No confidence votes are a referendum that forces a new vote. Impeachment is done by representatives and kicks off a process that gets blocked by the senate and results in no change, ever.

I bet Trump will hear that statement, and he will care.

Incoming pardon from Trump… /s

This is going to result in some really confused Akira spinoffs

Wha… these things are real? I thought they were made up for the South Park episode

Being pedantic is totally OK here - we’re talking about SSL’s spoof protection. I’ll have to look up how any rando can host a DNS that supports DNS/HTTPS when a system would be expecting a valid SSL cert that declares who it was issued to and by whom and the requester is expecting a particular whom.

Wow really? I was under the impression that the SSL part would prevent the pihole from being able to spoof itself as a legitimate DNS

Pihole’s act as a DNS or “Dynamic Name Server”. All internet traffic is IP based once it leaves your home because routers dont know how to forward traffic for “https://samsung-ad-hell.com/”, so there is a dedicated kind of packet for “Where is https://samsung-ad-hell.com/ located?” and that is a DNS Lookup. The Pihole pretends to know because it maintains a list of bad urls that host websites that only support privacy exploitation and advertisements and tells them “oh you want to go to 0.0.0.0, that’s where you’ll find your stuff” as it snickers.

But DNS Lookups were always plain text. When your laptop says “Where is https://big-booties.com/” your ISP knows you want porn. Now there is a new variant called “Secure DNS Lookup” which encrypts the url you’re asking about. The ISP knows you’re asking for a domain’s IP, but it can’t know which one and it no longer cares. Neat.

The trouble is that the Pi-Hole can no longer protect us from all the stupid fucking smart devices that want to earn a fraction of a penny per device by spying on us because THEY use the new Secure DNS Lookup.

I wonder how much longer that will work. DNS over HTTPS is now a thing and totally defeats the mechanism of a pihole.

No but they thump it all the time

People didn’t listen to Einstein because he had money - he didn’t. He just had good ideas. People didn’t listen to Curie for her money. She had none. People only listen to Theil because he has enough money to be scary. They obviously think his ideas are fart sniffing.

Meh. I think quantum computers are technological hocuspocus that is used as justification for companies like D-Wave to generate billions of dollars for a few financial executives. The science is real. The engineering is real. The technology is a toy and its uses are extraordinarily limited and out-competed by normal computers.

Can it optimally solve the travelling salesman problem? Sure. With many thousands of bits. Can a classical computer with a fancy algorithm get close enough for practical use cases? Yes. With today’s technology and enough power to run an old lightbulb.

AFAIK quantum computing’s only demonstrations of being able to break encryption using Shore’s algorithm was in a toy problem where they already knew the answer and it was like 5 bits long and satisfied a particularly easy pattern. I’ll be impressed when it can break 192-bit encryption with proper entropy.

Apple definitely punishes you for using Tidal on CarPlay. It’s bullshit. Plug in your phone while listening to music and the app goes into limbo for 45 seconds while Apple Music decides it is in charge.

Integration is the big one. Spotify is built into nearly every smart device. Phone? Spotify. Smart speakers? Spotify. Alexa spy puck? Spotify. Cars? Spotify. Even my hifi system has built in spotify.

I want to use different services. Right now I’m using Tidal, which is only integrated with my speakers and phone - not my car. Hell, they don’t even make a proper app for my computer.

Someone’s gonna shoot the statue in the neck

*fights urge to make joke in light of this horrible situation*
Pension owners hate this one trick

*goes to hell*

I read a popscience article about how US naval ships with nuclear reactors are now using carbon dissolved in seawater to create kerosene. So there’s that.

No one who is serious about carbon capture technologies expects that it is feasible to store it underground in gaseous form and that has been known for two decades.

Ever get a costco rotisserie chicken? The juice at the bottom has a ton of gelatin in it and it sets quickly. Rotisserie chicken flavored jello