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@3m0-r4bb1t
about me <3
i luv midwest emo & super smash bros, and im also a big computer nerd :3
i run linux cuz im so sick of microsoft, i love to make and listen to midwest emo, and my third place is smash tournaments :))
am a poly, bi, and trans bunnygirl, and iāll reblog stuff that has to do with that. if you donāt like that stuff, maybe skip my blog!
anyways, i hope you have a nice day, thanks for reading ā”
ao3 is downā¦
i am made to sufferā¦
endlessly (7 more hours)
i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU
Having online friends is such an odd thing. I love you. I donāt know what color eyes you have. Have you drunk water today? You know more about me than anyone who knows my face. I hope we can meet someday. I love you even though youāre across the world. Youāve never layed eyes on me but you see me. In my brain, youāre a bird because that was your profile picture when we met. I love you, go to sleep. Goodnight- I just woke up. I wish I could hug you. I wish I could protect you from them. Can you feel how much I care for you? Maybe we can meet. Iām going to be near you soon. I love you. I hope you can feel the little nudges and gentle bonks and headpats. I love you. I love you. I love you.
the absolute height of comedy for me is when streamers say "i can't show that on stream that has my IP in it" but it's a 192.168 or 10.0 or 172.16 address. oh no you doxxed yourself you live [checks notes] somewhere with a router
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No other webbed site gives me whimsical nonsense like this.
Hello???? Suggestions????
tumblr today as the one indie gamer who hasn't played hollow knight:
being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?
good lord WHAT is your job?
I'm a software engineer for Microsoft. Which is a job I DID honestly enjoy quite a lot until whatever the hell's been going on lately.
Like imagine you're an architect and you get pulled in to help build a house. And it's a pretty well-engineered house! You can recognize and appreciate this and contribute the same standard of quality.
Until the guy who controls all the money shows up one day and says houses are NO good anymore. People want a BOX for the AI to live in. And actually start tearing down walls and ripping out the electrical and plumbing because the AI doesn't work with all that. Just make it a BOX for the AI.
So you do what they say and rip out things you're proud of and smash holes to drag all the AI through. But the AI is constantly changing and no one knows who you should ask to understand the shape the house needs to be to fit the AI. And the people who do know are probably too busy getting their necks breathed down by members of leadership who are paid millions a year to tell you to just do whatever ChatGPT does. So your team gets dicked around with unclear instructions given with absolute urgency. Also every 6 months they lay off 3% of the company so you walk in one day and Bob who's worked here for 25 years is just gone.
Also the AI is supposed to get good enough at building houses to replace your job. Maybe. It doesn't actually do that but the guy who controls all the money is hinging all that money on convincing other people that's true.
I miss house.
god working in tech at this point is actual hell, every day i feel like iām going insane
I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of natureās most prolific machines met and were like āhmmm. We should lay around and do nothing togetherā. Now weāre both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all
Humans keeping cats and dogs as family members is like three prodigy assassins being introduced in the back of a shady nightclub and 45 minutes later theyāre 6 crunchwrap supremes deep passing a blunt in the back of a shag carpeted Volkswagen microbus rating Oreo varietals by fuckability
tumblr users have the unique ability to string together sentences never before seen in all of human history and yet they conjure up such specific visceral imagery that you canāt help but be a little in awe. and i think thatās beautiful
Love and peace on planet earth
Youāve been kidnapped and the main character from the last show you watched is coming to rescue you. Are you safe?
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Bucky and Sam? I think I'll be okay
Happy Dashcon 2 Eve, you can only reblog this today!
genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital
Share the knowledge
Okay, here we go! I'm gonna try and put this in order from least to most technical knowledge required. I'm not responsible if you accidentally create SkyNet etc.
Level 1: browser extensions
This one is basically impossible to get wrong, or at least to get wrong badly enough that it causes any problems.
Get Firefox, or a Firefox fork like Waterfox. If you use a fork, make sure it's one that will let you use add-ons. On a PC, pretty much any Firefox fork will take add-ons, but on mobile devices, many don't. Iceraven is one that does.
Get the add-ons uBlock Origin, YouTube Sponsorblock (if you use YouTube), and FBCleaner (if you use Facebook).
uBlock Origin comes with a built-in list of filters to block ads and trackers, but you can add your own filters to block any specific element of a website you don't like. You know those goddamn floating frames on fandom.com sites that block half the screen? Now you can zap 'em.
Sponsorblock uses crowdsourced timestamps to automatically skip sponsor spots and self-promotion in YouTube videos. Never listen to anyone say "hit like and subscribe" or "Raid Shadow Legends" again.
FBCleaner hides all content from your feed except posts from people, groups, and pages you've actually chosen to follow.
Level 2: leaving enshittified services
The software that's become standard over the years in a lot of fields is steadily selling more of your data, showing you more ads, and pushing you to buy more expensive subscriptions. Time to tell them to get fucked.
Dump Adobe apps for Affinity or Krita. Drop Microsoft for LibreOffice. Change your default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo or Qwant. Use OpenStreetMaps instead of Google or Apple Maps.
Level 3: network-level DNS fuckery
DNS, or Domain Name Service, is the thing that tells your computer where www.website.com is actually located. By hacking your network's DNS you can force it to tell your devices that ad-hosting domains don't exist at all. Some of the steps on this one can get pretty technical, but because you're doing all the difficult stuff on a dedicated device, you can't really fuck up anything that seriously.
Get yourself a Raspberry Pi (a cheap older one like a model 3B will work just fine for this purpose), and follow a guide like this one to get it set up running AdGuard Home. AdGuard, like uBlock, has built-in filter lists, but you can also add your own if there are specific domains you want to block.
Once it's up and running, you'll need to change the DNS settings on your router to point to your AdGuard service. This is different for every router but will always start with logging into the admin panel with a password printed on a little sticker somewhere on the router.
With that done, every time a device on your home network looks for ads.website.com, it'll get back a message that says "sorry, can't find it", so it won't be able to load any ads.
Level 4: Android-specific DNS fuckery
Because AdGuard runs on your home network, it can't block ads on your phone when you're away from home - and what's worse, your phone will sometimes remember the addresses it got when you were out and about, and ads will get past your AdGuard wall even when you're home.
To avoid this, get AdAway for DNS-based ad-blocking directly on your phone. The easy, but less seamless, way of using AdAway is the "local VPN mode", which doesn't require you to do any mucking about with your phone's operating system.
Level 5: automated media piracy
The best way to stop seeing ads on all your streaming services is to stop using streaming services. There are loads of ways to do this, but the best ones involve setting up what's called an "arr stack" (Google that for setup guides) along with nzbget and a usenet account. Most of the time you'll want to set this stuff up on a dedicated device - an old laptop gathering dust in the closet is a great option, or you can grab something used from a charity shop or a local electronics recycler.
The great thing about usenet is that unlike with torrents, you don't have to do any sharing from your computer, so you're in a lot less legal jeopardy - legally speaking, distributing pirated content is waaayyy more serious than accessing it. I pay about Ā£3 a month for a secure, high-bandwidth usenet service.
Once you start getting your own collection of media on your own computer, use the open-source media library manager Jellyfin to browse and play things from basically any device.
Oh, and don't be a dick. Pirate all you want from big corporations, but please pay independent small-time creators for their work.
Level 6: fucking with Android
Android phones are a lot more locked-down than they used to be, but depending on the device you own you can still do a lot of messing around under the hood. Note that if you get something wrong while doing this, there is always the possibility that it will turn your device into a paperweight.
Before you buy a device, check where it sits on the Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame. Once you've bought it, check the xda-developer forums for guides on how to unlock it and "root" it (gain admin access) with Magisk.
Once Magisk is installed, you can add modules to do all sorts of cool stuff, including using AdAway in "root mode" which makes it basically invisible.
You can also install YouTube ReVanced, which will do all the ad- and sponsor blocking stuff we took care of in your Windows browser a few paragraphs ago. Be careful: there are a lot of fake sites out there pretending they're associated with the ReVanced project which might be injecting malware into their downloads. This Reddit post has the official instructions and links.
Also, try out the modded version of Facebook from APKmoddone, which will block most of the same shit as the FBcleaner add-on from earlier. There's always a possibility that modified apps like this are doing something dodgy, but I've never had any issues with this one personally.
Level 7: fucking with Windows
This one is scary because it can seriously fuck up your shit if something goes wrong, but some really cool people have actually made it very simple to strip all the bloat, ads, and spyware out of Windows. The tool I use is ReviOS. Start reading at https://www.revi.cc/docs. Basically, you'll need to download a tool called AME Wizard and the ReviOS "playbook" that tells AME what to do. Read the documentation before you do any of this.
Level 8: switching to Linux
I'm not going to pretend this is an option for everyone. Half the software I use on a weekly basis isn't available on Linux. But if you can switch? Do it. These days, Ubuntu - one of the most popular flavours of Linux - is built with people switching from Windows in mind, and a lot of things will be pretty intuitive. It also has great documentation and a huge community you can go to for help if you're confused about stuff.
And that, friends, is a comprehensive approach to banishing the demons of capitalism from your home!
The only way to log out is to beat the game. And if you die in the game you die for real.
-stares in horror at her copy of Dangan Ronpa 2āscreams internally-Ā
((Tales of Berseriaā¦uhhā¦.Iām going to hold back comments since I want to avoid spoilersā¦.))
((THE SIMS IāM DYING WTF))
Fallout 4!!! NOOOOO
Metal Gear Solid V, damnit.
Stardew Valley, oh heck yeah!
Skyrimā¦.yup, Iām dead. Very ded.
DOOM 2016ā¦ Letās fucking go!
Dragon Quest 8ā¦ā¦
you dont know how fucking happy I am guys
TF2.
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/0f/Engineer_autobuildingsentry01.wav?t=20100709021541
Rock Band 4. I have no musical talent whatsoever, so I am screwed.
Crash bandicoot 2 I should be ok
Guitar Hero God fucking dammit, again?
LA noire š¬ imma die
World of Tanks? So basically Iām going to be going around blowing things up with a tank.
Hungry Shark. Damn, Imma get eaten.
Fate grand orderā¦I mean, I have servants to protect me so I might be sort of ok?
Fire Emblem Casual mode. Iām good especially since Ryoma is a beast.
Slime rancher. Alright. Thatās fine. I might just purposefully stay there forever.
Baulderās Gate 3ā¦ Iām not looking forward to party politics ._.
Dyson Sphere Program, hell yes!
Also Baldurās Gate. I wanna be a wizard!
Super Smash Bros. Meleeā¦ oh god fox is gonna get my ass
hello musician of the world how are the music shows going lately ?
hihi!! the music is musicking!! the band is playing a show next week at one of my favourite venues with some cool folks from out of town, and i am quite excited!
we are also working on new songs! we are brewing up a sophomore ep with themes and characters and ideas and we already have a few riffs worked out!!
looking forward to having tunes to release and share soooooon ^Ļ^
