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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I already VPN 99% of my traffic offshore. Do you think the threat to VPNs is eminent? I’ve been thinking about shadowsocks a lot but I’m not sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe DNS or IP blocking, but blocking only in the browser likely won’t be helpful as apps (on basically any platform) also track users by calling assets on their domains.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You need to block Google completely. Simply abstaining from Google services and/or using a browser ad blocker will do you no good — like 80%* of apps / the web include their tracking assets (among many others).

* Just a number I pulled out of my ass, don’t sue me

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

People that leave trash in my car, usually the same people that exclaim “your car is so clean” when they first get in and see that it’s completely empty save for a few things in the glovebox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

My wife was raised in a culture where this is extremely rude. I know she hates it so I just take the bowl into the kitchen and finish it off there. I don’t want to screw around with the spoon for 10 hours either.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I killed off ads in the News app by blocking doh.apple.com. I find it kind of funny that it looks up its DoH server IP using the existing DNS server and that simply returning NXDOMAIN cuts it off.

Not sure if they use it for much more than that though (doesn’t seem like it).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

One thing I want to bring up just so you’re conscious of it is WiFi calling.

I currently use Tailscale and a sophisticated setup to route traffic via commercial VPNs. I also do a ton of DNS ad/tracking blocking which Tailscale wasn’t really designed for (and requires a rat’s nest of routing, iptables and the like).

I’ve noticed I never receive incoming calls now even while attempting to send traffic to my carrier’s WiFi calling server (it’s just another traditional VPN server at a technical level) through the nearest Tailscale exit node.

All this is to say, if you want WiFi calling to work you should consider this. I believe it’s the same for Android and iPhone.

As for the traditional VPN bit I kind of discovered this a few years ago when using one of those mobile cellular gateways you can plug into your LAN (I lived in a dead zone). When looking up my current carrier’s WiFi calling server (a different carrier) I realized the port matches the same VPN thing they were doing on the cellular gateway, so I think it’s fairly common for wireless carriers to just use a VPN to get you into their backend.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I used to work in an email heavy industry, so people who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.

Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without reattaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that either lack relevant information due to poor cropping or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand all make email super annoying to deal with. And what’s with being expected to confirm you received each and every email? Ever heard of read receipts?

Also, people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone has sent me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Isn’t a Docker registry just HTTP? Would a caching proxy be too hard to use for this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Simple-minded thinking tho…

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