Respect! Thanks for posting! Could you do a blog-post or more technical write up about your implementation.
I have my own DNS with min-ttl set. Further more I have firewalled all DNS-lookup except to a certain provider.
On top of this I have a installed a local CA on all devices.
Blocked domains are reverted to an local nginx that answer with a empty gif or 204, even when the request is on https (domains spoofed).
The access.log is very interesting to analyse, and sometimes you find bugs in iOS apps that crashes because they could not send their usage data to flurry.com or other domains.
Many of us that use local DNS (pi-hole and similar technology), this is not an option. On the other hand, I feel more secure with my local ISP than with mega ad-corporation like Google.
I think that DNS over HTTPS is loved by the ad-community. No local DNS that can disturb or block user generated data. Don’t get fooled people.
Just another thing that you need to remember to configure on each of the applications that don't use the system resolver, on each of your systems.
I guess for me that equates to Firefox on 3 systems. Although I have three separate Firefox profiles, so I guess that's 9 times it needs configuring. And at some point 3 copies of Chrome, and another 3 Chromiums I guess. And then whatever other apps decide they want their own custom name resolution. That's assuming I'm actively notified that they have been changed to work that way, and assuming I remember to do it after each install.
Because by the sound of it, without remembering to configure my systems, I'm going to end up in a situation where I'm now shipping off a list of all the websites I visit to some American corp for safe keeping, by default. Along with everyone else in the World.
I can't even sit here in the UK, visiting a UK website, without asking an American corp for the IP. At least today, I'm asking my ISP for the IP. A company based in my legal jurisdiction, with whom I have a business relationship.
[edit] I forgot Firefox on my phone too. Thankfully I don't have a tablet.
I think you missed the most important point, in that radiologic dating after 1950ish is a lot less accurate due to nuclear testing- It would ABSOLUTELY be important for an archeologist in 1000 years to have special knowledge about these changes around the year 1950 in order to do their job properly.
> I wonder what the practical side effects are of being off by one when discussing events that happened c. thousands of years ago.
A days-as-dots representation[1] has one day precision at a thousand years BP, and since accuracy of a day or week is often possible, it was actually an issue. Wrestling with "everyone has their own odd calendar" was a pain.
[1] "History shown with days as dots - so centuries fit on a screen"'s "Days-as-dots demo" was basically an exploratory UX test piece: http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/QEt9x . The Google Books and Google Newspapers links are regrettably rotted - it was great fun to click on random days in the 1800's and 1900's and read random newspapers of that day. :/ The inset NY Tribune from the Library of Congress still works. My fuzzy impression is the google newspapers database is simply unavailable now?
I agree, but (I don’t want to start any flame wars here) there is a well known narrative that explains the AD and BC. It has been around in 2000 years and will probably be around some 1000 years more.
In Sweden we have been discussing about what type of signs should we put up to warn for nuclear waste. Will people in thousand of years be able to understand and decide the warnings?
Same with time concepts, the future must have a sporting chance to understand what we where talking about.
and i think principally in 'christendom' for most of that, it was later that other parts of the world started accommodating it for pragmatic reasons like international commerce - or were 'required' to accommodate on account of various forms of colonial endeavor.
i think this is misleading if not a bit ethnocentric (or rather religiocentric?). the islamic, jewish and hindi calendars all have different numbered years, and presumably most others.
to turn this around, the fixation on AD and rejection of other proposals could be described as christian supremacist 'propaganda'. it 'suffices' because it accommodates to your comfort and privilege.
A friends of my parents visited us when we lived in West Africa in the 80s. They brought with them surströmming and without telling asked my parentd to invite som other norrlänningar (northerners, from the north of Sweden).
We had a houseboy and our friend told him, “come here I will show you something special”. Well, they went outside and he opened the surströmming tin. In a split second all the insects of Africa showed up (exaggerated). The houseboy said: “sorry mister, sorry mister, the food is spoiled”. He told the houseboy, “follow me now you will se something more”.
They took the surströmming inside and showed the dinner guests who cheered and was very happy. The eyes of the houseboy became big as a saucers.
He tried to give the houseboy money if he eat some surströmming, even a whole months pay, but he refused.
A relative attended a school in in London during the 60s, living in a dormitory. One of the students didn’t wash his socks. So my relative and his friend opened a tin of surströmming and placed it in this guys trash bin.
The guy with the smelly socks friends entered the dormitory and smelled the surströmming thinking it was his socks. So they throwed them away.
Well now my relative and his friend had to swiftly remove the tin with surströmming, so they placed it outside in a tree.
Then the school directors 2 poodle dogs came along and found the surströmming ton and eat it up.
The directors wife was a piano teacher and had a lesson with a student when the dogs entered the piano room. The directors wife shouted something like “O my dear dogs, where have you been..” and having no clue what it was. Well, she gave this dogs a good bath.
I have to eat surströmming once a year, preferably close surströmmingspremiären, which is the 3d Thursday in August.
Living in Stockholm, you call friends and relatives who like surströmming and set a date and time.
If you have neighbours from other cultures, it is adviced to set up a notice in the entrance. Otherwise they maybe will call for a plumber.
Everything that is present during a meal with surströmming will probably catch the smell. Therefore it is advised to not have your finest suit on. And the best way is to eat outdoors.
Eating outdoors could bring along insects to the table. To mitigate this you could pour some of the brine in a coup or two and set them some meters from the table and the insects gravitate to them instead.
I have been wondering when the USA would start fining Google, Facebook and other mega corporations. It seems that will not happen.
I am really glad that EU did this, been waiting years for this to happen. Other fines will surly come. You can’t eat and kill your competition too long before someone starts to sett the records straight.
In Sweden we have ”Bredbandskollem” since around 2007 and with a mobile app since 2008. Not so many details, but it works. It’s supported by IIS (Internetstiftelsen I Sverige) which is responsible for .se among other things.
Fast.com - is 10Mb normal for 4G mobile connection?
I have my own DNS with min-ttl set. Further more I have firewalled all DNS-lookup except to a certain provider.
On top of this I have a installed a local CA on all devices.
Blocked domains are reverted to an local nginx that answer with a empty gif or 204, even when the request is on https (domains spoofed).
The access.log is very interesting to analyse, and sometimes you find bugs in iOS apps that crashes because they could not send their usage data to flurry.com or other domains.