Woo-hoo!
It opened the door to pihole and unbound, then dns certs, man… everything’s so nice now lol
I hosted shit for about ten years before really understanding how local dns worked.
Imagine a primitive society that discovered literally every major modern scientific achievement, but somehow missed the wheel. That’s basically how my first setup went lol.
Ay, you poopin in there!?
Won’t be the last time. Once forced Android verification lands, you’re gonna see a lot of fediverse and darkweb peeps only accessing this side of the web from laptops and second devices, until Firefox and Linux go to shit on PC and we lose any and all privacy everywhere.
~5-10 years-ish?
That’s not my point. Everyone drives, thus you see everyone’s license plate.
Not everyone goes and exposes their home IP to a third party, enters their license plate(or worse, someone else’s) and gets each one put on some secret government watch-list.
Hey, we all get a headcanon for our fandoms, right?
give my personal license plate to a third party website to check against privacy invasion
nah, y-you guys go first
There’s a lot of could-be’s involved here.
God
Regret
Is God’s in-moment regret a part of his plan?
“I need to look like I didn’t see this coming.”
Oddly enough, while Marvel does have trans and genderswapped characters 1-1 with other universes, they don’t have an entirely genderswapped universe.
Differently? Alright, what’s on tap?
“we serve coke products here, sir”
This, I like this.
It’ll pass, it just won’t matter outside of California and the corporate entities 3D printing there.
You can still print guns out of your heavily modified Ender 9999 covered in a trash bag.
pssst: it’s gonna get worse
Download a shitload of epubs, roms, backup of wikipedia, and get ready for full-on, unmissable, 1984-style marketing and propaganda culture. You’ll see it, you’ll have to see it, and there will be no option B.
If I had a dime for every billionare killed with a guillotine in 2026, I’d… have the same amount of money. 🥲
A dns server knows what and where things are. That’s its only real job, to tell who’s asking where say, http://eff.org/ is.
“Ay homie, where’s https://eff.org/?”
over here - 173.239.79.200
“thanks, bud!”
The issue is, the dns server you use by default is under the control of whoever your provider is, and as a result, they get all of your dns lookups like the example above as well as every porn site, every piracy site, everywhere.
Installing your own, or simply moving to one your provider has no business with like 9.9.9.9 can help keep your dns queries more private, go a step further and use encrypted dns, as many providers supply, and you’ll be even further covered.
Installing your own, however, comes with the added perk of being able to apply your own dns entries. Suddenly local addresses can have custom names without ever touching a hosts file. Neat! Use DNS certs and you’ve got local SSL!
I would go find something applicable to feed you for a dns 101, but my old resources don’t exist. I just know stuff from years of doing it and failing over and over until things work.