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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Who cares if it already exists, just make it.

    Also consider the possibility when the other, more popular projects got enshittified. Now the fleeing users have an option to switch to your project. It actually happened on one of my side project. I made it because I want to try building my own version of X. It got ~2000 users, but later down the road, X got sold to a new shitty owner that waste no time to enshittify it, and my side project suddenly grow to 20,000 users overnight.


















  • I don’t think you’ll miss anything. If pihole works for you, then there is no need to switch to adguard.

    One thing I found helpful is configuring my router (asuswrt-merlin) to transparently route all dns request to my adguard instance. You might already heard that some apps and IoT devices tried to be clever and hard-coded their dns server so they can evade dns blocking (I’m looking at you Netflix). If your router support redirecting all dns request to a custom dns server, definitely use it!


  • Sounds great! By the way, if you’re using docker, be careful not to accidentally have a container open a port on all interface. Even if you have a firewall configured on the machine, sometimes docker can punch a hole without you knowing. Might be a good idea to run a port scan from an external computer from time to time just to makes sure no unwanted open ports.


  • You could unsubscribe from those meme communities and then use “all” view whenever you’re in the mood for some memes, and your “subscribed” view won’t be drown with memes.

    Given how active those meme communities right now, chance that the “all” view in your instance are being dominated by memes anyway, so it’s not like you’ll have to subscribe to see them.