As best I understand it, running a private caching DNS server is the only guaranteed increase in privacy for DNS. That server still has to reach out to the net the first time a request is made, but will resolve all subsequent requests locally. DNSSEC to a privacy respecting DNS provider like quad9 at 149.112.112.112 from your local DNS server. Mayhaps the best you could do for a roaming device like a phone is to run a decent VPN with an option to prevent DNS leaks.

Point taken.

I'm a woodworker. I've got a bandsaw that makes the one the meatman uses look like a toy, a 9 horse 3 phase shaper capable of detonating any unsecured piece of wood that comes within reach of it's spinning head, and a tablesaw just like thousands of others that kill or maim my fellow woodworker every year. Every piece of wood is an unknown situation. Was it dried too quickly, and then case hardened, or did it just grow with the internal stress that's going to lead me to be pulled into a machine, or hurt or killed as part of it comes flying out of a machine? Just because the machines don't have awareness or intent doesn't make them less dangerous. Kudos to you for not being stressed. It seems to me that if more cops had your attitude about facing death every day, more if us civilians would survive every year.

I still think the folks more likely to die just trying to make ends meet have every right to be more scared and stressed than those of us who get to live safer lives. It rankles me when I hear folks refer to how stressful cops jobs are, whilst not paying homage to to the men and women who literally build our homes and feed our hungry mouths, especially when I know they're killing a few of us every day. Don't get me talking about the dogs they kill, either. What goes around comes around. Mahaps my job is so dangerous because I kill trees? I'd accept that. I'd rather be killing trees than people, or dogs, for that matter.

Insofar as my police state, well I think Canadians better think seriously about the police state to the south. Especially since we've gone and reelected the nutter in chief, and the days of resource wars are here (read Ukraine). I believe there's been some commentary from the man in charge of the world's most advanced military about a 51st state. Fuck around and find out is fully in play across the globe. The police state coming for an extended visit might seem unthinkable. I'll bet they felt the same way in Ukraine 3 years ago, in Poland back in the '30s, and even here in America just a few hundred years back. I've got my bugout bag, and my family knows the plan. They also know not to talk to people who's main interest is detaining people, people who's main catchphrase is "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." Ot still amazes me every day that most folks think of cops as on their side, as buddies almost. What was it the scorpion said? You knew what I was when you picked me up.

Damn straight I've fucked off on the job, just never on the Taxpayers back. I'm self employed nowadays, so I only get to fuck around on my own dime. This may have colored my opinion.

Most years police officers don't even rank in the top 20 most deadly jobs. Pretty much anyone in construction, logging, mining, agriculture, or fishing has much more reason to be stressed than cops, certainly more worried about dying at work. In America, they might be pretty worried because technically a state of civil war has existed for many years now with the cops killing more than 1000 civilians (over 1300 people in 2024) every year, but they made that bed, and they can lay in it. This is a picture of tax dollars at work. I don't think it's funny at all; to me, it's a repulsive reminder that they want as many people in jail, for any and all reasons they can come up with. "To Serve and Protect." I urge everyone to think hard about who they serve and protect , and why. Perhaps a more accurate slogan would be "Generating Revenue for the State", or thinking about the fact that only about 7% of officers time is spent investigating serious crime maybe just "Wasting Time on the Backs of the Taxpayers"

Have you ever spent time in a Turkish prison?

GIGO.

Pure Tung oil.

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Look, it's a squirrel!

Add a disk and migrate to raid 6.

Base solar panel = 14% effecient x 1000 = 14,000% effecient. The only way the math works is if the new panels are 100% efficient and they are referencing a rock as a standard solar panel. I'm calling BS.

Thanks, Captain Obvious!!!

Well, you can stuff your wounds with the silky smooth sand and shards institutional toilet paper, me, I'll be looking like a Yeti with all those tampon strings....Damn!

You are right. However, with policy changes, we also need a tenable plan for a hydrogen economy that is physically and economically possible. The tech to produce and handle hydrogen on that scale does not exist, and much like carbon capture and storage, they are likely to remain a pipe dream; numbers don't add up. We've spent a century building infrastructure that has no use other than extracting and processing fossil fuels. That we have enough resources to make the transition to a clean economy is in serious doubt at this time.

It does make a nice talking point to make everyone feel better about technology saving us from ourselves in the future, though. It's certainly much more palatable than talking about the overshoot of the human population.

Yes it is. Haber-Bosch process is where all our ammonia comes from, and it's fed via petrochemical stocks. No oil = no food.

Weeds aren't a problem, but typically the fertilizers for hydro are petroleum based, and therefore not sustainable.

Today I learned nothing. Bad link.

I'm hoping for Weird AL.

How many times do we have to say it: Please stop naming your baby hippos, "Jeffery Dahmer".