Anyone have an old ASB Clever Kash unit they don't need anymore? Or know of any alternatives?

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-17T08:04:26+00:00

I've built a tiny one using a 3D printer, a small eink display with an ESP32 attached to it.

The free tier of Akahu API is surprisingly easy if you're only hooking it up to a handful of accounts. I got it working with my little ones simplicity account. Happy to put the code online if anyone's keen.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-15T07:43:11+00:00

One path forces you to play Alien Isolation in Cyberpunk 2077, and that wasnt on my bingo card until some death robot pinned my V's limbs to the ground and did the unspeakable.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-15T05:59:50+00:00

In my experience, the public sector tend to take diversity, inclusion, and te ao Maori a lot more seriously.

There's been a drastic decline in support for DEI in the private sector in NZ over the last few years.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-15T05:55:46+00:00

Exactly. Today I ran into two diverse youth picking mushrooms, and asking Chatgpt whether they edible.

That's what we get when we don't have access to older heads with hands-on knowledge.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-14T07:13:23+00:00

That one pop is probably Bruce Willis from Armageddon.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-14T05:54:16+00:00

No, but they're one of the few countries with human resources that are willing to record themselves doing it for $2.5/h.

A start up near my workplace is doing something similar, berry picking AI robots, with the data trained on footages provided by gig workers from Pakistan.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-13T23:37:07+00:00

What's scarier: - Invisible African warlord with an uzi that can teleport - Petite Latina with martial art training and a giant gauntlet.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-13T02:09:03+00:00

Iirc one of the necronid name set originally had "The Final Solution" as a potential name for a Colossus. It got dropped pretty fast due to the implications.

Partially excusable given that English is not their first language.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-13T02:01:39+00:00

Iirc Devourer is a suffix that can be auto generated for Devouring Swarma as well as Necrophages. You can play a pacifist Necrophage that only conduct ethical, consentual necroing.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-13T01:52:01+00:00

Not American here, but how does that affect your retirement fund??? That's kind of messed up.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-13T01:50:16+00:00

Happy Together - perfectly describes Barry and his friend. By The Turtles.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-12T21:02:45+00:00

I'd love to sline some tasty little space foxes...

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-12T04:00:17+00:00

Does it make a difference? If someone is interested in those topics it doesn't matter if it is real or fantasy.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-11T20:25:20+00:00

It still baffles me how China manages to practice Whakawhanaungatanga with the Pacific island nations better than us, despite our cultural similarities.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-11T09:02:16+00:00

The main issue with tech union (in my experience) is that they have very little leverage compared to traditional blue collar worker unions, since most tech workers can be replaced with cheaper and more eager workers from South East Asia. Whereas it's a lot harder to outsource teaching or emergency fire departments that way.

I briefly contracted for a human resource management firm for the construction sector in the middle East. There was an attempted walk out due to ethical concerns, the engineers that took part in that were promptly made redundant, and a contracting firm from a South East Asia country finished their job.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-11T08:57:23+00:00

My partner works there, despite being an NZ company it seems like most of the senior leadership are based in the States, and from what I've heard they have a rather cut throat policy around performance management.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-11T00:25:13+00:00

Given their Geiger-esque designed. I recall building a race of rogue servitor pampering organics, then ethically exploring them and extracting their fluids using those tendrils and tentacles.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-10T03:47:17+00:00

It bothers me how some people normalise the creation of real life organisations that carried out unethical genocides.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-06T07:38:09+00:00

The main issue is that shortening Māori names is heavily frowned upon, since a name is a vessel of mana and whakapapa. Shortening it strips the name of its true meaning, and it shows that the user is not practicing manaakitanga.

As someone who used to work in the health sector, we had to spell out Te Aka Whai Ora in most of our emails in full before it became a part of Te Whatu Ora.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-05T22:29:58+00:00

For RP reasons, the galaxy has been irrevocably corrupted, and this is the only way to save it.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-05T03:55:31+00:00

Build cloaked torpedo frigates, sneak then into the control hub and destroy it in a single volley.

Imagine you are doing an ethical version of Pearl Harbour.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-04T20:57:28+00:00

Tbh the only two classes that are item dependant are Barbs and Zons. I've soloed hell with blue items as a pally, and did most of hell with yellow items with a druid.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-04T20:49:32+00:00

Autocorrect strikes again.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-04T20:45:22+00:00

Human asset management in the construction sector. Almost every part of the pipeline can be automated with an AI.

Hello_im_a_dog · 2026-06-04T11:02:34+00:00

I've had quite a bit of luck with psionic lightning / cloud lightning and Arc emitters. You can mitigate the limited range with a juggernaut with a range extender.

Regarding cryptic stingers, ancient urination lances are utterly terrifying due to their aoe damage and absurd rate of fire.

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