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Using PiVPN with Stunnel

Intro

The following are steps to setting up PiVPN with stunnel. Why would you want to do this? OpenVPN is subject to blocking by several methods of deep packet inspection since OpenVPN traffic, though encrypted, looks slightly different than normal web traffic. If your OpenVPN works, you probably don't need this. But if it is being blocked, you will probably have to wrap your OpenVPN connection in an SSL tunnel to make it look like normal web traffic. For an explation see here: https://proprivacy.com/guides/how-to-hide-openvpn-traffic-an-introduction

The following are steps needed to wrap your OpenVPN in an SSL connection wtih a Linux server (I got it working in ubuntu 18.04; looks to only work with amd64 architecture, not armhf). So far I've only used with a Windows client, so I don't know the exact config for an Android, iOS, Mac, or Linux client.

THIS IS OUTDATED. PLEASE FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING LINK

--> A beginner's guide to nflfastR <--

Basic nflscrapR tutorial

I get a lot of questions about how to get nflscrapR up and running. This guide is intended to help new users build interesting tables or charts from the ground up, taking the raw nflscrapR data.

Quick word if you're new to programming: all of this is happening in R. Obviously, you need to install R on your computer to do any of this. Make sure you save what you're doing in a script (in R, File --> New script) so you can save your work and run multiple lines of code at once. To run code from a script, highlight what you want, right click, and select Run line. As you go through your R journey, you might get stuck and have to google a bunch of things, but that's totally okay and normal. That's how I wrote this thing!

Calibre Server on Linux

Introduction

Calibre is a powerful cross-platform, open source, ebook manager and editing platform. Its calibre-server component can be used to publish an e-book library on a local network. While you can launch calibre-server as a desktop application, it can also be run as a daemon on a headless Linux server.

This tutorial on setting up calibre-server using Ubuntu 14.04 is very good, but dated.

Determine your device id

Unplug your device from the computer and type lsusb in the terminal. You should get an output similar to this:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8008 Intel Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller

	library(tidyverse)
	library(xgboost)
	library(magrittr)
	library(dplyr)
	library(Matrix)
	library(na.tools)
	library(ggimage)
	library(nflfastR)
	library(gt)
	library(mgcv)

	# Docker compose to set up containers for all services you need:
	# VPN
	# Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Qbittorrent
	# Non-VPN
	# Plex, get_iplayer
	# Before running docker-compose, you should pre-create all of the following folders.
	# Folders for Docker State:
	# /volume1/dockerdata. - root where this docker-compose.yml should live
	# /volume1/dockerdata/plex - Plex config and DB
	# /volume1/dockerdata/sonarr - Sonarr config and DB

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	### Bash Environment Setup
	# http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
	# https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html
	# set -o xtrace
	set -o errexit
	set -o errtrace
	set -o nounset
	set -o pipefail

	"""
	When run in cron, automatically adds compliant alias names to local DNS.
	Use at your own risk.

	Patrick Fuller, 25 June 17
	"""
	import re
	import paramiko
	import pymongo