It is unsettling to think that all these ancestors learned to survive and reproduce, so many times over.
While it is difficult to connect to a bug (sorry for that, distant family), going to the 1000s and knowing how hard it was for peasents at that time make you appreciate their efforts.
I was recently wondering that since in the US the race is declarative and such a big thing, why don't people self declare being <of the currently most interesting race>?
If this brings you points at entey exams or similar bonuses - why not (mis)using that mechanism?
Or maybe I have as a European the wrong impression about positive discrimination based on race in universities? (I do not nit jave recent data, just remember that people mentioned that they did not play the "race card" to be admitted)
Yeah. Nowadays I use pi-hole which is dnsmasq underneath and use it with unbound.
Works great. Minimal fuss, efficient setup, little maintenance, I don't have to understand the guts. Everything on my local network is addressable.
Ad blocking at the router is also something you don't want live without once you've gone there but pi-hole is a great solution even if you don't want that.
I use Pihole as well (even tried to synchronize two for HA but I gave up). It is fantastic.
What worries me with dnsmasq is that it is a personal project maintained on a personal git (by a great person!). Sure, one can fork and whatnot but without several people participating it can fade out pretty quickly.
Yeah, fair point. And I don't think I've seen a router for sale that wasn't using dnsmasq as a dhcp server for 20 odd years. Must be some, I guess, but haven't encountered them.
I don't know about unbound's blocklists and stats or indeed much about unbound at all.
This: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ was stupidly simple, pi-hole has a gui that I was already used to and it all works great. So I think about and study other things that need fixing/improving in my life instead.
To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)
> To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)
In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better.
I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.
But you still need something to do your dhcp, so maybe not fewer moving parts? Dunno.
I did pi-hole first, then much later decided to use unbound for dns because it looked super easy to add it. It was. Haven't thought about it much since. I hope your experience was as good or better.
dnsmasq is great. The best part is that you can assign the same IP to multiple interfaces on the same device (to multiple MAC addresses) which drives network purists crazy and is no longer supported by systemd-networkd (because they are puritans). Separated DHCP/DNS can not do this. I will look into kea and whether they can do this.
The use case is `ssh shortname` or `ssh shortname.lan` to a laptop on the same local network regardless whether the wired or wireless interface of the laptop is active.
An overlay like Tailscale MagicDNS might solve this but is complex.
Assigning the same name to 2 IP's (round robin DNS) will mean having to retry the ssh connection if the IP of the inactive interface is returned.
Failover bonding (mode 1) of the wireless and wired interfaces with MAC address spoofing so that the bonded interface maintains a consistent MAC address is reportedly not always supported by WiFi hardware and standards. Bonding may require manual reconfiguration when the laptop moves from the local network where "shortname" is used to an arbitrary WiFi network like airport or coffee shop.
Are there any solutions that satisfy single IP and reliable WiFi at the same time?
Linux used to be able to move the same IP between 2 interfaces depending on which was active. But it looks like advancements in Linux networking have killed this simple solution.
I used to (when I did that more) set up a bond of my wireless and ethernet devices, so when ethernet was plugged in it was preferred, otherwise it would use wireless. It was pretty seamless, and provided the same MAC on both networks.
I used to do that too. Nowadays I just run a WireGuard VPN and treat my WiFi network as "untrusted" (which is a good idea anyway) and it's more seamless if IP addresses change, or even if I leave the house and go somewhere else - I can expect most connections to stay up.
There's places where integration makes sense (home network/small business with tens of clients/devices) and places where dedicated engines make sense (ISPs, large enterprise VPNs, the Internet).
dnsmasq is awesome if you want a one-stop shop for DHCP and DNS for sure.
I live west of Paris and I need 3-4 commutes to get to the average place in Paris.
I looked for and then contemplated writing an app that would optimize a car + public transportation route (exactly one of each) to park at a station relatively away from the city, and get closest to the destination in one train/metro ride (reasonable walking to the final destination is ok).
This is because driving in Paris is a nightmare, and then finding a spot to park is a treasure hunt (except if you park underground - they have a facility to elegantly get your kindney to pay for the parking).
I do not think it would be that difficult to write: the transport data is public and plentiful, openstreetmap has routing. I may get back to the idea someday.
At least you have something. In France you cannot fly without an id.
Identity cards are free and you cannot really live without, you need to other your identity quite often. Sure, there are some convoluted ways to avoid that but it is a road paved with pain.
It is like the ability to make z handwritten cheque. It is clearly described in the law but I wrote me to meet someone who wrote accept such a document. I guess the bank itself would be stunned.
For the context: on SE for 13+ years, north of 400k cumulated rep.
I hate what SO became. It is true that they get heaps of junk, but a carefully crafted question from a high rep user that gets downvoted almost systematically is a problem. With me or with the massive egos of the readers.
It used to be nice and friendly. Today it is not and Meta is full of inbread psychopaths. If you want to see a brain under cocaine go there.
In contrast there are wonderful sites in SE at large. Cooking, Tex, Law, Travel, even Academia -- you get good, terse, sensible answers there.
As an atheist I love to read the Jewish SE. The amount of effort Jews are putting into making their life a jungle is popcorn worthy (I am thinking about everything not directly related to god, but rather the innumerable rules for everyday life). And yet everyone is fine, friendly, people are not trying to downvote or close as of it was a competition.
Nobody gets credit for their high rep in Cooking. People use SO for work or to show off - maybe the problem is in this dichotomy.
SUV are easier to get in, you do not need to be a contortionist to get to your seat.
My brother has an Audi sedan and I find it difficult to get in. This is practically impossible for our father. OTOH he is fine with climbing into my SUV
I have Toyota RAV4, a not so big car, but hugh enough for my butt to basically slide in without effort.
It is a very good piece of work, and extensible with JS (I just tried that). I have a fear about the future because the dev is alone, and responds alone in the discussions. He is also quite, how to say, "rough" in the interactions, which I can completely understand, being the one pulled around by everyone.
This is a very, very good piece of work when you need to decorrelate the back from the front
Ah yes, the joy of maintaining open source software. I have seen many devs burn out over the requests made of them.
I didn't know it was just one maintainer. That can both be a good thing for keeping the product focused, but it is also worrying, as that's a single point of failure. Anything could happen and then the whole project might fall into disrepair.
That factor alone would make me weary of overly relying on Pocketbase. I would hope that if he runs out of time, the project could be handed over to the community, but often the problem is then that we end up with 50 forks, all at different stages of development. I wonder what the best solution to this issue is.
I have some open source I maintain, fortunately, it stays very niche so I am not overwhelmed. But I know the pain.
What you are saying about forks is very true. Some very good ideas were started, then semi-abandonned on the way and they ended up with incompatible forks, and finally all of this collapsed.
In France we recognize Snoopy and people would call the whole "world" of the comics "Snoopy". "Peanuts" is unknown. I am 55 for the context.
We would somehow recognize Charlie Brown, but not by name. The other characters are basically unknown.
The reason is that Peanuts was not part of the mainstream comics books we were reading as children. Threre were two kind of them: proper books such as Astérix, and thick "anthologies" such as Pif which were a set of what Americans call "strips".
This goes for much of Europe. 'Peanuts' is hardly known. Everybody over the age of 40 knows Snoopy, mostly by virtue of it being a strong brand with lots of merchandise in the eighties/nineties.
While it is difficult to connect to a bug (sorry for that, distant family), going to the 1000s and knowing how hard it was for peasents at that time make you appreciate their efforts.
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