Federal tax. Provincial tax. School tax. Sales tax. Federal sales tax. Tax on fuel. Tax on alcohol. Tax on tax on tax.

Well... At least the infrastructure isn't falling apart and crime isn't rampant...in rich neighbourhoods.

Flying is among the most dreadful activities I do. The whole thing is unsettling from the moment I pull up to the airport.

This is one of many absolutely ridiculous things the airline industry has enforced.

But.. I must fly places, so I just suffer like the rest.

I miss Tom.

That honestly doesn't seem crazy. Tech leaders forget about the real world sometimes, and everybody thinks they are the hottest thing.

I bet the development effort was small and cheap, and the least expensive part.

Beyoncé

Every single time I read that, my stupid brain swaps it out for Beyoncé

Off topic but am curious and hopefully some of the smart people here can enlighten me.

Stock options.. Is this the same sort of thing?

A friend of mine keeps telling me his options will be worth millions, and I should join them. I'll be retired in 5 years, etc.

Or is it this ratio I see mentioned where its really 20:1 odds on such a thing?

I find it all a bit confusing, and frankly I'm good at computers and not business.

It’s a lottery where most players have no clue as to the actual likely value of the tickets they hold. As in, most vastly overestimate that value. It’s a nice bike, or a nice car, not a nice island. Huge exits are an absolute exception.

> Huge exits are an absolute exception.

And they'll be much more rare, given how the price of money has just went up by a tremendous amount.

If it's just SSO, I have many good things to say about keycloak.

Every single time I hear millennial I think avocado toast. And every time I hear boomer I think of strong perfume.

The words meaning sure hadn't changed, but I imagine the longer its mainstream the more it will morph. Soon we won't be allowed to say it at all, lest we offend somebody with the slur.

It's a generational thing. Just like Gen-Z hates the boomers for exploiting real estate the children of Gen-Z will complain their UBI pays too little because millennials exploited massive tech salaries to automate away burger flipping joints and software development

If there is no opt out I have a slightly used Roku for sale.

There's a reason I have my Roku on an Adguard network

I run PiHole on my home network, but it's not my default DNS server (for technical and other reasons); I have to configure custom DNS. I'm disappointed that I can't do that with my Roku devices.

I have a specific appliance network, designed exactly for this. My computers don't live on that network, but things that I demand not spy on me lives there.

Adguard is basically the same as Pihole. They run the same way, and are both FLOSS.

But Adguard runs right on my router.

DHCP can certainly do that for you. Set up a reservation, and assign that MAC a specific DNS server.

I'm pretty sure all these devices or apps on those devices configure their own DNS servers these days.

Not necessarily, I've had good luck with DNS blocking my Roku at least. I was surprised since I expected it to have hardcoded DNS. I'm sure that Chromecasts are propbably hardcoded to 8.8.8.8. It's probably not possible or easy to do with a consumer router, but if you had a Linux router (or something enterprise-y), you could do a NAT rule similar to this to force something to go to your own DNS server:

    iptables -A PREROUTING -s <IP of device> -d 8.8.8.8 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination <IP of custom DNS>:53

I hope the NextDNS privacy blocklist for Roku can deal with these.

I read about a child porn guy on the dark web once, he was an auzzie I think. He always said some strange greeting on every post. He would say hiyas.

They found Facebook posts where some dude said hiyas, did some police work and got him.

Found an article: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36437856

This isn't quite the same, but validates the point you are making for sure.