Is there a way to get rid of a particular ad?

[Nifty-Chicken]

Thanks for reporting this and for the details!

We have a lot of filters in place to keep out ads like this, but sometimes they sneak through the filters (this is unfortunately an industry-wide problem).

We've reported the ad and it will hopefully be found and blocked!

 

[we3ernes]

Thanks for reporting this and for the details!

We have a lot of filters in place to keep out ads like this, but sometimes they sneak through the filters (this is unfortunately an industry-wide problem).

We've reported the ad and it will hopefully be found and blocked!

Wow! Thanks a ton! I was just hoping someone could tell me a way to hide it (since it didn’t have the normal “X”). I really appreciate that you guys are looking out for us!

 

[we3ernes]

Options in order of ease of use:

1) membership

2) set primary DNS to 1.1.1.1 (read more here)

3) use ad-block and no-script extensions in FireFox (can break stuff if you don't know what you're doing )

4) Proper local network management including aggressive firewalling and proxy cacheing i.e. flash a compatible router such as an EA3500 to use opnWRT (likely to brick your hardware if you aren't skilled in such things ).

5) all of the above

HAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, the only thing I understood in your list was #1! I think I will ask for membership as a birthday gift.

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

Yeah, the only thing I understood in your list was #1! I think I will ask for membership as a birthday gift.

lol, Yeah, that's likely to be less frustrating than the two days it took me to cross-compile that openWRT stuff (every binary for every command for the OS, the kernel itself and various libraries). Kinda chicken-sh... erm... scared to install my custom compiled version and risk borking / bricking the currently installed generic pre-compiled version from upstream which does work currently. Custom is faster and more efficient for my use cases compared to the less optimized generic.

 

[we3ernes]

lol, Yeah, that's likely to be less frustrating than the two days it took me to cross-compile that openWRT stuff (every binary for every command for the OS, the kernel itself and various libraries). Kinda chicken-sh... erm... scared to install my custom compiled version and risk borking / bricking the currently installed generic pre-compiled version from upstream which does work currently. Custom is faster and more efficient for my use cases compared to the less optimized generic.

Okay, now you are just trying to scare the luddites!

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

Okay, now you are just trying to scare the luddites!

Indeed. There's not a lot to do out here on Mars, and even less that's funny. Except it was taco night last night (we like it spicy!!), and it's Sam's turn to go out in the suit to clean off the solar panels this morning.

 

[mill-j]

lol, Yeah, that's likely to be less frustrating than the two days it took me to cross-compile that openWRT stuff (every binary for every command for the OS, the kernel itself and various libraries). Kinda chicken-sh... erm... scared to install my custom compiled version and risk borking / bricking the currently installed generic pre-compiled version from upstream which does work currently. Custom is faster and more efficient for my use cases compared to the less optimized generic.

Sounds interesting. I'm assuming your running a source based Linux? I'm curious which one?

I ran LFS for a while, kinda fun.

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

Sounds interesting. I'm assuming your running a source based Linux? I'm curious which one?

I ran LFS for a while, kinda fun.

I usually run many, Ubuntu in the Windows linux emulation layer to compile openWRT from source, a flavor of Debian on my rPi, VMs with varieties of CentOS, Fedora depending on need/want of the day/week. I was Sr. Lab Manager for a CyberSec R&D co. where I manged the RPM repos as well as designed and maintained the complete build/compile/test/deploy cycle, and the GPL compliance and drift database, and... and... and now I'm 'retired.'

Edit: Oh, and cygWin for when I need something done in a bash shell quick & dirty like.

 

[mill-j]

I usually run many, Ubuntu in the Windows linux emulation layer to compile openWRT from source, a flavor of Debian on my rPi, VMs with varieties of CentOS, Fedora depending on need/want of the day/week. I was Sr. Lab Manager for a CyberSec R&D co. where I manged the RPM repos as well as designed and maintained the complete build/compile/test/deploy cycle, and the GPL compliance and drift database, and... and... and now I'm 'retired.'

Edit: Oh, and cygWin for when I need something done in a bash shell quick & dirty like.

Sound interesting. I run Rasbian and Quirky on my Rpi3, and currently Mint and Void on my pc's (several others in VB VMs). I haven't tinkered much with cygwin, since TDM-gcc has all the Gnu compilation stuff I need on MSW. Hard to beat the bash cli