Getting internet installed in Roanoke, VA can be a difficult and frustrating process, especially if you’re new to the area or don’t know where to start.

First of all, it’s important to know that Roanoke is a relatively small city, so your options for internet service providers (ISPs) may be limited. The two main options for internet in Roanoke are Xfinity and CenturyLink, although there are a few smaller providers as well.

One of the biggest challenges in getting internet installed in Roanoke is the availability of service. Depending on your location, you may not have access to high-speed internet, or you may have to pay a premium price for it. This is because many areas of Roanoke are still serviced by older, slower technologies such as DSL or satellite internet.

Another issue that can arise is the cost of internet service. Both Xfinity and CenturyLink have a variety of plans and pricing options, but they can be expensive, especially if you’re looking for high-speed internet. You may also have to pay additional fees for installation, equipment rentals, and other services.

One way to potentially reduce the cost of internet service is to bundle it with other services, such as television or phone service. Many ISPs offer discounts for customers who bundle multiple services together, but be sure to carefully compare the costs and benefits before making a decision.

If you’re having trouble getting internet installed in Roanoke, there are a few things you can try. One option is to contact the provider directly and see if they can offer any assistance or suggestions. You may also want to check with local community groups or organizations, as they may have information about internet availability and options in your area.

Overall, getting internet installed in Roanoke can be a challenge, but it’s not impossible. By doing your research, exploring your options, and being patient, you can eventually find a service that meets your needs and budget.

But, apparently their fanaticism overrode what little reason dwelt behind their bulging foreheads, and in repeated displays of this abject worship of power they would, after prostrating themselves before John Whorfin readily suggest specific tortures appropriate to their misdeeds—unfailingly such exquisite methods of slow and agonizing destruction that the mind is moved to anguish to think of any living thing subjected to them, much less wittingly volunteer.

Here is a translation of “Hello, dear journal, it is Scotto again” into Japanese:

「こんにちは、愛する日記、またスコットです」(konnichiwa, aisuru nikki, mata sukotto desu)

The greeting “konnichiwa” means “hello,” and “aisuru nikki” means “dear journal.” “Mata” means “again,” and “sukotto desu” is a way of saying “it is Scotto.” The final verb “desu” is a copula, similar to “is” in English, that is used to connect the subject of a sentence to a predicate.

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Adblock –

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking

Ad blocking

Network-wide ad blocking may be desired for content filtering to reduce ads, reduce bandwidth usage, reduce tracking and increase privacy. This can be accomplished with OpenWrt by installing one of the options below:

1. Adblock: install packages adblock + luci-app-adblock. The latest Adblock documentation is found here: README or via the forum thread.
2. Simple-Adblock: install packages simple-adblock + luci-app-simple-adblock. The latest Simple Adblock documentation is found here: README or via the forum thread.
3. AdGuard Home: install package adguardhome. The intitial setup is more complex and not managed through LuCI, so if you choose this read the documentation carefully.
4. Banhostlist: install package banhostlist. However, this project has not been updated since 2015.

This forum post (from 2017) gives a short comparison between Adblock and Simple Adblock. Summarized, it says that Adblock is more powerful and might receive additional features in the future while Simple Adblock aims to be easier to use and more performant.

These can be installed on the LuCI web interface, or via terminal with SSH. The example below is for Adblock.
Once installed, Adblock can be configured via Services → Adblock. Simple-Adblock can be configured via Services → Simple-Adblock.

# Install packages
opkg update
opkg install adblock
 
# Provide web interface
opkg install luci-app-adblock
 
# Backup the blocklists
uci set adblock.global.adb_backupdir="/etc/adblock"
 
# Save and apply
uci commit adblock
/etc/init.d/adblock restart

A comedy of bounty.

Gift card and sweet n spicy trail mix and moose munch – mom

Card from derek
Card from Danny

Mysterium board game
Quacks of quedlinburg board game
Lego bonsai tree

Card from tettimers
Atari 50th anniversary for ps5
John Severins billy the kid
Lego big eye doctor strange
Tshirt man thing and werewolf by night
Tshirt hellfire club
Assorted nature finder books
Creepy bonus lego for haunted house
Chocolate pretzels
Minifigure grab bags
The watch DVD (pratchett)
Trash soldiers resign figures
Custom dice – pumpkin,  mushroom, and misc
Minifigure- nutcracker, popcorn, knight, dragon, bigbadwolf, deer

Big tin of cheetos
2 jars of nuts. Cashews and mixed
Plague tale requiem
John severin bio
Hot sauce sampler
Cherry cordials
Wifi plugs
Mickey mouse pez
Bumblebee figure
Marvel legends
Ben grimm
Loki
Amazing fantasy spidey
Moon knight

Regarding AI art – I use it (though mostly for conceptual stuff) and I don’t apologize for it.

Ot course it can be abused. I don’t think anybody’s saying it’s cool to intentionally direct a series of prompts to make it deviate from its standard style to fully emulate the work of a specific living artist instead of paying them, and allowing artists to opt out of their material being used as training is the right thing to do.

At the same time, there’s a lot of ignorance out there about how neural networks operate and how MidJourney’s plain, no-specific-artist-name-attached style prompt works. Please research it before you accuse the engine of inherently stealing everything it produces. As dumb as the far right looks when they inherently argue from ignorance, we don’t look much better when we say “computers can’t learn to make original content they can only steal!”

I’m by no means an expert on neural networks, but I happened to work on one as part of a college final project (though it was waaaay simpler than the neural networks that Stable Diffusion uses), so that means I know a little more than the average layperson. They are modeled after human brains for a reason — to process or (in this case) generate content they’ve never seen before based on what they learn from images they’ve seen in the past. So yes, this is absolutely similar to what humans do when they take images from the web to study and incorporate what they learn into their own style.

MidJourney’s default style (when you don’t directly emulate a specific artist) is a unique blend, and there’s nothing wrong or illegal about that. It is not a dice roll of “which exact style should I emulate from these art works?” — it’s its own cocktail. The signatures you sometimes see aren’t copied and pasted, they’re from the engine trying to imitate what it’s seen by signing it (honestly, that should probably be weeded out of the training data).

I’m sure there will be a lot of lawsuits around this in the future. I don’t know how the courts will rule on them, as human judges can be unpredictable even for the most apparently straightforward cases (read “Hello World” for a scary example), but there’s s good chance that if what the AI is doing isn’t illegal for a human to do (memorize publicly displayed art, file it away in their brain, incorporate some techniques from that art into part of their unique style) then it won’t be illegal at all.

The resolution I see will be to 1) block user prompts from directing the AI to emulate a specific style of any artist who hasn’t given permission, instead of using its default style or more general prompts like “hyperrealism”. And 2) allow artists to opt out of their material being used for training.

Regarding AI art – I use it (though mostly for conceptual stuff) and I don’t apologize for it.

Ot course it can be abused. I don’t think anybody’s saying it’s cool to intentionally direct a series of prompts to make it deviate from its standard style to fully emulate the work of a specific living artist instead of paying them, and allowing artists to opt out of their material being used as training is the right thing to do.

At the same time, there’s a lot of ignorance out there about how neural networks operate and how MidJourney’s plain, no-specific-artist-name-attached style prompt works. Please research it before you accuse the engine of inherently stealing everything it produces. As dumb as the far right looks when they inherently argue from ignorance, we don’t look much better when we say “computers can’t learn to make original content they can only steal!”

I’m by no means an expert on neural networks, but I happened to work on one as part of a college final project (though it was waaaay simpler than the neural networks that Stable Diffusion uses), so that means I know a little more than the average layperson. They are modeled after human brains for a reason — to process or (in this case) generate content they’ve never seen before based on what they learn from images they’ve seen in the past. So yes, this is absolutely similar to what humans do when they take images from the web to study and incorporate what they learn into their own style.

MidJourney’s default style (when you don’t directly emulate a specific artist) is a unique blend, and there’s nothing wrong or illegal about that. It is not a dice roll of “which exact style should I emulate from these art works?” — it’s its own cocktail. The signatures you sometimes see aren’t copied and pasted, they’re from the engine trying to imitate what it’s seen by signing it (honestly, that should probably be weeded out of the training data).

The resolution I see will be to 1) block user prompts from directing the AI to emulate a specific style of any artist who hasn’t given permission, instead of using its default style or more general prompts like “hyperrealism”. And 2) allow artists to opt out of their material being used for training.

I’m sure there will be a lot of lawsuits around this in the future. I don’t know how the courts will rule on them, as human judges can be unpredictable even for the most apparently straightforward cases (read “Hello World” for a scary example), but there’s s good chance that if what the AI is doing isn’t illegal for a human to do (memorize publicly displayed art, file it away in their brain, incorporate some techniques from that art into part of their unique style) then it won’t be illegal at all.

Lynda Carter in WONDER WOMAN (1975) – The Deadly Toys

!paint tabby cat in a dungeon , fantasy art, drawn by erol otus, high quality, highly detailed, elegant, sharp focus, concept art, character concepts, digital painting, mystery, adventure, wide angle, many reflections, 8k –landscape

!paint optimus prime vs superman in Christmas village, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint christopher walken as superman in Christmas village, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint william Shatner in Christmas village, movie still, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint william Shatner centaur , movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint william Shatner as hello kitty , movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint william Shatner as red skull , movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint cathy lee Crosby as red skull , movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint cathy lee Crosby as red skull in the 1980s, movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint paul lynde and charles Nelson Reilly as super mario brothers, movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint paul lynde and charles Nelson Reilly as super mario, superhero in the 1970s, movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint paul lynde as red skull in the 1970s, movie still, live action, 80 mm lens, wide angle, ultra high detail, 16k, –landscape

!paint tabby cat in a medieval christmas city, fantasy art, high quality, highly detailed, elegant, sharp focus, concept art, character concepts, digital painting, mystery, adventure, wide angle, many reflections, 16k –landscape –q4

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Based on the books, looks good, love Alfred Molina

It’s not a euphemism.

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