I’m 30 today. I’m supposed to be all wise and responsible now…

That’s how that works right? Now I know things?

Who gives out the knowledge sheet…? I don’t think mine showed up.

JFC. 🤦

My dumb ass forgot ponys exist. I’m sitting here staring at this thing wondering why that dog looks so much like a horse…

I’m baffled at my own stupidity and had to share.

Now for someone to unknowingly press it and torpedo this persons career while burying them in lawsuits…

The blood of the foes who have fallen before you.

Pihole is a self-hosted DNS server that filters out domains that serve ads, as well as malware and tracking domains. When clients try to access a blocked domain, the DNS request fails, so the client doesn’t know where to connect and the ads/malware simply fail to load, while the rest of the game/webpage loads just fine.

Highly customizable, either manually or with various online lists of known domains. It’s also a handy tool to create local-only domain names for accessing your own self-hosted services.

Alternatively there’s Adguard or Nextdns; public dns servers that perform a similar function, but give you much less control over what is or isn’t blocked.

For the record: pihole blocks those ads, along with most mobile app ads. (in games too)

The only thing in there I find surprising is the battery info. I’m not sure what legitimate use a website would have for that one. And perhaps that the gyro isn’t behind a permission. There’s pages that use it for 360 video for example, but you should have to allow that one.

Your IP address is a fundamental part of communication over the Internet, obviously the servers you speak to are going to need to know where to send their replies. There are ways to mask that ofc; proxies, vpns, etc.

Timezone+Language are needed for localization.

Display information and preferences, to render things correctly/as desired. Desktop web pages look like crap on a mobile display (and what type of mobile? Tablet, or phone?), plus they can’t (well, shouldn’t) show things in darkMode unless you tell them that’s what you want…

Cookies: it does say 0mb stored by others for me, but that’s not entirely true. Sites are typically given independent storage so they can’t read eachothers cookies, but they can work together to have one site read its own cookies and pass that on to the site you’re currently visiting, on request, all embedded in the original page you were viewing. Just because they can’t read eachothers storage directly doesn’t necessarily mean thay can’t get the data. 10gb per site seems like an absurdly high limit for this though. You could store whole movies in that space.

Visibility is one I’ve known but never really liked. The only ‘legitimate’ use for that I’ve seen is pausing media when it leaves your screen (or waiting to start media until its entered view), but half the time that’s undesirable anyway. Why should a site know if, when, and how long I’ve looked at a particular portion of the page?

You don’t.

Seprate your work life and your personal life.

There’s nothing wrong with advocating for FOSS alternatives; but you don’t get to decide what you can or cannot use on work devices, that’s up to your employer. You should not be entering personal info/performing personal tasks on work devices.

If you’re unwilling to perform work with the tools (software) your employer provides/requires, find a new job. Refusing to do the work or tampering with the equipment provided is a great way to get fired.

For school; personal laptop. Or again strictly school tasks on their devices.

A small countertop water cooler/dispenser with a refillable filter bottle on top. (if you have the floor space, a stand up cooler is usually more energy efficient tho)

Something like this:

With one of these on top: https://www.zerowater.com/products/filtered-water-cooler

Clean filtered water, both boiling hot and almost ice cold, on-demand. Filling water bottles, cups, making hot chocolate, tea, instant noodles, even just starting to boil a pot using pre-heated water, taking so much less time. I love this thing.

When it comes to filters:

Zerowaters products specifically come with a Total Disolved Solids meter measuring in parts-per-million.

I was previously using a Brita filter jug which poured into a second filter from Aquapur ontop of my cooler.

My Tap water: 143ppm

Brita filter: 139ppm

Brita+Second filter: 87ppm

Replaced both with a single zerowater filter: 0ppm

After pulling close to 30 gallons through that filter its risen to ~8ppm (they want you to replace it at >6)

Project farm testing water filters.

The first time, I just saw it’s not working; the second time, I was paying attention to the details to see what specific parts aren’t working and clues as to how/why.

Why would the DNC fix it; I thought your supreme leader had everything under control? Isn’t he going to make America great, or do you need someone else to clean up his mess?

So thaaats why orientation is in the office across the street…

A pissed off stingray is what killed Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter. Though that’s supposedly the only stingray related death caught on camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin

Why shoot at one target when you can shoot at 30? (as long as they’re encircling the machine in a nicely spaced out, orderly fashion…)

The land may become uninhabitable by humans, but something tells me aquatic life will be alright… Maybe not all of it, but there will be adaptation and life will go on.

That’s not to say destroying our ecosystems is ok, just that we’re probably not going to end life entirely.

it’s on by default

It may well be on by default now. I just know I had to enable it the last time I looked at this.

what do you mean by lockscreen bypass software

Tools such as those provided by Cellebrite and similar.

Lockdown mode is mainly to disable biometrics, to prevent someone on the street forcibly using them to unlock your device. It’s not going to stop an entire agency with more sophisticated tools.

Or at the very least; turn your phone entirely off (shutdown) whenever you expect or encounter police contact.

Biometrics only work when the device is already running. Mobile devices are in their most locked down/secure state when ‘at rest’, ie shutdown.

In android; there is also a ‘lockdown’ mode you can quickly activate from the power off screen, that disables Biometrics until next unlock with a pin/pattern, but doesn’t fully shutdown so you can still quickly access things like the camera. This has to be explicitly enabled in settings first and will not offer much protection from various lockscreen bypass software available to law enforcement.

Rough day to be a snake…

I wonder what the maximum muzzle velocity for a child would be (without just killing it immediately).

I’m currently working as a tool technician maintaining and repairing a fleet of rental tools. (it’s incredible how little people take care of things that aren’t theirs…)

Electrical is what I’m really interested in, but financial strain has made it difficult to get into classes beyond high-school for it and there’s only so much you can do self-taught with no certifications.