Author: Darko Luketic

I'm a self-employed developer since 2004. I have been working professionally since 2000. My first contact with computers was the C64 at the age of 11 where I coded in machine code and assembler. I worked with PHP professionally for 11 years, nowadays I prefer Angular, Go and Flutter, but I'm open minded. However I would dislike taking a step back to PHP. My services are for hire I'm also looking for remote employment.
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Racist behavior is apparently ok for Twitch

There’s this Twitch channel, named EXBC.
It used to have a Korean couple, Esco and Heosu, who went on travels, get drunk, fishing and all kinds of fun stuff.
A few months ago the right-wing president of South Korea, Yoon, got imprisoned, because he had attempted a Coup and imposed martial law.

That moment things changed.

Fun time IRL and gaming streams were a thing of the past. If they streamed, it was only from the right-wing rallies to support their fascist president.
They made it seem like “the evil Chinese Communist Party wants to take away their country”, which for the uneducated viewer, lile me, who obviously doesn’t care about Southern Korean politics, sounded like, “okay, this couple seems nice enough and surely they’re not right-wing and there has to be something to it, when they support him”.
The rest of the streams were reruns of older streams, uninteresting.

So today EXBC decided to go Live again.
They streamed and still are streaming, speaking only Korean, with the odd sentence of English.
People were happy that they’re Live after such a long time again, but confused why the stream was in Korean only.
So they asked what’s going on.
The channel has a moderator named SushiXXX, a racist Korean who was completely power tripping, telling people to “STOP COMPLAINING” and “NO QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS”.
People who supported the channel by paying a monthly subscription got told that those “English-speaking scum should STFU and get used to it, how dare they question them”, paraphrasing.
People were like, “we just want to know what’s going on”.
Well I’m not a reserved guy, and told SushiXXX that his attitude is borderline racist and frankly disrespectful, and I got banned of course, because a power tripping racist can’t handle someone calling him out.

I reported the channel to Twitch, and the result was of course, “We couldn’t identify an issue, report rejected”.

I tried to report SushiXXX directly, but he blocked me, knowing fully well that someone who is blocked, can’t report the person who blocked them.

Twitch does nothing against hate speech and racism.
Calling English-speaking viewers filth is unacceptable and Twitch not acting against it, is illegal, at least in the EU.

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gitea log configuration for fail2ban

Gitea since 1.21 has a different logging configuration format.
TL;DR If you want to configure fail2ban to ban those failed ssh login attempts,
use this log section in app.ini

Sadly you can’t turn off all logging except the SSH log. You have to wear your SSD.
The actual fail2ban configuration is described on their website under Administration / Fail2Ban Setup

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Recompile VLC on Archlinux

For various reasons you’ll want to do that.
For me it was VLC locking up when watching IPTV from a DVB>IP hardware with v3.0.21.
And with v3.0.20 it would have extremely high CPU usage which went away when recompiling.
Only on Archlinux.

Something in their process is funky.

Anyhow let’s go.
First, enable optimizations for your CPU, in /etc/makepkg.conf

clone the repo and build

uninstalling ffmpeg and lua52 is required, else there are build errors.
after building, reinstall them again
optionally, if you get missing keys,