It can be both server and DNS provider. For instance, Cloudflare allows you to set rules for what traffic is allowed. And you can set it to automatically drop traffic for everything except your specific subdomains. I also have mine set to ban a IP after 5 failed subdomain attempts. That alone will do a lot of heavy lifting, because it ensures your server is only getting hit with the requests that have already figured out a working subdomain.

Personally, I see a lot of hacking attempts aimed at my main www. subdomain, for Wordpress. Luckily, I don’t run Wordpress. But the bots are 100% out there, just casually scanning for Wordpress vulnerabilities.

+1 for dropped connections on invalid domains. Or hell, redirect them to something stupid like ooo.eeeee.ooo just so you can check your redirect logs and see what kind of BS the bots are up to.

Orion on iOS has support for both Chrome and Firefox extensions. So you can use uBlock Origins directly. It’s made by the same developers as the search engine Kagi.

Only downside is that it doesn’t sync with Firefox, if you use that on your desktop.

DuckDuckGo just proxies Bing search results, FWIW. It doesn’t run its own crawlers/indexers. So if you’re getting bad results, it’s just because Bing fucking sucks.

Modern society is designed from the ground up to favor the high-functioning sociopaths who only care about themselves but blend in well enough to seek powerful positions. Because those people are the ones who will strive to get those positions of power, while also simultaneously being willing to step on others to accomplish it. An old saying went along the lines of “anyone who would actually be elected president should be barred from the office.” But this also goes for smaller spheres of influence too. CEOs, church leaders, etc… It’s possible for a good person to get that position, but it’s more likely that they’ll be shoved out of the way by someone with fewer principles.

The single largest determining factor for your future earning potential is which ZIP code you were born in. We can predict, with an extremely high degree of accuracy, how much a child will make when they grow up… Simply by looking at where they were born and raised. Because wealthy parents raise wealthy children. Your parents’ income is a glass ceiling that eclipses all others.

Yup. Queue is a line. Cue is a trigger. The cashier can cue the next person in the queue to approach the register.

Even more confusingly, my job frequently shorthands “cue” as “Q” because it is quicker to write in a script. For instance, the script margins will have the stage manager’s notes, which include lighting cues, sound cues, etc… So the stage manager will write something like “Q136 when light switch flipped” if lighting cue 136 needs to fire when the actor flips the light switch. So they can call it at the appropriate time.

Yup. Landed here during the APIcolypse and haven’t looked back. The only time I visit Reddit now is when I have obscure tech issues, and the only search results are people asking about it on Reddit.

Are you a registered republican, or live in a conservative area? I’m registered R so I can vote for the least crazy candidate in their primaries. Because a democrat has basically zero chance of winning the general election in my district. And I get the MAGA bait too.

Especially when renewing certs is so easy it can be automated. Automating certs like step 3 of setting up your own website, right after buying the domain and pointing DNS at your server.

It’s actually “TL;DR rich people bad” but sure, pop off I guess.

Yup, exactly. They want to keep it federal (and avoid state charges), because Trump specifically can’t pardon state charges.

Protests can be peaceful and armed, FWIW. That’s what started the Black Panthers. People realized that unarmed peaceful protests got violently broken up… But heavily armed peaceful protests had cops politely watching from across the street.

Cops were more than happy to fire into crowds when everyone was unarmed. But the cost/benefit ratio suddenly changed when the entire crowd could return fire. A cop may be able to hit three or four protestors, and in an unarmed protest, the rest would quickly scatter and disperse. But when everyone was armed, the rest of the crowd could immediately return fire instead.

It’s also what started modern gun control laws. When lawmakers saw a bunch of heavily armed black people on their front porch, and saw cops unwilling to break it up, they got really fucking sweaty. So Ronald Reagan (yes, the same Reagan that conservatives put on a pedestal) and the NRA (yes, the same NRA that lobbies for looser gun control after school shootings) co-sponsored the Mullford Act, which was the most restrictive gun control bill the country had ever seen. It was literally the start of modern gun control laws.

This is what drove the Black Panthers underground, as the lawmakers and police worked to criminalize and track them, so they could kick down doors during dinner time, instead of busting up the peaceful protests directly. And we still see that tactic being used today, with police setting up cell phone trackers and facial recognition cameras at protests, and raiding suspected attendees’ homes days or weeks after the protest.