Captain_Faraday

It was DNS! According to the news anyways. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html

Gonna plug one of my favorite YouTubers now lol https://www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-was-dns-shirt

I think will actually start using this “master” and “apprentice” now. Love it lol

Recently set up a Rackmate T1 10” rack for the homelab so I could consolidate all my proxmox cluster and Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole and acting as cluster qdevice. I was able to get my Twingate VPN working to access my services outside the home and a more privacy-respecting domain service, Porkbun, to host my domain as the base for my homelab subdomains with Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for HTTPS via Nginx Proxy Manager. Works well so far!

Lastly, my next project is adding Unbound Recursive DNS server to the pi running Pi-Hole.

I haven’t had a chance to read the whole article yet, but is Notesnook safe from the mass surveillance going on in Pakistan? @notesnook@fosstodon.org

Gosh, I recently deleted my Meta accounts and X after coming here and Mastodon. Posts like this validate that decision! (even though I don’t want to be on those other platforms anyways these days lol)

Great article! Thanks! Couldn’t agree more that the age verification moves (Zero-knowledge or not) are bad news for everyone’s privacy. It is certainly a tool for constructing infrastructure to control the internet beyond “protecting children”.

Haha, those would be my kind of co-workers, but the kind of work we do requires a background and degree in electrical engineering and power systems. Although, I have been moving away from this in my career in the conventional sense. I want to do dev stuff and networking stuff, that’s where the fun is! They recently gave me an opportunity to help program and configure all the networking and automation equipment for a substation, been learning a lot and feeling like my tinkering with homelab stuff is finally paying off in some way lol.

My spouse and I work for a contractor that is having trouble hiring experienced people like us, so they have been hiring fresh grads outta school. There is a limited pool of experience here, so when management throws a fit one of us is overloaded or gets sick and can’t meet the budget or deadline, it ends with nothing because they can’t afford to lose us. We work on the power grid and it’s a relatively small pool of engineers doing the work we do. Also, I’m rocking two work laptops with a home setup of 4 monitors and an office setup of 3, but still feel pretty important!

Super helpful, thanks! I run Fedora 42 KDE and have had my Bluetooth randomly be disabled when booting, hopefully this will help some.

Oops, my comment might not have been clear. You are onto what I was meaning. My spouse and I share a Spotify Duo account that was linked to our Facebooks until recently when I deleted mine. Spouse still has hers linked. We have been paying subscribers for years now, so I was wondering if that combined with having a billing address on file would be enough to avoid age verification. We aren’t trying to access mature content, but I don’t want to have to delete my account to avoid uploading a facial scan or government ID to anyone lol.

Do you think Spotify will still request age verification if you are paid subscribers with a billing address?