Nigel Quinlan's Blog, page 5
December 3, 2024
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“ Although insect phobias cannot always be helped, they should not be so normalized in our culture because this justifies irrational hatred and fear of an incredibly important group of animals that make up the majority of life on this planet, and continues to perpetuate an attitude that makes violence against and extincion of these essential and often harmless contributors to the ecosystem acceptable, and further propagates more insect phobias in individuals which then continues the cycle of misunderstanding and ecological violence” // End ID ]
I cannot imagine the pain Tori must have gone through. Not only finding this out about someone who’s…
Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: ‘It’s a heartbreaking grief’
I cannot imagine the pain Tori must have gone through. Not only finding this out about someone who’s basically been part of her family, someone she made godfather to her child FFS, but having it announced in the press without having an inkling of what’s going on, not being given a heads up, FINDING OUT YOUR CHILD FOUND OUT BEFORE YOU AND HELPED MAKE SURE SHE FOUND OUT IN THE LEAST HORRIFIC WAY POSSIBLE - Jesus. That has got to be hard to process.
Also, Tash is at law school! Impressive!
Pain that keeps on giving. But thought people would want to see this interview.
Does she feel the world has improved, generally, for women in the 30 years since RAINN began? “No,” she says bluntly…
This is a good article/interview.
November 25, 2024
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The second Samite short story is h...
The second Samite short story is here. “At First Sight” delves into the beginning and end of one person’s experience with the Glory.
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November 24, 2024
>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house…
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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.
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>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!
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>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.
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>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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fastest reblog in the west
Yeppers. :)
reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.
Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I’m someone else’s network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.
I’m here on a MacArthurian Fellowship and an exchange sceheme from the Irish/Northern Irish…
“How did YOU get accepted by the wizard’s college!?” “Athletic scholarship.”
I’m here on a MacArthurian Fellowship and an exchange sceheme from the Irish/Northern Irish cross-border wizarding college, O'Merlin.
October 31, 2024
Y'know, people complain about how dumb the aliens in Signs are, allergic to water but trying to…
SIGNS
2002 | dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Y'know, people complain about how dumb the aliens in Signs are, allergic to water but trying to invade a waterlogged planet, but what if, and hear me out, they were alien billionaires?
This may be the best book cover I’ve ever seen.
This may be the best book cover I’ve ever seen.
Cat by Mercer Mayer
A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
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A horrifying cartoon for Halloween (originally for Guardian Books).
October 20, 2024
Ghosts on a Tree - art by Franz Sedlacek (1933)
Ghosts on a Tree - art by Franz Sedlacek (1933)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
