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Sid Meier's Pirates on the iPad was a great experience. Bummer it isn't supported in modern iOS.

I did not know that, I have an old iPad, going to look for it

removed from app store, sadly

You're both right, depending on whether you mean relative pin vs absolute pin.

I don't think it is necessarily controversial, but I subscribe to the opposite view. I try to judge a thing by whether or not it is good, not by its provenance.

For example, if I read a book which I thought was written by a human and loved it, why should my opinion change if I learned after the fact that it was written by AI and not a human? I can't un-laugh those laughs, and un-enjoy the enjoyment I received from it, you know what I mean?

Imagine you really enjoyed your meal at a restaurant, and in the end the waiter tells you it's made of people. Is it still a good meal, and most importantly, would you recommend it to other people?

I really don't think this is the same thing. A closer analogy would be you enjoy your meal at a restaurant, and at the end the waiter tells you the chef was a robot. Why should the provenance of something make any difference at all? If the author of your favorite book was convicted of some terrible crime, would the book you loved so much before you heard the news suddenly lose all its value to you?

Could one make a similar argument for banning sugar?

One could, but it would be a much harder sell politically. The pro-smoking voting block is much smaller than the tasty-food voting block.

Of course. The government has bought and paid for your health. It is only by the gracious largess that we have been allowed sugar at all.

Sure, except sugar in itself isn’t bad. It’s products with excessive quantities of sugar. Various laws restrict those, including the promotion to children:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/restricting-promo...

The Shahed drone is a 'set it and forget it' device where you program a stationary target and launch it. It would not work well for moving targets, like ships.

> The Shahed drone is a 'set it and forget it' device where you program a stationary target and launch it. It would not work well for moving targets, like ships.

The Iranians are quite handy at modifying their drones....

Russia has been modifying Shahed drones for quite a while. May be they've shared back or Iran got creative on their own

Very cool thing of you to do.

What you did there, I see it. :)

I wonder how these macro trends will shake out as more and more Americans start using GLP-1 meds.

Pi-hole

I have a fire tv and run adguard, which does the same thing as pihole, and I can barely tell it's on. It may block some tracking, but I get an increasing amount of ads in the fire tv GUI, not to speak of YouTube ads.

Sometimes I wonder if the people recommending pihole actually tried it. You get much better value out of ublock, smarttube, and so on.

This is a great suggestion. I've run two on my local network for about five years:

pi#1) My personal DNS resolver, which I manually configure on each device.

pi#2) The much less restrictive DNS resolver which my DHCP server automatically issues to all other network clients, including all phones and IoT [0]

Individual hosts can then manually configure their DNS to resolve to the local network router (or third-party DNS), which effectively bypasses both PiHoles (for that device, only).

[0] There is a method to use a firewall to capture all outbound DNS and force routing through PiHole (ifsense? I don't know), which may be necessary for hard-coded DNS-IPs. I do not know how to do this but it's not necessary on my network.

Often devices will have the DNS server hard-coded and never connect to the pihole DNS server. This is not just to avoid ad-blocking but to make the DNS more reliable and avoiding having lots of potential support issues around faulty DNS.

I've never used pihole, but on any decent router you can intercept outgoing udp to port 53, and redirect it to a destination of your choosing. DNS-over-HTTP ruined that however.