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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • emergency noun

    • A serious situation or occurrence that happens unexpectedly and demands immediate action.

    • A condition of urgent need for action or assistance. “a state of emergency.”

    • Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.

    Seems to meet the definition of an emergency to me!

    They’ve got a whole city to alert, to protect their lives, in a dynamic situation occurring in real time. Whilst they provided 2 hours notice, they were transporting the explosive shortly before travel peak time.

    Other methods of media communication couldn’t reliably ensure the vast majority of the public received the notification in time. Especially when most people would be working, and often don’t have access to those methods until they finish or are on break.

    Was an appropriate use of the emergency alert system.





  • Sounds like the DNS TTL (Time to Live) is set extremely low, preventing clients caching the record. Each time your browser makes a request (such as updating the graphs), it’s submitting a new DNS query each time.

    According to this post, this is intentional behaviour for PiHole to support situations where you change a domain from the block to allowed. The same post also references the necessary file modifications, should you wish to extend the TTL regardless.

    The only downside you’ll notice is a delay after whitlisting a domain, and it actually being unblocked. You’ll need to wait for the TTL to expire. Setting it to something like 15 minutes would be a reasonable compromise.