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Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by harporoeder on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:14PM (#34193486)
Shameless plug, the organization Louis (and I) work for, FUTO, is hosting a fellowship program sponsoring people to work on open-source software for three months for $20k-$80k and free housing in Austin. Applications are due Jan 1st!

https://futo.org/fellows

Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by unnouinceput on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:27PM (#34193554)
This is not shameless plug, this is very late plug considering Jan 1st is less than 24 hours away. Should've done it faster, never heard of this until now.
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by richbell on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:30PM (#34193575)
So you're saying they should be ashamed... of not promoting it sooner? ;)
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by unnouinceput on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:15AM (#34194382)
exactly
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by jamiek88 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:58AM (#34194545)
Has it occurred to you that perhaps this is just the first time YOU are seeing it and that the person you are being rude to isn’t a complete idiot?
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by readonlybarbie on Friday December 30, 2022 @11:29PM (#34193568)
They've been plugging it elsewhere for quite some time now.
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by neilv on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:41AM (#34193945)
Awesome. I just forwarded this urgently, possibly ruining some people's plans for Saturday. :)
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by nomercy400 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:35AM (#34194712)
Yeah, but then you'd be living in Texas. Where voting don't matter and power goes wild.
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by qzx_pierri on Saturday December 31, 2022 @08:12AM (#34196144)
This is a grifty, reddit-tier comment. Try to keep it classy here on HN please.
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by anarticle on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:35AM (#34194957)
Very cool project! Louis is one of my favorite youtubers.

One catch on the site is no definition of FUTO? I looked all over and couldn't find out what the acronym (?) means. Future Use Tech Org? Fun Under The Orange?

Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by rendall on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:42AM (#34194992)
I'm hoping it's recursive.

FUTO Updates The Organization or something

Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by noisy_boy on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:59AM (#34196062)
FUTO Uproots Tech Oligopoly
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by rendall on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:27AM (#34206105)
Even better
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by hmnd0 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:35AM (#34195228)
According to Rossmann's FAQ[1] it's 'supposedly "four letters that sound good together".......'. Someone did also add an entry on Urban Dictionary[2] defining it as "Fuck You, Tech Oligopoly"; seems that's the closest we're gonna get to an answer for now...

[1] https://store.rossmanngroup.com/faq.txt [2] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FUTO

Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by starkd on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:28AM (#34197910)
Inappropriate place for a "shameless plug". Try starting a new thread?
Re:Louis Rossmann discusses NY's butchering of right to repair by rasz on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:05PM (#34198341)
Isnt it fully financed by a crypto bro ala SBF "altruism"?