[HN Gopher] Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal pri...
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Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received
Author : busymom0
Score : 126 points
Date : 2025-11-03 18:27 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (guestbook.goodenough.us)
(TXT) w3m dump (guestbook.goodenough.us)
| stronglikedan wrote:
| I wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.
| jacquesm wrote:
| 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:
| You really can trash a thermal printer by printing too much
| black... I did it!
| busymom0 wrote:
| Btw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should
| see your artwork coming up:
|
| https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks
| jansan wrote:
| Looks like a paper jam
| gnabgib wrote:
| Related _We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you
| can send us a doodle_ (115 points, 2023, 108 comments)
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234
| lazystar wrote:
| 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:
| 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:
|
| https://youtu.be/xTbBaQMbpBc
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Are they filtered? My opinion of the average internet user,
| assumes this would be flooded by trolls immediately.
| busymom0 wrote:
| 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:
| The current live feed image, of an F-word political
| statement directed against 5 different named parties,
| shows impressive penmanship.
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| And it appears to have jammed with that message
| fluoridation wrote:
| 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:
| 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:
| >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:
| 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).
| ticoombs wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...
|
| Was hugged to death for me.
| NoSalt wrote:
| I wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.
| hatingisok wrote:
| Love this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun
| though. >last update December 10, 2024 It figures.
| ibarrajo wrote:
| 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.
|
| https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce...
| a_t48 wrote:
| I did the same thing, though with `img.src =
| https://my_image/whatever.jpg; img.setAttribute("crossorigin",
| "anonymous");`
| thomascountz wrote:
| Obligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1]
|
| [1]:
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
| VladVladikoff wrote:
| Main reason I'm not doing this myself. But maybe there is some
| miniature printer that isn't BPA paper? I guess inject?
| sgt wrote:
| What about a tiny dot matrix printer? Is that a thing? It
| would be cool to have as part of a retro computing project.
| uncircle wrote:
| I've 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.
| timenotwasted wrote:
| 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.
| imagetic wrote:
| More!
| lloeki wrote:
| 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 ^^)
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