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Cake day: February 16th, 2026

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  • Yeah, was pretty sure it was something like that…

    I used AI to make a Home Alone themed digital Christmas card last year. It was completely PG. But it was a nightmare to do as I kept tripping over gates on account of Kevin being a child and Home Alone being a copyrighted property.

    I went all the way to the dark end of the AI gen spectrum, to where kiddie porn abdolutely happens, but the product I produced there was unsatisfactory. So I went alI went back to the top players with all the gates and worked around them by reworking my prompts for what seemed like forever.

    1 year earlier I would’ve gotten the results I wanted with my first prompt, maybe tweaking fonts for the words, fixing spelling errors, or making minor visual features. 5min tops.

    It really turned me off from continuing to play with AI.

    Those gates have gotten really nasty.

    It’s as though users are treated as guilty in advance and then denied the opportunity to prove themselves innocent.

    Completely backwards attitude and practice.













  • Girls do this shit too, and it’s not new.

    The general message to ‘be good to each other’ is very old, and has to be told often. The internet provides for a lot of anonymity and seperation from consequence, so allows for people to say shitty things without the moderation that’s more common in public and personal spaces.

    It’s not surprising at all that there is tons of men or women online talking shit about each other. What is surprising is that the platforms it happens on don’t just delete that crap as a rule. Many will let it fester and negatively effect the community because people interact with it, and interaction means ad hits.

    We need laws that make monetizing such content illegal, to encourage it’s quick removal.

    Just bitching about having to see it isn’t good enough.





  • Faraday bags work… But test them.

    I got a cheapo $7 Chromebook sized bag that seemed to work for my SOs iphone. We don’t use NFC so I couldn’t test that.

    No BT, WiFi, or Cell, and probably no GPS.

    I only did casual testing.

    The screen still showed the signal having low bars for WiFi and cellular, but it didn’t actually receive a signal at all when trying to call or use the net, not even with the top of the bag open a sliver and my hand in there.

    If the device was off or in airplane mode and in the bag, I’d be comfortable assuming it was safely hidden from tracking.

    I haven’t thoroughly tested my various personal devices, but I expect identical results.

    I think everyone should probably have a bag like this around, in a go-bag or something, just in case. And it’s safer to have your phone available than not, as long as it’s secure (use a pin or password to lock it, use encryption, put emergency info on it for first responders).