Used that as an input first, plus a pic of real Kuma second:

Here's the 100% AI image I ended up w/as my starting point:

"Adorable anime robot dog wearing battle armor, proudly standing in an action pose, line art, dynamic pose, hyper details"

Ha, no, that's news to me!

Midjourney.

Wen warrior Milou?!!

Took some iterations. I couldn't get it to work when I just gave it a picture of Kuma. So I asked for just brand new, complete fabrications like "anime robot dog" that started from nothing. Found a few I liked. Then used one of those renderings plus my pic of Kuma in the same prompt. That got me closer.

Then did that again with that result plus the original Kuma pic. Basically I had to really bias the AI to keep her features so she's basically 1.5 of the input images. The "final" prompt then was:

Adorable female anime robot dog wearing battle armor, in a dynamic action pose, dark golden eyes ::1

Sunset in a futuristic city ::1

Thick acrylic illustration on pixiv, hyper details, fine lines ::1

Best likeness of her so far!

(meanwhile real nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 is wondering when in the hell we're going to get our walk started!)

My dog as a badass, not-quite-anime robot warrior, of course!

Even when I don't get what I was aiming for, I still completely love it.

I'm trying to get nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 ready for battle but I can't get Midjourney to get her OFF THE F'N COUCH!!!

(kinda similar to real life, tbh)

Intricate paper quilling, bitcoin logo, orange with complementary colors, white background

Midjourney is neato.

nostr:npub1kumadawgefxjt2c293whsan5sfmdg5tylm0uk39enc6uxxfy5m4scrz2v7 has entered the Midjourney world.

It should be noted that this kind of risk falls under the "Double evil maid attack" category since she'd have to sneak in, swap in an evil SD card, wait for me to use it, then sneak back in and retrieve the Raspi that now has a secret written into its persistent hardware registers.

Of the remaining threats we have, I'd rank this probably at the bottom of my personal priority/concern list.

Oh, that's really interesting!

It's a one-time write register so if we explicitly wrote garbage, all zeroes, etc, that would preclude it being used for nefarious purposes later.

What I found more intriguing is the possibility to write an RSA public key -- like, say, the nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl public key. Not sure yet what that might enable... still can't trust anything running from the SD card...

*Conversation piece, yes. The design is gorgeous.

But not a good teaching resource to learn about actual mining. If you can't see your hashrate on your mining dashboard, you're flying blind and won't gain any intuitive sense for how the difficulty adjustments and overall hashrate affect your ROI calcs.

Plus, why bother even do ROI calcs when it's guaranteed to be orders of magnitude negative!

I still can't ever get note references right. Let's try:

naked:

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My ridiculous post about NerdMiner just got 183 sats in zaps.

That is more than the NerdMiner itself could ever hope to earn in its entire lifetime.

NerdMiners look beautiful and they're neat nerd toys and a conversation piece (actually DID get the normie sitting at the bar next to me to start asking questions!). But they are essentially useless for actual mining.

Just buy a f'n S9 for $100 if you want to learn about mining. 4x the price, 675,000,000x the hashing power.

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