Hmm, sounds a little familiar…

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.

It could potentially work. My home is along a road that runs northeast to southwest. The facade of my home faces southeast towards the camera, which is on the opposite side of the road. the camera faces northeast. See DeFlock screenshot

Sock sock while getting dressed, then moccasin moccasin for puttering around. Then it’s shoe shoe with leaving home.

It depends on how you define “environmental protections”. If you’re talking about actual laws (in the US, because that’s what I have real world experience with) that establish management of hazardous waste (RCRA); force polluters to either remediate or pay to have their own pollution remediated (CERCLA); mandate clean air (CAA) and clean water (CWA); and ban manufacture, import, and production of toxic substances (TSCA), then those protections going away would be devastating. People as a whole forget how awful environmental conditions were 50 years ago before agencies were established and laws enacted. Obviously, these things are not universal, but the laws are sound and effective. The recent gutting of enforcement of those laws and prevention of implementing new protections will have lasting effects for generations.

Don’t worry, they’re very much alive! Just resting up from one of their wrestling matches

The ones near my home actually work but in different ways based on location. At some intersections they turn on the corresponding walk sign for the pressed button and leave the others as “Don’t Walk”. At an intersection near a school, they turn all traffic lights red and turn on walk signs in all directions.

Never! The Cat has chosen, and it is we humans who must obey.

There is a group in my town who is starting an open letter/petition to the city council to have them removed. I feel like that’s the safer and more lasting way to get them down here. The one pointing towards my home is right next to a school and any kind of tampering would be readily seen and fixed

I, too, have a standard issue cat!

There’s one across the street that captures my home. I fantasize about taking it out in a number of creatively destructive methods.

Yeah, I immediately thought of tiramisu

Butts

My wife was bent over the end of the bed. While I’m going at it, she says something, but it’s muffled because her face is in the bed, and I’m hard of hearing. I ask what she said, and she turns back and screams, “I said fill my pussy with your cum!” But it was summer and our windows were open with people walking by on the sidewalk. Bet they were really jealous.

And the monkey’s paw will be they have late capacity gas turbines to generate electricity that will continue to spew greenhouse gases.

Big F Bigs

Netbird is a zero trust mesh VPN, very similar to Tailscale. My use would be accessing my Jellyfin and Navidrome servers remotely

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 have astigmatism in both eyes. I can confirm that it doesn’t matter which fluid I’m in, because everything is always blurry without my glasses.