monkeymagic

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·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

That's fair.

The domain above resolves fine with and without the block: http://i.imgur.com/AIqtrxF.png

DNS cache was flushed between each hit.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

It asks you when you first connect the router. I suspect most people you have contacted are likely to have subconciously (or thoughtlessly) opted in.

If you let me know the URL, I can test from here as I'm on the end of a Sky connection without the opt in blocking so that would confirm if it is that or not.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

Actually this is likely Sky's opt-in adult content filtering. It really isn't mandatory.

Any content blocking is prone to false positives and people will learn that eventually.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

You can get the client to disable this via the My Sky page here: https://secure.sky.com/mysky-homepage/indexb

This is opt-in so they clicked a button somewhere when Sky asked them if they wanted adult content blocking.

If anyone opts in to blocking; it's their funeral. It doesn't work. Sky's blocking even kills ThinkPad wiki.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

So true.

We had a different problem. They chewed through the fibre cables between our offices to get the fiberglass sheath for their nests. Eventually they ran Ethernet underground because they'd have broken it again in a couple of weeks.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

One of my hobbies is arguing with reviewers about these sort of things on amazon. Its amazing the crap they come up with.

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

Having sat there, as a teenager, with a whole bag of 1N4148s and a mains test block, can confirm :)

monkeymagic

·vor 11 Jahren·discuss

Squirrels act as inductors in DC circuits. Only once though. There's a high current surge that drops to zero as they turn rapidly into a carbon resistor!