Some Pokemon art for u
Definitely don’t press this link that may send you to a constantly updating website that has all the amazing shows that hbo FUCKED in the ass and more
Hey, check out this webcomic I made!
Hi hi! Since were talking about rocks, do you have any tips on storing/cleaning them, esp in regard to moisture and sunlight? Im a beginner collector and id love to hear if you have some insight, because im kind of lost. Thank u love your blog <3
Welcome to the hobby!! Rockhounding is the most fun thing in the world; I hope you're having a blast.
So there’s no easy answer for this question, because it’s going to be different for every single rock. Halite should be stored somewhere dry, and never get wet. Laumontite should be stored in water, and never get dry. You see how this can quickly become complicated. Here’s some general advice.
The history of corporate propaganda.
'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.
Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.
I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."
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Me looking all infatuated and dreamy like a cartoon character thinking of their crush but you look at my thought bubble and all that you see is advertisers getting brutally murdered.
I think im feeling quite Smurfy today....
FUCK YES #SMURF SISTER!!!!
“LIKE” THIS POST TO GO TO HELL THE SMURFY WAY
“REBLOG” THIS POST IF YOURE AN INQUISITIVE SMURF WITH A BIT OF STYLE….
“COMMENT” TO GET SLAPPED BY “BIG STINKY EGG CREATURE IN TURBO LABOR MODE”
DO ALL THREE = A NEW SOUL WILL BE BESTOWED TO YOU! AN INFINITE NUMBER OF SMURFABILITIES AWAIT
IGNORE THIS POST = YOU MAY GO TO HEAVEN, BUT YOU WONT RECOGNIZE ANYONES FACES AND BE TRAPPED IN A BLINDING ETERNITY FOREVER
GO FORWARD, SMURFLINGS! GO SMURF YOUR SMURFS OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!
i have a religious question, no offense intended
if someone built a replica of a famous mosque in minecraft, would that be haram? i don't do minecraft i am just curious
so the general consensus is that this is fine actually. which leads us to the existence of the minecraftian masterpiece that is: a massive replica of Istanbul's famous Blue Mosque (aka the Sultan Ahmed Mosque)!
You said in the tags that you want to go there. Are you meaning like, going to the mosque irl, walking around the mosque in minecraft, or projecting your counciousness into minecraft and walking around in there like it's real life but nobody else is there and it's all blocky?
Anonymous asked:
Is there any value in using a VPN for security even without Tor or TAILS?
First of all, never use the Tor network with a VPN. At best it’ll do nothing, at worst it’ll add vulnerabilities that might reveal your identity
Secondly, yes, VPNs can help obscure your identity and hide your activity from your internet provider (which is very important for something like media piracy, which they’ve been known to send cease and desists for)
The youtube sponsorships where they claim to “encrypt your data” and protect you from “hackers” are mostly bullshit though - your data’s already encrypted if you’re on an https site, which 99% of your browsing time will be, and no one’s going to specifically and intentionally hack into your computer. The “hacking” would take place in the form of either malware, or the state requesting your personal information from the tracking companies that already have it, neither of which can be effectively prevented by a VPN alone
Short answer, if you can’t use Tor then you should be using a VPN whenever possible, especially if you’re pirating things. I recommend the free and activist-run RiseupVPN
OK SO THIS IS A THING I HAD TO LEARN ABOUT IN GREAT DETAIL FOR MY OLD JOB
VPNs (when used for privacy and not for, like, working from home but still having access to internal corporate servers) and Tor both go after the same problem: if someone’s eavesdropping on your regular old web browsing, they can tell which site you’re on (specifically, the domain name, the www.tumblr.com part of the URL) even if communication with the site is encrypted (https). That part of the URL just doesn’t get encrypted. Knowing which site you’re on can be a pretty big deal. It can tell the eavesdroppers exactly which bank and which email service you use, which news agencies you trust, etc.
What VPNs and Tor both do about this problem is they take every network packet coming out of your computer, encrypt its entire contents, and send it to another computer called an “exit server” that’s off in The Cloud somewhere. That computer decrypts it and sends it on to its final destination. Someone eavesdropping on the network in between your computer and the exit server can only tell that you are sending encrypted packets to that one computer. Someone eavesdropping on the network in between the exit and the final destination can see everything that they would have been able to see if you were talking directly to the final destination, but they can’t easily tell where it came from originally.
The technical difference between a VPN and Tor is that Tor is more thorough. With Tor, each of your packets is wrapped in three layers of encryption and sent through two additional computers on its way to the exit. This means the exit doesn’t know who you are and can’t find out. With a VPN, the exit knows everything that the eavesdroppers you were originally trying to avoid would have known.
Another important difference is that most VPN servers are run by corporations, and most Tor servers are run by anarchists (in the precise political-science sense). VPN companies are, in general, suuuper sketchy; they have been caught spying on their users over and over again, they cut corners on the encryption, they have been known to inject malware into unencrypted websites, etc. etc. etc. The anarchists usually don’t do that shit, but there have been a few incidents so bad that they made the news.
So: as @hater-of-terfs says, don’t use both a VPN and Tor at the same time, it’s pointless. But also, think about what kind of threat you care about. I’m gonna put this part in a bullet list because if you remember nothing else of this long post, remember this part:
- There is no point using either Tor or a VPN if you haven’t already taken more basic steps to improve your security online. Get yourself a password manager and an ad blocker and HTTPS Everywhere, and secure your email (at least) with 2FA, first.
- Tor and VPNs protect you from eavesdroppers near, but not inside, your computer—your ISP, the malware-infected wifi router in the coffee shop, that sort of thing.
- Tor and VPNs do not protect you at all from the websites you’re visiting. If you’re downloading pirated software, and the pirates tack on some malware, you’re hosed no matter how you download it.
- Tor and VPNs also cannot protect you from your own computer. If there’s someone with physical or remote administrative access to your computer—your employer, your abusive parents—they can snoop on you regardless, and they might be just as pissed off that you used Tor or a VPN at all, as about what you did with it. (Tails can help with this, but that’s because it’s a liveCD, not because it uses Tor.)
- A VPN will not protect you against an organization that can put legal pressure on the company operating the VPN—the government, the RIAA, that sort of entity. Assume the VPN company keeps logs even if they assure you they don’t. In fact, assume every word on the VPN company’s website is a lie.
- Tor, on the other hand, can and has resisted legal pressure from governments and record companies. The anarchists designed it so they couldn’t turn over logs even if they wanted to.
- Oddly enough, using Tor increases your risk of getting doxxed or similar. This is because there are, um, anti-anarchists who believe that everyone who uses Tor is a drug dealer or a pedophile or something even worse, and they actively try to dox Tor users—not by breaking the encryption, but by spying on them in other ways. I suppose they could also be doing this to VPN users but I haven’t heard about it.
If any of this is unclear or you want more detail, please ask.
wut. I thought Wikia was good?
wikia is not good.
wikia is a hypercapitalist monopoly that's crushing independent wikis and it's an adware-infested hellscape that sucks ass and has a horrible user interface.
wikia is a for-profit corporation that does not care at all about fandom, stole and trademarked the fucking word "fandom", and is actively monopolizing the fanwiki world while either buying out or outcompeting actual legitimate independent wikis.
they manipulate google results to drive searches toward their much shittier wikis rather than towards the actually helpful and worthwhile independent wikis.
if you google the word "fandom", the top result AND the wikipedia page they suggest are both wikia.
their user interface is horrifyingly terrible for a wiki and they allow almost no customization at all to the wikis who have to use their platform. you cannot run a wiki on wikia without forcing people to see a huge, obnoxiously bright yellow WIKIA!!! banner along one side, a huge header filling up the top of the page, a massive useless sidebar, and often a fucking video above the article, not to mention the literally endless wall of completely fucking unrelated ads that scroll up under every article, and instead of talk pages they have fucking comments sections.
this is an actual wiki:
and this is the equivalent page on a fucking wikia wiki:
neither of those screenshots are edited.
you cannot see the information on the wikia page upon opening it.
but you know what you can see?
fucking ads.
have you ever heard of NIWA? it's the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance, a group of independent wikis that are each around a specific Nintendo fandom (Super Mario Wiki, Bulbapedia, etc). a couple years ago there was a huge controversy because ZeldaWiki, one of the founding members, shifted to Gamepedia, a wiki farm and possibly Wikia's biggest competitor. people were annoyed, and were occasionally making jokes like "what next? are we going to start including Wikia wikis?"
then gamepedia got bought and merged with wikia.
this is what zelda wiki used to look like:
and this is what zelda wiki looks like now:
terraria recently changed their official wiki to an independent one since Gamepedia got bought out by Wikia, which is good, but it's drowned out by the literal thousands of crappy, hard-to-navigate wikia-owned wikis. I've seen wikia wikis that have to append each article with a tag at the top saying "we're sorry about that huge video ad above the article, we can't do anything about it, wikia's in charge."
and wikia gets away with it because site hosting is expensive and difficult so many people, especially younger people, have no choice.
and nobody cares.
support independent wikis wherever you can.
Dont get me wrong, I like Smoliv. I think they're cute. But I would be lying if I said they don't look like a rejected Heartless design.
I think at least 90% of the people RBing this likely aren't able to appreciate that these signs are not only separated by 2 and a half months but are also audiences of two completely different companies with dramatically divided audiences.
The first three chapters of Monster Boy are now available to read on Tapas
Hi all. It's been a while. Hope you've all been well, and thank you for following this blog for so long.
Monster Boy has resumed updating, and is now hosted in its entirety on Tapas. It's available to read entirely for free.
Comments are turned off. Readers are instead encouraged to join the new Monster Boy Discord server.
I hope you'll enjoy it. Thanks again for sticking with this project.
