Hi! My name is Michał Góral, I am software developer (currently at Nokia) and
this is my personal website. You can read more about me on a separate
page if you’re curious.
You can contact me by e-mail: dev@goral.net.pl. My PGP key
fingerprint is: 0423 DE59 98D1 2C33 E599 CDCF E3DD DA4D C45F 58CB.
Today I discovered that my ISP, Netia, switched my dynamic public IPv4 address
to CGNAT. They did it a week ago or so without any prior notification and today
was the first time since then that I tried to connect to the Wireguard server on
my router.
Good thing I have Tailscale account and Tailscale doesn’t give a damn about
CGNAT or firewall rules which ISP might implement. I like Wireguard more though,
because it is simpler, fully self-hosted(sidenote: I’m aware about
Headscale)
and has nicer logo.
I wish more operators in Poland finally implemented IPv6 and be done with this
IPv4 nonsense.
Neovim 0.11 disabled building translations
by default which means that they’re no longer available in published artifacts
as well. This caught me by a surprise when I tried to update my neovim-mg DEB
package which I build for myself. To me this is accessibility issue for
non-English speakers which I resolved by switching to manual building of Neovim:
make \
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS='-DENABLE_TRANSLATIONS=ON'
Neovim team says that building translations was too time-consuming, but to be
honest, I didn’t notice a big slowdown. Maybe it’s different when you build it
many times a day on CI.
Today I’m reading way too many posts that people are blocking whole Alibaba
Cloud IP ranges (for reference: 47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14) and
I’m thinking: pfff, I already did it a year ago or something. I first wrote
about blocking bots in 2020 and situation got worse since then.
Scrapers don’t care about robots.txt, they fake user agents, attack from
different IPs and generally do anything they can to not be rate limited.
There’s a new nuclear weapon for us, the small web enthusiasts: Anubis
which requires browser to do a proof of work. Maybe I’ll test it on the weekend,
it looks promising.
It’s not funny though. My thoughts are with Drew, domi,
Mikko and many other people who, like me, host bigger or smaller sites
and struggle with AI scrapers bullshit. Fuck these scrapers.
Here’s iptables configuration for Alibaba:
-4 -A INPUT -s 47.74.0.0/15 -j DROP
-4 -A INPUT -s 47.76.0.0/14 -j DROP
-4 -A INPUT -s 47.80.0.0/13 -j DROP
Donald Trump decided to halt US aid to Ukraine. At the same time US imposes
25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, raises tariffs on China, threatens EU with 25%
tariffs “on cars and all other things” and there are rumors that it plans to
lift its sanctions imposed on Russia. I wonder who US plans to trade with after
Canada retaliates with their own tariffs, because China had already done so
(wink, wink).
George Orwell said that “the quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” I hate
this perspective but I can’t deny it. This won’t end well.
Formatting is one of these parts of TWC which I disliked the most. This has
finally changed with release of TWC 0.9 and complete rewrite of formatting
strings syntax.
With markorapp, a script which I wrote, it's easy to create "singletons" in i3. Singletons are applications which should have only one instance, like a particular terminal.
Xsession is a default way of starting X sessions in Debian, but for some
reason it remains a mystery for many people. Here I try to shed some light on
it.
Structured Bindings is a new way to decompose values returned from functions. It's similar to some other programming languages and greatly simplifies the code.
