Well, I'm back and can confirm the sneaky DNS resolver. I have two roku devices and they both were making requests to 8.8.8.8.
Thanks for this post! TIL.
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Interesting. I set an adblocking dns via DHCP and, as far as I know, the Roku respects it. Ads are blocked and I can see it failing to delivery telemetry in my dns logs (most persistent thing on the network).
I set a rule to catch outside dns to see if anything, the roku included, has been misbehaving.
DNS blocking (Pihole, adaware, nextdns...) Can take care of those ads on dedicated streaming boxes.
Here's twitters ad revenue by quarter from 2013 to 2022Q2
There's a spike in 2021 and then things started to come back to earth, but its an overall upward trend throughout that time.
I do and it works great! I mostly did this to limit the blast radius of breaches, but aliases also provide an easy way to send those kinds of things to both me and my spouse.
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konsole is low-key a great terminal. It's really snappy, supports ligatures, and looks good. It's one of my favorite KDE applications and the one I miss most when it's not available.
Yes, wget is available, along with pretty much everything else you'd expect from a linux environment.
No, root isn't required.
I Nerevar would have guessed.
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