hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
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#I haven’t encountered this yet so I can’t confirm #but I’ll keep it in mind #PSA #Youtube #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #fun with loopholes #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn’t go down.
This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don’t have much knowledge.
But then you learn a bunch more, and now you’ve got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you’re doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.
But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!
And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can’t use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven’t fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci’d, constantly.
But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don’t get easier, they just get weirder.
#I feel like this is only true if you’re‚ like‚ actively stretching yourself #you genuinely do have fewer problems *if* you are operating within your comfort zone #so if your comfort zone is bigger‚ you have more *capacity* to operate-with-fewer-problems #whether you *use* that capacity at any given time is up to you #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
So now I have to deliver a quiet lecture on the Standard Model every night. He loves lists of things, like all the streets home from daycare, or the train stations between here and Central, so he loves hearing the list of leptons and quarks and bosons.
Alas I ran out of room for antimatter, colour charge and confinement, but hey, maybe there can be a second poster later.
It’s funny though — on the surface of it, it seems like it must be far too advanced for a 3yo. But when you think about it, quarks and leptons are no more or less real to him than, say, dinosaurs or planets, and he loves those too. And he recognises the letters on the particles.
I am absolutely overwhelmed by the kind and sweet things people are saying about this, thanks everyone ❤️
Addendum: he has really grasped onto the “everything is made of atoms” part of this, so tonight he listed just about every object he could think of and asked if it was made of atoms.
“And my bed?”
Yes, and your bed.
“And that wall?”
Yep.
“And the armchair?”
Yes, the armchair too.
…
…
“And… the book case?”
Y—
“And my home?”
Yep, the whole apartment block.
“And your home? Oh wait, your home is my home.”
Haha, it is.
…
…
“But is it made of atoms?”
Yep.
“And… [best friend]’s home?”
Yes, it is. And [other friend]’s home, and [third friend]’s home.
“Is [yet another friend]’s home?”
Update from the other night:
“Is my… is… [extremely long pause] is my atoms poster made up of atoms?”
—Yes! Yes it is.
I have never heard such a contemplative silence. I think the next poster will have to be on the philosophy of referential language.
Update from this morning: after listing everything in sight (mummy? daddy? fridge? milk? cereal? table? etc.) he asks “is [baby sister] made up of atoms?”
yep!
*runs over to her on the floor*
*puts face up real close to hers*
“HI! YOU’RE MADE UP OF LOTS OF ATOMS! DID YOU KNOW?”
I am actually weeping with secondhand joy over here.
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#that one post with the thing #storytime #physics #adorable #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#…I’m having some sort of emotion about the Free Cry Voucher but I don’t know what emotion it is #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what
[Image ID: Tumblr tag from anidorikiladratalianna reading: #no stop that’s the narrative talking /End ID]
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
So D&D’Souza black dragons are supposed to live in swamps, right? Pretty amphibious, live in swamps, lair in…
caves. With a main entrance and a back entrance.
In swamps.
I really have trouble with the idea that there’s these dragon-sized caves in an area with such a high water table, y’know? We have to go through miles of swamp to reach this lair, it’s not one little boggy place in a mountain valley otherwise filled with nice caves. And the cave has to have two entrances, too? I can believe in dragons, but not this geology.
So… maybe it’s not geology. Because a lair in a marshy place with exacting design specifications sounds a lot like a totally natural thing –
A beaver lodge.
So now I have this new image of black dragons industriously gnawing down giant trees to construct their mighty swamp lairs, and I am so much happier.
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#dragons #story ideas I will never write #D&D #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Fields west of Pilisszentlászló, 1969. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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#the timestamp really makes this #absolutely thought this photo was like three months old until I saw the caption #it’s fascinating how timeless this is #landscapes #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Google Query: “best low-end compact Android phone for fucked up arthritic little hands in 2023”
Top Result:“Tech Truths (techlies.com)Best Small Phones of 2023 – 1 days ago – Our reviewers fucking loved the Samsung Galaxy Cookie Sheet, at 8″x13” and $1,800″
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#snakes #pretty things #(a bit of poking at image searches suggests that *most* eastern coachwhips are not this lava-y but it *does* happen) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 