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Obtain Google Cloud IP address ranges
This is a small note where I want to store the link to the page with the Google Cloud IP list, which can be used for blocking bots from their hosting. The list can be found in their…
Read More »Protect your website from the annoying bots with cookie trap
Some time ago, I wrote a post about blocking bots by their User Agent: Protect your website from the annoying bots. Today, I faced a new problem. Someone attacked one of my old services using thousands of random…
Read More »Zabbix server: Utilization of unreachable poller processes over 75%
Today I had a small problem with my Zabbix server. I saw this error: Utilization of unreachable poller processes over 75%. The problem happens when Zabbix tries to connect to “dead” (offline) hosts, but it doesn’t have enough…
Read More »Protect your website from the annoying bots
I found that my VPS is spending a lot of resources to serve the pages for the bots like Amazonbot, Bytespider, ClaudeBot, GPTBot, CCBot, SemrushBot, Baiduspider and YandexBot. Such bots are not important for me so I decided…
Read More »How to Disable Folder Color Icons in Kubuntu (Dolphin) context menu. KDE Plasma 6.
I really hate it when the context menu is overloaded with useless items, and one of the worst offenders for me in Kubuntu is the “folder colors” feature. It’s incredibly annoying because it breaks a clean, solid dark…
Read More »Linux Note: Useful commands during iso files copying to the Ventoy partition
Today, I tried to install Windows 11 on my new PC and faced the 0xc000014c error. This error usually happens because the ISO file is corrupted. In my case, it happened because I pulled out the flash drive…
Read More »Kubuntu 25.10: Black bar on desktop (Wrong screen size in xorg.conf)
I had an annoying problem with my PC today. When I log in, my desktop looks broken. I see a black bar at the top or the wallpaper is in the wrong place. If I restart Plasma, it…
Read More »How to Finally Kill Annoying Bracketed Paste Mode in Linux Terminals (^[[200∼)
If you spend a significant amount of time in the Linux terminal (and if you’re here, you probably do), you’ve definitely encountered this annoying issue. You try to paste a command, but you accidentally hit Ctrl+V instead of…
Read More »Ubuntu 24.10: Stop RAID health check from autostart
Previously, I wrote that I had a problem with the RAID health check on each PC start, as I use it from time to time. Unfortunately, the receipt didn’t help, so here is a new one
Read More »Ubuntu: How to run remote applications via X11 on your ubuntu desktop.
Today I reconfigured one of my servers, and it’s a note about how to run remote application from your desktop by using X11 and ssh..
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