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Don't know if this is a real thing or a gag, but if the latter, I give you a 10/10 for humor and sarcasm. If the former, my complaint is that on the sysinfo pag
by jayliew 9y ago
Don't know if this is a real thing or a gag, but if the latter, I give you a 10/10 for humor and sarcasm. If the former, my complaint is that on the sysinfo page, I can't see pertinent info (i.e. the product dimensions) from my text-based browser, lynx.
Update: I am able to reproduce the issue on w3m as well. Please fix your web site to be more command-line friendly.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThe FAQ specifically addresses this and states that it's a real thing that you can buy and have delivered. It is likely a great gag gift. That being said, the cringe-worthy use of female model photos on every single page certainly help make this page kinda hilarious.
- bonestamp2 9y agoYa, these things have been around for a couple years now and the website sucks but I could see some IT people buying them.
- jayliew 9y agoIt's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolution ASCII-art, the models can be made to look more gender neutral, IMHO.
- lathiat 9y agoI feel like I've seen more gender-obvious ascii art than other kinds of ascii art
- jayliew 9y agoUpon further thought, I propose a new HTTP header sent from browsers to the web servers: 1) the gender the end-user identifies with, or lack thereof 2) the end-user's sexual partner preference, or lack thereof With this HTTP header info, the web server can then display the most politically correct ASCII image, plus the most optimal sales conversion rate for this product #win-win
- dddddaviddddd 9y agoTime to make a IETF RFC
- drdaeman 9y agoHeaders? Protocols? Today we create JavaScript DOM APIs for this kind of stuff. A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences... WebPreferences sounds about right. /s
- majewsky 9y ago> A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences I thought that one was called Facebook.
- epx 9y agoPrefix all these headers with swj_ or sjw- :)
- GunlogAlm 9y agoGood idea, so they can safely be ignored.
- epx 9y agoI thought something along the lines of an extension that pops up "don't buy anything from these !@#$*("
- btym 9y agoI propose a new internet metric, to complement TTD: TTAS (time-to-anti-SJW). It will be a count of how many messages/replies it takes for someone to bring out the term "SJW" (this could be expanded on, for example, a "strawman" scaling factor inversely proportional to how related the original topic is to feminism or civil rights).
- jasonmp85 9y agoI hate this website so much. EDIT: To be clear, I'm talking about all these comments on HN thinking they're hilarious by making fun of "political correctness" or "SJWs" or whatever the vogue thing for self-styled obnoxious individuals to make fun of is. The keypad website is amusing.
- trumpownsyou420 9y agoLOL so good.
- Spivak 9y agoIt would have been funny if they were the designers. Their Twitter page does the same thing for some reason. Edit: of the product, not the web page.
- jayliew 9y agoThere's a school of thought that the best design is when you don't notice it. Maybe a professional designer did this, intentionally. It's generating word of mouth, alright.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoGiven that there's exactly two individuals in said photos, in multiple poses, holding the object in question, they probably aren't stock photos at least. I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product. I don't know if I believe a "designer" touched this page. Most designers would cringe at this page. (I like it, for what it's worth, it is excellent at communicating the product and the intent with which you should understand the product.) I suspect they are either the people who developed the product, employees of people who developed the product, or friends of the people who developed the product.
- imglorp 9y agoAnd you'll remember it and talk about it. Screw design, the mission was accomplished!
- jasonmp85 9y ago> I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product. Wait how much do you think it costs to hire some models for a half-day shoot? They could easily be friends, yes, but it's not inconceivable that someone forked over a little dough to do an amusing photo shoot.
- RodgerTheGreat 9y ago...or they're stock photos of a person holding a generic small object which has been replaced with the product via image-editing software.
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- chaz6 9y agoIt is real, I have one!
- vollmond 9y agoDo you know if it has Cherry stems?
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoI don't have one, but on the FAQ page it states it's rated for 8 million keypresses, and Cherry MX switches are rated for far more - typically 20-50 million. 8 million is a typical number for conventional rubber dome keypads, and would be low for mechanicals. That doesn't exclude the possibility that the stems are compatible with Cherry keycaps, but I would be surprised and impressed if they were.
- hollander 9y agoObviously we can't take 8 million seriously with all those IPv6 addresses out there.
- somethingis 9y agoHere is a teardown of the IPv6 Buddy if you're interested... https://www.flickr.com/photos/70359193@N05/sets/72157629369635411/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/70359193@N05/sets/721576293696...
- vollmond 9y agoPerfect, thanks! Not Cherry stems. Too bad.
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- sigzero 9y ago"Please fix your web site to be more command-line friendly." I can't tell if this is a real thing or a gag.