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 still a problem as well.
p #[span.highlighted Ukrainian (Українська)] is a special case. :) Russian and ukrainian are related languages, so are mutually understandable (at least must be), yet many russians are struggling to understand it, and I genuinely don't get why. It is just a matter of putting some little effort to negatiate it. I never learnt it, aside from reading it here and there, and looking up some words in a dictionary, and especially throughout past #[s 8#[s 9]]10 years I saw enough material to learn it to a decent level of understanding and some speaking.
p #[span.highlighted Ukrainian (Українська)] is a special case. :) Russian and ukrainian are related languages, so are mutually understandable (at least must be), yet many russians are struggling to understand it, and I genuinely don't get why. It is just a matter of putting some little effort to negatiate it. I never learnt it, aside from reading it here and there, and looking up some words in a dictionary, and especially throughout past #[s 8] #[s 9] 10 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 #[s вiсiм ] #[s вже дев'ять] десять 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
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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
h3 What I liked
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 Boss Nigger (The Black Bounty Killer) (1974), Movies with Jackie Chan, Blade Runner (1982), WarGames (1983), Robocop (1987), Talk Radio (1988), Stargate (1994), Hackers (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Contact (1997), Matrix (1999, 2003), Snatch (2000), Oldboy (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Gingerdead Man (2005), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), I Am Legend (2007), Valhalla Rising (2009), Filth (2013), Mandariinid (2013), Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013), Who am I (2014), Arrival (2016), Contratiempo (2016), Wandering Earth (2019), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Wandering Earth 2 (2019)
p Paths of Glory (1957), Boss Nigger (The Black Bounty Killer) (1974), Movies with Jackie Chan, Blade Runner (1982), WarGames (1983), Robocop (1987), Talk Radio (1988), Stargate (1994), Hackers (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Contact (1997), Matrix (1999, 2003), Snatch (2000), Oldboy (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Alpha Dog (2005), Constantine (2005), The Gingerdead Man (2005), Lucky Number Slevin (2006), 99 francs (2007), I Am Legend (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Valhalla Rising (2009), The Guard (2011), Filth (2013), Mandariinid (2013), Gingerdead Man vs. Evil Bong (2013), Gone Girl (2014), Who am I (2014), Arrival (2016), Contratiempo (2016), Wandering Earth (2019), Wandering Earth 2 (2019), Greyhound (2020), I Care A Lot (2020), The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
h4 TV shows
p X-Files (1993—2002), Lost (2004—2010), Stargate: SG-1 (1997—2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2004—2009), The Shivering Truth (2018—2020), Два холма (Two Hills) (2022), Narcos (2015—2017)
p These lists aren't complete, will extend when remember or find 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
p I found my way of watching films and anime. Watching it with my favorite streamers! xD
h4 Games for SEGA Mega Drive
p Not a lot of games I have 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 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Half-Life (all), StarCraft, Diablo 2, Far Cry (2004), Battlefield: Vietnam, Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, Silent Hunter 3, 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, Battlefield 3, 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 listen 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. :)
p You can see what I like in #[a(href=files_site+"/music") a file share].
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 BIND9 (master) via DNSCrypt-proxy, a network file share, a public file upload service, a seedbox, a HTTP public file share, TeamSpeak 3, Mumble, I2P, Yggdrasil, an internet-radio, git server, ClamAV for email server (since Raspberry litteraly chokes on ClamAV), a web-server, and a database. Raspberry Pi 3 runs BIND9 (slave) via DNSCrypt-proxy, a Tor node, an email server, and a XMPP server.
p Also now I have a helper VPS with a 1 core 2.2GHz CPU and 512M RAM, and a 10GB disk I use as a slave DNS server for my domain and a postfix relay to send a mail.
section#servers-photos
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p Postfix, Dovecot (w/Sieve), rspamd, ClamAV.
p #[b I may not be able to send a reply] because I don't have a static IP, and even if I will ever do servers may still reject me because of fucking blocklists like Spamhaus and such.
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+isServiceUp("XMPP / Jabber", "xmpp")
p Prosody is doing well.
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p #[a(href="mumble://arav.su") mumble://arav.su]
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p NGiNX FTW.
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h3 Database
p #[s MariaDB managed with phpMyAdmin] Replaced by SQLite3 on my services.
p #[s MariaDB managed with phpMyAdmin] was replaced by SQLite3 on my services.
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h3 VPN
p #[s OpenVPN] Wireguard.
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h3 DNS
p BIND9 via DNSCrypt-proxy.
p For LAN I use “home.arpa” special-use domain introduced by RFC 8375. And for uniqueness “arav.home.arpa” specifically.
p Now I serve my domain using a VPS as a slave.
section#contacts
h2 Contacts
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]
span Jabber: #[a(href="xmpp:arav@arav.su" title="Chances I reply aren't zero, but close. :)") arav@arav.su]
Alexander Andreev