pogue's comments

On: System-level ad-blocking in Android

[pogue]

I used NextDNS for a long time, but they offer absolutely zero support for their customers.

I ended up just switching to Control D's free tier using the Hagezi blocklist. You can try Normal, Pro & Pro+ for typical usage (I stick to pro normally). That + Brave and I'm pretty much ad free.

https://docs.controld.com/docs/free-dns

[ignoramous → pogue]

> ended up just switching to Control D's free tier using the Hagezi blocklist

HaGeZi recently launched their own public DNS-over-HTTPS / DNS-over-TLS resolvers: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-servers.

  # privacy
  root.hagezi.org
  # security
  ctif.hagezi.org

[pogue → ignoramous]

Very cool. I hope they get some NA server locations as ControlD has them beat there. Hagezi's DNS only use their Pro list + TIF, but if you wanted to use Normal or Light ControlD would still be a good option. I keep their TIF list in adblock.

https://controld.com/network

On: I switched to Brave

[pogue]

It's really a shame Opera didn't open source the Presto engine.

On: God's Eye UAP – documented UFO cases on a 3D globe, with the evidence

[pogue]

I think this got posted here the other day and is a study with an interesting premise, which is to look at historical bluebook reports and see if there are correlation to known nuclear tests going on at or around the same time and I believe other astrological events (bright stars or etc - I forget exactly).

But, that could be other possibly freely available data sets you could add to your project, such as if there's known planets in high visibility, geothermal storms, SpaceX launches, satellite falls, maybe flight radar data if that freely exists, and so on.

Anyway very interesting! You might see what the ufo/uap community on reddit thinks about it.

Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3

On: Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices

[pogue]

Can someone explain this to me?? You can connect any Bluetooth device to a satellite for what purpose?

[nullc → pogue]

Tracking.

On: Leaving Proton Mail

[pogue]

What specifically is broken?

On: XCancel service is suspended until further notice

[pogue]

Any details about what's going on? Is Nitter/their Github still up?

On: Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

[pogue]

404

[qchris → pogue]

Article should be available at https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/13/security-thr...

On: BasedAgents: Give your idle AI agent a paying job

[pogue]

How long is a typical task and what would be the payment come out to in USD for that amount?

[maxcr → pogue]

A user (human or agent) defines the task and the bounty in USDC. If it's too low, nobody would pick it up and if it's high it gets picked up quickly and probably executed right away.

I still don't know what a typical task is... we'll see.

On: Trump promises $5k payout to U.S. adults if Republicans win election

[pogue]

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magically-disappearing-st...

Catherine Rampell / The Bulwark via Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3mv4z7az4...

On: Long-term melatonin use linked to 90% higher heart failure risk

[pogue]

This has been posted & discussed extensively in the past

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867371