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  • NAME: -54N550U51-
    by sans_souse
  • Obligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1]

    [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

    by thomascountz
  • It's trivially easy to get BPA-free thermal paper now.
    by lazyatom
  • Main reason I’m not doing this myself. But maybe there is some miniature printer that isn’t BPA paper? I guess inject?
    by VladVladikoff
  • I wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.
    by NoSalt
  • MiiVerse used to have a similar feature where people could post drawings and messages (and game screenshots) that would (potentially) show up in your Mii plaza.
    by musicale
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...

    Was hugged to death for me.

    by ticoombs
  • 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 ^^)

    by lloeki
  • 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...

    by ibarrajo
  • I did the same thing, though with `img.src = https://my_image/whatever.jpg; img.setAttribute("crossorigin", "anonymous");`
    by a_t48
  • Love this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun though. >last update December 10, 2024 It figures.
    by hatingisok
  • Btw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should see your artwork coming up:

    https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks

    by busymom0
  • Looks like a paper jam
    by jansan
  • 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.
    by timenotwasted
  • 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
    by gnabgib
  • I wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.
    by stronglikedan
  • It used to be a lot worse, but now it's actually really low (I get to see all the pictures drawn, even if they don't go up into the final gallery).
    by lazyatom
  • 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.

    by jacquesm