NextDNS has been a really great privacy decision. This is ONE day's traffic.

Yeah, I could do all this with Unbound and pushing local DoH servers and maintaining them, but even as much as I love running infrastructure, for $2 a month it's just too easy a win.

This NextDNS blocking UX feels like a trap.

It defaults to "on" and you have to either accept web censorship based on unknown third-party criteria OR essentially say "I DO want to see child abuse material".

It's the "Yes or no: do you still beat your wife?" of UX settings.

Dear streaming customer, as of $very_soon your streaming bundle, $things_you_like will no longer include $main_thing_you_like. To see that you'll need $different_tier.

We value your business, which is why we constantly renege on the deal we made with you.

- Every streamer ever

I was mulling over a principle of incident response today and wondered what others in my field might think.

Yes or no: "To operate effectively, incident responders need to be able to obtain at least the same level of access to a system as the attacker has potentially obtained."

My holiday hot take:

I'm glad people can send their AI note takers to meetings in their place, because anyone who wants to do that wasn't planning to contribute anything or isn't necessary to reach agreements, and would probably have slowed everyone down.