Great point. I always forget that because I would never want to query without encryption.

I think PiHole is using Unbound behind the scenes. What I like about Blocky is not only does the performance to be much, much more solid using an upstream resolver with high latency (VPN exiting in another country), it automatically refreshes the denylists (something I think PiHole has to do in a more roundabout way).

I’ve used Unbound for years but recently had to switch to Blocky for some weird reason. It turned out to be way, way faster than Unbound.

As a bonus, blocking thousands of advertising and tracking domains is much easier with Blocky (if you’re into that).

I self-host web apps I write myself? ¯\(ツ)/¯

Is this necessary? Seriously, we are heading into a climate crises (or more accurately, already in one) and now we need to manufacture this shit?

postmarketOS?

It’s mostly about performance. Caddy’s Go-based garbage collector starts to negatively impact performance at high load. It looks something like:

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name example.com;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/privkey.pem;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/;

        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }
}

I’m also a developer and I’m really big on optimizing database queries and having the right data indexed. When I review others’ code I’m being “nitpicky” when I point out that an index is missing. When it comes to query optimization I’m often told “well there’s plenty of memory.”

I prefer nginx to Caddy myself for reverse proxies. As far as VPN technologies go, Tailscale and WireGuard are where it’s at.

Not sure why we’re comparing Caddy to Tailscale though.

I wonder how hard it would be to make this a screensaver. Obviously this is a C program but I’ve got no idea what formats screensavers use to begin with.

Oh, that’s pretty sick.

Such an original, Reddit-style one liner. 😒

I don’t think it’s what you’re looking for but what your post reminds me of is ReactOS, though that’s more of a rewrite of actual Windows than a Linux distro.

And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.

.order(created_at: :desc)

I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.

I don’t know why but this makes me picture some dusty old-school newsroom with that one guy in all the TV shows smoking a cigar acting kind of like an asshole, and he looks up from the rough draft and while pointing at it with the cigar half-yells “have ChatGPT take a crack at it, maybe it’ll spice things up!”

If only there were an anonymous, distributed, peer-to-peer network where things like this could be hosted easily. cough i2p

But you can do all that without selling out your users to third parties.

As a web developer that blocks all this shit, that’s the line I always use. I would just use first-party analytics from the same domain the website is hosted from. The added bonus is that people like me wouldn’t even be able to block it without blocking the entire website (at least with DNS).

This is why I’m such a cunt about blocking this stuff at the DNS and/or IP level. Google Analytics is essentially everywhere including IRS web pages with your Social Security number in the DOM.