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Max_aaa··on Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
PiHole acts as a local DNS server. So it blocks ad network domains.
Max_aaa··on Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store
I personally use AdAway https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/

It is a simpler design and works great. It works by adding mapping to your hosts file.

Max_aaa··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
> He's not handling sensitive personal data.

How do you guaranty that nothing in the messages being handled by the server is "sensitive personal data".

Max_aaa··on New York City Launches First Blockchain Initiatives
It is a basically set of Merkle trees, each with a header.
Max_aaa··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
This is why we have a local registry and for any container that is goes to testing or production or is needed for builds should be build-able from source.

We still need to figure out how to best tackle the issue of online repositories being taken down or vanishing. For now we run apt-mirror.

Max_aaa··on New York City Launches First Blockchain Initiatives
How can this even be solved by the "blockchain"?
Max_aaa··on ISPs Say They Don’t Make Enough Money
Look at how the internet is done in New Zealand.

We have a handful is big companies that own the fiber, and copper networks and a lot of ISPs that essentially rent the last mile.

Chorus, is one of the biggest infrastructure providers:

https://www.chorus.co.nz/tools-support/broadband-tools/broad...

Max_aaa··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
Intuition is based on past experience.

So for most people it would be a "Windows 7"-esque GUI.

Max_aaa··on 'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'
And the variety of available food choices. Or the fact that the is a nice gym with a shower.

It is one of the best airports I have ever seen.

Max_aaa··on To solve affordability crisis, Bay Area housing stock must grow 50% in 20 years
Actually they will be able to ask for higher rents, as with lower sales and income taxes, the renters suddenly have extra cash that will eventually trickle towards rent.
Max_aaa··on Berlin now home to soaring rents and rising tensions
Is that before or after taxes?
Max_aaa··on Giving away the company's secret sauce
My home server is my 2nd gen i7 laptop, the battery can still keep it running for roughly an hour if it is not under load.

The modifications done, were replacing the DVD drive with a 2.5" Driver adaptor for a raided system, and putting two new high capacity 2.5" drives in.

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