God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @aly@mastodon.nz I have both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, but I don't know if they are redundant.
I thought about PiHole but it seems a bit overkill for me. Other than ad-blocking across the whole LAN, does it do something that uBlock doesn't? I worry about my roommates having something internet-related break on them because I'm putting something between them and the internet, and I'm just a common network moron.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice this could explain why so many people just talk to chatbots instead of actively browsing the internet
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@alice I don’t install an ad blocker on my work computer because…internal software reasons…and I *loathe* looking at web pages on it.
I guess it’s a good way to keep me from browsing the web on work hardware.
@drahardja Back in my days as a big-company software developer (30+ years ago), I turned off Javascript in my browser and caught flack from mgmt because they had a web page that had glitzy useless scripted stuff on it. There was also a group of us who used Linux, but had to reboot to Windows daily to log our hours. Nowadays I use pihole at home and am pretty happy with it.
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@alice In addition to the usual stuff on the desktop, I've been running Rethink DNS on my Android for a few years now. It's absolute stomach-churning to see how much tracking garbage is in every single app.
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice @DavidNielsen Pet my effigy and tell it she's a good girl :3
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice @DavidNielsen I try to get one shitpost per toot, at a time, with great effort, but you go and do this? There's material here for at least five.
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice @DavidNielsen w what wha
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@starlily @alice I’m blocking around 7% of DNS queries with #pihole. My primary battle these days is with #IoT devices that want to call home every few seconds to minutes. I’m just now learning that there are IPv6 techniques for bypassing pi-hole. Other methods as well. It’s hand-to-hand combat with trackers! Worse, many of the devices simply fail if you block their WAN access.
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You ever read Nightfall by Isaac Asimov? Either the short-story or the novelization of it. Both are good.
But... That. We have to do what they did.
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
We had a little felt cat made out of our previous cat's hair.
This one isn't finished yet but it will probably be a hat. -
We had a little felt cat made out of our previous cat's hair.
This one isn't finished yet but it will probably be a hat.@alice @DavidNielsen
It didn't let me mix a video and pictures in one post
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice Let me know when you need ginger fur and I'll pester Marty B
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@alice Interesting approach. Although the website layout looks as if it was ad-riddled itself
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice Didn't know that was a thing, but you know what? I would have bet you all the money in the world that there is a japanese subculture for it. Including textbooks. I'm looking forward to your cats' reaction to their felt effigies
Also praise to @DavidNielsen for asking the important questions
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@alice @DavidNielsen well you can shave the cat if you're in a hurry, but it's a bit cruel.
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@alice I struggle to wrap my head around the idea of parenting nowadays. So many worlds of garbage online and those companies aren't helping.
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@alice Their official one: https://adnauseam.io/
I might read the paper, though.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice browse? Like, casually wander around somewhere for pleasure? Hahaha, yeah.
