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New comment by dkuntz2 in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:28:33 +0000

it seems like he likely can't just fire all the board members, as some seats may be contractually required to be held by his investors, as part of funding agreements

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:28:24 +0000

it doesn't seem like they want apple's ai secrets, they want apple's electrical engineering secrets for building physical devices

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:22:47 +0000

at a previous job something we impressed on to people was you should not use work laptops for personal business, not because we want to go trawling through your personal stuff, but because if your work laptop becomes discovery material for legal proceedings, do you really want that lawyers you don't know digging through your personal email?

(relatedly, we told people not to sign into work stuff on personal computers because then they might have to turn over those computers for discovery)

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:16:23 +0000

especially in the tech industry, where you get paid more than enough to buy your own personal laptop

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:52:33 +0000

it also seems highly unlikely that dhh would even reach out to asahi to ask

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:24:05 +0000

no they shouldn't, if openai cannot survive on its own, it should die.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:22:07 +0000

i'm not sure you can call the ethos of "f8 and be there" cheating when it's how every major street photographer operated

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Every Company Needs a Cassandra"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:41:22 +0000

the author made the assumption that these speaking machines are actually thinking machines with any sort of interiority and capability for novel thought, something these explicitly are not and cannot do.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Don't Build Mindreading"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:54:17 +0000

it's called less wrong because they're still always wrong

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:11:34 +0000

the why is quite easy, because we are not worthy of having a say in our own governance according to them, so that they may better exploit us

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Ah, the Codeberg Drama"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:08:59 +0000

> this proves that Codeberg may in the future ban any project

as is their right, they're providing this service to you free of charge, if they don't like how you're using their service they are free to remove it.

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.