Different organizations use the term "assymptomatic differently". When the WHO or the CDC says "assymptomatic" they mean individuals that never show symptoms. In other words, the set of assymptomatic individuals is disjoint from the set of presymptomatic indivduals. And the WHO is very, very clear that there is presymptomatic transmission.

This is different from the "ordinary" definition of assymptomatic, which means not showing symptoms right now.

Also, just as an FYI, if you have your own recursive resolver, you have lowered privacy, because nameservers can track you much more easily by knowing your IP and also by looking at unexpected payloads embedded in hostnames (which Quad9 will also block). If you access Quad9 via a DNSCrypt anonymizing relay, your privacy is pretty much secure, from three things: 1) technically from the relay, 2) Quad9's privacy policy, and 3) Quad9's unexepected payload detection.

Pretty much every online database of blacklists is considered obsolete. Blacklists are proprietary information.

A locally hosted named does not support blocking continuously updated threat-intelligence-provider malicious domain lists.

Screw it, absolutely no external/provider/google DNS is needed to resolve your browser and other software DNS queries.

I don't know about you, but I appreciate malicious-domain filtering DNS providers like Quad9, which supports DNSCrypt, DoH, and DoT, along with plain DNS.

I can't argue with you there. I'll write to the page authors and see if they can mention the encryption on the front page at least.

DNSCrypt fully encrypts the messages.

Quite frankly, it's depressing that we're letting a few giant organizations take away our agency to use the internet freely. And it sucks that more stupid technology is being shoved down our throats that will have more bugs and require ever faster devices just to do something stupid like read a damn text file.

If you're so concerned, why aren't you advocating for secure, private solutions like DNSCrypt which support anonymous relays? DNSCrypt>DoH>DoT.

Just put regular DNS behind TLS and call it a day.

DoT requires TCP, among other things. DNSCrypt is the way to go, with DoH in second place. DNSCrypt supports relays too. DNS over TLS has so many downsides vs DNSCrypt, including requiring TCP, a dedicated port, and a huge TLS attack surface.

And moreover, we don't actually need it. The web is already secure without DNS being secure.

I beg to differ. There is more to "being secure" than using HTTPS. I use Quad9 because they do malicious domain filtering. I use them on my desktop (via dnscrypt-proxy) and phone (via their Quad9 Connect app), and it's important that I'm able to communicate my queries securely, since I'm expecting them to do malicious domain filtering.

In addition to wanting the lookups to be private (via dnscrypt relays), I don't want anyone modifying the results, since that would be a compromise in my armor.

Why should non-tech people have to think about the concept of an "image format"?

Wow, I wish we did that here in the USA - oh wait, we did.

Oh, but we didn't. From your source:

The restriction took effect Feb. 2, and it exempted U.S. citizens, green card holders, and certain other people...
"The real question is whether that restriction worked and there is little evidence to suggest that it did."

Global health specialists told Kaiser Health News that there is little to no evidence that Trump's restrictions restrained COVID-19, because they came too late and didn't have the follow-up necessary to make a real dent.

If you let huge swaths of people in without quarantines just because of their residency/citizenship, you've essentially done nothing.

It's amazing when people can't even learn basic lessons from Alien:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just FYI:

I didn't bring up the DOW

But you did say:

DOW is down around 5,000 points

If you want to go calculate percentages, be my guest, but it had nothing to do with his original statement or my rebuttal.

Useless scales are misleading. It's like saying someone lost a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar dollars (40 cents USD). If the market was was only down 0.0001% it's pointless to say it's down (or up). Few people actually knowledgable in the market would talk about index "points".

And just FYI, what PopeRatzo should have been trying to convey that the NASDAQ index is up in 2020 (just not from its highs in Feb).

While your points are correct,

1) Talking about the DOW is silly, given its non-market-cap calculation
2) Talking about "points" is silly, just like talking about stock prices in price/share change. Talk in percentages.

Firefox Preview comes with a single addon now: uBlock Origin. That's all I needed to switch to it.