Cheating in multiplayer games has always been a thing that triggered me the most while playing them. During the time I was managing a game server network used by hundreds of players every day I learned some neat tricks to fight the cheaters back.

A month ago I needed to download a quite big package from the Internet Archive. Unfortunately their HTTP servers throttled the connections to ~300KB/s in case of the files I was interested in. Luckily, they also offer option to use BitTorrent protocol to transfer files.

I run Apache as my main web server. There’s rarely a need to modify anything but when there is, it’s usually quite simple. That’s mainly why I never bothered to switch to nginx. Over the course of last month I had to change two things, here’s a short summary.

Windows. Huh. I didn’t anticipate me writing about Windows here. Thankfully, it’s going to be a rant about drivers. I’ve got three short stories that all happened somewhere earlier this year. The first one chronologically is about one of the computers at work.

Grand Theft Auto III is the first game in the 3D universe of the series. It lets you cruise around Liberty City in various vehicles. Most of them are equipped with regular radios. However, there are two sets of vehicles that either don’t have radios or override the radio station with some random police chatter.

I sometimes stream some silly things on my twitch channel. At 1st of October we had a semi-blind race with friends from the PolishSpeedrunners community in Grand Theft Auto IV. It took around 10 hours for the last person to finish, you can find the summary on the racetime.gg page. GTA speedrunning community has always had a knack for filling the empty screen space creatively.