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I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Local DNS-based adblocker. I prefer blocky, but others prefer Pi-Hole. Blocky has a feature to pre-cache commonly used domains, so additional internet performance. :)

Blocky is written in Go, which I understand is an interpreted language program, versus a compiled language program. Please correct me on this if I'm wrong.

If I'm right, then what kind of performance issues if any do you see using Blocky? I asked this assuming that an interpreted program will run slower than a compiled one.

[–] zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blocky is written in Go, which I understand is an interpreted language program, versus a compiled language program. Please correct me on this if I'm wrong.

Yup, you are completelly wrong.

If I'm right, then what kind of performance issues if any do you see using Blocky? I asked this assuming that an interpreted program will run slower than a compiled one.

N/A

Go is awesome. My favorite programming language. <3

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To confirm, Go is a compiled language?

[–] zikk_transport2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, just like rust. It compiles into a single binary.