Boo boo

If you come into the same restaurant multiple times per week and every fucking time you order extra ranch, maybe learn to order it along with the food your already ordering.

I’ve been doing it for 10 years 🥰

I would trust it more than the biometric payment method they’re pushing in Whole Foods

Ugh, you’re right. I forgot that I blocked their DoH server so the ads are gone for me.

With unencrypted DNS it’s dead easy to redirect to your own resolver. In fact, if you’re trying to enforce DoT or DoH on your LAN it can be good practice to do this to ensure that rogue applications aren’t bypassing your resolver.

I don’t think ISPs really do this though currently.

Fun unrelated backstory: I found a website that resolves DNS records using 1.1.1.1 over DoH in JavaScript. I had to flat out block connections to 1.1.1.1.

To add to that, I know that if I just came out and said exactly “why is that sexist?” it probably would sound like I’m copping an attitude. So I think/agree that it’d be safer to approach it more delicately.

What’s with random borders on screenshots lately?

I used to be a food cost manager in fast food and those stupid little packets cost a fortune. That’s why you get very stingy fast food workers — you need to specify how many sauce packets you need while ordering, not at the window.

While I’m in a tangent, also tell your waiter ahead of time if you need more fucking ranch dressing. I do not miss serving people and the first thing they bark out is “can I get more ranch dressing?” Bitch you sure can but maybe order it ahead of time, now I have to make an entire additional trip just for you.

Edit: I get it I’m a fucking monster for hating serving people after being forced to at a job I took on to work in the kitchen.

I think it should be “and/or” because if it’s just “or” the terms would only apply if you either open it or use it.

Southern California weather baby, at least when it’s not in climate change mode.

I pay for Apple News. I really don’t know why everyone acts like it doesn’t exist (specifically Apple users). The UI is much better than the shit hole websites anyway.

I use Apple’s Mail on iOS and macOS that block external assets by default. But I also block all that trash via DNS too. I use Blocky loaded with tons of blocklists.

A creditor and some other random company have done that.

Email tracking in general is cursed. I keep getting letters from a few companies because “you’re not receiving our emails.” No, I’m just blocking your 14 hidden pixels and not clicking your fucking awstrack.me links.

Shout out to Postmark for allowing me (as a web developer) to avoid spying on my users by letting me disable rewriting everything as a tracking link.

My side business is a transportation management system (TMS) that communicates with shipping carriers. Because I got so frustrated with this exact problem I developed a series of “hacks” so that when this happens customers don’t actually see it marked shipped until someone confirms it.

It’s very annoying but I think it’s worth it to convey accurate information. A lot of misunderstandings and pissed off customers come from shitty tracking APIs. My other favorite is “out for delivery” when it’s not; they don’t want to get in trouble for delivering it late but by lying to people you’ve just pissed them off even more.

You say you want an app but I think it would be wise to do it at the DNS level, then figure out if you need a special app to use the DNS server you configure.

I use Blocky on a VPS with countless denylists: I’ve even caught it blocking a phishing domain I received in an email just under an hour after receiving it.

Why don’t people block all Meta properties at the network level via IP addresses and/or DNS? Where do you think the funds to pay for this come from?

Yeah that’s kind of insane. I kind of get it if you’re seeing it for the first time and someone else is holding it, but to actually buy it and not realize it’s alcohol is a completely different level.

I saw that too but I started to think maybe they have it elsewhere too.