• The author describes a comprehensive setup to block virtually all online advertising across devices and services.
• They focus on network-level filtering instead of per-device ad blockers, so that phones, TVs, and other clients benefit automatically.
• The core of the solution is running a self-hosted DNS-based blocker (like Pi-hole or AdGuard Home) to sinkhole common ad and tracker domains.
• Additional blocklists are layered on top to handle more aggressive tracking and region-specific ad domains, trading a bit of breakage for increased privacy.
• For services that hardcode ad endpoints or use techniques that bypass DNS blocking, the author uses more advanced tools such as proxying or firewall rules.
• Some apps and sites break when ads are blocked; in those cases, the author selectively whitelists domains or uses per-device exceptions rather than relaxing global rules.
• On mobile, encrypted DNS and VPN-like tunneling are configured so that all traffic still flows through the home-level blocking setup even on the go.
• The author argues that this configuration significantly improves page load times, reduces bandwidth usage, and makes devices feel faster and less cluttered.
• They acknowledge an ethical gray area with ad blocking but conclude that user safety, privacy, and mental comfort outweigh the downsides of depriving low-quality ad networks of revenue.
• The piece emphasizes that the goal is not absolute perfection but a sustainable setup that requires minimal maintenance once deployed.

Hacker News Discussion

• Commenters discuss additional tools like SponsorBlock for skipping in-video sponsorships on platforms such as YouTube, highlighting that traditional ad blockers do not remove creator-embedded promos.
• Several users point out that DNS-level blocking does not stop ads injected directly by streaming services, noting that such platforms often use certificate pinning or app-level tricks that make proxying and MITM approaches difficult or impossible.
• A highly upvoted comment recommends using a user-agent switcher to bypass sites that block non-Chrome browsers, with examples where services claim to be incompatible with Firefox but run better once the browser “pretends” to be Chrome.
• Participants criticize websites that enforce brittle user-agent checks instead of feature detection, arguing that this needlessly breaks otherwise compatible browsers and punishes privacy-conscious users.
• Some users express skepticism about privacy-focused browsers that are built on or dependent on codebases controlled by ad-driven companies, calling out an inherent tension between privacy promises and ad-based business models.

for - definition - nyam-nyi - when form ad emptiness are both experienced as one taste (nonduality) - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

DOI: 10.14336/ad.2024.0224

Resource: (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Cat# sc-31984, RRID:AB_2167511)

Curator: @dhovakimyan1

SciCrunch record: RRID:AB_2167511

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DOI: 10.14336/AD.2021.1015

Resource: (BDSC Cat# 7017,RRID:BDSC_7017)

Curator: @olekpark

SciCrunch record: RRID:BDSC_7017

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for - economic growth - physical limits to - reductio ad absurdum - physical absurdity of continuing current energy and waste heat trends into the near future

paper details - title - Limits to Economic Growth - author - Thomas W. Murphy Jr. - date - 21 July, 2022 - publication - Nature Physics, comment, online - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01652-6

summary - Physicist Thomas W. Murphy employs reductio ab adsurdium logic to prove the fallacy of the assumptions of his argument - In this case, the argument is that we can indefinitely continue to sustain economic growth at rates that have held steady at about 2-3% per annum since the early 1900s. - Using both idealistic and simplified energy and waste heat calculations of energy and waste heat compounding at 2-3% per annum (or 10x per century), Murphy shows the absurd conclusions of continuing these current trends of energy and waste heat emissions on a global scale. - The implications are that physics and thermodynamics will naturally constrain us to plateau to a steady state economy in which the majority of economic activity needs to not depend on physically intensive

from - Planet Critical podcast - 6th Mass Extinction - interview with science journalist Peter Brannen - https://hyp.is/66oSJD-AEe-rN08IjlMu5A/docdrop.org/video/cP8FXbPrEiI/

https://web.archive.org/web/20240420102854/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

Oxford shut down 'Future of Humanity Institute'. Vgl [[Jaan Tallinn]] Nick Bostrom Part of phil dept, but less and less phil on staff. Original existential threat list seemed balanced, over time non-existent AI became only focus, ignoring clear and present dangers like climate change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

[Cicero], and Harry Caplan (1896-1980). Ad C. Herennium de Ratione Dicendi (Rhetorica Ad Herennium). Loeb Classical Library, 403. Harvard University Press, 1964.

In my personal opinion, I do not believe we should be so surprised at the fact that influencers have such a power. They push propaganda out one way or another on a constant basis. In fact, it was my goal to to get sponsors for our podcast which meant that I would be paid to read advertisements on each episode. I would be directly influencing my audience to purchase a product and possibly be placed in a contractual agreement to only say good things about said product. If celebrities can push skin care products onto their fans, how could we not see them trying to convince their fans that a vaccine will cause bodily harm in the long-term. They built a trust that cannot be broken unless their audience can be skeptical enough to not take the bait. Influencers need to be aware of the impact they have on their audience and need to do their parts in ensuring that all information they share is validated and confirmed by trusted sources.

Milberg, G. (2021, December 21). Florida pulls pro-vaccination television ads, replacing with spots that don’t mention vaccines. WPLG. https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/12/21/florida-pulls-pro-vaccination-television-ads-replacing-with-spots-that-dont-mention-vaccines/

A few weeks back I joined the Schoenberg Institute's ongoing series "Coffee with a Codex" which featured two manuscripts the Penn Libraries have relating to Rhetorica ad Herennium. One is MS Codex 1630, a 15th century copy of the text itself, and MS Codex 1629 which is a 14th century commentary on Rhetorica.

As a few here are interested in some of the older memory texts and having access to older copies from the Renaissance is rare, I thought I'd share some of the resources from that session including photos, descriptions, and the videos themselves which have recently been posted online. For those who are interested in these spaces, I hope this is as much of a treat as I thought it was.

A blog post with some details, links, and great photos: https://schoenberginstitute.org/2022/03/09/ms-codex-1630-ms-codex-1629-rhetoric/

A short video introduction to the MS Codex 1630: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpFbbHgNQ4

And here's the full 30 minute video of the walk through session of both manuscripts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT6Qdgz93Ec&list=PL8e3GREu0zuC-jTFRF27a88SzTQ6fSISy&index=8

Full digital copies of both books and bibliographic details for them can be found below: Ms. Codex 1630: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958935643503681

Ms. Codex 1629: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958752123503681

https://schoenberginstitute.org/2022/03/09/ms-codex-1630-ms-codex-1629-rhetoric/

Argument quality and fallacies. (n.d.). HackMD. Retrieved January 17, 2022, from https://hackmd.io/@scibehC19vax/argumentquality

Brody makes the Spielberg seem like he didn't do a good job with the character and how she should act which doesn't get to the point of the argument but rather is arguing that the actor didn't do well.

Again, Brody is making the character of Maria seem lesser than what it is to distract you from the real argument of what is going wrong in the movie.

Brody is attacking the Spielberg for putting a character in the moving making it seem like the only way he got the movie to be popular was from Rita Moreno.

The author tries to attack Spielberg and Kushner to make it seem like they did not make Tony the right character.

I've not seen it argued elsewhere (yet), but I would make a case that the majority of drolleries weren't so much comment on themes in text as that they were loci placed into the books at either intervals or in particular locations as part of the practice of the art of memory. They act as signposts to which the reader can more easily memorize portions of books by attaching the ideas on those pages to the dramatic and absurd images painted into them as suggested by Rhetorica ad Herennium (https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL403/1954/volume.xml).

Cross reference: The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates (University of Chicago, 1966).for the historical practice of memory in the West, though she doesn't mention drolleries at all.

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ad inventory space within shopping centers across the country

THIS IS LITERALLY THE ANSWER TO SEARCH.

Just… FYI.

All you need to do is give users more control.

The use of [[visual homophony]] as a [[mnemonic techniques]].

Apple privacy feature

shameless self promotion

Really free? Or was this served against ads in search?

Interestingly the technology here isn't that different than the Facebook Data that Cambridge Analytica was using, the difference is that they're not using it to directly impact politics, but to drive sales. Does this mean they're more "ethical"?

And of course there will be crazy implications for the adtech space.

Social media has completely ignored this sort of sentiment and gamified and psychoanalyzed it's way into the polar opposite direction all for the sake of "engagement", clicks, data gathering, and advertising.

Using Facebook Ad Library | Webinar with Maddy Webb and Laura Garcia. (2020, May 22). First Draft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuzUr0V_fEk&feature=emb_logo

Does that mean they don't track you?

Explain the increase in imported input prices on aggregate supply.

why is beyond on 24 when its just a label??

ANSWER: You don't want to be going back up to 20 and rerunning it every time. That would be wrong

Active Directory support

The information about OpenX can also be used for Revive. Additional information about getting this URL from Revive can be found here: Invocation code for Inline Video ad zone or Overlay Video ad zone

Es curioso, está relacionado con la idea de los bloqueadores de anuncios que leí hoy y de hecho con las prácticas de lectura anotada que ando haciendo, convirtiendo de HTML a PDF para quitar la pulicidad y escribir de manera más placentera.

Es curioso, está relacionado con la idea de los bloqueadores de anuncios que leí hoy y de hecho con las prácticas de lectura anotada que ando haciendo, convirtiendo de HTML a PDF para quitar la pulicidad y escribir de manera más placentera.

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That is most certainly their wishlist. But it overlooks the reason why Google and Facebook get all the ad dollars in the first place: they have all the users & their data. That's why most advertisers will have to play by their rules as the chances to succeed with their own offerings aren't great.

Telcos/ISPs meanwhile, particularly Verizon, are to watch indeed (The new FCC rules play right into their hands as well). Since they own many users & their data, they are a force to be reckoned with. But: ISPs aren't global players and regulated differently in each country.

From one of the Disqus comments:

Which piece did you read?

Though seemingly innocuous, this comment gets much closer to an ad hominem attack than to a throughtful conversation. The rest of the comment is ok, but it’s with slips like these that we get into flamewars.

In this fragment, President Obama uses "ad populum" reasoning, by reiterating that it is not just a policy of normalizing relations with the Cuban government, but also the people. A very literal appeal to the individual people in the audience, not just to government leaders and officials.

Here, Obama uses Ad Populum to give the people a common ground in their identity as Cubans so that they can continue with "understanding, and listening, and forgiveness." Because they are all Cuban, they should work together and try to better their country together. He is telling them that being Cuban is a strong enough bond for them to all be on the same team and rally together to make the future better. Because they are Cuban they should want and strive for the same things.

Along side the Dawn of the Golden Age this is a must read 2wice and annotate work. It begs the question of international law and aggression and the spilling over of armed pretext aggression unto the majority non-fanatical civilian population. I'm Half way through and it can only lead to a critical browsing of contemporary works in history and theory during my life time to catch up with the situation after my stupid drug bum phase is over.

Very well stated

Hm… Awkward business model.

Not surprising that roughly 80% use no or ad hoc metadata.