I never even set up DNS for things that aren’t public facing. I just keep /etc/hosts updated everywhere and ssh/scp/rsync things around using their non-fqdn hostnames.

Oh cool! I’m always a week or so late on Behind the Bastards, I wait until they put it on youtube so I can use sponsorblock and kill the ads. I like the coolzonemedia podcasts, but they’re way too heavy on the ads for me without a blocker

They just don’t want to spend the money (that the government gave them years ago to do specifically that)

There was a great talk about this at a hacker convention a few years back. Infuriating, but great.

The Circle of HOPE (2018): $500 Billion Broadband Scandal: It’s Time to Break Up AT&T… Again

Molly White also wrote about this in the context of open access on the web and people being concerned about how their works are being used.

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The same thing happened again with the explosion of generative AI companies training models on CC-licensed works, and some were disappointed to see the group take the stance that, not only do CC licenses not prohibit AI training wholesale, AI training should be considered non-infringing by default from a copyright perspective.

Well keep your ears peeled and let the rest of us know. I’m so curious what’s shooting around in the confederate-canadian facebook

| Hackland said in his sentencing decision that King had accepted “minimal responsibility” but offered a “sincere apology” for his actions.

lol

If you don’t want to host your own data, take a look at TarSnap

One thing I’ve been doing is doing random online classes instead of doom scrolling. There’s a ton of free ones that you can do at your own pace and spend an hour or two each day learning new stuff. Just generally being more mindful and curating my media inputs and replacing algorithmic rage inducement with better stuff. Here’s a few examples, but there’s tons all over the web:

Basic web dev @ theodinproject

Blender 2.8 Fundamentals

Your First 2D Game

I’m having the same problem. There are bugs about it open with the developers, so presumably it’ll be fixed at some point.

Search Icons are missing again #2227

Icons are missing from custom search engines added from settings #2261

In the meantime, I was able to make my search bar presentable by installing the “Search Engines Helper” plugin and manually adding the search engines that are having favicon problems, then going into the search engine settings and removing the checkmarks for the broken ones.