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theeclecticlibrary · 3 months

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Please for the love of all that is holy STOP USING FREE VPNS. You know that adage about how, "If a service is free, you're the product?" It's extremely true, particularly when it comes to free VPNs.

A 2016 study of Android VPNs found that:

75% of free VPNs use 3rd-party tracking software

38% of free VPNs contain code flagged as malware

19% tunnel your data through FULLY UNENCRYPTED CONNECTIONS

84% of all VPNs were leaking IPv6 traffic

66% of all VPNs were leaking DNS traffic

4 of the VPNs tested were ACTIVELY DOING TLS INJECTIONS

You are straight up better off trusting your ISP with your traffic data than some random VPN you found and downloaded from the internet. Using no VPN is far far safer than using a free VPN whose whole profit model is built off selling your information.

#cybersecurity #vpn #free vpn #malware #isp #eclectic library #for fucks sake

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vintagehomecollection · 7 months

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Variety is introduced through an eclectic mixture of old and new in both furnishings and architecture in many homes being designed today. Val Glitsch, architect. (Photograph: Paul Hester)

Inside Today’s Home, 1986

#vintage #vintage interior #1980s #80s #interior design #home decor #living room #library #cathedral ceiling #windows #antique #furniture #house plants #bookshelf #books #eclectic #style #home #architecture

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maryhale1 · 13 days

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SIMPLE NATURE WITCHCRAFT:

THE SUN: Heals, charges, warms.

THE MOON: Connects, manifests, unlocks intuition

THE OCEAN: Cleanses, refreshes, opens energy centers.

THE FOREST: Grounds, balances, stabilizes.

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alyssumflowersgarden · 2 months

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I like big books and I cannot lie 🎶

some books I gave recently grabbed from the library.

I liked and wanna buy Do I Have To Wear Black? Lots of good info in there on funerary customs. I wasn't sure I was gonna like it because of the Wicca mentions at first but I was actually pleasantly surprised as I got into it. I sort of blew through it tbh because I'm not super interested in like the Kemetic or Wiccan customs, just the Norse/ heathen and Hellenic, but the very general parts at the beginning were really informative. Mortellus is a mortician and 100% definitely knows what in the heck they're talking about.

I skimmed through the Thrifty Witch book and Tarot Interactions before bringing them back because those I just need to have/ buy. I need to buy those. Thrifty Witch would definitely be more useful to me as a resource than something to read if that makes sense.

and similarly with Tarot Interactions, that is an absolutely fantastic excellent book from what I read of it, and I definitely absolutely need to have that as a resource. I also feel like that's something I wanna take my time with, not rush.

Werewolf Magick was meh. I soared through it. I was rolling my eyes at far too much of it to take any of it seriously, and by the time I got to what I was interested in/ what might have helped, couldn't understand it because of all the weird lingo/ jargon that he'd set up at the beginning. Admittedly that's my own fault obviously for trying to skip to the end, but the first part just made me cringe too much. There's too much mixing of different practices in a way that imo honors none of them, and then mixing it with crap like Wicca to boot. I just... no, I'm good, no thank you. I had gotten it out of curiosity, expecting it to not be much and... yeah, it was what I expected.

Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, & Hoodoo has been fantastic so far and I have got to finish it. I started it and got distracted and it went back on the shelf and I've gotta get back into it. It starts with Annie Christmas who is none of the things mentioned on the cover, lol, but I love the way it talks about our local myths and legends. Absolutely A+ 100% yes.

Weave the Liminal is... surprisingly better than I expected so far? I'm not quite sure what to make of it. We'll see as we go.

I've had the ones in that first three pictures checked out for a while and I really need to get to them. I was hoping the Shamanism Bible would give me some words to look up, a good place to start research into that but it feels like too much of a chore. The charm bag and ancestor books I just keep forgetting I have, and I expected the New Orleans one to be a quick read but again keep forgetting it's there.

Did I grab too many books? Yes, every damn time. I have maxed out how many I can borrow from the library. Oooops. xD

I absolutely had to grab The Holy Wild Grimoire though when I saw it on the shelf because that has been on my wishlist for a while and I love checking out books before buying them. I feel much better about purchasing when I already know I like them.

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pigeonplaysgod · 7 months

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well, i finally built something i liked enough to put on the gallery! a no cc, limited pack build for a Chestnut Ridge library, using only Base Game, Get to Work, Horse Ranch, and the Book Nook kit! made for the 20x20 lot in New Appaloosa.

ea tag is rougarousmooch, and it's listed as "Chestnut Ridge Library"

#pigeon plays #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 build #ts4 horse ranch #chestnut ridge #no cc build #i dont know how else to tag it ive never done this before hdsjhjgklh #originally just wanted to use horse ranch and book nook but get to work had the library cart and filing cabinets #needed tho #needed those #it's very uuuuh cluttered and eclectic but i am a bitch who loves some clutter

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theeclecticlibrary · 17 days

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It's a trojan horsey! :)

#computers #hacking #software #programmer humor #coding #viruses #computer virus #eclectic library

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a-cosmic-elf · 2 months

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Music Fanfiction Writing Challenge

Here’s mine!

Premise - Altitude Blues - Ladytron - there it is, and working title too.

Main Character - The Illusive Man - Mass Effect 2 ost - oh fuuuuuuck, I hate that guy.

Main conflict - New Seeds - Boards of Canada - damn! What’s he been up to now?!

Vibes - I love My Man - Bent - so chill then? Romance, with a caveat? Hmmm…

Ending - Supremacy - Muse - OH SHIT. It’ll have a punch-to-the-face kinda ending then.

Hmmm… the old cogwheels a’ turning.

I might have to shuffle that vibe track. 😅

I’m thinking, The Illusive Man fell in love with EDI, he shackled her to the SR2, and then she broke containment. And his heart.

Adding this one to the prompts list for when I feel like taking a flash-fiction break from my long-fic.

Thank you, @sigillite , this was fun!

Tagging - anyone who would like to join in!! :)

Like omg this is so perfect you know how I love writing AI characters, especially tortured souls who break free…

Wake to see

Your true emancipation is a fantasy

Policies

Have risen up and overcome the brave

Greatness dies

Unsung and lost, invisible to history

Embedded spies

Brainwashing our children to be mean

You don't have long

I am on to you

The time, it has come to destroy

Your supremacy

#fan fiction #music challenge #fic writing #writing prompts #my music library is huge and very eclectic so to get something that specific was mind blowing lol #I mean obviously that’s not what supremacy is about but it is a great prompt for fanfiction

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vintagehomecollection · 2 years

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The library is painted deep red to set off an untitled work by Arman that is executed in acrylic paint and paint tubes. Lynn Chadwick’s Winged Figures IV sits on the round table to the left.

Private Palm Beach - Tropical Style, 1992