Hacker News: dkuntz2

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:59:24 +0000

i give a lot of software dedicated user accounts, it's literally one of the core security models of the operating system

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:06:55 +0000

sound doesn't really tell you about quality issues, quality issue are more does it have any fret ends that cut into your fingers as you move up and down the neck, are any of the frets too high and causing buzzing, does it maintain its pitch or do you frequently need to re-tune it, is it well setup from the factory, are the strings too high, things like that.

Making two guitars sound similar, especially if the goal was that these guitars should sound similar, isn't all that hard. But also just because they're both the same style of guitar, doesn't mean the goal was for them to sound the same. Even just looking at Fender's line up, different strats have different pickups which are designed to sound different

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:51:48 +0000

Everything Fender's CEO said in that meeting was a lie to appease retailers

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:47:38 +0000

That's why they aren't trying this in the US (yet), where the bodies were explicitly declared public domain. They're trying to turn a default judgement into something bigger in the EU.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:44:44 +0000

Leo Fender patented the Strat design, the body became public domain when the patent expired in I think 1965. More recently a US court ruled that only the headstock design of a guitar remains intellectual property, because there's really only so many ways to design the body of a guitar

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:39:28 +0000

The real change is that the private equity owners also recently bought reverb.com, and must've seen the numbers showing that people aren't buying as many new fenders as they are other brands, and because the only thing they know how to do is extract money from people by destroying rather than creating, they went down this super obvious PE playbook

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:39:50 +0000

"progressive"

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:50:06 +0000

100% issue a chargeback

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:27:20 +0000

whoever keeps posting this dweeb needs to stop he's never had a correct or novel thought in his life.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:43:22 +0000

it's only like everybody who isn't a rube who always falls for "think of the children" has been saying this since all these new proposals and laws started coming back

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end"

dkuntz2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:38:14 +0000

eric schmidt hasn't written code in several decades, i'm not sure why anyone should give anything he has to say on the topic any amount of weight

New comment by dkuntz2 in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:43:27 +0000

it will literally never do that.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:34:51 +0000

This is why the materials from Fender keep trying to emphasize that the strat shape was an explicitly creative decision and not a functional one, because if it's primarily a functional design, they've got nothing (see how there's only so many ways to design a shovel, you can't sue someone for copying your shovel design)

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:32:13 +0000

suing US manufacturers who sell in the EU, because they can't sue someone for selling a strat shaped guitar in the US, the shape was declared public domain in the US twenty years ago

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:29:32 +0000

it's yet to be proven that they are right, the only thing they won in the german court is a default ruling because they picked a defendant who they knew wasn't going to show up so they could get a default ruling. The actual merits of the case have yet to be tried.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:26:45 +0000

well, in the US, those shapes were ruled public domain.

in Germany, Fender recently won a default ruling because a chinese counterfeiter didn't even show up in court, and they're now using that to go after anyone selling in the EU, even though that's not really what that case win means. But private equity is going to private equity.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:47:42 +0000

plex continues to prove their own irrelevancy

New comment by dkuntz2 in "The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:56:06 +0000

I don't think they banned it, they just reiterated their existing rules that only real humans can receive awards.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

dkuntz2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:45:20 +0000

This guy didn't even look at what Apple sells before writing this. The normal ipad comes in fun colors, and while it doesn't cost $200 (that seems like an unattainable price point), it starts at $350.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:57:42 +0000

that's because a ton of them are just off the shelf fonts they had someone make minor changes to