p #[span.highlighted Who am I?] My name is Alexander Andreev. I'm a russian guy of age 29 who likes tinkering with computers.
p #[span.highlighted Why am I doing all of this?] Machines are up 24/7 anyway, so let they do some useful work.
p #[span.highlighted Why am I almost “doxxing” myself?] Yes, my real first and last names, and age are here, and since I self-host you can get my city as well. And I simply don't see this as a problem. :|
p #[span.highlighted Why particularly that slogan?] I just wanted sort of a slogan that would fit under the logo and this was the first thing came on mind. I actually like it. Don't you think of your websites as of very special place of your own? Of course you do. :) And who we are if not the wanderers who are looking for something in the vastness of Intenet? xD And yes, it's a pain in the ass to make it fit under logo across different browsers. That was the moment when I found out that different browsers render text differently.
p #[span.highlighted Why English only?] I want this place to be accessible for a wide audience, and English happen to be todays lingua franca. Second, to practice English. And third, I'm lazy to maintain two versions of the website, neither see a good reason for that.
p Contact information and banners are #[a(href='#contacts') at the bottom of this page]. Yes, I totally agree with you not wanting to add my banner since I don't have a link page myself, neither participate in any webring. :) Well, it's way easier to make a banner than a links page. :)
p #[s Wasting my life on] Surfing the Internets (since February 2006)
p Mapping for Half-life 2, Counter-Strike: Source (since 2006, discontinued in 2009) (everything's fuarrkin' lost)
p Music writing (since 2007, last track was made in 2010)
p Programming (since 2007)
p #[s (LARP'ing as a system administrator)] Home servers (since 1st January 2017)
p Software Defined Radio (since June 2018)
h3 What I know
h4 Human languages
p #[span.highlighted English] is my main foreign language and I think that I know it quite well, but every time I reread what I wrote here I constantly catch cringe vibes. xD I have a nice pronunciation (my teacher once said so :)) and tend to British non-rhotic variant. Of course I end up with a mix of all the flavours of different dialects. What I struggle from is a lack of speaking practice and vocabulary is also still a problem.
p #[span.highlighted Ukrainian (Українська)] is a special case. :) Russian and ukrainian are related languages, so mutually understandable (must be), yet many russians are struggling to understand it, and I don't know why. But it is a matter of putting some little effort to negatiate it. I never learnt it, aside from reading it here and there, and especially throughout past 8 years I saw enough material to learn it to a decent level of understanding and some speaking.
p Агась, нiколи спецiйно не вчив українську, користував перекладач тiльки як словник, за цi вiсiм рокiв було досить матерiалiв. :) P.S.: Слава Українi ускладi Росiї! :)
p I like learning languages, but me being a lazy fuck won't let me learn something up to a reasonable level. I ended up with being able to +- read some languages, like norwegian, german, polish, french, japanese (hiragana + some yet not forgotten kanji). So, now I main only english.
h4 Computer languages
p #[span.highlighted For programming and scripting:] Python, Go, JavaScript, and Bash for now are most used by me. Later I used or tasted: Pascal, Delphi, C#, C, C++, Java, PHP.
p #[span.highlighted Markup and declarative:] SQL (SQLite3, MariaDB), HTML5, CSS3, LaTeX, Markdown, XML, and JSON.
p And I don't know what else to put here. :^)
h3 What I like
h4 Anime
p Ghost in the Shell, Shaman King, Hellsing, Steins;Gate, Cowboy Beebop, Ergo Proxy, Jin-Rou, Black Lagoon, Jojo's Bizzare Adventures, Spice and Wolf, Konosuba, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
h4 Films
p Movies with Jackie Chan, Blade Runner (1982), WarGames (1983), Robocop (1987), Stargate (1994), Hackers (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Matrix (1999, 2003), Snatch (2000), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), I Am Legend (2007), Valhalla Rising (2009), Filth (2013), Mandariinid (2013), Who am I (2014), Arrival (2016), Contratiempo (2016), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
h4 TV shows
p X-Files (1993—2002), Lost (2004—2010), Stargate: SG-1 (1997—2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2004—2009), Два холма (two hills) (2022), Narcos (2015—2017)
p These lists aren't complete, will extend when remember or like something.
p I actually don't watch much, and if I watch I go for a marathon, and if only I take a break in the middle of a show, then that break could last for years. xD And if I download some film it could sit for years, as it was with Valhalla Rising, it was waiting for me to watch for 3 fucking years. xD Oh, what made me to watch it? An one and a half hour long power outage. xD
h4 Games for SEGA Mega Drive
p Not a lot of games I've played.
p Bubba'n'Stix, Battletoads, Granada, Demolition Man, Road Rash, Doom Troopers - The Mutant Chronicles, The Lost Vikings, Ghostbusters, Mig-29 Fighter Pilot.
h4 Games for PC
p Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Half-Life (all), StarCraft, Diablo 2, Far Cry (2004), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Boiling Point: Road to Hell, Portal, Freelancer, F.E.A.R., S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Grand Theft Auto 4, Lineage 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Payday 2, The Witcher (1st, 2nd, 3rd didn't finished yet), Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Mount & Blade: Warband, Papers, Please, Insurgency, Elite: Dangerous, theHunter: Call of the Wild, American Truck Simulator, Rocket League, Sea Of Thieves.
p I'm CMDR Arav in Elite: Dangerous. My <a href="https://www.edsm.net/en/user/profile/id/22541/cmdr/Arav" rel="noopener noreferrer">EDSM profile</a>.
p I play TruckersMP mod for Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. Nickname is Arav with a tag [RU64].
h4 Music
p My favorites that I like almost fully are Falkenbach, Korpiklaani, Sólstafir, Lacrimosa, Enigma, Röyksopp, Nagrobki, Burzum, maybe I forgot to mention something. You can see what I like on #[a(href=files_site+"/music") file share]. I have a tendency to listening to the same music for a long time, so only way for me to know about other music are online-radios and WEBM threads on IBs. :)
section#servers-summary
h2 My servers
p I have two of them, the first one is a #[a(href='https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/' rel='nofollow noreferrer') Raspberry Pi 3 rev. B] single board computer and the second one is a laptop. Yeah, not quite impressive, but they do their work just fine.
p Laptop is Acer Packard Bell TE69CX that has a 2 core Intel Pentium 2117U 1.8GHz and 10GB RAM (2GB + 8GB), the system disk is a 120GB SSD and the other one is 2TB HDD where all the shit I have is stored. I've replaced my good old 500GB disk with 2TB one, since it became a little too tight, now it is a system disk for Raspberry Pi. Everything that have just a bit of importantance to me is backed up, encrypted and stored in the clouds. :)
p #[span.highlighted TL;DR about services.] Laptop runs a network file share, a public file upload service, a seedbox, a HTTP public file share, TeamSpeak 3, Mumble, #[s Matrix], I2P, an internet-radio, git server, ClamAV for email server, a web-server, and a database. Raspberry Pi 3 runs #[s OpenVPN], BIND9, DNSCrypt-proxy, #[s a Tor relay], an email server, and a XMPP server.
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p Runs using Liquidsoap through Icecast, which goes through NGiNX. I broadcast almost everything I have. Sorry, but I'm too lazy to make some kind of broadcasting program to stream so I just randomise the playlist and throw new music there from time to time.
p This project grew from MPD I used to stream music over LAN for myself. Then I let it out and placed a player on my Neocities website. Then Icecast was added to see if there are listeners. I wasn't happy on how MPD was nearly overloading CPU, and later, after moving the radio off to a laptop, MPD was replaced by Liquidsoap.
p Gitea. This is a place where I put source code of everything I ever wrote and consider useful and worth sharing.
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h3 Tor relay
p #[a(href='https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/CEF2FD0E1973EA04D1444DDAEFF1B0BC3C0C39B1' rel='nofollow noreferrer') metrics.torproject.org]
p It is set to use 8 MBits of my Internet connection. It cannot became a guard node because of dynamic IP-address.
p #[b Since 1st December 2021 Tor is blocked in Russia, so the relay is down.]
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h3 I2P router
p I help the network using an official #[a(href='https://geti2p.net' rel='nofollow noreferrer') I2P router].
section#servers-private-services
h2 Private services
p.center That are available for a narrow circle of people.
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p Postfix, Dovecot (w/Sieve), Spamassassin, ClamAV, OpenDMARC and OpenDKIM.
p Alas, I don't have a static IP. And there is not much sense in it because my ISP doesn't offer reverse DNS for regular clients (it'd be bloody awesome).
p It results in my messages ends up in a spam box at best. Well, Yandex, Google, Microsoft Live, and Rambler lets me in an Inbox. :) But if service use Spamhaus' blocklists then I'm being rejected.
p Version is 1.16.5 currently. I homebrew clients for it. Here is #[a(href=files_site+"/games/minecraft/aravsdwelling-minecraft-1.16.5.exe") an installer for Windows] (412MiB) I make with NSIS. And a #[a(href=files_site+"/games/minecraft/aravsdwelling-minecraft-1.16.5.tar.gz") TAR.GZ archive] (424 MiB) that is for both Windows and Linux. You'll need to set a PLAYER and MC_DIR variables in scripts. And change JVM_PARAMS to your preferences (-Xmx usually needs to be adjusted).
span E-Mail: #[a(href="mailto:me@arav.su" title='May not be able to reply due to being blacklisted because of residental dynamic IP.') me@arav.su]
