• Outlander (2008)
• The 13th Warrior (1999)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Waterworld (1995)
• Escape from New York (1981)

These and a few other similar ‘epic’ movies were my go to lullaby movies for decades.

I’d put them on late and fall asleep to them, but I’d also watch them through sometimes too. And I still throw them on sometimes, just for kicks.

Yoti too.

They hold and verify ID, then mostly just pass an OK to the website or service you wanna access. Similar to Paypal playing the middle man when shopping and clicking Pay with Paypal.

They do also have the ability to share other details, but according to their FAQ it’s always with your permission.

Likewise Paypal will share your name address and email, but that’s often necessary while shopping.

Logging in to sites with Google or Facebook has a similar effect, the login prompts often have check boxes that allow you to control the data you share.

The biggest problem of course is that Yoti or other similar services then know what sites you’ve been visiting, and if they don’t respect your privacy and/or keep logs of those sites that information can be hacked or misused by bad actors.

Thus they should only keep age verification use logs extremely temporarily, or anonymize their logs if storing to track general system use patterns, for maintenance and research.

I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.

I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.

Stitching is a hobby?

Hola, they had an issue with bandwidth getting gobbled up, it’s resolved but reliability won’t return untill next week.

Their post about it is hosted on the service you can’t see because it has the issue they are explaining in the post.

However if you search the fediverse for fedinsfw there are posts explaining this elsewhere.

They actually fixed the issue with their service, but the bandwidth alottment was already used up. Connection reliability should return to normal next week.

It’s kinda funny not funny, the post explaining the issue is hosted on the instance you can’t access because it has that issue.

Whatever man.

I change up my writing style pretty much constantly.

And I switch between muliple accounts on several services, each representing a different fictional character.

And I use a VPN.

Can not both be true?

I only pee in other people’s showers.

But if you know the answer, are you not also logically the best person to ask?

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.

Oh, Costco is in the stone ages still in a lot of ways, it’s pretty unsettling sometimes. But also using tried and true methods and waiting decades to adopt modern tech saves a ton of cash… Which doesn’t just benefit the stock holders when you’re a company like Costco.

Go in in person on a weekday before 3pm and sign up at the service desk.

I have upgraded to USB-C headphones…

But, years ago I got a handful of USB-C to 3.5mm adapters as manufacturers were starting to discontinue the 3.5mm jacks by default.

I was of course used to needing a USB adapter for headphones because I had a RAZR v3 for many years, which I also used as an mp3 player. I believe it only had a micro USB port.

I was around 10.

I wonder about the circumstances of their deaths, and the nature of their characters.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they were unliked for some reason and intentionally sacrificed.

Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that our king killed them himself for sport then went to war with Iran just to explain their deaths.

AI@home baby!

I called it many years ago.

Wish I found somebody dumb enough to bet money against it. I’d be, like, dollars richer maybe.

Wasn’t 7 just an visually updated NT.

Wish granted (wiggles nose)

Shouldn’t ‘tell them off’ at all either.

Teach to the problem. Or moderate it.

Allow the person to continue coexisting.

If you want to invite them to reexamine their behavior… Actually do that, not the other more aggressive, offensive, and immature thing… Then play it off as something more.

‘fuck you!’

‘fuck me?’

‘no, no, that’s not what I meant!’

Just say what you actually meant!