing the files in your user home folder. It’s a service used by the Gnome file manager for speeding up the search bar. This is …