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.
How Not to Use Cloudflare
02.04.2024
3 min
Cloudflare is a DDoS mitigation platform which offers free proxying of your origin server. Unfortunately, this proxying is not well-used by some people, such as the person who inspired me to make this blog post. He has since fixed it. On Sunday, me and a friend of mine have exposed a vulnerability to one of our other friends, which we will be referring for privacy reasons as X. X has agreed to the "hacking" of his website.
Running a fediverse server
09.07.2023
4 min
Running a fediverse server is now easier than ever, you can run it on hardware as low spec as a Raspberry Pi. With the recent twitter drama the fact that twitter has become a cesspool of bots trying to farm money from low effort posts or posts with no purpose but to further radicalize the masses, it is extremely lucrative to create a fediverse account now.
While you may find it easier to create an account on a more well-estabilished server, it isn't exactly the best idea. Why? Well, if you're going to make an account on a well estabilished instance, you're subject to their moderation policies, and, you can get banned for some nonsensical reasons. By hosting a server, you're practically becoming censorship-resistant.