I ran pi-hole on my NAS. Then I pointed my router at it to make it the DNS for my whole network. The only problem was it would create issues when I had a power outage. If things didn’t start up with the right timing they would get wonky and certain devices would report as not having Internet.

That’s why I bought an OpenWRT One so I could install an equivalent to pi-hole on in directly. Though I hit a snag with that and don’t currently have that running.

I haven’t noticed much of a difference without the pi-hole running (my NAS is dead right now). I think some of my devices had their own DNS settings so they weren’t using the config from the router.

§cience

Since it’s probably not clear to those unfamiliar, this is literally true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Protection_Act

I assumed this was going to be a solution to Japan’s problems of an increasingly elderly population combined with a refusal to increase immigration.

I turned it off from the gmail android app and as soon as I returned to the inbox there’s a notification asking me to flip it back.

The billionaires are way ahead of you

My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?

Whenever someone breaks a barrier as “The first gay…” remember that they’re technically “the gayest…”.

This is the best thing Trump has done this term

Noo! I loved Pocket. It’s integrated into my Kobo eReader. It was the only good way to get articles easily synced on to an eReader. I hope Kobo buys Pocket. Or Rakuten, since that’s a tech company and they own Kobo.

He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.

Yeah, Netflix knows I’m watching Stranger Things. But afaik they don’t sell that information. And even if they do, there’s still reason for this company to try to get it themselves for cheaper. And they know something else about you based on these crappy apps they’re embedded in. So that’s all extra data points they can cross reference and get even more data.

If it’s trying to figure out if you’re watching Stranger Things it can look for when you’re stationary at home and just needs to record a few seconds at a time every few minutes. I don’t know how the fingerprinting works. It might be able to run locally and not use a ton of power. We’re talking Shazam, not full text transcription.

Sounds like that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.