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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

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

dkuntz2 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:43:30 +0000

Wrong.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:43:00 +0000

it remains quite telling that in the wake of world war 2, when the us military designed the postwar japanese government, they based it on the westminster strong parliament system and explicitly avoided the us strong president.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:54:04 +0000

from the actual words said by the president???

New comment by dkuntz2 in "America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:52:26 +0000

That's somewhat ahistorical, the 17th amendment happened because state legislatures were frequently deadlocked and could not appoint senators, meaning states went without senate representation entirely.

In a fifteen year period 46 senate elections were deadlocked in 20 states, at one point Delaware had an open senate seat for four years due to this.

That said the proper reform to this would've been the abolition of the senate, as it has always been and will always be an anti-democratic force, not moving for senators to be elected by the people.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:11:44 +0000

well, it's illegal to use jammers, so.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Don't discount American democracy's resilience"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:16:26 +0000

Don't discount how dumb nate silver is.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Clinic-in-the-loop"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:38:44 +0000

this website needs to be autoflagged it's always junk science

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete"

dkuntz2 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:13:09 +0000

lol, lmao, author clearly does not understand what a tech writer (or any writer) actually does and how they're important.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Gmail is entering the Gemini Era"

dkuntz2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:21:31 +0000

wish they wouldn't

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Ask HN: How are most people converting HEIC to jpg?"

dkuntz2 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:15:17 +0000

I would assume not because you can do the same thing using a CLI apple installs on all macs, sips

    sips -s format jpeg in.heic --out out.jpeg

also, a heic is just a container around an h265 image frame

New comment by dkuntz2 in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

dkuntz2 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:31:22 +0000

the language in this is entirely smarmy ai boosterisms, all the anti ai arguments it uses are things no real person has ever said and no real person ever would.

New comment by dkuntz2 in "The Zizians' deadly fusion of transgender ideology, rationalism and veganism"

dkuntz2 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:42:23 +0000

love the immediate transphobia, really tells me exactly what you're all about