My old phone, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, finally died. I was on the road cycling and using it for the GPS. It was working fine until I tried to use the camera. It suddenly turned off and won’t boot up. Apparently, using the camera is a power intensive operation which has revealed that my…← continue reading →
Bad Password Limits – Paypal, Online Shopping
I recently got into password managers, hoping to improve my online privacy and security. What I’ve learned is that when it comes to creating good passwords, length is the foremost attribute to improve. The longer the password is, the better. Second is the amount of character sets used. For example, does the password only use…← continue reading →
Remove New Tab Logo Latest Firefox Update
Updated to the new Firefox version 136 and didn’t like the logo on the New Tab area aka Firefox Home? Remove it with the steps below. It will also make the New Tab bookmark shortcuts bigger like before which in my opinion is much more visually pleasant. Type about:config on the address bar then input:…← continue reading →
Cloudflare Speed Test Fail Fix
Cloudflare has a feature to test your website’s speed giving you a score up to 100. Go to Cloudflare -> Website -> Speed -> Observatory Enter your website URL then click Run Test Once You may get a error like I did indicating that the test has failed. The image below shows that Cloudflare, with…← continue reading →
Cloudflare Rule Not Blocking Country
It seems Cloudflare sometimes fail to block IPs from a country that is included in a WAF rule. I have this in a rule I named “Wide Block” which blocks matching visitors: This translates to: Block all visitors from China, Hong Kong and Russia unless their IP belongs to Google (ASN 15169). A lot of…← continue reading →
Googlebot 404 Requests – Fake Crawler?
I’ve been seeing a lot of 404 status request on my log files which resulted in those IPs being banned by Fail2ban. Nothing weird about that except those banned IPs seem to be from Google. There are a couple of IPs with the pattern of 66.249.92.* that are requesting wrong URLs that result in HTTP…← continue reading →
Letting Go of Website Domains
This year I’ve had to let go of 4 domains. I’ve had them registered from 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2021. The oldest is at least 12 years old and is actually a quite good 2-word name. I should have been able to sell that one if only I hadn’t transferred it to Cloudflare which has…← continue reading →
Bad Bots Bypassing Cloudflare WAF Rules
The websites I host on my server are regularly visited by abusive crawlers, scrapers, unwanted search engines and other bad bots. This is all quite normal as most web admins would come to know but I have found an influx of certain exploits and vulnerability scanner bots visiting too. This I found a bit odd…← continue reading →
