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Nyugtalanul

Mi történik, ha nem állsz meg? Leszáll a köd, az.

Blocking complete ASN IP ranges automatically on FreeBSD with pf based on nginx logs

Some time ago I though that putting up an AI poison maze on my site is a great way of doing something against bots that do not respect robots.txt. It was, until I got hit by botnets which never back off.

Barranco de Guayadeque

Due to some road closures I moved my openstreetmaps planned journey through the mountains to more cave houses up one day, and it was definitely worth it. The view is magnificent - squint, the ocean is right at the end -, if you leave early enough in April…

Pico de las Nieves in the cloud

My first destination on Gran Canaria was the pine forest close to me. I've been to southern pine forests at other locations, but that wonderful, serene scent that a canary pine forest disperses when the full sun warms them up is second to none.

05 April, 2026

It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world isn’t it? Yes. However, it's not the device itself, and not the base functionalities of the device. I remember a series from my youth - …

We're murdering the night

Dark, winter-y, eXistenZial questions

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

Simplifying music playback

I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet alone via it's headphone jack to the amplifier. Blasphemy, sacrilege - no separate DAC, no dedicated streamer, no NAS, no nothing.

About shoes, discipline, comfort zone, and maintenance

I bought a surprising amount of shoes in the past 2 years, but this journey of the feet highlighted important observations in maintaining ourselves.

How to block and confuse AI crawlers with nepenthes and fail2ban

A quick guide on combining an anti-AI tarpit with automatic blocking

The outdoor socket and the monster that is the Skoda Mode 2 cable

We got a new (to us) car because a truck liberated us from the one we bought a year ago. Since this one is a plug-in hybrid, I wanted to charge it from an outdoor socket using the official 3 pin cable. Apparently it's not this simple.

FreeBSD "kiosk" for home automation dashboard

My current, FreeBSD based server for self-hosting and home automation - now with a touchscreen!