Collecting something can be a fun hobby. Buying collectibles is something a fucking idiot does.

Wha… these things are real? I thought they were made up for the South Park episode

This is literally why our government is no longer legitimate

Being pedantic is totally OK here - we’re talking about SSL’s spoof protection. I’ll have to look up how any rando can host a DNS that supports DNS/HTTPS when a system would be expecting a valid SSL cert that declares who it was issued to and by whom and the requester is expecting a particular whom.

This is the first I have heard of Murc’s law. It succinctly describes the nature of American politics. It’s uncanny.

Wow really? I was under the impression that the SSL part would prevent the pihole from being able to spoof itself as a legitimate DNS

Pihole’s act as a DNS or “Dynamic Name Server”. All internet traffic is IP based once it leaves your home because routers dont know how to forward traffic for “https://samsung-ad-hell.com/”, so there is a dedicated kind of packet for “Where is https://samsung-ad-hell.com/ located?” and that is a DNS Lookup. The Pihole pretends to know because it maintains a list of bad urls that host websites that only support privacy exploitation and advertisements and tells them “oh you want to go to 0.0.0.0, that’s where you’ll find your stuff” as it snickers.

But DNS Lookups were always plain text. When your laptop says “Where is https://big-booties.com/” your ISP knows you want porn. Now there is a new variant called “Secure DNS Lookup” which encrypts the url you’re asking about. The ISP knows you’re asking for a domain’s IP, but it can’t know which one and it no longer cares. Neat.

The trouble is that the Pi-Hole can no longer protect us from all the stupid fucking smart devices that want to earn a fraction of a penny per device by spying on us because THEY use the new Secure DNS Lookup.

I wonder how much longer that will work. DNS over HTTPS is now a thing and totally defeats the mechanism of a pihole.

Whenever appliances get brought up I always warn people to stay away from Samsung.

Well he did a good job of upholding his PR for those who are dumb enough to believe it because he deceptively edited his videos for them.

Charlie Kirk totally PWNS 25 stupid crybaby liberal students

No but they thump it all the time

I read that article the other day. Excellent characterization of Kirk.

I generally do too. But then you’re also at the mercy of whether the site was designed with even the most basic of security in mind. Luckily the password managers all generate unique passwords so one site getting hacked and plaintext passwords stolen won’t get my bank info put at risk - but still.

People didn’t listen to Einstein because he had money - he didn’t. He just had good ideas. People didn’t listen to Curie for her money. She had none. People only listen to Theil because he has enough money to be scary. They obviously think his ideas are fart sniffing.

Honestly I thought it was great when OAuth started making it easy to use my various pre-existing IDs as logins for websites. But now I cant remember which one is which and my password manager doesn’t give me any hints. Sigh.