Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander January 10, 2020 at 11:20 am

  Console.app happens to be the best .log file viewer I've ever used, for any logs - not just macOs system ones.

• Sander January 2, 2020 at 9:12 am

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  How to fail your GDPR legislation TrustArc / Truste. Consent is opt-in.

• Sander January 2, 2020 at 8:34 am

  Saw on the news a train season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh is now £4200 a year. That’s £350 a month. For comparison, leasing a brand new Honda Jazz starts at £155 a month.

• Sander December 30, 2019 at 11:32 am

  It seems that HomeBrew on Linux is a good way to install newer packages without having to trust PPA authors.

• Tracking impacts your human rights to identify yourself

  Sander December 27, 2019 at 6:18 am

  Tracking impacts your human rights to identify yourself

  This is well put and worth thinking about.

  Generally speaking, tracking takes away your ability to represent who you are yourself in the current moment. Your identity is how you are perceived by others. People won't appreciate this until they've lost it, but anyone who has been the victim of for example online bullying or stalking will recognise it.

  Online tracking is a form of tracking, which is a automated profiling, which is a limited form of mass surveillance.

  #privacy

• The modern web is becoming unusable

  Sander December 21, 2019 at 1:10 pm

  The modern web is becoming unusable

  The question is: At which point do we reach the breaking point?

  And I think the answer is: We are very close.

  I think this applies for all of computing. All the notifications, ads, start menu items, unique identifiers that one must disable to work in peace, is draining our collective energy and attention.

  #4d4d4d

• Sander December 21, 2019 at 10:24 am

  Pseudo elements and states are adding complexity to web design and are best uses sparingly. Every one adds a mode that must be tested individually and this adds up.

• Sander December 21, 2019 at 8:28 am

  Going to have to investigate whether to improve Known or switch to another blogging system. How is WordPress when posting from mobile these days?

• Faster rendering through a Local DNS Proxy

  Sander December 13, 2019 at 10:53 am

  Unless you're using DNS over HTTP (DoH), you can speed up general DNS requests by running a local DNS proxy, and increase the expiry time of DNS queries. I'll go into this further once I've updated this post for DNSMASQ to do DoH.

  The following configuration will speed up browsing in Safari for example.

  Install DNSMASQ:

  brew install dnsmasq

  Load all configs from /etc/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/:

  echo "conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d,*.conf" | sudo tee —append /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d

  `` Edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/proxy.conf:

  # Tell dnsmasq to get its DNS servers from this config file only. no-resolv # Add router dns server=192.168.1.1

  # cache for 1h min-cache-ttl = 3600

  Start DNSMASQ on boot and launch it:

  sudo brew services start dnsmasq

  Test:

  dig cnn.com @127.0.0.1

  Query time should be 0 the second time and an ANSWER SECTION should be returned. If that is the case open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS > +

  Enter: 127.0.0.1 and hit OK > Apply.

• Sander December 5, 2019 at 4:24 pm

  I start a zsh instance and I get interrupted by oh my zsh asking to update. #userhostile