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Altering
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Explanation please ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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like vital part => integral
the order => (anagram)
Changing => Altering
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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"Changing the order like vital part" : ALTERING
Nope, still don't get it. I'm probably being thick today.
You are up again tomorrow anyway!
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I dont get it either
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So I mentioned at the start of the week I lost one of my systems (an Intel NUC), and one of my spare machines, which was hosting a bunch of VMs, was repurposed to take its place, until I find a better long-term solution. Or not.
One of the VMs that was being hosted was running Pi-Hole, and I've been browsing without it active since. OMFG. For some time I wasn't sure Pi-Hole was doing all that much, but now I'm convinced--it's indispensable. WTE happened to the web? I no longer recognize it. The real killers are animated ads, or ads that are changing so frequently it can't help but constantly draw your attention, breaking your focus.
Needless to say, one of my priorities has been to re-import the VHD and get the Pi-Hole VM up and running again. Suddenly...all is back to normal. I'm sorry, Pi-Hole, for ever doubting your contributions to a more positive browsing experience.
If marketing people are wondering why ad blockers are so commonplace nowadays, they only have themselves to blame. Seriously.
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You must visit the wrong kinds of sites.
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As a fervent pi-hole user I can assure you that even the most decent and upstanding sites bombard you with crap and pass on your your browser information to anyone willing to pay them for it.
Check out these two versions of the same page https://clumpton.com/uknwebimg/BBC_with(out)_pi-hole.JPG[^]
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
modified 27-May-22 2:58am.
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I'm used to Brave and FireFox + AdBlock, surfing without is basically impossible. The latest offender was StackExchange, with a massive ad floating at the bottom of the screen - at work I can only use Chrome and not install add-ons.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If work is on Windows, give Edge a try and turn on Strict browsing. This blocks all third party cookies and I've found is also effective at eliminating advertisements.
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We have a company tunnel, only Chrome is allowed to exit (scans the User-Agent in http requests).
And yes, I know perfectly the implications of what I wrote in the parentheses :wink:
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well, Pi-Hole acts as a DNS, so if you can run a tiny VM and reconfigure your own devices to point to it as their DNS, all your network traffic will first route through that and ads will get blocked. That is, for all devices that point to it...whether it's a PC, laptop, phone, tablet, Xbox, smart TV, etc.
So there's really no "unknown"/unapproved code/add-on actually running on any of your systems. If you can get away with that, maybe that's all you need to do.
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Cannot do that, Zscaler overrides any local setting.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Not familiar with Zscaler. So, you can't specify your own preferred DNS? That's the only thing that has to be set "locally".
If The Powers That Be are so hellbent on security, having them run Pi-Hole themselves so the entire company uses it would be the place to start IMO. Maybe not as a replacement, but as an additional hop. Which fit into the whole "layered security" approach...
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Agreed. Pi-Hole is indispensable. How many domains do you have in its database?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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[✓] Creating new gravity databases
[✓] Storing downloaded domains in new gravity database
[✓] Building tree
[✓] Swapping databases
[✓] The old database remains available.
[i] Number of gravity domains: 626167 (370265 unique domains)
[i] Number of exact blacklisted domains: 29
[i] Number of regex blacklist filters: 0
[i] Number of exact whitelisted domains: 14
[i] Number of regex whitelist filters: 1
[✓] Cleaning up stray matter
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Whatever default domains are in the default lists that ship with the product, + maybe 5 that I've added manually. Assuming that's the figure you're asking about, the main dashboard, under "Domains on Adlists", currently shows 155,025.
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I think to beat googles page rank, which includes load times, tons of script is used after page load of content to then put pop ups and ads. Worse when using phone, slow loading page click to scroll or something put is ad spaced.
Imma need to try setting up pi-hole again
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I'm running two pi-holes on raspberry pi's. I agree - indispensable.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Presumably on two separate networks that have no way of seeing each other? Otherwise I don't understand why two may be needed.
Didn't you write an article a while back about setting it up on a Raspberry PI? I just may be tempted to get the hardware - it works great on a tiny VM, but having a single-purpose box would be kinda sweet.
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Nope, but on the same network, and the reason I have two is in case one drops dead.
I don't recall writing any articles about setting it up.
BTW, stand by for some sticker shock when you go to purchase a Pi. At $180 or more, they're three times the cost of what they were two years ago. I'm using 4gb Pi 4's, booting from a 16gb thumb drive (because SD cards are too fragile in terms of longevity and being stressed by too many restarts and/or power failures.)
I want to eventually do POE to remove the fragile nature of the usb-c power supply chord (WAY too prone to being jiggled just the wrong way and drop power). I have all the gear, I just need to take the time to switch it over.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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At $180 for a Pi (USD on top of that, I assume), I think I'd rather get another cheap NUC, and Pi-Hole would be just one of the VMs I would make it run.
In the meantime...yeah, it'll stay on my primary VM host.
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I'm running a Pi-Hole here on a Pi Zero 2W, and another on my elderly dad's network on the same hardware. Although I use Brave and Ublock Origin, Pi-Hole makes a huge difference on mobile devices connected to my wireless LAN, and I would never go back to the Internet without ad-blocking. The ad-based revenue model for Internet content must change, and the only way to force that change is to employ technological countermeasures designed to thwart it. I'm cool with making micropayments to content providers for ad-free content as long as the costs are reasonable. No, I will not pay $9/month to your .com so I can have the privilege of viewing your ad-laced content. But I will pay a few Satoshis to read an article that piques my interest. I'm looking forward to a day where the advertising revenue model is dead; until then, I'll keep my Pi Hole, thanks.
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Without some way of limiting ads, the Web has become a hellscape. I've noticed that many sites that are slow to load, sometimes taking minutes, are tied up with fetching advertising content from half a dozen third-party servers.
I don't have a Pi-hole (yet), but I've been running Adblock Plus on my browsers for years and only disable it for certain well-behaved sites that I want to support with ad revenue. If a site blocks access to a specific page that I want to read, I'll disable the ad blocker only for that specific page, or if they're obnoxious about it, I'll turn off JavaScript support for that page and reload it: That way, the ad blocker doesn't work at all, but I can usually read the text and the page can't display their obnoxious ads or video content either. To avoid this issue with running Adblock Plus, I plan to eventually install a Pi-hole in my network.
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They want a list of all donor hearts, livers and kidneys in alphabetical order.
It's a very organ-ized list.
Please donate some humor for those of us who were born without.
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