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New comment by staviette in "An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy"

staviette — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:57:49 +0000

Yes, that's a real benefit in many situations. Everything on your lan can do normal DNS queries to your local forwarder, which talks DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS to Quad9.

Downside is Quad9 can see all your DNS traffic. But without it if you run your own recursive resolver your ISP sees all your queries, and many others see portions of them, unencrypted.

New comment by staviette in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"

staviette — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:38:12 +0000

I think - at least for the people who stick with a career in PR - that they enjoy playing the game of giving an answer that is sort of related to the question but doesn't actually give a single bit of useful information. That they enjoy seeing how far they can push it without the interviewer straight up accuse them of not answering the question.

At least that's the only way I can imagine them keeping their sanity.

New comment by staviette in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

staviette — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:42:54 +0000

The fork by Catfriend01 available through F-Droid works great...for now. I too use it heavily and worry about it's future on android.

New comment by staviette in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

staviette — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:44:04 +0000

Is that really a concern for most people? Trying to keep hostnames secret is a losing battle anyways these days.

You should probably be using a trusted TLS certificate for your git hosting. And that means the host name will end up in certificate transparency logs which are even easier to scrape than DNS queries.

New comment by staviette in "Guy makes "dodgy e-bike" from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste"

staviette — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:26:18 +0000

I think there's two separate incidents you might be getting mixed up.

Popcorn lung was a concern with diacetyl - butter flavoring - which causes popcorn lung in large quantities, like the factories where they make microwave popcorn. Not sure if it was just concern about it or actual confirmed cases, but it was removed from all ecigarettes a long time ago.

The actual cases of hospitalization with respiratory issues were from cutting THC vapes with vitamin E oil to make them appear thicker and higher quality. It was already well known that inhaling vitamin E oil vapor is incredibly bad for you, but the makers of those illicit vapes either didn't know or didn't care.