GitHub - hagezi/dns-blocklists: DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

Set up a free, portable adblocker for all your devices using Pi-hole and Tailscale.

vaguely heretical musings on travel and technology

Besides just using a browser extension for ad blocking, I've been using Pi-Hole for years to prevent all devices on my network from getting ads, and stopping smart home devices from phoning home for telemetry and tracking. Pi-Hole will run on almost anything that can run Linux, is very easy to set up, and super effective with the right blocklists.

I’m jotting down a few things I’ve learned about Apple’s iCloud Private Relay network service and the implications of using it for having parental controls or other network allow/block settings in place. What is iCloud Private Relay? Apple describes iCloud Private Relay as a privacy-protecting service that hides the IP address and network activity (DNS … Continue reading Apple Private Relay and network parental control

Exploring the Apple TV 4K as a streaming upgrade: excellent picture quality, smooth performance, easy setup, and strong privacy features right out of the box.

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…

End-to-end deep dive of the project, spanning a large GPU cluster, distributed RocksDB, and terabytes of sharded HNSW.