Forcing curl/wget to decompress gzip'd output

I was doing some troubleshooting (of this site no less), and was using the ever-useful curl command to see what the webserver was sending.

However, at first, I got this output:

curl -so index.html https://www.nodinrogers.com # the '-s' is for silent, and the …

I finally ironed out all of the issues with my KVM server, and to eliminate any of the left over junk, for lack of a better phrase, I nuked the server and reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04. For the record, junk consisted of various packages, their configurations, and system modifications, that I'd tried out in deciding how to …

I needed to run a quick test on a virgin Linux system.

Rather than spinning up a virtual machine, I just ran a single Docker command, and was up and running.

docker run -it --entrypoint "/bin/bash" ubuntu:latest

That's it. Really, it's that simple.

From the Docker docs:

An ENTRYPOINT allows you to configure a …

I was on my mobile, looking up a few recipes, I was amazed at the number of intrusive ads I was getting, which made reading the web pages almost impossible.

Decided it was time to investigate Pi-hole, as I'd heard good things about it.

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, …

The purpose was to have a Linux box act as a simple router.

Devices:

• Device1, configured with a 10.10.10.10 IP.
• Device2, which will be our router, configured with 2 interfaces: 10.10.10.1 and 192.168.1.245.
• Device3, which is my Internet-facing router, with an internal IP of 192.168.1.1

The router is going to be …

Horrible idea in a production box, but great idea for a single user lab system.

To accomplish this, we'll use the visudo command, which edits the /etc/sudoers file in a safe manner, aka, protect you from seriously messing up your system.

sudo visudo

At the bottom of that file, add (assuming your username is tom, …