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Making an Automated, Operational Hydro-Electric Dam in Luanti

Here are some notes and pictures of how I made a working, automated hydro-electric dam in Luanti. The dam gates can be opened and closed manually to generate more or less power, or, if the power demand becomes too high or too low, the dam will automatically open or close gates to adjust the power accordingly.

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Setting Up Anubis on FreeBSD

I've noticed a few times recently my Forgejo server has been triggering alerts on my monitoring systems that is isn't responding as fast as it normally should be. Low and behold - it's due to AI crawlers causing it to grind to a halt as the scrape every little section of the service for their own needs.
This is how I implemented Anubis to help mitigate this problem.

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My Battle with Netcup, IPv6 and FreeBSD combination

Recently I've started to migrate some of my VPS's to Netcup as I have found their offerings more performant, and less expensive, than other VPS providers.
However, it seems due to the way Netup's IPv6 network is set up causes some issues with FreeBSD, and allegedly other BSDs leading to loss of connectivity via IPv6.

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