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   by bogwog 2y ago

   I actually bought their full-size HE keyboard (the Wooting Two HE) recently. It was out of stock on their website, but I was able to find a reseller that had them available pretty easily, and their price was only like $5 higher than on Woot
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   I recently decided to upgrade my 10+ year old Corsair mechanical keyboard, and learned about these fancy magnetic ones. I ended up getting a Wooting Two HE and I love it. It definitely feels like a generational leap and I doubt I'll go
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   This is a bad/uninformed take. The OP is about one particular anti-trust trial that ended already (with Google losing), and is in the remedies phase. The DOJ and FTC have been suing a lot of other companies over anti-trust, including t
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   > Who would buy it If the decision drags on into the new administration, then the answer is probably Elon Musk.
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   > What is there to sell exactly? The user base
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   All open source software gets endless amounts of vitriol and hate from people who are used to their particular commercial tool and aren't willing to learn a new way to work. Blender is probably the prime example of this. I think this i
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   Possibly even training the model that will go into the police automaton that will kill you some day.
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   > Having no way to look away is visual prison to me. This makes the advertisers happy.
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   by bogwog 2y ago

   When you profile your code and find that all you gotta do is change a few if statements for a 2x perf boost, that will be a happy day.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    > Also, use type checking everywhere I can't think of anything more Pythonic than that!
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    They're creative tools. The "better" one is the one that the artist is most comfortable with. I've seen working professional artists who still rely on ancient abandoned software from dead companies.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    I started when I was around 10, and made my first "game engine" in C++ at around 12 or 13. If anything, doing this type of thing when you're that young is easier (unlimited free time, and young brains probably learn things mo
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    > For some reason people cheer rights violations and authoritarianism as long as it's aimed at their "rivals" Are you talking about the time when Twitter censored the laptop story[1], or about the time when X censored the
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    Most families don't have a strong union that can negotiate a decent wage.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    I guess it's because the software engineer union members are the ones who run that part
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    Imagine where we'd (not) be if that happened. Acquisitions/consolidation kill innovation.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    > While the population of Linux users is small, their impact infected a fair amount of players’ games. So Linux users are malware?
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    Is any of the AI generated code being committed to Google's open source repos, or is it only being used for private/internal stuff?
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    You had me with the linter, but you lost me with the package manager. Yet another package manager is not what Python needs.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    This post mentions "Voice AI" ten times, but doesn't once explain what that's referring to. A quick web search leads me to https://voice.ai as the first result. Is that what you're talking about? I wonde
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    Another open source marketing automation product is Mautic: https://www.mautic.org/ Not sure how they compare though
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    You mean that now you can choose who to give your data to for free. Everyone is spying on you.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    If Amazon were competing to win customers, they might do something like this to increase trust in the quality of the products on their store. Of course, that's not Amazon. The only significant threats to Amazon today are anti-trust reg
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    I wonder what would happen if Amazon introduced a boycott feature. It could be a list of active boycotts next to the buy button on a product page. Customers can choose to join one of the boycotts instead of clicking the buy button, and then
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    > I always like to use the lightweight and less resource intensive software, but arguably not using hardware acceleration is actually very resource hungry. What hardware are you using where KDE is considered "resource intensive&quot
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    Mozilla has been trying to become an ad company for a while now. A built-in ad blocker would mess that up for them.
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    I don't think it reflects well on the founders. The explanation about the license is either a lazy lie, or it shows they're incompetent. > Our intention was to use the Apache 2.0 license like Continue does. So why didn't t
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    How so?
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    It keeps the lawyers employed
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    by bogwog 2y ago

    I remember there was some like viral marketing thing some company did a while back where they had a website where they had a webcam pointed at a printer, and anything printed would go on a conveyer belt and fall into a literal dumpster fire