chagall

chagall, 7 months ago

c/cats

chagall, 7 months ago

You can see the requests for Pocket, certificates and the captive portal check since those are in the actual url name. In addition to those, FF phones home for browser updates, extension updates, FF sync, safe browsing, etc.

chagall, 7 months ago

Do you just look at pictures on Imgur? Are there actual communities? I’ve only used it as a place to upload pictures to link on Lemmy or Reddit.

chagall, 7 months ago

Pihole blocks the basics for Roku. Things like logs ads etc. but there’s a lot more telemetry that they’re collecting. Here’s a hackernews thread about the topic and the associated article it references.

chagall, 7 months ago

Thank you.

chagall, 7 months ago

I generally stream via audiobookshelf. They even have an iPhone app in TestFlight now.

chagall, 7 months ago

I’ll look at both of those suggestions but mp3 should be sufficient, no?

chagall, 7 months ago

I use this add-on. It doesn’t automatically turn on for every website but you get to choose which domains it works for and which domains it doesn’t.

chagall, 8 months ago

I bought a netgate box a couple of years back and it was total garbage. My new 2.5gb Protectli came in yesterday. Looks like I’ll be putting OPNsense on it.

chagall, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I did end up setting up my new Protectli appliance today. As i said below, I ended up with OPNsense and I have been able to replicate 97% of pfBlockerNG’s functionality on OPNsense. I’ve been able to load all of my previous DNS blocklists (including my own personal blocklists on Github), set up cron jobs (in the GUI) to update these lists every week and and whitelisted some sites too. The only thing that sucks is that regex isn’t supported. Instead they do wildcard domains (*.ampproject.org). Not nearly as good as regex but it’s better than nothing.

I also used pfBlockerNG for hardcoded ip address blocks (like Roku hard-coding 8.8.8.8). For that, I used the alias function in the firewall and just set up floating rules for that. Definitely not as convenient as a list, but they don’t change very much. Also, for IP addresses for security, OPNsense has a whole IDS section that pfBlockerNG used to handle.

pfBlockerNG made everything clean and easy but I’ve been able to get 97% of the functionality in pfBlockerNG in OPNsense. The 3% deficit is lack of regex support.

Edit: I saw the article you were referring to. That’s how I set up IP blocking. But Unbound in OPNSense supports blocklists (it’s even called DNSBL) and that is much easier/quicker to set up than using aliases IMO. Just make sure you toggle on Advanced Mode. That’s how you quickly load the custom blocklist urls. Just remember to seperate the urls with a comma. I forgot the first time and nothing worked.

chagall, 11 months ago

Ask them for their kids’ social security number, DOB, etc. I’ve done that a couple of times and it always gets a reaction.

People are less concerned about themselves, but generally very protective of their children… and rightfully so.

chagall, 1 year ago

traffic has returned to normal

This is a very non-specific statement. As a former moderator, Reddit gave us lots of metrics to measure "traffic". Site visits, unique visits, engagement.... all of these can be used to talk about "traffic". It's also not hard to spin up a couple bots, talk about site visits, not unique visits and call everything "normal".

Metrics, especially vanity metrics are very easy to twist if you have a narrative to tell. And boy, does Reddit, Inc. have a narrative to tell.

chagall, 1 year ago

Let Mozilla know by filing a report on Webcompat.