26 March, 2021

Fight Spam with Contact Form 7 for WordPress


An easy way to avoid form-spam in the WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 is to add a quizz. Ask a question in order to sort out robots. 

But don't ask questions like "what is five times five". The spambots are perfectly able to hack this sort of input. As an alternative - just ask something else.

You could add a picture to the web page and ask a question about it. 

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PS: I posted this four days ago, since then I had no spam mails via the mailform. So the quizz seems to do the trick. 

25 March, 2021

Thoughts about AdSense

These days I try whether ads from Google is a good idea - or not. The revenue for one month is 20 cents per month for this blogger site plus another website. As of now I'll let the experiment run for a month or two, and see what happens. 

08 March, 2021

MacBook: Fan running like Hell during conference calls



 It's very noisy this fan.  Running like a mad whining chicken. 

OBS and Zoom use a lot of the available CPU power. Probably the MacBook is not the mose usefull tool for a conference call. My 5-year old stationary Linux PC performs far better than this. 

However, here and now I have to use the MacBook.