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Stevie Wonder => Have you seen my wife lately?
Answer => No
Stevie Wonder => neither have I
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes drummer Alan White dies aged 72[^]
I am bummed, a great drummer.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: Yes drummer Alan White dies aged 72[^] I have one thing to say: Nooooo!!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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jeron1 wrote: I am bummed In the UK that has a 'hole' different meaning.
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obermd wrote: It's getting crowded. Unfortunately.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Altering
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Explanation please ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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like vital part => integral
the order => (anagram)
Changing => Altering
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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"Changing the order like vital part" : ALTERING
Nope, still don't get it. I'm probably being thick today.
You are up again tomorrow anyway!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I dont get it either
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So I mentioned at the start of the week I lost one of my systems (an Intel NUC), and one of my spare machines, which was hosting a bunch of VMs, was repurposed to take its place, until I find a better long-term solution. Or not.
One of the VMs that was being hosted was running Pi-Hole, and I've been browsing without it active since. OMFG. For some time I wasn't sure Pi-Hole was doing all that much, but now I'm convinced--it's indispensable. WTE happened to the web? I no longer recognize it. The real killers are animated ads, or ads that are changing so frequently it can't help but constantly draw your attention, breaking your focus.
Needless to say, one of my priorities has been to re-import the VHD and get the Pi-Hole VM up and running again. Suddenly...all is back to normal. I'm sorry, Pi-Hole, for ever doubting your contributions to a more positive browsing experience.
If marketing people are wondering why ad blockers are so commonplace nowadays, they only have themselves to blame. Seriously.
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You must visit the wrong kinds of sites.
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As a fervent pi-hole user I can assure you that even the most decent and upstanding sites bombard you with crap and pass on your your browser information to anyone willing to pay them for it.
Check out these two versions of the same page https://clumpton.com/uknwebimg/BBC_with(out)_pi-hole.JPG[^]
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
modified 27-May-22 2:58am.
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I'm used to Brave and FireFox + AdBlock, surfing without is basically impossible. The latest offender was StackExchange, with a massive ad floating at the bottom of the screen - at work I can only use Chrome and not install add-ons.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If work is on Windows, give Edge a try and turn on Strict browsing. This blocks all third party cookies and I've found is also effective at eliminating advertisements.
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We have a company tunnel, only Chrome is allowed to exit (scans the User-Agent in http requests).
And yes, I know perfectly the implications of what I wrote in the parentheses :wink:
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well, Pi-Hole acts as a DNS, so if you can run a tiny VM and reconfigure your own devices to point to it as their DNS, all your network traffic will first route through that and ads will get blocked. That is, for all devices that point to it...whether it's a PC, laptop, phone, tablet, Xbox, smart TV, etc.
So there's really no "unknown"/unapproved code/add-on actually running on any of your systems. If you can get away with that, maybe that's all you need to do.
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Cannot do that, Zscaler overrides any local setting.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Not familiar with Zscaler. So, you can't specify your own preferred DNS? That's the only thing that has to be set "locally".
If The Powers That Be are so hellbent on security, having them run Pi-Hole themselves so the entire company uses it would be the place to start IMO. Maybe not as a replacement, but as an additional hop. Which fit into the whole "layered security" approach...
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