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Woke at 04:00, shower, coffee, toast, emails.
Then the ironing to get out of the way before dropping the car off for a service and have new brake disks fitted all round - I've got 20 mins before Timbo is due to pick me up, so I'll do a quick supermarket run to get mouthwash (since I opened the last new bottle just before bed last night) and a few odds and ends.
Walk out of the supermarket and the phone goes - Rich needs a favour. Sure, what do you need? "Can you drive me to A&E, I think I've broken my foot." Ah. No car - have you still got Gills car key (his wife went on holiday in sunny climes yesterday)? Yes. OK, I'll be home ASAP and get you off down there. Ring Timbo to see if I can hurry him up, and the first thing he says is "Can you do me a favour?" 
His neighbour (a drug addict) has had a stroke, so his (psycho) wife is down at the local A&E with him, and he's babysitting the two girls* but Timbo's wife is due at physiotherapy at 11, could I take her? Explain the car problem, the Rich problem but say I'll do what I can. Finally he turns up and I get home, grab Rich, he grabs his fishing gear so he can tie some flies while he's waiting to be seen because he's going on a three day fishing trip tomorrow, I suggest his phone and charger and off we go - to a further away hospital than the addict because his wife's daughter is a doctor and they have a shorter waiting list.
Surprisingly quickly "how to drive a manual" comes back to me - it's been nearly two years since I switched to auto - and I drop him off, get back home to look after their dogs just in time to swap to Timbo's car and load up Eryl for her physio and off we go. I wait outside, listening to an audiobook and then take her home. As I'm reversing into their drive (which is a complicated job in an unfamiliar car) the phone rings - it's Rich who has been processed, could I collect him? Swap back to Gill's Fiat (a willing little hybrid, but the second slowest car I've ever driven and with the build quality you expect from Italian cars) and drive back to the hospital to collect Rich who has indeed broken his foot and has a large boot on which means he can't go fishing tomorrow. He's not a happy bunny.
Finally get home and the cat is furious because it's been eight hours since he ate his breakfast and I should know better than that ... 
And one of my jobs today was to set up a new set of cat food for him as he's a picky little toad and I have to feed him different meat / manufacturer for each meal or he goes off them and will never eat them again. So I've got to do that before I can feed him which isn't his idea at all.
Busy day. And it's not over yet.
* And Timbo's as good with kids as Josef Fritzl but that's their problem**
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Quote: Rich, he grabs his fishing gear so he can tie some flies while he's waiting to be seen because he's going on a three day fishing trip tomorrow
I like this guy!
Quote: has indeed broken his foot and has a large boot on which means he can't go fishing tomorrow. He's not a happy bunny.
Bummer.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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I changed ISPs back in January, and it just so happens I started running into problems, roughly at the same time, with the Debian VM I had running Pi-Hole. Eventually I just shut it down, and I hadn't tried to recreate it until recently.
I quickly realized that nothing was going through Pi-Hole anymore (reinstalled from scratch, including the OS). Total Queries and Queries Blocked figures remained at 0. As I used to, I provided Pi-Hole's (static) IP as my primary DNS on a few systems (also all using static IPs), followed by my DC's IP, and finally my router's (192.168.1.1) - in that order.
Unlike the router I was previously using, my (new) ISP's router does NOT present any option to specify any DNS server. I've gone through every page, including settings hiding under Advanced buttons. Nothing about DNS.
I know very little about DNS, but searching through articles discussing problems with Pi-Hole, I did find something that also adds domain controllers to the mix.
I do have a domain controller, which is set up with its own DNS service. I launched its DNS Manager, selected my domain, selected Forwarders, right-click, Properties, then added Pi-Hole's static IP as the first entry (the only other one being my router, which - after this change - is now the second in the list).
Bingo - suddenly the Request and Blocked figures immediately shot up, and pages that used to be riddled with ads now show blank spaces where ads used to be. Bonus, since all my systems already have my DC's IP for their primary DNS, I don't have to add Pi-Hole's IP anywhere (but as a forwarder on the DC itself, which is a one-time operation).
But a question remains. If I had a system that had its preferred DNS set up as this (in this order):
a) Pi-Hole
b) The DC
c) The router
...why would the queries not go to Pi-Hole first and foremost? Now my configuration is:
a) The DC (with Pi-Hole's IP under Forwarders)
b) The router
...and it all works.
Why?
Either way, I hope this helps someone.
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Marking your own message as [Spam] does not grant you permission to blatantly violate the one rule shown in red at the top of the lounge.
Away with you!
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I've probably watched a French video a few weeks ago on YouTube. Ever since, YouTube has been showing me a mixture of French and English ads (maybe 50-50). At least I'm attributing this fact to the one video I might've watched, I see no other reason it might be showing me French ads.
I do NOT log into YouTube, so there's no language preference for me to set. I have no language set in my browser (Edge) other than the default US-English.
And at some point starting this week, every time I go to www.microsoft.com, it explicitly sends me to www.microsoft.com/fr-ca/. Again, despite the fact that I have no other language set in my browser. Or the OS's Regional Settings page.
I could try to clear cookies, but that's an all-or-nothing type of thing - I'd probably lose a lot of tweaks for various sites I'd rather not go through again. As far as I know, you can't clear cookies specifically for one site only. Or can you?
I've just tried InPrivate mode with Edge and going to www.microsoft.com. It sent me to www.microsoft.com/en-ca, so it knows I'm in Canada, but at least the page is in English. That, to me, tells me it's got to be some data in a cookie.
How might I go about finding, then removing that cookie...? Or does someone have a better suggestion?
(and no, I'm not changing browsers for that, TYVM)
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You're forgetting one teensy thing, geolocation of your IP. If the cookie doesn't exist, your country can be guessed by your IP address.
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Jinx! Didn't see your post before I replied. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Bah! I would have beat you to it if I wasn't eating breakfast while I type.
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Location doesn't infer language. It's the language I object to.
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It's got you pegged for Quebec and the language is making certain assumptions about your location.
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All geolocators I've seen since I've been on the internet (94? 95?) have shown my city as being my ISP's...which operates near Toronto, Ontario.
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They do change. It used to be my location was pegged at about 50 miles away. Now it's got me down to about 6 miles.
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It might be using your IP to locate you. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I'm okay with sites knowing what country I'm in (or province). So far all locators have been able to tell me is what city my ISP operates from (which is hundreds of miles away).
It's the (automatic) choice of language that bothers me.
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With ccleaner you can select which cookies you want to keep.
Take the CCleaner - Slim version (does not install ads)
CCleaner - Slim
CCleaner - Download Builds[^]
But that does not help if they follow your ip.
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Settings / Cookies and site permissions / See all cookies and site data
Search: Youtube
Delete as you see fit.
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Not quite exact route to get there, but I did find it:
Settings
Cookies and site permissions
Manage and delete cookies and site data
See all cookies and site data
Thanks for that! This looks promising.
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On prend le contrôle du monde entier!!!
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Ouais, bonne chance avec ca, Legault ne vient meme pas a bout de s'entendre avec Trudeau sur l'autonomie de sa propre province, je pense pas qu'ils vont prendre le controle du monde de si tot.
(Alright, this blatantly violates the no political discussion rule...but it could hardly be more à propos and I do see the irony of using a French expression here). 
modified 3 mins ago.
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Today's Daily News highlighted a post about a home project with 10,000 of hours invested. I'm so happy to hear that other people put thousands of hours into home computer projects. I've certainly had a few over the years. Lots of small computer projects, but a few that raised to the 1000's of hours level. Since I retired a few years ago, its home built telescope mounts controlled by Arduino's, Raspberry Pi's and phones. Way too much fun. I'm several thousand hours in, with no signs of letting up. I have to be diligent to avoid spending an unhealthy amount of time at it. My approach is to make sure I get some exercise (yard work, bike ride, dog walk,...), do something productive (bills, groceries, home maintenance, help Mom, ...), and do something fun (play with computer, ...) every day. I'm interested an anyone else's approach to maintaining some balance and not spending too much time at this stuff.
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I don't know what I'm looking at. Maybe two sub woofers on the floor? Tube amp in the middle. That's a big guess. Where do you plug in the guitar? Looks like fun.
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I like your daily goals, and plan to adopt a similar approach when I retire. I've less than a year to go.
Before I built software for a living I did it as a hobby, but not since. There is one major coding project I have in mind, but most of my fun time will be spent creating music and stained glass, and while I can maintain enough mobility and stamina, exploring more new caves.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I like your plan too. I've also invested 1000's of hours into learning to play music, but never really reached a desired comfort level. Closest on claw hammer banjo these days. My favorite music partner passed away, and that hobby is kind of in a lull at the moment. It could work its way back to the top at anytime. Fortunately being retired, we have time to do all these things. Retirement is great - hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
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If you're retired, and your hobby isn't detrimental to your health, why would you try to avoid spending "too much time" at it? Isn't that the point of retirement? Do things you enjoy?
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