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Ain't nothing like turning to your coworker to ask what they're making and hearing them say "piranha solution".

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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every time i see those posts like ‘what food from a show did YOU always wanna try’ i go lol none? but i just remembered im a liar

i always wanted the fucking soup brock made in the pokemon anime

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this is the fucking funniest thing ive ever seen im in tears of laughter. (right axis) . this is a work of fucking art

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thinking about the time i was struggling to open my water bottle in class, and a girl that i had spoken to maybe 3 times came up to me and went

“let me help you baby”

and then proceeded to struggle to open the bottle

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when ur talking abt headcanons w/ ur friend and they start typing for a really long time

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MARS TIME

#oc #art #my art #Mars tag

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*oh yeah i have this blog*

#oc #art #my art #cat girl #jina tag

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✨♿Wheelchair Drawing Tutorial♿✨

aaand it's finished! An artist's guide to custom rigid frame wheelchairs! This is completely free to use, reference, and save. Reblogs are welcome but please do not repost without permission and credit. Have fun, lovelies!

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Kyla Ramsey by Shaniqwa Jarvis for Harper’s Bazaar U.S.Magazine , March 2021  

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I feel like we need some clarification

This is a Kimono (Japanese):

This is a Hanfu (Chinese):

This is a Cheongsam (Chinese):

This is a Hanbok (Korean):

Any questions? 

ao dai (vietnamese)

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How to change damaged food to magma

i don’t think im professional enough to do art tutorial, but this morning i found a photo i took of an accidentally overbaked pancake months ago, so i decided to have fun. 

45min rough sketch 

don’t waste food

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When the “anime artist” people say they can’t draw poc cuz “anime”, you can show them these.

Cuz 1. share my art, but 2. They are just being stupid and racist.

#FAVE #ref #other art

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Guess who is bingeing animaniacs because the reboot is so good

#AH i love these kids #Animaniacs #animaniacs 2020 #yakko wakko and dot #yakko warner #wakko warner #dot warner #the warner brothers #and the warner sister #my art #forgive my anime sins

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Hmm ... time for cat boy

#i. havent posted here in a while huh #cat boy #my art #art #digital art

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Sanctum II

#insp #other art

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Luisiana, ph by briscoepark.

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