i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

There's a way to remove it~

Go into the power shell

then paste in:

reg add HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot /v "TurnOffWindowsCopilot" /t REG_DWORD /f /d 1

like this

Then restart. Also here is how to turn off the awful search suggestions:

incase anyone didnt know there's some great free software to handle disabling windows bloatware without needing to mess with the command line

these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it's such a lifesaver

Pssst if you have ublock: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

here's a link! you'll have to make an account in order to pre-order (for free) and access the course. 🤟

asl ii will also be available for free!

ID.

End ID.

>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.

fastest reblog in the west

Yeppers. :)

reblogging for study later AND to spread the info.

Seriously, get and run PiHole if you can. It changes your internet experience so much for the better. I get shocked when I visit a website when I'm someone else's network, by just how many ads the internet is flooded with now. Take back control.

the notes are broken 😂

Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes. 

WAH

obsessed with this gif from the wikipedia page for the mercator projection showing actual countries sizes

Read more here:

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

reblog to save a digital arts major

Reblog to save an artist.

oh jEEZ

I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

- Open Tunez for animation.

I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too! Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)

Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.

Also, heads up to anyone using it,

As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,

so please approach it with caution and do some research on the situation as things progress.

https://www.the-pro-creator.com/2019/01/I-hate-adobe-and-so-should-you.html

I’m posting the links here because the link keeps on a loop with adfly

IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try GIMP Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PAINT.DOT.NET Instead of ILLUSTRATOR, try INKSCAPE Instead of INDESIGN, try CANVA or SCRIBUS

IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE Instead of PREMIERE, try DAVINCI RESOLVE Instead of ANIMATE/FLASH, try OPENTOONZ or BLENDER Instead of AFTER EFFECTS, try WAX, BLENDER or FUSION

IF YOU BUILD WEBSITES OR SOFTWARE Instead of DREAMWAVER, SPARK or XD, try WIX, WEEBLY, or WORDPRESS.COM or WORDPRESS.ORG

IF YOU DO STUFF THAT REQUIRES THESE OTHER PROGRAMS Instead of AUDITION, try AUDACITY Instead of ACROBAT PRO, try FOXIT READER or PDF ESCAPE Instead of INCOPY, try LOVING YOURSELF AND USING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE (WHO USES THIS???)

IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS OR FONTS Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try PEXELS, UNSPLASH, or PIXABAY Instead of ADOBE PHONTS, try GOOGLE FONTS or DAFONT

BONUS: If you need FREE MUSIC OR SOUND EFFECTS, try YOUTUBE AUDIO LIBRARY or SOUNDBIBLE

My bonuses:

IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try FIREALPACA , SAI , SKETCHBOOK or KRITA (these latter two are great!) Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PHOTOSCAPE

IF YOU MAKE PICTURES MOVE Instead of PREMIERE, try SHOTCUT Instead of ANIMATE/FLASH, try PENCIL2D ANIMATION, LIVE2D, OR E-MOTE

IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try MORGUEFILE.COM

Digital artist Daniel Voshart recreates the ‘real’ faces of Roman emperors thanks to machine learning. You can learn more about the process, discover more emperors or buy a poster here.

[Marcus Aurelius]

[Lucius Verus]

[Trajan]

NO WAY IN HELL WERE THEY THIS WHITE

Today we are going to discuss a very serious topic: individuals who think that Italic people were POC.

I went down a rabbit hole of DNA studies trying to understand why people on tumblr seem to think the Romans were not white, and here are a few thoughts:

[top to bottom: a Kurdish fighter; Iranian politician Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf; Syrian writer Samar Yazbek]

As a bonus for reading this far, here is a smiling wolf.

(Also please stop saying those guys are chads, daddys and DILFs. Most of them were dangerous sociopaths who’d feed you to their pet eels if they could.)

@ink-phoenix uh. Have at it?

OP forgot to add these:

Pertinax

Caracalla: (UL) Vatican Museum; (UR) Met, NYC; (LL) The Severan Tondo; (LR) Naples National Archaeological Museum

Philip the Arab: (L) Vatican Museum

244–249 (died aged 45 — Killed in the Battle of Verona by Decius

Quintillus [Marcus Aurelius Claudius Quintillus]

Florianus

Carinus

Numerian

To add to the commentary above, many of the greatest men in Roman history came from provinces outside of the Italian Peninsula, but they were and have since been considered Roman (examples: the emperor Trajan was from Hispania, and Septimus Severus was born in an African province).

Later in Roman history, under Caracalla (who was born in Gaul and of mixed Berber and Syrian descent, so another Roman figure not Italian-Roman) in 212 AD all free men in the entire Roman Empire was granted citizenship. That meant that any Germanics, Africans, Latins, Hispanics, Syrian, etc. were all considered Roman! Regardless of race.

This is what encompassed the Roman Empire:

So you can imagine the intermixing that went on at the time and how the concept or “white” the way America presents it is absolutely inconsequential for the time period we’re talking about.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Commune cities formed, autonomous republic that survived exclusively on Marine trade with Spain, Africa, and East India. Amalfi, Gaeta and Venice in the 11th century were already autonomous maritime republics. Around 1100, Genoa, Pisa and Ancona emerged as independent maritime republics too.

Trade, shipbuilding and banking helped support their powerful navies in the Mediterranean in those medieval centuries. Immigration and ethnic inter-mixing was pretty common — to the point that Italians to this day look as varied and different from north to south and from city to city as it behooves the multicultural and trade-rich peninsula it always was.

Thank you for the great addition, @ink-phoenix! 

(Just in case there’s any doubt, the reason I didn’t include them is because I had no idea this post would be so popular and literally screenshotted the first twenty emperors on the chart to save time - and also they’re the ones I know best, there were people there I’d literally never heard of - like Ulpia Severina, I had to go and Google her.)  

An American friend of mine, while casting for a film, complained that she kept getting “white men” applying to a role she’d advertised as “Mediterranean”. 

I showed her a photo of the man who plays the angel in my film, who is both quite evidently white and is also from Greece, born and raised. Many other directors replied and told her that “Mediterranean” can mean just about anything. This same actor told me that he had responded to several auditions asking for “Mediterranean” looks, and would then tell him that he was not what they were looking for, because by “Mediterrranean” they meant “a darker skin tone”. He’d explain the same thing to them and when they’d double down on their description being accurate, he’d say, “But I’m Greek!” 

Additionally, the Guanche - the native tribes of the Canary Islands - were white, despite the islands being located off the coast of northern Africa. The same is true of the modern-day Amazigh Berber people, who the Guanche are said to be related to. Skin tone and skin colour are extraordinarily varied throughout Europe and indeed the world.

How to create the creepy mirror effect using a panorama. By lililwanjun10

This is so frickin cool

she crack the code

this is so hecking neat

That’s cool and all but what about before panorama even existed?

@giant-tiny-ss all a panorama does is stitch together a line of photos. It takes longer but you can do that with a series of ordinary photos (even on film although that’s a skill not many people have anymore)

Just take the photo of the first position, then have the person move and take the empty one in the middle, then have them move into place for the other side.

Lucifer angel armor??? Yes plz

heavenly words

aliferous: (adj.) having wings

apricity: (n.) the warmth of the sun in the winter

aspectabund: (adj.) letting emotion show easily through the face or eyes

aurora: (n.) dawn

balter: (v.) to dance gracelessly, but with enjoyment

cafune: (n.) the act of running your fingers through the hair of someone you love

catharsis: (n.) release of emotional tension

charmolypi: (n.) a mixed feeling of happiness while being sad

diaphonous: (adj.) light, translucent, and delicate

dulcet: (adj.) sweet

ephemeral: (adj.) fleeting

ethereal: (adj.) extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world

eutony: (n.) the pleasantness of a word’s sound

halcyon: (adj.) a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

illecebrous: (adj.) enticing

irenic: (adj.) promoting peace

kalon: (n.) beauty that is more than skin-deep

kalopsia: (n.) the seeing of things as more beautiful than they actually are

lacuna: (n.) a blank or missing part

lilt: (n.) a pleasant gentle accent

ludic: (adj.) full of fun and high spirits

meraki: (n.) to do something with love or soul

nefelibata: (n.) cloud-walker; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination

nepenthe: (n.) something that makes one forget their sadness

nubivagant: (adj.) wandering in the clouds

numinous: (adj.) feeling fearful yet awed and inspired

orphic: (adj.) beyond ordinary understanding

pyrrhic: (adj.) won at too great a cost

pulchritudinous: (adj.) breathtaking, heartbreaking beauty

scintilla: (n.) a tiny trace or spark of a feeling

selcouth: (adj.) unfamiliar, strange, yet marvelous

sirimiri: (n.) a light drizzle of rain

susurrus: (n.)  whispering, murmuring, or rustling

sweven: (n.) a dream

temerate: (v.) to break a bond or promise

viridity: (n.) innocence

yonderly: (adj.) absent-minded

Let’s say your matrilineal line is fairly consistent and everyone has their daughter at 25. So four women in your matrilineal line are born every hundred years. In a thousand years, that’s only 40 women. Like the math is so simple and yet ? You don’t think about it. So in 2000 years, 80 women. So basically, 0 AD started roughly about 80 mothers ago. That’s it.

I’m……… i’m a little drunk n cannot deal with this right now

Yep

The advent of agriculture around 9500BC was about 450 mothers ago

you can’t just say shit like that without a warning

Many, many mothers ago, when the world was new….

Many of the notes here are saying “But women used to have kids earlier”

Okay. So, assume every woman had her daughter at 20 instead. 

That’s five mothers in a century. 

Fifty mothers in a thousand years. 

One hundred mothers in two thousand years. 

That is five hundred and seventy five mothers since the dawn of agriculture. 

Less than six hundred women, between you and the dawn of civilization. 

You are never so far from your ancestors as you think. 

Okay but “x mothers ago” is the best damn dating system, and I’m gonna use it SOMEWHERE.

I was not PREPARED

CHARACTER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS (WRITING REFERENCE)

EYES/BROWS

NOSE

MOUTH

SKIN

WHOLE FACE, ETC.

SOURCE

T h i s h e l p s s o m u c h t h a n k y o u

Naruto Mission Payment Rates

Naruto canon uses the ryo, which is a real Japanese currency from before the Meiji period. I went ahead and converted the given mission payments to Yen, USD, and Euros (sorry to all the other currencies out there). 

This is based on the current exchange rate of yen as of 11/23/2016 so there will be variation over time and a margin of error. Currency measures are always rounded up to the hundreths place. I am also unsure if these payments are split between the squad or if this is the individual’s payment though I suspect the former. 

1 ryo= 10 yen 

D-rank missions- 5,000- 50,000 ryo

¥ 50,000- 500,000 

$ 443.66- 4,436.64

€ 420.66- 4,206.57

C-rank missions- 30,000-100,000 ryo

¥ 300,000- 1,000,000 

$ 2,661.98- 8,873.28

€ 2,523.94- 8,413.13

B-rank missions- 150,000-200,000 ryo

¥ 1,500,000-2,000,000 

$ 13,299.77- 17,733.02

€ 12,612.49- 16,816.66

A-rank missions- 150,000-1,000,000 ryo

¥ 1,500,000-10,000,000 

$ 13,299.77-  88,645.50

€ 12,612.49- 84,083.28

S-rank missions- 1,000,000+ ryo

¥ 10,000,000+ 

$  88,645.50+

€  84,083.28+

Worked out roughly how much Kakashi’s earned for the village (working out a median payment per mission rank and rounding up the pennies)

D-rank missions -  € 439,586.90

C-rank missions -   € 1,039,022.60

B-rank missions -  € 6,091,840.30

A-rank missions -  € 14,407,674.20

S-rank missions -  € 3,531,497.80

Total -

€ 25,509,621.80

$ 26,961,884.60

£ 21,643,560.30

O_O

So I think the ninjas must only get a teeny tiny cut of the payment…or they’d all be living in mansions…

So lets be honest they still probably pay taxes, but also kakashi never pays for anything so he must be that ho over there that has a damn swiss bank acc or someshit his pockets so deep XD.

But save for fic wroting purposes! Im betting taxes are a good 20% too…