Pi-Hole debug log

I'm thinking about writing up a nice guide so let me know if that would be useful to anyone but in the meantime, some notes about difficulties I ran into setting up a pi-hole

First off, I do want to say that this is actually pretty technically complicated? Like it's been floating around tumblr for a while, lots of people have done it, you can too, but when OP on that viral post said they took 2 hours and don't know anything, I think they mean they don't know anything in the same way I do (I have a whole degree in computers I have used a terminal before, but I hadn't used a raspberry pi before)

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Some important points about pi-hole setup:

my initial attempt to set up pihole as a DHCP server killed our internet sometime in the range of 24-36 hours later when I was offline and out of the house
setting it up again, with experience and using DNS forwarding? Took about 10 minutes. (Admittedly I already had a fully configured raspberry pi but I think that would also take about 10 minutes now that I know what I'm doing and what the various pitfalls are.)

#we'll see tomorrow/Sunday if our internet breaks again #unfortunately I think the big takeaway here is find a detailed guide or phone a friend that are SPECIFICALLY YOUR INTERNET PROVIDER #and your mesh/extension setup as well if possible #because it's really fiddly and idiosyncratic but not actually Hard perse #pihole #computing things #happy to be that friend or write something up better than this if mutuals are interested but like I did break our internet the first time :

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brawltogethernow

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pbs.twimg.com

#surely scrolling will be fulfilling tomorrow

inimitablereel

Has tumblr finally killed xkit (that is to say, new xkit, not xkit rewritten)? I know that we can do blocked tags natively now but I miss and will need to rebuild my blocklist

Edit lol complaining works I'm immediately seeing the icon again. Does seem like the filtering isn't working quite right though?

#it's gotta be very recent because I swear I was seeing posts about christmas filtered earlier this week and now they're back #to be fair xkit said that og xkit was broken and switch to the rewritten less functional version years ago #so it's not like it's tumblr's fault exactly #tumblr meta #looking through my whole blocklist to back it up and either my dash hasn't been great about tagging or actually it's been flaky for a while #ah well now I can have things blocked on mobile

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there’s gotta be an audience for m*cbeth fanart on here

#oh I love this #out out damn spot

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dragon-in-a-fez

"syntax error: unclosed if at line 56": perfect error message, tells me exactly what I need to fix and exactly where to look for it.

"memory write failure at address 0xeb008a": good error message. describes the problem well enough to enable troubleshooting by an experienced user.

"something went wrong, please try again": bad error message. does not tell me anything useful.

"oops! something blooped! 🙁": I will kill you with my bare teeth

#oops something blooped is only okay if it's one of the twenty different log lines I've added and I started running out of words #but also that is cuter than I would do #computing things

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cutestbabyanimalbracket

Please vote for whichever animal is cuter, not whichever one you like more!

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@verdaneart

verdaneart

THEMMMMMM

BFC PROPAGANDA: YOU ARE NOW REQUIRED TO LOOK AT ✨ HIM ✨

(And also pretty please read this post through; it's important, trust me.)

THAT IS A FULL GROWN MAN RIGHT THERE. BLACK FOOTED CATS ARE ALWAYS BABY.

Fact time because fuck you learn about my favorite animal right now 💖

The scientific name for these guys is Felis Nigripes, and if that first bit sounds familiar, it's because that's the same Genus as your house cat. They're so closely related that their only separation is on the species level.
BFCs are one of the smallest cats in the world, rivalled only by the Rusty Spotted Cat. They reach a maximum weight of 5lbs, around half that the average house cat, and average at 3lbs, which is 3 times smaller than the average house cat.
Although they're miniscule, they're mighty. BFCs hold the title of Deadliest cat in the World, with a hunt success rate of about 60%; 3 times that of any big cat.
Even then, they also have the highest body count; BFCs can kill and eat up to 15 animals in a single night. That's more than a Leopard does in half a year.
BFCs aren't picky either! If they can get their teeth around it, they'll eat it. This includes animals about twice their size, as well as venomous or otherwise dangerous animals.
A single BFC can have a territory that spreads for miles. They'll endlessly hunt within it for a mile or more in a single night, before returning to a burrow to sleep through the day.
In cultures that share space with BFCs, many legends and rumors have cropped up. One legend claims they can kill giraffes, while rumor among farmers is that they can disembowel sheep.
Some of the largest ongoing studies on BFCs are funded and staffed primarily by American and German Zoos and Organizations. Despite decades of research in the field, wild BFCs are still poorly understood, and require more widespread recognition to help in their research and conservation.

One way you can help Black Footed Cats is by reblogging this post to help spread the word!

If you can, also consider looking into different nonprofits that do research and education, and donate, share around, or even volunteer!

Lack of public knowledge is a big roadblock for the conservation of thousands of species, so a great way to help is to simply talk about them!

henry4wenry

thank you for coming to their Ted Talk.

verdaneart

Thank you for making me come for my TED talk.

Adding on once again because I would kill for this guy-

The lil man you're seeing in the previous photos I posted is a cat I know irl!
His name is Huck! He's probably around 8 years old as of this post.
The pics up there are from his keeper, Megan. Yes, we are equally obsessed with him.
As of this post, Huck is living in the Small Cat section of the Zoo at the Greensboro Science Center.
Huck is a member of the Black Footed Cat Species Survival Plan, which is a network of various individuals across AZA facilities.
Since he is part of an SSP, they can send out breeding recommendations for him based on genetic diversity. After being paired, he'll move out to another facility to father a litter, and contribute to the captive "backup" population of his species.
One of his favorite treats is a blood Popsicle (yes, I'm serious.)
He has an indoor and outdoor section to his enclosure, but he refuses to go to the outside section for some reason.
His favorite spot (and where you'll always see him) is inside a hollow log. Fortunately, he's visible there, but he's also mastered the art of giving out death stares to anyone that looks at him.
Before dinner time, he makes little laps through another log, and then checks to see if dinner has magically appeared.
The best time to come see him is around 4pm; he's nocturnal, but that's also close to dinner time!
I fuckin LOVE that shock from visitors when I tell them that Huck belongs to the deadliest cat species in the world

You can see a good bit more of him on the Greensboro Science Center's socials, as well as a lot more of him and his fellow murder kitties on the Black Footed Cat SSP's socials!

Bonus clip of him! I took this one :3

#cat

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So as tumblr users we all know about the Fall Drink (cider, caramel, chai). I'm pretty fond of them (and very fond of the chaider you used to be able to get at blue state coffee, rip) so I've been trying to recreate them at work. At home I have all the right ingredients but at work I currently have:

Fancy caramel sauce (for putting into drinks so like this Should be the same as carmel syrup but better...)
Hot water
Chai
Apple juice from concentrate

Non Americans will note here that apple juice is basically the same thing as cider so like, it should basically be the same, right? Fancy caramel sauce plus unfancy apple juice should cancel each other out and be a normal drink!

Except that fancy caramel sauce, despite being shelf stable, is milk based. And unfancy apple juice contains added absorbic acid (for longevity I assume?)

So I have made artificial spoiled milk

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There's now non dairy based caramel at my work so I tried this again.... Conclusion: from concentrate apple juice is just kinda gross

Also tried an alternate source for apple flavor (caramel apple pops leftover from Halloween) and once again made artificially spoiled caramel, Halloween edition!

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idiopathicsmile

i don't really mean this as criticism but every They Might Be Giants song i've ever heard all share this same ultra particular vibe i can only describe as "this sounds like something a programmer started spontaneously singing around the house at like two in the morning because he was trying to annoy his girlfriend's cat"

#as a programmer who lives with a cat I should try more tmbg on her I guess