History: Gregory the Great

Posted on Sun 16 April 2023 in history • Tagged with history, person

590- 604 CE - Gregory the Great became pope and gained control of Rome around the seventh century CE. Gregory organized Rome and its surrounding territories into a system of government known as the Papal States. Gregory probably established control in Rome to prevent further damage from the Lombards who had …


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History: weregeld

Posted on Sun 09 April 2023 in history • Tagged with definition, dictionary

Literally, "money for a man." In Germanic law most crimes were treated personally, with punishment meted out directly by a person's family. The system of weregeld payments was orchestrated as a reaction to the heavy toll that was sometimes extracted by grieving family members who wished to receive retribution for …


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History: Clovis

Posted on Sun 02 April 2023 in history • Tagged with history, person

482- 511 CE - Clovis was the leader of a Frankish tribe who eventually unified and ruled all Franks. Clovis converted from paganism to become a Catholic Christian around 500 CE.

This conversion helped him gain papal support, as well as leading to the eventual conversion of most of the Frankish …


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History: Merovigians

Posted on Sun 26 March 2023 in history • Tagged with history, dynasty

511 CE

The Merovigian dynasty was named after Merovech, who was a Frankish ancestor of Clovis. Clovis founded the dynasty prior to his death in 511 CE. The Merovingians ruled most of the major Frankish dominions including Neustria in northern Gaul, Austrasia, and the kingdom of Burgundy.


History: Visigoths

Posted on Sun 19 March 2023 in history • Tagged with history, people

Germania- The Visigoths were one of the largest Germanic tribes in the fourth and fifth centuries CE. They had a truly love hate relationship with the Romans first asking them for help, and then meeting them in battle in 378 CE where they killed Emperor Valens at the Battle of …


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configure ad blocking on udm se

Posted on Fri 17 March 2023 in tech • Tagged with udm, udmse, pi-hole, adblocker

Unifi UDM-SE Adblocker

How to setup Pi-hole style blocklist on Unifi

  1. Download Fetch AdBlocker
  2. ssh to root@udmse
  3. Enable /etc/dnsmasq.d,*.conf in dnsmasq.conf
  4. Run the update_blocklist.sh script
  5. Restart or reset dnsmasq

You now have a pi-hole style config on unifi dream machine.

Full video on YouTube …


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