A bit of redundancy is key.

I have my primary DNS, pihole, running on an RPI that’s dedicated to it; as well as a second backup version running in a docker container on my main server machine.

Nebula-Sync keeps the two synchronized with eachother, so if a change is made on one, it automatically syncs to the other. (things like local dns records or changes to blocklists).

If either one goes down (dead sd cards, me playing with things, power surges, whatever); the other picks up the slack until I fix the broken one, which is usually little more than re-install, then manually sync them using piholes ‘teleporter’ settings. Worse case, restore a backup (That you’re definitely taking. Regularly. Right?)

Both piholes use Cloudflared (here’s their guide *edit: I see I’ll have to find a new method for this… Just going to pin the containers to tag ‘2025.11.1’ for now) to translate ALL dns traffic into DOH traffic, encrypting it and using the provider of my choice, instead of my ISP or any other plain DNS. The router hands out both local DNS IPs with DHCP because Port 53 outbound (regular dns) is blocked at the router, so all LAN devices MUST use the local DNS or their own DOH config. Plain DNS won’t make it out.

DNS adblocking isn’t perfect, but it’s a really nice tool to have. Then having an internal DNS to resolve names for local-only services is super handy. Most of my subdomains are only used internally, so pihole handles those DNS records, while external DNS only has the records for publicly accessible things.

I’m not sure that’s going to do it; gonna have to add 76g of sugar to make sure.

There’s something about a thick Scottish accent that requires a translator for me. (West coast, Canadian)

Luckily the few I watch on youtube add subtitles for the rest of us.

Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it

That’s not even remotely new. It’s been illegal to cover a licence plate with anything that obstructs it being read, manually or otherwise, for as long as we’ve had licence plates.

They may have tweaked the language a little here and there; but that law has always been around in some form.

Considering the articles point on how pretty much everyone only focuses on the altruism; it’s a really nice contrast.

Excuuuse me Mr. Beaver, but did you get a license for your existance?!?

I have the same issue with Immich on android. It pretty much never uploads files until I manually open the app; then the app refuses to acknowledge it has uploaded those new files until it’s closed and re-opened :( (power saving is set to un-restricted in android, and background data usage is allowed. I’ve been through troubleshooting very thoroughly, it just doesn’t work)

FolderSync has been the only reliable (non-root) backup solution I’ve used. It’s set to monitor my image folders for changes and upload any new files as soon as they’re created; this works ~85% of the time. Then, It’s also set with a few schedules to check for changes every 3hrs, backing up everything on the phone the app can access; this catches anything the on-change/on-creation file detection misses, while also backing up more data than just my images. I have yet to see that fail after ~3 years.

They’re only required to read you your rights if they plan on questioning you AND submitting your answers as evidence in court.

If they don’t ask you any questions, but you chose to speak entirely on your own. Those words can be used against you.

If they do ask you questions but haven’t informed you of your rights; your answers/statements become inadmissible in court.

“we’re awaiting a fresh shipment of thick black markers, unfortunately they’re delayed at the border because the US doesn’t manufacture goods and nobody’s figured out how to pay the tariffs”

• George Carlin

Gotta cater more to windows, where the idiots that would actually run this crap reside.

why not let them go to the playground unmonitored instead?

That would actually be the safer option imo.

I’m sure Roblox has gotten better moderation during that time

Quite the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roblox–Schlep_controversy

I’m a big fan of the purple mushroom cloud really adds to the feng shui.

‘The west’ is barely holding itself together right now; conquering another nation, particularly one the size of Russia, isn’t exactly in the cards at the moment.

Not a biologist, not something I study, just a passing thought:

I would guess a large number of venomous animals are also poisonous, because you’d be ingesting their venom. Probably not always the case; you’re not always eating the venom containing parts, and it my not be poisonous unless injected into the bloodstream/tissue. But that’s what my intuition tells me. 🤷

Just because it’s kinda interesting:

Tomatoes are technically a fruit, but they’re legally, a vegetable

nitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine pair, better known as amyl and heptyl.

Some rather nasty stuff, highly carcinogenic and poisonous.

Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin are all legal, and each have ways to serve liveTV alongside your own locally stored content, and DVR that liveTV if you want. You’d just have to purchase a liveTV subscription from your local provider (or go the Pirate route ofc).

Emby has what they call ‘Emby Connect’ which is entirely optional and is basically a glorified DNS service.

It doesn’t proxy connections, it just passes on the hostname to the client. The server is still required to setup port forwarding or other routing like tailscale or a proxy on a vps.

Emby Connect will let you sign into your local server using your emby.media credentials, but unlike Plex it’s completely optional and only works once explicitly linked to the local user of an Emby server.