I also block Twitter ASN (yes, it is called Twitter ASN), and a whole bunch of IP ranges from not so democratic countries with very bad hostile actors. They don't have rule of law there, so I don't need these.
With regards to X. Blocking it serves as a good reminder to use a proxy, or try and find the source elsewhere (Blue Sky, Mastodon). More often than not, these exist.
Finally, if required I can use Tor Browser. No cookies, no profiling, no ads.
Out of interest, those IP ranges that you’re blocking… is that at DNS level or are you doing some firewall-level blocking too?
And do you use any kind of reference for determining which ranges/countries are wise to block or has this just been something you’ve evolved over time?
Currently, I have IPv4 only (will change end of year to dual stack), and to block AS13414 (NetName TWITTER-NETWORK) blocking 104.244.40.0/21 to block x.com is suffice. However, if you follow [1] you have a more complete blocklist. In a *BSD you can use cron and curl to update these lists based on if a change occurred, OPNsense allows the same in their webUI. In that vein, I also have Tor exit node block list (this is public data), I have a Censys (& Co) blocklist. You name it.
I don't use DNS-based in this instance (I do for example, for porn, cause I have children). I use a firewall-based one in OPNsense. PF (and therefore OPNsense) have a feature called anchors (alias in OPNsense) which basically allows you to use OOP to develop lists.
I'm pretty sure Linux like OpenWrt can do the same, and you can also use DNS-based blocklists. You can even outsource the hosting to e.g. NextDNS. Because these blocklists, whether firewall or DNS-based filtering, they do use some RAM especially. Back when I started w/this in early '00s this was an issue on my Soekris OpenBSD machine. Nowadays, I assign 8 GB RAM to the VM and call it a day.
“not so democratic countries with very bad hostile actors. They don't have rule of law there, so I don't need these.”
Time to add united states to those filters.
Lots of screenshots circulating of posting the word "Cisgender" being flagged by Twitter. Not sure if they just flag or remove it though, as I don't use Twitter any more.
This has to be a disingenuous request. X is signaling at free speech, while in practice it amplifies or suppresses content the owner agrees or disagrees with.
Interesting. When I'm on a walk or in the shower, I try to avoid thinking about anything complicated, preferring to wait till I'm in front of a keyboard.
seriously though after I started getting up every single day without fail at 6:00 am, no matter what happened the day before, no matter what’s on my schedule today, ever since I have had no trouble whatsoever ever falling asleep. Usually by 9:30 pm I am feeling v sleepy and by 10 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes.
The only thing that modulates this is caffeine. No caffeine after 2:00 pm otherwise I may be up until 11:00 pm even midnight.
but even then, wake at 6:00 am the next day without fail, that was the magic bullet for me
all this stuff about bedtime routines, warm bath, soft lighting, etc, seems funny to me - like I said by 9:30 pm and certainly by 10:00 pm I cannot help but lie down and close my eyes, I don’t need any enticements.
It would only seem funny to you if you ignore the most fundamentally important fact of humanity: Humans have much more variance than normality. Even if half the population can get by with what you're saying, there is a full other half filling out a wide variance.
I don't think "early" really matters, but consistency has been the key for me.
I used to set an alarm every night in bed for 7-8 hours later, relative to whatever random time I was getting in bed. For years the only advice I ever heard in terms of sleep quality was "getting a good 7-8 hours", so this led to years of awful sleep.
Now, I set an alarm once and don't ever touch it again. It goes off every day of the week, weekends and all, everyday at the same time. And it's been one of the biggest and most directly noticeable changes I've ever done for my routine and wellbeing. Sure, sometimes I go to bed late and I don't get my 7-8 hours, but for the first time since I was a kid I feel sleepy at night and it doesn't take 1+ hours in bed to fall asleep.
If anyone reading is in the same situation I was, please try it. Even of you usually wake up late, even at noon or later, just wake up at the same "late" hour everyday. "Early" doesn't matter. But after a while you can make small 15-30 minute changes in the wake-up time every month to two months or so, if you wanna start waking up earlier. If you still have trouble falling asleep, even some light exercise like a light walk around the block, helps a lot, particularly if you spent the day sitting.
Maybe this is super obvious for most people, but it wasn't for me, so it might be helpful for someone else.
I generally go to bet by 12 and get up at 6, generally, I think it’s the set schedule, not necessarily getting up at an exact time no matter what. However, I’ll bring up not everyone is the same, so people have to experiment, but not give up too early, at least a month and keeping honest notes on it, rather than relying on very fallible human memory. Excel is great for this amongst other things.
You don't _have_ to, I think previous commenter means that after a few days of feeling tired and groggy you will be tired earlier in the evening and go to bed earlier.
Adjusting in increments truly helps. If you usually sleep 8 hours, try waking half an hour early for a few days. It won't cause sleep deprivation, but you'll feel the need to go to bed early.
i think the idea isn't to sleep late and wake up early consistently. instead it's about waking up at the exact same time everyday, no matter how late you went to bed the previous night for reasons inside/outside your control. the expectation is that the next night you'll feel sleepy earlier and catch up.
in contrast, walking up late one day because you slept late the previous night will wreak havoc.
I'm only trying to clarify this because it works the same way for me.
It’s very simple actually. “The dish” is defined as a chicken you see before it is then taken away and carved. You see your chicken. That’s the promise. If they parade around with a display chicken then it is simply dishonest. Does it matter? That is a different question entirely. The point is there is a promise involved in “the dish”. If they want to use a parade chicken then they need a different promise.
interesting (the ‘materialize’ option in Arq). I wonder what it does to the files it ‘materializes’ after the backup … does it leave them on the local disk or does Arq instruct the service (dropbox or icloud) to make it cloud only again? I guess I’m wondering about the case where the total cloud footprint is larger than the local disk footprint.
Arq works with file system level snapshots. So I guess at one point all the files have to be present for the backup work. Not ideal for scenarios where the cloud data exceeds the local storage.
