Hi, I am fzorb, Rareș, or whatever other name you know me as. This is my "personal webpage" where I have been rubbing mint for 4 years and counting!

You might know me from 16px.eu or ikarusbot (rom).

This is just a basic webpage. No flashy text, no stupid autoplaying music, no kilometric javascript bundles, no fancy icons. See the source code here.

contact me

Email: fzorb [at] fzorb [dot] eu
XMPP: rares [at] c [dot] bastos [dot] cc
IRC: rares on irc.libera.chat

Note: As of 04.10.2026, fzorb.xyz has become deprecated. All traffic (including email) has been forwarded to this domain. Read more here.

Microsocks on NetBSD

28.10.2024 2 min

Have you ever wanted a proxy server that you can run on a toaster (literally)? Well, enter today's setup, Microsocks on NetBSD. Microsocks is a simple, fast and efficient SOCKS5 server. NetBSD is a highly portable UNIX system that you can literally run on a toaster.

IPv6 Adventures

23.10.2024 2 min

Today's story starts in a similar vein as to the last one. While waiting for a train, I stumbled across a provider which offered extremely cheap hosting, and severely undercut Gullo. Their name is C-SERVERS and they seem to be reselling Hetzner, just like Gullo, but they give you more ram, at the cost of not giving you any IPv4 ports, at least as far as I can tell. So I bought one of their NanoVPS servers. Then, I hit my first roadblock... I can't SSH!

DD-WRT as a Wireless Client Bridge

16.09.2024 3 min

If you live in a house where extending a simple networking cable would require a lot of work, you might find yourself buying something like a network printer and not being able to connect it to the network due to it not supporting wifi. These situations suck, but thankfully, there's a solution, the Wireless Client Bridge.