Here we go again, #EuroBSDCon! I may have mentioned it, but it's really happening*: I'm giving a talk again, this time titled:

Dirty Tricks: Using #nginx and #Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies

This talk is specifically for anyone who

• has tried to host a BBS on the Internet,
• is struggling with scrapers and bots,
• lives in the #RetroComputing bubble,
• wants to see an early '90s PC on stage,
• needs a telnet captcha, or
• simply has nothing better to do.

Read more about it here, take a look at the conference schedule, and buy your ticket!

See you there!

#FreeBSD #Security #BSD #RunBSD #DOS #RunDOS #TheDraw #AnsiArt

* I didn't want to post this until I was fairly certain I could even pull this off..

#PUFA2025 desvela un avance de su programación: #Chime, #TheDraw, #TheMoogai y #Abroad en Sección Oficial, y #MagazineDreams, #TokyoEvilHotel, #Gravediggers y #TheReignOfQueenGinnarra en Aquelarres, se suman a lo último de Cronenberg.

https://noescinetodoloquereluce.com/2025/06/kiyoshi-kurosawa-elijah-bynum-joonas-makkonen-y-yoshihiro-nishimura-en-la-programacion-de-pufa-2025.html

Following the @ansi bot has been a great source of nostalgia: I too, was an #ANSI artist in the 90s.

As a teenager without access to much in the way of money or a high-baud rate modem, menu art was the currency I would use for access to local bulletin-board systems.

This was one of my favorite works, created in 1993 (I was 15), likely inspired by the Ghost Rider comic. This was a scroller, and would have taken 3.5 pages in a terminal to view, and several days in #TheDraw to create.