Rob T Firefly

Mike may have been binding before.

To reduce your intake of metals, remove the sardines from the tin before eating them.

But how did Aaron Carter get a jersey with the name O’Neal?

I had no idea who this person was until @zelahdieliekeis@piefed.blahaj.zone’s comment prompted me to look into it. Calling out crap like this is helpful.

You could swap one screw from that case into your current one. It wouldn’t be obvious to anyone else, but you’d know it was there!

This is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges’ face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character’s appearance.

I still keep my actual ancient 5.25" floppy drive from my first 286 DOS box installed in a spare bay in my current PC tower. The drive hasn’t worked in ages, but as a chunk of my first PC is still part of my current one it means that, in a Ship of Theseus sense, I’ve been using the same computer for 30 years.

Enjoy the laptop, Cool!

Immature crap like this makes me very grateful to be a grownup married to a grownup.

I’m self-hosted on my own domain, baby.

There’s an old, low-res, but fun music video compilation of a bunch of these. (Contains some quick flashy strobey cuts.)

I argued with my old bank for ages about this and they continued to insist enabling it on my account was a great idea.

The film Sneakers showed the world why voice ID was a massive security hole and an all-around crappy idea back in 1992, and some idiots are still insisting it’s a good idea in 2025 when it’s only become astronomically easier to beat than Robert Redford and friends demonstrated.

In my case, I’ve been doing radio, podcasting, and other voice work for a long time and as a result there are hundreds and hundreds of hours of my voice freely available out there. People can cut and paste me saying “my voice is my passport, verify me” or anything else they like together in Audacity, no AI needed, and fool any telephone-based audio security computer on the planet with it. And explaining this in-person to the branch manager of my former bank elicited nothing more than the blankest expression I’d seen since the pet goldfish I had as a kid.

What Mark Hamill Joker fan doesn’t have their own Mark Hamill Joker impression? Screw AI, just do the voice like we’ve all been doing for 30+ years.

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Only your own lips.

Though this thing is a hilarious idea, obligatory reminder that 3D-printed plastic is not food-safe and you shouldn’t ever be using it for things that go in or near your mouth.

The printed plastic itself is not good for you, the surfaces are very porous bacteria farms which are impossible to clean thoroughly. The plastic filament, which is still pretty notoriously unregulated in terms of chemical composition, picks up traces of various other plastics, metals, lubricants, and grime from the 3D printer’s filament path, extruder, and nozzle which end up in the printed product. This particular Shrek pooper would be forever leaching microplastics and worse into your toothpaste, and I hope the photographer just set it up for the pic and wasn’t actually using it as pictured.

This gag also appeared in a 1990s In Living Color sketch about a juicer infomercial.

I want to know what name came in second.

Lichen takes a likin’ to those minerals.

I am not sure the kind of people who think using the thieving bullshit slop machine is a fine thing to do to can be trusted to have appropriate ideas about rudeness and etiquette.