had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe
My #PiHole crashed yesterday. First time in 3 years it’s put a foot wrong! And it’s just made me even more impressed with it, this tiny little Pi Zero W handling all the houses traffic. Especially when I’ve got things like MS Teams that needs killing and reopening several times a day
Put the entire household on the pihole, hope I don't get too many complaints, LOL (maybe overkill for the entire household, but... worth the experiment) #pihole#cybersecurity
In den letzten 24 h haben die Geräte bei uns zuhause > 60000 Verbindungen ins Internet gesucht, davon wurden > 21000 (35 %) geblockt, ohne dass wir Einschränkungen hatten. Die waren also völlig nutzlos für uns, aber offenbar sehr interessant für andere da draußen.
The last few days, after almost 3 years, I finally got over myself to re-install our #network, #nas and #pihole and reworked the #backup strategy as well (#encryption and stuff). I am glad that this is finally done. 🫣
My #DNS -level filter went offline for a while, and a bunch of ads and in-page popups jump-scared me! 🤕
Also: I would like to thank services like #PiHole, #DNSForge, & #NextDNS for the great work that they do -- by blocking ads+trackers -- to keep us SANE and SAFE! 😇😇😇
@marcel
Unklar, ob der effektiv alle Endpunkte von MS einfängt, da er nur nach Hostnamen filtert.
Aber ja, auf jeden Fall, Pihole FTW. Sollte in keinem Haushalt fehlen.
@kuketzblog
Bei mir laufen einige Raspis: #nextcloud mit 5 TB auf raspi4 8gb #pihole auf einem raspi zero2 #kodi auf einem raspi3b #rasbian mit xrdp auf einem raspi 4 4gb zu testzwecken
Making #shibori pattern is one of my ultimate highs in crafting garments. I do my best to document the process every time it happens because it’s so time-intensive and I don’t know when the next opportunity comes.
This latest pattern is called mokume (I.e. wood grain), and it’s my first time doing it!
Playing with #Docker and #pihole a bit and... it seems you can't DNS-over-TLS #DOT with it. Whether it is on the forwarders side or the pihole server side. Sounds strange to me and not that far from a NoGo. #DNS experts have an opinion on this (doT) ?
And this, my precious bubble, is why I'm running a #Pihole. (I'm a paying customer with a subscription btw, not trying to dodge away and read for free at all cost.)
#pihole działa od kilku dni :)
Jak do tej pory musiałem tylko jedną domenę dodać do whitelist, bo się młoda do konta na xboxie zalogować nie mogła, a pozostałe, które mi się nie otwierają, zwyczajnie zlałem :)
Już ponad 40% zapytań zablokowano :)
Das Internet hat einen Level von Scheiße erreicht, dass man inzwischen separate Tools braucht, um aus dem ganzen Müll die benutzbaren Teile rauszufiltern.
Das ist btw auch die bislang einzige sinnvolle KI-Anwendung für mich: aus den komplett verratzten Google-Ergebnislisten die tatsächlich nützlichen Resultate rausfiltern. https://chaos.social/@RobinSohn/111918058935170176
Stavo cercando di riloggare in #Discord (perché per qualche motivo stupido certe volte il client #web perde l’accesso a caso, a gusto suo), e visto che il mio IP cambia di continuo (perché la mia linea #Internet cade sempre), ho dovuto usare il link di verifica ricevuto via mail. 😴️
Nulla di fuori dall’ordinario, se non per il fatto che il dominio del link (click.discord.com) rifiutava la connessione, ma in passato ha sempre funzionato. Un sospetto mi viene subito, ed è azzeccato: è stato il #PiHole a bloccarlo. Precisamente, per via di una regola nella lista predefinita, di #StevenBlack. 🙄️
Beh, il #problema è in parte nuovo e in parte no. Ne parla la #issue#2502 (4 mesi fa) che però è finita scartata senza troppe #questioni, ma poi anche una di 1 settimana fa (#2574)… ed è iniziato un buffo avanti e indietro di accuse tra mantenitori e utenti, con i primi che danno la colpa a Discord per l’usare uno stesso dominio sia per tracking che per cose essenziali, e i secondi incazzati fumanti che non riescono a loggare. Entrambi hanno ragione però, secondo me, è questo il #paradosso. Oddio, a ‘sto giro l’utente che si sta lamentando in realtà è 1, che ha poi deciso (un po’ salty) di recarsi pure da quelli del pi-buco a suggerire di trovare un’altra lista (#5577). Ovviamente, non gli hanno dato retta. 😂️
It doesn’t matter if listing a domain interferes with fundraising by the Holy Sisters relict of Mother Theresa of Calcutta. If the domain vehicles tracking, adware, or worse, it gets listed here. This project serves people who value privacy and online safety.
Does anybody else ever think how messed up it is that unless you go out of your way (or live in a very rural area), you are bombarded with ads for the entire time you are awake.
Ads on your phone
Ads on your TV
Ads on every place they can buy outside
Ads on almost every website
It is honestly exhausting, and I wonder what a world with heavily limited ads would look like.
Incidentally, the lack of ads is one of the very nice things about self hosting things, and being on fedi.
#Selfhosted for as many of the important things as I can!
But I also have to shoutout about #DNS + adblocking, like #BIND9 and #pihole and the many others which have sprung up. (Yes, you can use BIND as a network adblocker, and also get the rest of its power too.)
Pihole may be more-approachable (no, it does not require a raspberry pi. Yes, you can install it on your laptop and use it wherever you are computing.) I have not tried the alternatives, but I am sure some are better.