This morning my kid asked the voice assistant to “Turn off the computers in this house”.

I heard it, thought well that’s a strange request but seems harmless because how is home assistant gonna turn off computers.

Me a little while later, “why is shit broken? What’s happening!”

Turns out dumb me had adguard exposed to the voice assistant, it switched off all the adguard settings including the DNS rewriting that is the cornerstone of many of my self-hosted services.

I’ve since revoked that access.

  • @ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    I heard a legend that there was a time where it wasn’t true.

    But then humans come up with all kinds of weird shit.

    • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
      3•1 day ago

      Ah, yes, there was that time - it was a time of magic when many had little education and would do strange chants to appease the gods - one example is: TurnItOff & TurnItOn

      You still hear that to this day - along with the later phrase - again still used by lesser educated people: “the network’s down”

      Over time people came to know more and the god of networks was known as “DeNiS”

      This was also popularised by songs in the 60’s and 70’s - esp. this version

      Over time the name shortened further to what we know now: DNS

      Yet no-one still knows what it means or how it came about.