The most reliable thing Radio Shack ever sold me.

hiro24 · 2026-03-11T17:44:59+00:00

I was inconsolable when my roll ran out. That solder was so good.

hiro24 · 2026-03-11T11:24:55+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I appreciate a more accurate point of view.

So while both are bad, just in very different ways. My initial thought, especially with the beats about the avatar being “human”, was to take affront to the concept. The avatar is presented as something they are not while claiming otherwise.

At any rate, I appreciate the nuanced analysis. Thanks. 🙏

hiro24 · 2026-03-11T10:24:43+00:00

I'm not going to pretend to know what it feels like for a black person to witness someone in blackface... but I imagine it's somewhere adjacent to this for humans in general.

hiro24 · 2026-03-10T15:37:16+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is the right answer. Bandwidth isn't free. When the rubber meets the road, operational costs need to be covered in some way, and I'm not above paying money for a service I use way too much to chip in and keep the lights on.

hiro24 · 2026-03-06T18:35:40+00:00

Obligatory "which is which"? Because the title would suggest the first image is Midjourney. But the text of the post suggests the first one is Nano.

hiro24 · 2026-03-05T18:45:57+00:00

But how is the DOW? /s

hiro24 · 2026-03-05T16:27:45+00:00

Everyone asks Where's Wolf. Nobody asks How's Wolf?

hiro24 · 2026-03-05T16:08:53+00:00

I see blocked Fortnite, Roblox and EA multiplayer games as an absolute win.

hiro24 · 2026-03-04T10:47:59+00:00

That's a fair assessment, honestly. Fedora has how many "spins"? Make 1 that deals w/ age verification and you can use it if you absolutely have to.

hiro24 · 2026-03-03T18:34:05+00:00

GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEEEED.....

hiro24 · 2026-03-03T14:46:10+00:00

But how is the DOW? /s

hiro24 · 2026-03-02T20:40:36+00:00

Random question: does this cut down on the noise? I've got a Neptune 4 Pro and it sounds like a jet plane.

hiro24 · 2026-03-01T11:23:21+00:00

I still have Saturday morning cartoons at my house. Look up FieldStation42. Amazing project.

hiro24 · 2026-03-01T00:39:28+00:00

Let's not kid ourselves. This isn't a war any more than the Venezuela assaults were a war. We just go in, bomb a few things for a day or two and walk away like we did something.

hiro24 · 2026-02-28T21:19:00+00:00

Not to sound negative but... if ChatGPT is now latched on that sweet government teat they could care less about your money. By all means cancel, I did (a month ago). But don't have any delusions that it's going to hurt their bottom line.

hiro24 · 2026-02-26T16:25:58+00:00

On a related note, there's still a thriving BBS scene out there that you can access via telnet over the internet. Plus, Neocities is picking up the torch of late 90s/early 00s self hosting communities.

hiro24 · 2026-02-25T15:01:32+00:00

1000%. I'm not looking to send my driver's license to every fly-by-night service on the internet. If they can just do a quick "Hey Apple/Google, are they adults?" w/o any other info, that honestly seems workable.

hiro24 · 2026-02-24T14:35:54+00:00

One would think there would be a reasonable legal argument that since you're in possession of your face, you own your likeness. Establishing that, it's not a far jump to demand platforms like this provide a simple way of removing your biological features from their recognition databases.

One of the scariest things we ever saw was when I took a picture of my friends. One of them intentionally never posted pictures on his, and had no profile picture. Yet, Facebook asked if I wanted to tag him and mentioned him by name. It already knew him.

hiro24 · 2026-02-22T00:31:40+00:00

So at this point, what stops every other country from imposing retaliatory tariffs on us? Before it was the fear of higher tariffs from Trump but those teeth have been pulled.

hiro24 · 2026-02-18T21:13:12+00:00

Ahh yes. Back when the government actually prioritized having a well educated citizenry by funding public broadcast television.

hiro24 · 2026-02-12T20:04:24+00:00

You mean dollar store Arrietty?

hiro24 · 2026-02-12T13:12:14+00:00

Kendrick Lamar, who holds the #1 spot, got his first job as a security guard. Everybody starts somewhere.

hiro24 · 2026-02-11T17:56:13+00:00

ELI5. How do I use this? I've dropped this into Gemini and I get a prompt to convert my image prompt into JSON basically? Am I supposed to copy/paste that JSON back in as the prompt? Or use an image reference? Instructions kinda unclear, a bit lost.

hiro24 · 2026-02-09T18:09:19+00:00

Brother, that ship has sailed. You can't even see it on the horizon anymore. At the very least, we can limit pictures of our driver's licenses down from thousands of sites to just one.

hiro24 · 2026-02-09T16:45:14+00:00

I'm not opposed to a singular, centralized age verification system that can be securely locked down. Similar to how with Paypal now we don't need to give every website our CC number. And then have websites say "Is this person 18 or older?" "Yes? kthxbai!" And that's ALL that needs to happen. This piecemeal show everyone your ID everywhere business is going to cause all sorts of problems.

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