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New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

toad_tyrrant — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:56:11 +0000

You said it can be fundamentally different, and of course it can. But “it doesn’t scale” isn’t an argument by itself. In many areas, scale actually creates efficiencies. You’d need to explain what specifically about the larger scale makes the Danish approach unworkable in the U.S

New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

toad_tyrrant — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:43:33 +0000

Why not? This is such a thought terminating statement. No actual reason.

New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements"

toad_tyrrant — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:06:35 +0000

I hadn't seen DietPi before. Right now I'm running minimal Ubuntu - it seems reasonable enough.

HomeAssistant looks interesting too.

New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements"

toad_tyrrant — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:03:18 +0000

Actually, that is quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements"

toad_tyrrant — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:24:49 +0000

That is a decent idea.

I have never used Tor though, and I can't say I know the consequences of running a relay. So I'd probably skip that.

New comment by toad_tyrrant in "Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements"

toad_tyrrant — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:11:21 +0000

I just set this up at home yesterday (using an Odroid C2). A very pleasant experience so far.

I'm trying to find other services that are worth running in a similar fashion. Any ideas?