oh no, linekar is leaving motd? first wrighty, now him?

i don’t think shearer and micah can pull it off themselves going forward. they’re both good but, let’s face it, neither has the gravitas needed to anchor the show.

thanks to them for making my deredditification that much easier!

one must commend Hergé’s research.

to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.

what are you on about, mate? who’s paying for copilot’s adoption? who’s funding the disparaging of the medieval term for a minstrel with a song?

who’s paying you for this absurd take?

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it’s quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the “mala” crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.

what have they replaced the X button on their controllers with, then?

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

looks like they would need to conduct an actual windows recall, now.

did the site allow ranking of politicians or billionaires?

i am ashamed to say that i have driven when drunk. this was over a decade ago and i don’t remember the 13km trip taken late at night.

i am thankful that the car was found intact on inspection the next morning and i hadn’t hit anybody.

but that was the last time i drove drunk. i was a prize idiot to do so–as is anyone else who does so.

the scenes when one won’t be able to choose 5318008.

we’ve found the early bird.

it would deeply pain me that they’ve had to suffer staying in the closet for so long, but i would be happy that they are now free to be what they feel they need to be.

there are a few time trackers on f-droid that seem to fit thia requirement.

“a time tracker” is one.

i put this question to my cat while parading naked in front of it.

i got no response other than a look of utter disdain.

all good info. and all agreed. but the issue in this post isn’t the vpn functionality.

it’s what the adguard android app does in the background when the vpn, itself, is disconnected. that’s when these rogue requests were sent.

this is a possibility. one that i haven’t accounted for.

but is there any literature that verifies this? the closest I’ve found in context is this page, and I’m not able to resolve what you’re saying with whats on there: https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/filter-policy/

i don’t have enough info yet to update the post with this conjecture.

the vpn wasn’t connected at the time these requests were sent. that’s how DDG captures these requests, by using the vpn slot itself. these requasts were sent by the adguard app in the background when it was deactivated.

the data sent to third-party ttrackers had nothing to do with the vpn functionality or of other apps funneling their data through it.

this observation has also been corroborated by another user using other means elsewhere in the comments. do give it a dekko, too.

yes, that’s my question too.

i get what you’re saying, but the vpn was inactive when the app sent these requests. DDG was active at the time and using the VPN slot.

so it isn’t the vpn functionality, per se, of the app that’s doing anything here.