but I believe you can get a free domain usually from noip

Up to three, including stuff like mx entries. For the free tier you get a mail every 30 days with a link to confirm that you are still using that name and that’s it.

I’m not missing the middle ground. I am criticising that there is no middle ground in this fake discussion manufactured to keep engagement going.

Every single time someone makes a nuanced argument that is not matching one of the two dogmatic extremes (so exactly that Linus Torvalds is doing here, just –Linus being Linus– not very diplomatically phrased) the same kind of people start screaming about the end of the world (see again: this very thread where idiots express their condolences for Linus finally going insane by not denouncing AI alongside those praising the fact that he finally has seen the light an embraces AI as our saviour).

My “script” to update the blocklist from time to time was literally

curl <blocklist1 link> > templist
curl <blocklist2 link> >> templist
grep '^0\.0\.0\.0' templist | awk '{print "local-zone: \""$2"\" always_refuse"} > blocklist.conf
systemctl restart unbound.service

and an include blocklist.conf at the bottom of unbound.conf (awk to convert it from the “0.0.0.0 <site>” format to “local-zone: <site> always_refuse”).

No, calling pigs rolling around in the mud pigs is neither an insult nor taking part in the strange mud bath ritual.

But as you seem to be bad with analogies:

Spouting ideology for the sake of it is bullshit no matter which side does it. Pitting your ideological dogmas against each other is not a discussion. If that’s your thing start a new religion (that’s not even far off from some of the influencer and tech-bro bullshit nowadays anyway…).

Most people are sick of the always same “AI is the evil and will destroy us all!”, “No, you need to embrace our saviour AI that will save us all or get left behind!” idiocy repeated a million times in slightly different spelling. You need to be absolutely lost in a delusion to miss the costantly alternating pattern of pro-AI / anti-AI posts in social and other media pushed to keep engagement going. Ffs… when it’s about the Linux kernel it’s even worse and even more obvious when we are bombarded with alternating pro- and anti-AI statements from the same single person. People can’t be that dense. So why pretend that at this point it’s something else but induced insanity.

It literally is a cron job or systemd timer to load an updated blocklist from time to time and I haven’t looked at it for years (well… other an changing a path when I switched from unbound to dnsproxy, because that one is even simpler, doesn’t even need a config other than a few parameters at startup and can provide DoH, DoT and/or DoQ access for when I’m not at home)

If you just want simple ad blocking you don’t actually need pi hole for it’s web interface you don’t ever look at once it runs. Unbound alone can do the job with minimal configuration.

Nowadays I even changed my setup to dnsproxy, which doesn’t even need any config. It’s just a handful parameters when you start it. And it does all the filtering for my home network as well as providing DoH access for when I’m not at home and connected from somewhere else.

I never understood pihole in the first place. It’s just a fancy web interface you do never look at if the thing does its job quietly in the background. And unbound alone is perfectly able to use blocklists with one line of configuration (and an onliner script to convert the common lists into the right format).

I use no-ip because that was one of the few my router back then many, many, many years ago supported out-of-the-box and there was never a reason to change…

That’s generally good advice but not actually security related.

Removing all the stress on your ressources by using a non-standard port is good for your ressources, But those automated scanners looking for unsecured devices and trying out password like admin/admin are not actually a risk. It’s just a case of security by obscurity and never actually serves its purpose.

No, thanks. My “research” is testing AI from time to time. And it is indeed artificial idiocy most of the time.

And when basically all answers I ever get from AI proponents is either “Those local models are just not powerful enough so it’s on you that you don’t get sane results” or “Those models just need some tuning so it’s on you for not running a local one you can optimise for your usecase” you start to realize there might be an entirely different problem…

I get perfectly good search results by avoiding AI, so there is really no need for me to tune anything but the settings on my searxng instance…

No, I stand beside the two sides rolling my eyes every single time another “Look! Linus is criticising AI use in the kernel! He’s fighting the devil alongside us!!” / “Look, Linus is using AI! He got converted to the one true faith!!” article gets published. Which is every other day at the moment, because it’s really important to keep the main sport event going so the idiots don’t lose interest or –even worse– start to actually think for themselves.

I still don’t understand where people are findign these useful AI answers. Every single time I try it seems AI is an acronym for artificial idiocy and I wouldn’t even trust it to tell me the time.

(In fact I just resently tried asking that stupid meta AI in sand-boxed Whatsapp (I still have to keep because of some stubborn examples of humanity) about the time in another time zone… It could tell my local time, in which time zone I was, what timezone I was asking about and what the difference between those zones was. Yet it could somehow not answer the question directly before being led there step by step. And then it still did the math wrong… 🤬)

I have made the completely opposite experience. I tried so many distros and every single time some non-trivial issues came up my search ended in the arch wiki finally explaining stuff and writing out available options in config files instead of just telling my what option in what GUI config tool (that might or might not exist in my distro) I should click, then pray it works (felt very alike to windows actually where you get two dozen guides to solve a problem, each one editing another obscure registry key and trying to find the one actually working with the current version).

So I wasted years listening to the “No, Archlinux is a meme and totally unusable for inexperienced people” before installing archlinux, which is now running for more than 9 years without problems, and will happily point people asking questions for other distros to the relevant parts of the arch wiki that actually spell stuff out properly.

You are conflating environmental costs of AI with willful destruction to make money.

AI data centers don’t need to use giant amounts of water. They do because assholes can get away with saying “fuck the people and environment” by paying off other assholes in governing positions to not regulate them.

AI data center’s electricity usage is not a problem either. We will see a massive increase in demand anyway as electrification is actually a big step in decarbonisation. What is a problem are again assholes in the fossil fuel industry that lobby the already mentioned corrupt assholes in government to fight renewable energy and its infrastructure that is clean and available in abundance.

If you believe that AI is a cause for the problem and not just a pretense and that they would not have found (actually manufacture, just like they manufactured this insane “Ai will solve everything”-bubble) another reason (or dozens) to burn the planet for their profit anyway, you really lost the plot.

you did read it, right?

Why would people read it? There is giant mud fight happening between idiots believing AI is the devil and idiots believing AI is their new lord and savior. And like most morons only interested in that kind of team sport they already picked their side to cheer for. No actual arguments or thinking required.

Or maybe, just maybe people eating up a constant stream of propaganda produced by those whose whole financial future is tied to AI being the universal solution to every problem (and some they have to create in the first place) are indeed a problem.

Just because 24/7 advertising tells you to hammer in screws doesn’t mean it’s the smart thing to do. And neither does it show how useless a hammer is as a tool.

AI is a tool and the problem world wide is that nearly everyone is using the tool wrong

Because the public discussion devolved into some insane fight between people ideologically against any AI (funnily often the argument “it’s stealing other people’s work” is coming from people that are fundamentally against copyrights in every other case) and some not less crazy people believing that AI is their new lord and savior (and a lot of them are paid or the followers to said paid influencers you just changed one idol (tech billionaires) to another one as instructed…).

It’s basically a mud fight between those believing that hammers are inherently evil and need to be destroyed and those that think everything in this world is a nail. Nothing in-between.

how it affects the temperature

positively… 🔥

chicken… egg…

Decades and decades of defunding education while damaging the people’s ability to think critically with a neverending flood of brain-rot?