Hosting a Multi-Lingual GitBook on GitHub Pages

Contributing back to the community has been my duty consciously for years. Lately, I’m working on the translation project of The Open Source Way ebook. Fork a downstream repo of the project and git clone https://github.com/Jun-TheTechShinobi/guidebook.git && cd guidebook Install Node.js/NPM through cli package manager Install gitbook npm install @gitbook-ng/gitbook for the project Now, the book is supposed to be hosted locally with npx gitbook serve However, I’m getting unknown block tag: hint error because of lack of plugins ...

September 30, 2025 · 3 min · Jun

Increasing Video Resolution and Frame Rate with video2x

Recently, I downloaded an old documentary made in early 2000s. The original resolution was 854×480 with a less than 1000 KB/S bitrate. Because I like the content so there is enough reason to enhance my watching experience. Download installer instead of the zip pack from k4yt3x’s github repo, this will install all binaries and dependencies for Windows. After restart the system, open video2x and load a video, it can automatically detect the GPU if it exists. Gaming GPU with higher frequency/hashrate is preferred over larger VRAM in this case. ...

August 30, 2025 · 2 min · Jun

Making N100 mini-PC into a pfSense Box

Since I was a teenager, I have started voluntarily helping people around me with my skill of technology. This time, I’m helping someone to build up a robust, secure and cost-effective firewall/gateway/soft router at home. It ends up on a $100 worth N100 mini-pc with dual Ethernet port, which can be a great pfSense box for home or even business use. Hardware Tweaks This model (T8PLUS) secured with 4 screws at outside, after removing them the outer case can be easily pried open (just a little bit more effort than Intel NUCs), and removing 4 more screws inside to get the access of the motherboard (way more simpler design of the power button comparing to NUCs). ...

August 27, 2025 · 3 min · Jun

Bypassing YouTube IP block with FreeTube and optimized Tor

Recently, YouTube is messing with user disobedience again. For the sake of that, FreeTube has been updating with fix multiple times. Although FreeTube has fixed the API block done by YouTube, I have to deal with a new IP block from my end as its aftermath. “YouTube has blocked your IP address from watching videos. Please try switching to a different VPN or proxy.” There are many ways to get around this IP block. Because I think switching VPN server is too heavy just for this, I would like to use a proxy. ...

August 26, 2025 · 3 min · Jun

Operational Security with Documents

Recently, I started sending/receiving documents to/from untrusted sources. In my threat model, this requires extra operational security to prevent privacy exposure and security risk. Since the offical guide is not so detailed for Windows, I decided to write one while installing on a Windows 11 LTSC. First, in Windows Terminal/PowerShell, run wsl --install to setup WSL2. Read my previous post for more detail. Because the latest verisons of Dangerzone 0.9.1 and docker desktop 4.44.3 have unsolvable bug (reports unknown error '2'), I have to choose the ealier version which works properly. ...

August 25, 2025 · 2 min · Jun