I will permanently close my services such as the Monero Public Node (mainnet, stagenet, and testnet), Peertube and Mastodon as of June 25, 2023.

To support the Reddit blackout movement, my Libreddit instance will be inaccessible for unknown period of time and I will closely monitor the situation and provide updates regarding the duration of the blackout and any developments that may arise.

Unlike before that using DNS filtering, several upstreams have performed a TCP Reset Attack to block access to websites that are considered illegal. And why you (especially Indonesian) should care for this mess.

Yesterday, on February 16th, 2023, I made a feature request so that my Arch Linux repository mirror can be added to the official Arch Linux repository. And now it’s already listed on the official Arch Linux mirror page! Yay! Thank you, Anton Hvornum and Arch Linux Mirror Team!

A few days ago, I tried to “talk” with ChatGPT by OpenAI, discussing many things from the cost of cloud computing to quantum computer. I’m impressed with the ability to translate human language despite of my messy grammar and typos during conversation.

So, inspired from Jerry Ng’s Ghost backup script which can be used to backup single blog site to remote storage using rclone, I write this script that can be used to automatic backup multi Ghost blog on the same server to remote AWS S3 compatible server (in this case Minio) using Minio-CLI.

A few days ago, I received an email from Plex (an American streaming media service and a client–server media player platform) informing me that they had a data leak. They ask their users to be aware of an incident involving their Plex account information.

Sometime, I get a problem when running Tor daemon under Linux Container, usually related to AppArmor after I upgrade the system. Meanwhile, my Tor service needs to be turned on all the time and reachable to all my “workers” who fetch .onion addresses listed on my Monero remote node monitoring service.

Dear future me who read this: Yes, you read it right. I’m running Matrix Synapse on HP Pavilion g7 Notebook PC (g7-1260us). When this article is published, it’s 11 years old laptop with broken battery, 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM and Sandy Bridge CPU (i3-2330M), plus the fan on the CPU headsink is not working.

I am interested in researching the phenomenon of “trading bots” which has recently gone viral in Indonesia. There are several trading bots that have been proven to be scams and some still expected to be able to return to their activities again. At first I thought it would be a little difficult and take a long time, but it doesn’t seem like it will take that long.

Regarding my previous post about MikroTik, DNS-over-HTTPS and AdGuard, there is one product that I actually used several years before.

I was using PiHole as DNS forwarder and DNS sinkhole of my main DNS servers (BIND). During 4 years using PiHole, I rarely experienced significant problems in maintenance, upgrade or troubleshoot process. In terms of reliability, I think PiHole definitely deserves a mention.

Since the Monero remote nodes that I monitor are increasing and my page that displays a list of Monero remote nodes MAY contains Google AdSense (where very likely track users behavior and interests), I decided to create an API endpoint so that power users / developers can use it without visiting my site.