Originally it was “the Facebook” but yeah, x is stupid as a name.

Old mate. Solid chunk of Cnc metal.

Code yes, but the information, lists, and capabilities beyond that no.

I do think it’s a low risk, but it is not zero.

They could also do some nefarious stuff if they get bought out.

Don’t get me wrong I hope they last and I’m just plain wrong, but pihole works great and is a bit more pure.

About ui/ux, you are one hundred percent right. People want and demand simple. Single click install and setup is what is really needed and pihole loses resoundingly in that, especially if combined with encrypted dns request forwarding.

Same can be done with Pi-hole. Yes it isn’t ootb, but it is easy to do.

There are still challenges with doh and isp packet scanning. Even without clear text dns, your isp still knows where you go, if not from the lookups. They still inspect traffic and destinations and can make very detailed inferences, even without https inspection on DoH or other packets.

Pihole is fully for free. AdH seems to be the same for now, but it is a company running it, they want to make money. I would be a bit worried about this.

This also doesn’t stop devices from doing their own dns over https. Adguard home and pihole will try to block the DoH locators (canaries) but can’t actually stop a tv from connecting to a known ip if it wants to.

Don’t get me wrong. I highly recommend something, and adguard home is nice, but I’m not convinced by its the right long term solution nor does either solution provide the sum total.

They lost the civil trial already by willful disregard of the courts requests and blatant misdirection. This whole show is just to determine how much they owe. While it might be pedantic, it is fairly critical to getting the story right as to what is happening.

It’s why the questioning is going the way it is going. They could go deeper on certain questions, but the facts are already mostly clear. It doesn’t stop them from focusing on who of this gang might have lied.

The difficulty is not intentional. It is knee jerk reactions that were poorly implemented from years and years of built up changes to how money is made (or hidden). Compounded on more and more with law over law. Just Don’t attribute malice to that which can be considered incompetence.

As for being wrong, that was too harsh. I don’t think the irs ignores the rich per se, but it’s just really difficult to quickly understand if they are following the rules. The time investment is very high and they don’t have dedicated people. It isn’t intentional though so your fix is either fund with a rule the funding only goes to six figure tax bill collection or fix the laws to make the information objective only and non complex while controlling loopholes .

You are right and wrong.

If you make probably around 200k or less, your taxes are pretty simple. You have some very basic filings like a 1080 and some mortgage items. Maybe you have some income from stock sales.

That’s about it. (Ignoring retirement and other still basic and easily calculated tax affecting numbers.).

If you get it wrong, they have all of the paperwork and can easily flag what doesn’t match.

If you are making way more, you probably have businesses and a weird intermingling of finances. Our tax structure just says “tell us what you think” and they take it as fact unless it is checked out. A businesses tax filing might be hundreds of pages long with tons of “I think x is value y and it depreciated by z amount” which of course is hugely subjective and not objective. And that’s the least complex part.

To audit those numbers can take hundreds of hours to get to understand what’s going on and where to go. We need to close loopholes and remove the subjectivity of our taxes for the rich and to dedicate resources in the irs to just this complex type tax auditing.

Not to mention remove the need for a 1080 or any other basic taxable form. Go to a website, see what it says you owe, view the calculation and give us the ability to challenge it if it’s wrong with simple paperwork.