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2026-04-28 10:17
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Alienware 16X Aurora fan control for Linux
Replies: 0

Alienware 16X Aurora fan control for Linux

I thought it's worth caching. Seems kind'a cool. Looks like they used A.I. to do it. :thumbup:

https://github.com/Hugo2049/alienware-16x-fan-control

A fan speed controller for the Alienware 16X Aurora (AC16251) on Linux, achieved through reverse engineering of the ACPI/WMI interface.

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2026-04-27 04:12
Forum: Software
Topic: PDF annotations, drawings, sigs in Firefox
Replies: 14

It stopped at 183. What kind of bot is this? Fucking hell, JUST VISIT ONCE MOTHERFUCKER! :sick: :sick: :sick:
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2026-04-27 04:05
Forum: Software
Topic: PDF annotations, drawings, sigs in Firefox
Replies: 14

Google bot seems to like this thread? LOL

'techtalk.cc', '66.249.74.166', 'crawl-66-249-74-166.googlebot.com', 'US', 'Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit', '1', '177', '0', '2026-04-27 02:01:55.000000', 'http://techtalk.cc/software/pdf-annotations-drawings-sigs-in-firefox/4449/page/2/'

...visited it ...
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2026-04-26 22:59
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Views
Replies: 61

Look at this shit:

# id, domain, ip_bin, ip, host, useragent, countrycode, usagetype, found, counter, status, timestamp
'21', 'techtalk.cc', ?, '94.187.19.2', '94.187.19.2', 'mozilla/5.0 (windows nt 6.1; win64; x64) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/77.0 safari/537.36', 'LB ...
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2026-04-26 22:46
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Views
Replies: 61

Changed some stuff. Can you reach the website still? :think:
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2026-04-25 13:05
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Microsoft will slightly dial things back
Replies: 15

By the way, if you are going to use XLibre, there's also https://x.com/SonicDesktop, to get you "KDE Plasma".

They're also making it for FreeBSD, looks promising.

https://x.com/i/status/2026400849698975915
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2026-04-25 03:27
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Views
Replies: 61

(ip.src.country in {"SE"})
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "google")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "claude")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "amazon")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "bing")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "applebot")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains ...
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2026-04-25 00:55
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Views
Replies: 61

for search bots:

(lower(http.user_agent) contains "google")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "bingbot")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "applebot")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "openai")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains "anthropic")
or (lower(http.user_agent) contains ...
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2026-04-24 16:48
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Views
Replies: 61

It has started to look more normal now. Mixing Cloudflare with AbuseIPDB.

First I do a Cloudflare filtering before they even reach the website.

Next step, I check their IPs against AbuseIPDB.

If it's found = BLOCK no matter the probability or age of it. Anything in AbuseIPDB will be automatically ...