![]() Still, when Luhrmann joked about the robot flirting with him or Marlow yelled into the robot’s ear to provoke a response, the audience of nearly a hundred people looked visibly uncomfortable in the silence as the robot processed their words.Īi-Da’s responses were always gentle. These days, she has a short bob and wears overalls. The project was previously criticized as a sexist fantasy, and the most recent version of Ai-Da no longer has the heavy makeup and long hair she once wore. ![]() It might be more accurate to say that Meller and his team have engineered the robot to appear in that guise-specifically, that of a pretty woman, albeit one with visibly mechanical arms. Marlow said that what makes Ai-Da interesting is how the robot has “adopted the persona of a human artist.”Īi-Da painted live at the event. Some of Ai-Da’s paintings are genuinely impressive, like two massive self-portraits that the robot based on Dante’s poetry. If anyone has any insight on this I'm all ears.“If everything is about technological advancement, then she is definitely obsolete,” said Tim Marlow, chief executive of the Design Museum in London, which partnered with Luhrmann and Meller to present Ai-Da’s art this weekend for the Saw This Made This Campaign with alcohol brand Bombay Sapphire. ![]() I wasn't sure if creating my own certificate authority on the LAN and issuing an SSL certificate that way would work, I don't really know too much about SSL certificates. If anyone has a work around for the SSL aspect of this I'm all ears. Hope this sheds some light on your question. Maybe if I poke around access logs I can figure out if its pulling it via HTTPS with the invalid certificate or just falling back to HTTP. I haven't confirmed this but I do know the TV is pulling the blank video file as I replaced it with a test video and it displayed it as an ad. I believe the Hulu app for my TV was poorly implemented and doesn't enforce SSL certificates for the ad CDN's that's why my TV will skip ads. Sometimes if I manually visited my the ad domain via HTTPS on my local network first in the browser and manually accepted the invalid certificate Hulu would skip ads in browser. Since most (if not all) the ads are being served via HTTPS and I don't have the SSL cert for the domain browsers won't retrieve the blank video file due to the content being served by a domain with an invalid SSL certificate. Where I had issues / inconsisently ad skipping was on desktop computers on the network due to what I believe is an issue with SSL certificates. My older smart TV (Vizio) will skip the ads with NGINX responding to every request with the short blank mp4 file. I don't think they'd ever put the ads in the normal video stream since they wouldn't want to show the same ad to everyone AND inserting them in real time would be computationally expensive which would really eat into their Somewhat. But then there is always a way around that too (but that would involve running a MITM and altering the advertisement metadata that is sent to the App)Īnd if worse comes to worse you can always force the App to think that you have the higher tier account either by modifying its code or altering the account information that is sent to the app by Hulu servers. Now this method can be mitigated by Hulu by sending the expected length of the video along with the URL of the advertisement and many other things. ![]() There are some caveats with some platforms for example on the IOS apps for Hulu the app shows you the show you're trying to watch as the advertisement when you do this, now this is fine unless you try to rewind or forward the video (pausing is okay) since rewinding is not allowed during an ad playback. Then you set a wildcard rule on that web server to respond to all requests for ads with a very short (sub 1 second) MPEG file in lieu of the advertisement! And you're done! All you'd see for an ad is a momentary blank screen. I've been doing this for a long time (when they didn't offer the commercial free option) successfully on various devices including iPads and Xbox One.Įssentially the way you can do it is to set DNS entries for the CDNs that are serving their ads (like or etc.) so that you'd resolve them to a web server you control (it can be the PiHole in this case). ![]() You can whitelist the offending domains by referring to this wiki page (the gist of which is whitelist.sh ) If you get any hits, then it's likely those are the domains causing issues. I'm in the UK, and don't have hulu over here, but if you use this chrome extension you should be able to see what domains are being requested when you try to watch a hulu stream, and then cross reference those with the blocklists by running the above command (replace 'hulu' with the domain you wish to query). #0.0.0.0 ll.a. # Uncomment to block Hulu. ![]()
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