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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you recommend some good Exodus songs? Maybe from the newer albums as I've heard the older stuff.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Who is 'him'? When I click the link it goes to Twitter and asks me to log in. I can't tell who you are taking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol I love both those bands! With Megadeth I find I go back to them much more than say, Metallica. Their music is more complex and just has more to chew on.

My favourite Annihilator album by far is Never, Neverland. It was the first one I heard and I love every song. I also like Pharr's vocals. Their later albums are pretty cheesy though, especially the lyrics. Jeff's such an awesome guitar player though, and I always wished he would hook up with a better 'metal' songwriter/lyricist.

Bands I could never get into: Exodus and Testament. Just boring songs except maybe a couple from each. Also Anthrax aren't great with some notable exceptions from their earlier stuff.

Slayer is obviously awesome, but Hanneman's songs were always way better than King's. And their guitar solos blow.

I have a soft spot for Overkill, but I find most of their stuff is filler.

Song writing is king, and Metallica/Megadeth are the best at that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol this is the best answer

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. It's mind boggling that they still even do this.

The other thing I hate about reviews is when they use the same review page for different SKUs of the same product. So for example you'll be reading a review of what you think is a 2 litre plastic container because that's what you clicked on. The review will say something like 'it's too big for the fridge'. Meanwhile the review was actually for the 5 litre version of the same product. So then you have to scroll through a million reviews to find the relevant ones, with no way to filter them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I wish memes would just fuck off and die. I hate to admit that I do laugh at the odd one, but I would quite happily never see one again.

I don't get why you just don't subscribe to some communities that don't have memes, and just set your feed to view 'subscribed'?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with that certification, but looking at it, as you say the knowledge gained from it would be tremendously useful.

If you are looking to get into DevOps, I'd probably suggest you do some of the cloud certifications instead (AWS, Azure, GCP). Those will cover everything, from networking to infrastructure to app development on cloud platforms.

The CCNA cert itself would probably be more useful if you want to be a network engineer in a data center. But I would definitely recommend you keep doing the course, if not the exam.

A lot of people I work with don't have low level networking skills, so if you can develop those alongside your appdev skills it would set you apart.

A final word about certifications. When I interview people, I will notice if they have certifications but I don't put much stock in them. I've worked with too many people that have them and are still useless. If you do them, make sure you spend the time to actually learn and understand the material rather than just doing enough to pass the exams, because that's where the real value is.

 

Help me understand.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, or other institutions interested in accessing the full list of domains or want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact us here"

I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't find this list of websites. Fat lot of good this article is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well it's a service I'm paying for, so yes a bit of trust is required. Their privacy policy looks decent as well. As it stands, I trust them more with it than I would my ISP, Google or Microsoft.

You can choose what region to log to (I chose Switzerland) and you can also configure the retention period.

https://nextdns.io/privacy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My main issue with PiHole was that the container wouldn't work on later versions of Ubuntu for some reason (if I remember correctly, anything later than 18.04). I never did figure it out. The other reason was since I was running it in Kubernetes, the whole point is to have multiple replicas running for redundancy, but PiHole's UI is coupled with its backend DNS service so if you have 3 PiHole instances running, you had 3 GUI instances as well. You could load balance the DNS requests (I used MetalLB), but visiting the UI was pointless. Also, the config was very scripty and not really container friendly - I mean it worked but it wasn't designed as a cloud native application. No fault of its own but it didn't really suit the way I like to do things.

Enter Blocky, which doesn't have a UI and has a very simple YAML config that is easily mounted to a container. It scaled much easier, used way less resources and was just simpler to manage. It was really exactly what I was looking for.

However, ultimately running the DNS service for my house out of a Pi cluster wasn't really my best idea. It has to work 100% of the time, and I would have frequent outages. We are a family of 5, so imagine lots of 'Dad! The TV's not working!!' and stuff like that every time. This thing was a pet project, and I didn't have it set up as a 'production' service, which is what it really should be. Sometimes the metallb pods would fall over, or the kubernetes TLS certificates would expire for the cluster, etc. I didn't have proper monitoring and alerting setup, etc. I just couldn't be bothered putting the effort into it that it required.

NextDNS does exactly the same thing, with probably even better controls, is more reliable, has great logging and costs bugger all.

EDIT: meant to add, I used it for more than just adblocking, but also for parental controls. NextDNS is great for that as well.

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