"I tried Pi-Hole for the first time... (DNS level Ad Blocker)" by Byte My Bits (2019-02-05)

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[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

i wanted to know what is the diff between this and a good hosts file full of ad domains pointing at 127.0.0.1 so a quick search:

https://www.slant.co/versus/24914/32026/~pi-hole_vs_ultimate-hosts-blacklist

also, skip to 1:10 to avoid the ad! :-)

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Neat link. I thought it was a little overkill. Maybe not for a whole office. It'd be better if it had a FreeNAS equivalent cache attached to lessen redundant traffic and/or manage torrents, etc.

I honestly don't care much about ads. On Firefox I used blockers. With Brave the blockers are automatic. I could likely do better.

I just like pitching neat things that fall across my path. Every once in a while someone responds even better stuff.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

there are also freely downloadable blacklists used by adblocking plugins.

either way, the browsing is noticeably faster , worth a try

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

In that video he shows how half the traffic is to ads. I'm guessing that's why it's faster.

Have you tried Brave? It has white and black lists but I haven't touched them. It's defaults seem great.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

a few years ago i gave it a spin on raspbian and i liked it, but for the last three-four years i am restricting myself to torbrowser only. it comes with ublock origin, noscript , https-everywhere and many other hardenings and restrictions out of the box. i only add one or two plugins to it if that. no problem with ads, nor can the usual suspects track me. im happy.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

That's mosdef hardcore. I'm paranoid about the big things, but I'm not a big thing so I'm not paranoid about them watching. I hate it but I don't fear it. I fundamentally disagree with it but I'm more concerned about functionality and part of that is no ads. Yet I'm taking steps. Next week I'm going to get a new box (actually refurbished from a computer store a few blocks away) that I intend to go as Gnu as possible. I don't know what browser I'll use yet. Maybe none. If that box is for production and other Gnu things, maybe this one will be for the other stuff.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

remember, the big fish eat the small fish. that is to say, the big things feed on small things..

i just think if my data is being monetized i want that money!! all of it! :-) otherwise i feel like a sucker dammit! when everyone is privacy conscious, these spying companies will be forced to develop a better business model.

...

for pro use nothing beats debian. its reliable, stable.. and you can make it as gnu as possible thanks to its 'non-gnu' package labellings. both raspbian and tails are debian based, my gotos. i have an atx based daw with renoise, also running debian. XD

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I might not mind the monetization if they even shared a part of it. Or made it more participatory or transparent or...

Humanity is a fish school of fool suckers, and we woke folks realized we're not fish much less suckers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catostomidae

Greek to me. Linux linx? And what do you think of Mint? I hear its the best now, for noobs.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Greek to me.

sorry, not so important, just describing my computer gear...

mint

i am not sure, my wife likes it, because its like a mac. i am not into that. i am not a noob either, hehe, my favorite gui is a tiling window manager, the i3. now that can be considered as hardcore by some, but so elegant, fast and lightweigh, gets out of the way, nothing beats it. ideal choice for older, weaker hardware

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not into Macs. Haven't touched one for a decade. I'm familiar with Win7 by default and have avoided Win10 for lack of anything compelling and the increased spyware.

https://i3wm.org/ looks cool. I'm tempted to find one for Win7. I have 6 monitors on 2 boxes so in a way I've already got them tiled. I use WindowsExplorer a lot and I hate it. Other file management softwares have pros and cons too but I don't use them.

I looked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX and I guess you mentioned it because it's bigger than a pi.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_workstation and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renoise . So you do music - but what kind? Have you used other audio software and how does it compare?

I don't know much about any of it but I figured if I didn't do animation I'd do music. I've watched several of ill.Gates tutorials / live studio sessions - https://www.patreon.com/illGATES Also I've watched Vespers who did the best Enya remix ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5SmB7PE88

I haven't mixed for a decade, not counting some editing last year. I have no idea what's out there, but I'm likely going to have to figure out some sound design for my series. It will fall into place more after I script and board it all, start testing voice acting, etc. I was totally avoiding it but recently I decided I'd give a try at voice acting on my own series for both parts, old man and young woman, assuming I could totally mess it up in post and make it unrecognizable, interesting, and original with a unique but still understandable sound, making me wonder if I even needed to make them human. Whatever that means. Maybe they're aliens, or cat people, or just have costumes I'd wanna wear at Burning Man.