As best I understand it, running a private caching DNS server is the only guaranteed increase in privacy for DNS. That server still has to reach out to the net the first time a request is made, but will resolve all subsequent requests locally. DNSSEC to a privacy respecting DNS provider like quad9 at 149.112.112.112 from your local DNS server. Mayhaps the best you could do for a roaming device like a phone is to run a decent VPN with an option to prevent DNS leaks.

Most years police officers don’t even rank in the top 20 most deadly jobs. Pretty much anyone in construction, logging, mining, agriculture, or fishing has much more reason to be stressed than cops, certainly more worried about dying at work. In America, they might be pretty worried because technically a state of civil war has existed for many years now with the cops killing more than 1000 civilians (over 1300 people in 2024) every year, but they made that bed, and they can lay in it. This is a picture of tax dollars at work. I don’t think it’s funny at all; to me, it’s a repulsive reminder that they want as many people in jail, for any and all reasons they can come up with. “To Serve and Protect.” I urge everyone to think hard about who they serve and protect , and why. Perhaps a more accurate slogan would be “Generating Revenue for the State”, or thinking about the fact that only about 7% of officers time is spent investigating serious crime maybe just “Wasting Time on the Backs of the Taxpayers”

Pure Tung oil.

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Outback Trading Low Rider Duster.

Look, it’s a squirrel!

Add a disk and migrate to raid 6.

Base solar panel = 14% effecient x 1000 = 14,000% effecient. The only way the math works is if the new panels are 100% efficient and they are referencing a rock as a standard solar panel. I’m calling BS.

Well, you can stuff your wounds with the silky smooth sand and shards institutional toilet paper, me, I’ll be looking like a Yeti with all those tampon strings…Damn!

You are right. However, with policy changes, we also need a tenable plan for a hydrogen economy that is physically and economically possible. The tech to produce and handle hydrogen on that scale does not exist, and much like carbon capture and storage, they are likely to remain a pipe dream; numbers don’t add up. We’ve spent a century building infrastructure that has no use other than extracting and processing fossil fuels. That we have enough resources to make the transition to a clean economy is in serious doubt at this time.

It does make a nice talking point to make everyone feel better about technology saving us from ourselves in the future, though. It’s certainly much more palatable than talking about the overshoot of the human population.

Yes it is. Haber-Bosch process is where all our ammonia comes from, and it’s fed via petrochemical stocks. No oil = no food.

Weeds aren’t a problem, but typically the fertilizers for hydro are petroleum based, and therefore not sustainable.

Today I learned nothing. Bad link.

I’m hoping for Weird AL.

How many times do we have to say it: Please stop naming your baby hippos, “Jeffery Dahmer”.

Good call. I like that.

Yup, I’m guessing that’ll do it all right. Knit a few pairs of socks, and just normalize the world away!

This is why we are doomed. People take a look at the dumpster fire that’s life now and say, “Have you tried knotting socks and not being sad?”

Myself, I reply with what I hope is understanding and compassion, and say, “Yes indeed, things look bleak. You, unknown internet person, are not alone in feeling this way”

There’s a great Dollop about this Whalesplosion.

Chicory. Nice pic!!!

Oak dowels will be 2 to 3 times harder than pine, and more durable because of that. Widely available at any hardware store.