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  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Software for manga/book readerEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Which OS?

    On Android, Moon+ Reader is pretty good.

    My wife uses the Amazon Kindle app on her Android tablet. You can use it for non-Kindle books by sending an email to a special email address for your Kindle account: https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email.

    Calibre is useful for this. It shows an easy to use “send to Kindle” button, and can convert books in ePub, mobi, etc formats to the format that works best in the Kindle app (AZW3).

    If you want a web interface for Calibre (eg to run on a home server and download books when you’re away from your computer), Calibre-web works well.

  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•DNS?English
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    4 days ago

    A recursive DNS server and a local DNS cache/forwarder/are two different things with two different purposes. You will always need both.

    Why do you need two separate ones though? Recursive DNS servers also cache responses. Usually the only reason you’d run a local forwarder/cache is if you’re not running a local recursive server.

  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•DNS?English
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    5 days ago

    Throw Unbound on there too as your upstream recursive resolver

    If you want to run your own recursive DNS server, why would you run two separate DNS servers?

    You don’t even need to worry about an encrypted session to your upstream anymore because your upstream is now your loopback.

    Your outbound queries will still be unencrypted, so your ISP can still log them and create an advertising profile based on them. One of the main points of DoH and DoT is to avoid that, so you’ll want them to be encrypted at least until they leave your ISP’s network.

  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•DNS?English
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    5 days ago

    AdGuard Home is a better choice than PiHole since it uses DNS-over-HTTPS by default. There’s also an app called AdGuardHome-Sync to sync settings between multiple instances.

    I’d recommend running two DNS servers, and at least one of those separately from the rest of your infrastructure like on a Pi. That way, if you need to pull one of them offline, the internet still works.

  • dan@upvote.autoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
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    5 days ago

    Your data really isn’t worth that much.

    Also, it’s a common misconception that large tech companies like Google and Meta sell your data. They don’t. The data is what makes the company valuable - they’re not going to give away their competitive advantage. Instead, advertisers can target people based on the data. The advertisers never actually see the data nor exactly who their ads are reaching (it’s just aggregate anonymized data).

    On Google and Facebook, even individuals can use the same tools that large advertisers use to list their ads, and see exactly what they see.

  • dan@upvote.autoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Redirect to prevent back buttonEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Usually the ad needs to be in your viewport for at least a few seconds to count as an impression. If you were just going back quickly, or quickly refreshing the page, it won’t count. If you go back or refresh, see a different ad, wait a bit, then refresh again, I think it’d count.

    For skippable ads on YouTube, the advertiser only pays if you watch past the point where you can skip it. If I remember correctly, you have to watch at least 30 seconds of the video (or the full video if it’s less than 30 seconds) for it to count as a view.