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HTML Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received
lloeki wrote 14 hours 34 min ago:
Fun fact: the dates somewhat leak location as they appear to be in
whatever local format the poster happens to have set up.
Also this makes them somewhat unreadable because for some you can't
tell if it's month then day or day then month.
(Not that it matters for this specific case ^^)
imagetic wrote 23 hours 36 min ago:
More!
timenotwasted wrote 23 hours 45 min ago:
I love this kind of stuff, makes me nostalgic for the early days of the
internet. There are still so many fun, interesting things to find out
there. However, in a twist of irony they seem so much more difficult to
discover now.
thomascountz wrote 23 hours 46 min ago:
Obligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1]:
HTML [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&quer...
VladVladikoff wrote 18 hours 9 min ago:
Main reason Iâm not doing this myself. But maybe there is some
miniature printer that isnât BPA paper? I guess inject?
uncircle wrote 12 hours 27 min ago:
Iâve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly
stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals
that are even worse for our health than BPA.
sgt wrote 14 hours 53 min ago:
What about a tiny dot matrix printer? Is that a thing? It would be
cool to have as part of a retro computing project.
ibarrajo wrote 1 day ago:
I just had to try, got a bitmap and set it directly on the canvas using
js, I wonder if it will print.
Canvas is 348x348.
HTML [1]: https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce75...
a_t48 wrote 21 hours 8 min ago:
I did the same thing, though with `img.src =
https://my_image/whatever.jpg; img.setAttribute("crossorigin",
"anonymous");`
hatingisok wrote 1 day ago:
Love this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun though.
>last update December 10, 2024
It figures.
NoSalt wrote 1 day ago:
I wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.
ticoombs wrote 1 day ago:
[1] Was hugged to death for me.
HTML [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook.g...
lazystar wrote 1 day ago:
The site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who
have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The
existing comments in this thread imply the latter.
Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackernews is becoming more
and more like reddit each day.
busymom0 wrote 1 day ago:
I was able to check out the site and it was all SFW. I didn't see any
objectionable stuff there at all.
Btw, their live stream of the printer is still on YouTube where it
shows the content:
HTML [1]: https://youtu.be/xTbBaQMbpBc
0cf8612b2e1e wrote 1 day ago:
Are they filtered? My opinion of the average internet user, assumes
this would be flooded by trolls immediately.
busymom0 wrote 1 day ago:
If you read the 2 year old discussion linked in comments here,
the owner said that the drawings on the actual website are all
manually scanned by hand. So those are probably filtered.
However, the YouTube livestream of the printer is not filtered.
Basically it will print whatever but your drawing may or may not
show up on site.
neilv wrote 1 day ago:
The current live feed image, of an F-word political statement
directed against 5 different named parties, shows impressive
penmanship.
fluoridation wrote 1 day ago:
I wish I could peer into the mind of someone who would send
that and still feel the need to replace the U in "fuck" with
an asterisk. What an odd combination of outspokenness and
modesty.
neilv wrote 1 day ago:
Coincidentally, just a couple hours ago, I used asterisk
for swear word vowels on HN (for "L**tC*de" and
"bl*ckch**n"). Partly as a statement that those are
figuratively swear words to me, but mostly simply to avoid
keyword search hits for people positively searching what I
want to be negative terms.
But if one is going to use an actual swear word (that
they're wielding themself, rather than quoting), why pull
one's punches? IMHO, maximum condemnation is to spell out
all four letters. Unless your intended message is that
something is highly despised, yet could be worse, so you're
keeping the final letter in reserve.
Oh, though, if it were an in-person demonstration sign in
public, the kind that's for an audience of broadcast TV
news cameras, I suppose maybe self-censoring the word might
be more likely to get it on the air? Or at least that
could be the thinking? And someone mimics that in a
different context.
Or it could be someone raised not to use strong words, and
to be apologetic when they do, and so then the apologetic
signalling could mean, "I don't normally use strong words,
but this is so bad that even I felt compelled to do so,
despite my respectable sensibilities".
Or it could be a non-culturally-fluent speaker, who's
learned idioms, and picked up these ones, but hasn't yet
been exposed to some of the finer points and connotations.
fluoridation wrote 1 day ago:
>Oh, though, if it were an in-person demonstration sign
in public, the kind that's for an audience of broadcast
TV news cameras, I suppose maybe self-censoring the word
might be more likely to get it on the air? Or at least
that could be the thinking?
But by doing that it turns it from a demonstration into
much more of a performance. Someone who's actually angry
doesn't say "eff", he says "fuck". I would question how
really angry or frustrated someone is if they still
bother to self-censor while they rant. Think back to
Samuel L. Jackson's censored line in Snakes on a Plane
and try to imagine someone actually saying that. You'd
think "well, okay. He's not that fed up about it if he's
still joking around."
neilv wrote 1 day ago:
I suppose it does come across that way to some of the
audience, but that might be necessary.
When I was learning photojournalism on the side, I shot
a bunch of political demonstrations. A lot of those I
saw were performances solely for media coverage (not
really for, say, the occupants of a building they were
in front of, nor for cars driving by). They would tell
the media when they would be protesting, media would
show up with cameras, media would leave, demonstration
would disperse. For those media-centric ones, I guess
it would be foolish to show a sign that the TV crew
can't easily include in their footage (because it
contains a banned word they'd have to go to work to
edit out while already on a hectic news cycle
schedule).
jagged-chisel wrote 1 day ago:
And it appears to have jammed with that message
gnabgib wrote 1 day ago:
Related We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can
send us a doodle (115 points, 2023, 108 comments)
HTML [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234
busymom0 wrote 1 day ago:
Btw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should see
your artwork coming up:
HTML [1]: https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks
jansan wrote 1 day ago:
Looks like a paper jam
stronglikedan wrote 1 day ago:
I wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.
jacquesm wrote 1 day ago:
Probably quite low because they don't directly pipe it to the
website. Once you do that the assholes will find you.
Now the worst they might do is to try to kill your roll of paper or
your office building by sending all black and hoping the printer
overheats.
PaulHoule wrote 21 hours 57 min ago:
You really can trash a thermal printer by printing too much
black... I did it!
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