deskthority

Look, I'm sorry that evaluation offends you. Really I am. I'm not trying to beat up on anybody. But here's what I see from the outside: Soarer pulled inexcusably careless, risky shit and nobody called him on it. Nobody said "Hey, we could be in legal trouble using those blobs without a license". No...

Just imagine being that egotistical, jfc.

DT people have what by my standards is a very weird culture. Anonymous developers? Shipping hex blobs with no licenses? That's... bizarre. In the hacker culture I come from, we assume that disclosed source code is the only thing that can be trusted, and people will stand behind their work with thei...

No, Soarer doesn't get off the hook for bad practice because it was a beta. Correct action is to attach a grant of rights to your first commit , so people looking at the code won't instantly be in a legally compromised position. If this place weren't a weird little tidepool disconnected from hacker...

Easy_Spinach wrote: ↑

28 May 2021, 18:26

@zrrion what is non binary for "bro"?

"Fam"

British grime slang is actually very progressive.

esr wrote: ↑

27 May 2021, 21:35

I'm certainly not going to pull my friends into this thread to be abused.

Excellent.

jmaynard wrote: ↑

27 May 2021, 21:02

I would love for shallot to prove me wrong and produce something good and usable and open source straight out of the box.

But I'm not going to rely on Real Soon Now(tm).

I literally have a couple of prototypes on my desk, so, prepare to be pleasantly surprised.

I use "his" in the classic English sense when an non-sex-specific third person pronoun is called for. Point of order here, but using him in that situation is improper English. The correct gender neutral third person pronoun is "they." Whoever told you him was gender neutral was mistaken. Singular "...

I think the answer to this whole debacle is quite obvious... If someone wants to continue expanding on soarers work decompile it and throw it on github. If soarer wants to suddenly come back from the grave to dispute his work being expanded upon then so be it and then we will also possibly know why...

It's cool tho, posting personal details is fine.

https://i.imgur.com/dbwW6bl.jpg What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you proprietary slave? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at Harvard, and I’ve been involved in numerous free software projects, and I have contributed to over 300 core-utils for GNU. I am skilled in Lisp a...

I'd try reflowing the solder first, and if that doesn't work, desolder the switches, remove the switchplates and bathe them in isopropyl alcohol in a jar. Let them soak and shake the jar a bit periodically. Dry them out, put them back together and multimeter the switches before soldering them back o...

Have you considered just doing some programming tho? seems easier. Yes, it would be that. I maintain, at last count, somewhere over 50 open-source projects. I'm never short of work to do. But it also true that lots of people can sling code. Far fewer also know IP law, have a nodding acquaintance wi...

Thanks for sharing, as it happens I obtained a board with these switches (the MX mount version) just yesterday. Would you happen to know if it is also possible to remove the top housings of the switches without desoldering like you can with alps switches? My board happens to have two switches with ...

Have you considered just doing some programming tho? seems easier.

Do I think that copyright troll is going to actually materialize? No, I do not - Rayndalf is probably not wrong about that. But I was asked to attack this problem and I am doing it the best way I know how, armoring us against the worst case. I've been here before. I've done this sort of paralegal t...

FWIW, I have a shallot prototype, it's good and I have no doubts about her endeavour.

Wodan wrote: ↑

08 Apr 2021, 11:11

mode1ace wrote: ↑

08 Apr 2021, 11:09

My current favourites:

precisely not what this thread is about.

current, past and I expect future.

I have plenty of other boards I like, those are the ones I go back to.

My current favourites:

an ISO SGI granite I rebuilt with ambers alps
an apple M0118 with orange alps
a custom using the aliexpress tkl case, blue alps and DCS yuri.

I don’t often use other boards for longer than a few days, those three I could each use forever without complaints.

PMed

it doesn’t bother me at all. I thought it would, but I’ve used some alps doubleshots for a couple of days that don’t have bumps. it just made zero difference.

I’ve finally got a no compromise good result with nexus sliders. MT3 works night and day better with them than SA, I just swapped SA Dasher for MT3 Dasher and it’s wonderful. it had some binding with SA, that’s completely solved. The board uses SKCM orange with modified original housings. A8051E6D-8...

I have some much later pine blacks from a new logo dell AT102, and the slider is most definitely unlubed, I can take some pics later if you'd like?

I'd go for salmon alps, a decent salmon alps board can be had for under a hundred bucks, and they're much much nicer than bamboo black alps.

Either an M0116/M0118 or AEK1.

Kensington locks won't discourage a determined thief, if anything it'll make people wonder how much your keyboard is worth and the moment a malicious person has looked up an F122 on ebay, you've put yourself at more risk. Kensington locks are only really useful for opportunist thieves, to stop peopl...

Yeah, bamboo alps are a little stiffer generally than buckling spring. Pine white alps are marginally lighter, there's not much in it though. It was just odd to me. I have used black alps extensively in the past without an issue. The weighting feels quite similar after I dug out my AT101 to compare...

Yeah, bamboo alps are a little stiffer generally than buckling spring. Pine white alps are marginally lighter, there's not much in it though.

Probably alps clones or even SKBM given it's a rebranded later model datacomp DFK191 Were it winkeyless it might have SKCM white.

wiki/Datacomp_DFK191

zzxx53 wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 03:39

F122
2 hours into the bidding and we're already at over $300; wondering how high this one will go.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114451160363?_ ... fresh=true

I really hate that the pictures were taken where they were, surely that stone will scratch it up?

pbt does not doubleshot well, you usually only see pbt doubleshots with shine through lettering.

if you want opaque doubleshots you’ll need abs, or just accept dyesubs.