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721.
by chgs 2y ago
My ISP doesn’t but the people who run the increasingly centralised internet have a long track record of mining my data for commercial reasons. I’ll trust my ISP over Google or Cloudflare or Microsoft or DuckDuckGo any day.
722.
by chgs 2y ago
If I take your physical thing away you are left without that thing. If I copy your thing you still have your thing. While property ownership and restrictions on being able to say or write something are both constructs governments apply, the
723.
by chgs 2y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373
724.
by chgs 2y ago
I configure my router to divert all UDP/53 to my pi hole. The advertising industry hates this type of behaviour, but it means ever an IoT device using hard coded dns (rather than what I tell them from my dhcp or nd settings) This is a
725.
by chgs 2y ago
Why don’t you change ISP? You choose an isp with those features that’s on you. It’s not like the UK is a backwards country with a monopoly of one or two ISPs for a given location.
726.
by chgs 2y ago
Same in the US too.
727.
by chgs 2y ago
The choice of DoH is not set from dhcp or the OS, it’s set by the application developer. And that’s wrong. DNS should be an OS level tool which is consistent to all applications, not an application by application setting. As the device owne
728.
by chgs 2y ago
Nobody is taking away your copy.
729.
by chgs 2y ago
I’ve known far too many people who die within 3 years of retirement regardless of age. Quality of life now is more important to me.
730.
by chgs 2y ago
Very few people can agree what limits speech has. Some countries limit in certain ways, others don’t. Hell a lot of people can’t even agree on what “speech” means.
731.
by chgs 2y ago
https://www.obe.tv/how-to-lie-about-latency/
732.
by chgs 2y ago
You can state your “alternate facts” all you want while ignoring actual truth, doesn’t make you right.
733.
by chgs 2y ago
Of course there is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_citizenship Anyone living for more than 15 years was denied the right to vote but not denied the right to have their citizen forcibly removed against th
734.
by chgs 2y ago
Indeed the U.K. did not give the right to vote for U.K. citizens living in the EU when there was a vote about stripping their citizenship.
735.
by chgs 2y ago
So 8 years is fine but 10 isn’t? Policy dictated by a single elected leader is better than policy set by a group of elected people? Just because your cultural and educational background has told you that the relatively new US model of democ
736.
by chgs 2y ago
free speech is often not something one “enjoys”. If you are at a funeral and have protesters burning pictures of your dead child then you aren’t “enjoying” that. Howver the US does not have free speech. It has some speech which is not allow
737.
by chgs 2y ago
Most residents of the USA want restrictions on free speech too. And they have it.
738.
by chgs 2y ago
The US does not have freedom of speech (whatever that means), either on private platforms or at a government level.
739.
by chgs 2y ago
As I run the OS I can choose to accept the hint or override the dns servers.
740.
by chgs 2y ago
It’s probably a good idea to have a separate browner for your bank anyway, on a seperate user account, probably a separate VM.
741.
by chgs 2y ago
My bank and electric company don’t block Firefox, not sure why they would, but it’s not like there’s no competition. My government certainly won’t do that, they have a strong open data background.
742.
by chgs 2y ago
There’s a massive overlap between right wing activists and anti-Firefox commentators
743.
by chgs 2y ago
I have no problem with anything on LinkedIn with Firefox/linux. I have one internal corporate site which won’t work with Firefox for some reason, but never had any problems elsewhere.
744.
by chgs 2y ago
They do ask for location data, and it tends to mostly work - sites like openstreetmap will ask for it when you press the right button for example, which makes sense. There is a risk that it ends up like cookie banners, and the adtech indust
745.
by chgs 2y ago
You’re not but that’s the point. Google realise they don’t control the OS (in many cases) and thus struggle to monetise it. I don’t have a problem with doing dns lookups over http, or any other protocol you want to use, if I configure my OS
746.
by chgs 2y ago
If it was implemented at an OS level and respected standard configuration then fine, DoH, DoT, whatever, I’m happy. However it wasn’t, and it doesn’t defer to the OS or the network. I can’t set a dhcp option on my network to tell my dozens
747.
by chgs 2y ago
DoH is pushed by goggle et al to ensure you continue to provide your data to them. The browser should respect the OS. The OS should respect the network (dhcp/slacc). If you want to override this then that should be an active choice by
748.
by chgs 2y ago
When there’s a little delay you often find that a trian leaving at say :30 will be advertised at :26 with big warnings about platforms closing 2 minutes early, so everyone panics and 400 people try to get to platform 4 in 120 seconds, which
749.
by chgs 2y ago
Trains tend to be in the platform for 20 minutes while they are cleaned. No risk of boarding/departing passenger interaction then.
750.
by chgs 2y ago
Tried building that. Price escalated, partly due to nimby pressure, partly due to inability for the U.K. to run large projects. Now most of it has been cancelled and the benefits will be minimal.

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