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buttmasterflex
member since 12 Dec 2025 15:09
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- on Duckduckgo tracking protection? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 Sep 2026
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on Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
There’s one across the street that captures my home. I fantasize about taking it out in a number of creatively destructive methods.
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on How awesome or f*cked are you in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Cleared Hot: I get to fly a chopper and blow things up, so that would be fun.
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on US grid operator PJM proposes forcing data center off the grid during emergencies in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
And the monkey’s paw will be they have late capacity gas turbines to generate electricity that will continue to spew greenhouse gases.
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on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Netbird is a zero trust mesh VPN, very similar to Tailscale. My use would be accessing my Jellyfin and Navidrome servers remotely
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on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Yes, I’m a geologist by education and career. I self-host a few different services but keep them all on my LAN. Setting up Netbird is on my to-do list, but I’m simply not confident enough in the network security aspects to expose anything outside of a VPN tunnel.
I dug into it, and it appears to be a DDG flavor of a DNS blocker (e.g., pihole, Technitium, etc.). It uses a blocklist to block specific tracking data sent from your phoneby comparing those URLs against the blocklist, then preventing the connection if it matches.
You can get the same effect, plus ad blocking, by changing your phone’s DNS to a public DNS like AdGuard, NextDNS, or something similar. You can use a VPN with the same capabilities, or if you want self hosted, run something like pihole or Technitium.
DDG’s service doesn’t seem to be bad, but it is limited in scope.
Disclaimer, I am an amateur in these matters not any kind of expert. I run my own instance of Technitium at home for network wide blocking, but that’s about it.