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Wordle 730 5/6*
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Wordle 730 6/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I've heard it said that with every advance in hardware performance comes an equal increase in software complexity to use up all of the gains.
I believe that's what we have in this situation.
I'm using a DNS blocker of my own design and I currently have approximately 11.5 million domains in the block list. Aside from how impressed I am at how well my DNS blocker is performing with so many domains, I'm impressed at how quickly web pages load now that most of the tracking and ads have been stripped.
Even pages that always take a long time, like Rumson, NJ 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground[^], now load zippity quick! Snappy performance. The difference is so stark that I feel we should all start charging the websites for the extraneous processing and electricity they use on our dimes, and that wastes so much of our time.
I cringe at the thought of how much tracking and analytics must be going on in the unfiltered web. It's truly astounding.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I'm using a DNS blocker of my own design and I currently have approximately 11.5 million domains in the block list. Aside from how impressed I am at how well my DNS blocker is performing with so many domains,
That could do for an article  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I agree with Nelek. Big hot topic
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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And I agree with both of you.
Currently in a holiday rental with 12Mb broadband, I VPN into my home to use the pi-hole filtered connection to speed things up. Makes a huge difference despite the VPN overhead.
Quote: I'm using a DNS blocker of my own design and I currently have approximately 11.5 million domains in the block list.
Where did you find all those domains? My pi-holes have only 800 k.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Cheers for that!
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Thanks for the link. I’ve been using PiHole for a few years. Never thought to look for lists beyond the stock/included ones.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I feel we should all start charging the websites for the extraneous processing and electricity they use on our dimes, and that wastes so much of our time.
Or they could start charging you since they are providing a service that you use. And if you are not paying for it the ads must do so. The ones you block of course.
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My proposition was that we should charge them for the extra processing involved in receiving their ads, fingerprinting and tracking scripts.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: My proposition was that we should charge them for the extra processing
And yet you said...
"now that most of the tracking and ads have been stripped."
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I cringe at the thought of how much tracking and analytics must be going on in the unfiltered web. It's truly astounding.
Considering I work on enterprise websites exclusively; it gets even worse. The larger the corporation, you'll have one department wanting one library to get telemetry the way they're used to and another department wanting a different library, etc. Then, everybody and their mother will use some API from Google, font, etc. and these third parties also inject their own telemetry too. It all adds up quickly.
Some of it is useful, like to track users' interactions in case they call the support line. Most of it is just to find the best way to sell you more stuff though.
Jeremy Falcon
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Keep in mind, this wasteful bloat isn't just on the web. I'm leaving names out, but I recall one organization paid something like $60K for an exclusive web font that looked 99.9% the same as a free to use Google Font. And everyone knew it at the time of purchase. So, not only is the look not really exclusive, but they could've also saved $60K. The bigger the company the less they care about "small" amounts like that though.
And you'll be glad to know, they'll be happy to track people to recoup that money back. So, the next time you see a webpage that is sluggish... remember the fonts man. Remember the fonts. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I’ve been using PiHole for a few years. There are currently about 269k domains in the stock/included lists.
Saw your other post with a link to more lists. Looks like I have something to do this afternoon. Thanks.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Keep in mind that web bloat is happening just on the Internet---It's happening on other things, like commercial TV.
TV now has a standard of 5 minutes of commercials every 10 minutes. Not only do I now have time to go to the bathroom during commercial breaks, I have time to get another beer, drink it and go to the bathroom a second time.
I'm limiting my TV time to 4 hours a day---any more and I'd be an alcoholic.
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#Worldle #513 3/6 (100%)
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I've gone from being "amazed" at some of the code that VS suggested, to "laughing" at its inability to grasp the present context quicker, if at all.
I wonder if there will be laws against making AI feel "bad" when we scoff at its efforts.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Looking on how idiotic many laws are... for sure. It actually amazes me, that they are not starting to speak about.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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When it works, it saves me loads of typing. When it doesn't work, it amuses me. What's not to love?
I remember raving about this feature a couple of days ago. Y'all thought I was joking. 
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Have a word with Mr Putin. He seems to like making as much as possible unlawful if not illegal.🙄
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it needs to be done, or I have to scrap my entire project, firmware and all.
I'm writing a bunch of Windows UI code. I hate coding for desktops and servers. I burnt out on it a long time ago, so I like to keep my forays into such endeavors as brief as possible. It brings me no joy, only frustration, even though I know how to do it well. I almost wish I didn't, because then I'd never be roped into doing it.
Worse, this is my own, unpaid project. I'm determined to finish it, but also just sort of upset and overwhelmed because I got ambitious and now I have to code it.
I like tiny devices with kilobytes of RAM. Coding on those is enjoyable. Not so much PCs. PCs can get bent. 
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I'm working to complete my take-over-the-world project which is a combination Windows service and desktop application. I've been working on it on and off for two years, and there's no end in sight. I keep thinking of ways to make it more and more complicated!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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If you get stuck let me know. We use a C#/WPF app and several Windows services written in C++/MFC to run our commercial inkjet printing systems[^]. It's an effective architecture for what we're doing. We use TCP/IP sockets for inter-process communication.
This product line started in 2008, and there's no end in sight.
Software Zen: delete this;
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