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Re:Ask HN: How do you stop time wasting on the internet? by valbaca on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:10PM (#32485766)
When you go to a website, there's a DNS lookup to find the IP address to use for it. By setting this you can tell your computer "instead of actually going to HackerNews, go to [website] instead"

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/

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