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Saving this for later investigation...

>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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OH MY FU-RICK

Linux, why the f-heck do you tell Krita to open my selected images into separate tabs instead of f-oxing _layering them_ my gosh.

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Photographers really are just underfunded astronomers that carry their telescopes in their satchels

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Learning how to do 3D modelling, and I just made my first lunchbox in FreeCAD! This is as addictive as crack, and as calming as origami

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Just found out about OBD II ports on cars...

You're telling me that, for around $100, I can start diagnosing my car's engine problems myself like a fucking brain surgeon by tapping directly into it's frikin' nervous system?

AND MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS?

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Lowkey offended when youtube even suggests me AI generated music. Like, do you think my taste in music is THAT shit??

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Tumblr: Your tagging is shit. You know you're supposed to tag right?

Me (an avid e621 user): YOUR TAGS ARE WEIRD WTF IS THIS SYSTEM I WASN'T PROGRAMMED FOR THIS????

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Splinter layer

noun (pl. -ayers)

A cute term for the accidentally created layers that op up from time to time when making digital art, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere. Occasionally also called sprite layers.

See also: mirror fever

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Our midsemester exams start tomorrow, so I'll be gone for a little while... Should only be two weeks, then I'll start working on fixing this place up more!

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Hello, world!

User* hapromeen = new User("Hapro", 2004, 6, 22); numStonerFurriesInSTEM++; hapromeen->greet(); --- Console output --- >> "Hello, world!"