Author: cen
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Happy new year
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Ladder reset 2025
Lagabuse ladder will be reset on January 4th 2025. Winners and prizes will be announced on the same day. Thank you for keeping Eurobattle.net alive and we hope to see you around for another year!
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OpenWrt One
OpenWrt One is the first “officialy supported” router by the OpenWrt project and SFC. It’s a rare event that an open source project ships it’s own hardware so I decided to give it a go. It’s a bit pricey for what it is and currently only ships from China via Aliexpress but hopefully there is…
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DotA v7.04f5
Changelog Fixed Veil of Discord not multiplying damage to target Fixed Aether Lens and Ethereal Blade malfunction For full 704f series see: https://d1map.net/changelogs/704f
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Dealing with latency sensitive processes on Linux
We’ve had an issue with players complaining about micro lags on our DotA bots over the summer for no apparent reason. After lots of debugging and well timed clues from the players, I pinpointed the problem to non-bot processes spiking the CPU and causing this lag as a consequence. Even a simple thing like logrotate…
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Encrypted root on Debian without LVM
If you want to set up encrypted boot drive through Debian Installer you are only given an option to use LVM in the guided process. If you don’t want to use LVM the setup is a bit more involved so I am documenting it here. If you want to try this in virt manager, make…
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ZFS on Debian: load-key keyboard issues
I have a systemd service which decrypts my ZFS dataset on boot. It essentially runs /usr/sbin/zfs load-key -a but randomly on some boots, my password is “incorrect” and by experimenting I figured out that if I type everything slowly it works almost every time, but if I type it fast it regularly fails. I suspect…
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DotA v7.04c7
Changelog Fixed couriers could consume Boots of Travel Fixed bug on Glimpse (Disruptor) reverting Morph and Chaos Knight illusions on random positions Fixed Mana-Drain (Lion) losing Spell Immunity while second target not available (talent) and continuing draining second targets while disabled Epicenter (Sand King) pulse every 3.5 visual now gets bigger if talent on radius…
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DotA v7.04c6
Changelog Random Draft Mode (-rd) reduced heroes from 50 to 33 Captain Draft Mode (-cd) reduced heroes from 50 to 33 Fixed Mana Drain permanent effect (?) Fixed Mortal Strike providing fixed 8 charges instead max charges upon killing enemy hero Fixed Aphotic Shield (Abaddon) effect on Mirana Fixed Fervor (Troll) visual charges Fixed Splinter…
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Love hate relationship with conan.io
Introduction conan was supposed to finally solve the decade long issue of getting your build dependencies on Windows (and Linux but to a lesser extent because package managers have already solved that problem there). Before that you either had to build from source or find pre-built binaries from sometimes questionable sources. Building from source is…