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no cause like- Hear me out on Navi Ai from the new pressure update. Like, Hello? Hi ma’am, it’s me, your true love.

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I HAVE WAITED ALL YEAR TO POST THIS

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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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Happy Birthday Mercy! <3 Look who dug you up some cake!

OH MY GOD HIIIII THANK YOUUUUUUU SHOVEL KNIGHT

And thank you ace! Oh my god this was lovely to open up tumblr too!!! Hope your day is going as great as mine is!

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Happy birthday Mercy!

SKITTISH THANK YOUUUUUUUU I HOPE YOUR DAY IS LOVELY AS WELLLL

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Happy birthday to me :)

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@lucyandherlunacy needed help with an oc design. I did that 😎

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…did you guys somehow GIVE Father Time’s husband powers? how long have y’all been able to do THAT???

…In a way. It has only been pulled off that one time, and none of us are willing to put anyone through that horrid experience again…

Not to mention, the man who put him through that is… no longer with us, to put it lightly. We couldn’t replicate the experiment even if we wanted to.

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ALRIGHT, PEOPLE, here’s the plan. As of today, (Dec. 15th) I am done my first semester for the year, and I am now on break for the holidays for 3 weeks. I want to get as much done for the comic as I can, which means:

We’re getting to Act 4!! Non-negotiable, it has been ready to go since the end of October, I’ve just been waiting until I have the time to give it my full attention, and that time is now.

I want to try daily posts! We’ll see how long I actually end up doing that, but I’d like to at least try it during this 3 week period, so I can get as far as I can before college takes up all my time again. As soon as January 7th hits, all bets are off, I’m back in school and I will be back to just uploading whenever I can.

The inbox is closed for a little bit. I’m not taking any more asks for Strings, I’m getting through the last few I have backlogged, and then it’s straight into Act 4. The inbox will be opened back up as soon as Act 4 starts.

So, that’s the plan going forward! Thank you for your patience, everyone. I’ve been very busy recently because of my education, but EtC is still my top priority when it comes to personal projects, and it means the world to me that so many of you have stuck with me these past 4 years :)

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fucking yes

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pAInter beep boop

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our father who art in the next room over how are you watching a show on tv, a youtube video on your ipad, and playing guitar at the same time

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resh'an has two hands.

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Watch me fail miserably in HK Path of Pain

my voice is so scratchy and I had no idea what I was saying the entire time. But yay I did it

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does everybody else open tumblr first thing in the morning like its a fuckin daily report or is that just me

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