If you're using Firefox, your first add-on should be uBlock Origin. At this point, it's not just blocking ads. It's basic Internet hygiene.
However, especially if you handle sensitive sites like bank/payment portals or one to several social accounts, your second add-on should be this little thing called Firefox Multi-Account Containers.
It's extremely useful. You can keep the defaults or wipe them all and make your own. So long as you don't sign in to things outside of containers, things opened in Firefox by default won't have access to your accounts. Sites you sign in to will only be signed in on that specific container. Links followed in Fun will not have access to your already signed-in sites on Bank. Links opened from your social account in Personal don't risk accidental interactions from a different social account under Professional.
Social containers are even more helpful for sites that don't support account switching. Even if they do, all you have to do is use a different account in each container and you can view both accounts side-by-side.
Oh, and it's published by Mozilla themselves within Firefox's add-on repository. You can trust it about as much as you trust Firefox.
Here's something different. Concept art for a catgirl musician.
I'm probably wrong on most of this since I don't do music at all.
She's a bass player for a metal/rock band. I'm still not sure about a name for her or any of the other characters. I feel she might be a bit devious.
Whatcha think? I could really get some input on this >~<
#conceptart #krita #animeart
Happy birthday to the Maestro, Hayao Miyazaki!
🎉
83 years young, yet your worlds still fill us with wonder. Your stories soar on dragon wings, whisper through soot sprites & bloom with vibrant spirits. You've shown us the magic in everyday life and the boundless beauty of nature's embrace.
Thank you for reminding us to dream big, to chase the wind, and to never lose sight of the light within.
✨
Happy birthday, Miyazaki-san!
#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #happybirthday #hayaomiyazaki
Interesting paper about #adblocking that I just found out
Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers
This study, although preliminary, clearly showed enormous potential for open source ad blockers to reduce consumer time waiting for Internet ads to load as well as the electricity needed to run their computers (and other electronic technologies) during that time. In addition, the externalities (including premature fatalities) associated with fossil-fuel-based electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming would be reduced.
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18/htmWhen my eldest was in kindergarten, they came home one day with an assignment to count something in their house.
We got a note from the teacher the next day, which I will paraphrase (because it's been 12 years): "Your child is very bright and clearly knows how to count, but you should probably explain that you don't actually have 15 computers in your house."
Our response: "Oh, you're right, Z missed a few in the basement server rack, it's actually closer to 25."
The other amazing Seattle mutual aid organization to support is "Stop The Sweeps Seattle".
Funds donated here help with city wide homeless sweep response. They support homeless Seattle residents in so many ways and have been a critical group to call when parks and cops are abusing the homeless throughout the broader Seattle region.
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, part-time dream dragon, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
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