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to play a record, i don't need a computer or any electronics created after, say, 1960 or so. that's a nice benefit :)

If you're a trackball person, a lot of trackballs have a scroll ring that's similar to a click wheel. The Ploopy A+ has two discrete scroll wheels: https://ploopy.co/aplus/

I'm pretty partial to the Kensington Slimblade though. You scroll by twisting the ball itself - very satisfying once you figure out the technique. I hate the aesthetics (it looks kind of tacky) and the client software (bloated and buggy) but it's the only trackball I know of with this feature and I like it enough to put up with the issues. https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol...

> ... I wrote him what I felt was a conciliatory letter,1 though ending snarkily by quoting his own words, “The street finds its own use for things.”

autodesk had been public for 4 years by the time this happened. i don't think they get to claim that they were "the street" at that point :)

Still waiting on 64-bit BonziBuddy...

> The same reason why many great tech companies originate from Israel.

wait - what's the reason, though? i don't understand what you're trying to say.

> That's why Nvidia is the largest private employer in Israel. Why Apple's CTO is from Israel.

you cite two american companies with presence in Israel to defend your claim that "many great tech companies originate from Israel".

> is not about the companies and more about you and how you view Israel

your entire response is predicated on your view of Israel but you haven't explained what your view actually is or what it's based on.

i'll take one Bemale Nody Dinspector shirt, please.

> You could say that about pretty much any employee - and you'd be completely wrong. What makes you right in the case of CEOs and boards?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/us-ceo-pay-grew-20-times-fas...

i love instant cameras but they aren't really used for professional photography except as a novelty or as a specific artistic choice, and sx-70 isn't a particularly stable medium.

> Nobody is actually orienting work and action to real, concrete goals. It's all based on speculation and anxiety about the future.

the simulation has become simulacra! cosmic horrors abound.

wild choice to double down on focusing on the degree of difference in what one does with footage obtained from filming people without their consent!

neither of these things are remotely acceptable. the degree of distinction is relevant to the impact on the victim and in a punitive sense, but doing either of these things is a mark of a severely antisocial behavior disorder that needs to be addressed by mental healthcare and prevention of access to tools that facilitate this behavior.

> These are overloaded terms at this point which is part of the reason so few actually comprehend.

this is perhaps the smallest of all possible reasons that "few actually comprehend" :) yes, the left is good at eating itself, but that self-destruction is not without a lot of external assistance!

the thought of having a phone, which i touch all day, set on many surfaces, put in my pockets etc having a fabric enclosure is so gross to me. did they just forget that people use their phones on the toilet? or while they eat messy food? that gold/tan model is bound to look like a busy parent of 4's minivan interior within a month.

> Looks like Tim Cook, John Ternus and Eddy Cue really enjoy being swamped with ads in their products. Will there soon be a time when Apple executives start carrying some other brand’s devices with them to avoid having a rotten experience?

There's no chance these guys don't already have the full suite of Apple services (whether or not they use them) tied to their iCloud accounts. They've probably never even seen the nagware.

i wonder how many of them are like 100% of my requests?

- "set a timer for 14 minutes"

- "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon"

- "turn off the bedroom lights"

that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?

i don't think i've ever seen a discussion about movie theaters online where people weren't complaining about preroll ads, going back a good 20 years when this started to happen :)

to what do you attribute the increase you've noticed?

the argument of some hypothetical "right to burn all the books i possess" is not really the topic of discussion here. it's not a "can" argument, it's a "should" argument.

> While you might have access to the subculture, there is no obligation for anyone else to respond, collaborate or engage with random you.

true, but i think there's historically often been good-faith efforts to engage with newcomers in any field that requires intellectual or artistic curiosity or experimentation. what we're seeing played out is that this default good nature ignores the risk involved in growing a small garden beyond one's own property. there is a change in meta-social requirements at scale.

the extremes of this are super apparent in FOSS - one side of this being death-by-committee and overgovernance at the expense of the original project (requiring a support organization that outgrows the actual "work", for example, look at how many HNers view unions or internal policy committees), and the other side a harsh rejection of newcomers or calcification against new ideas at the expense of the long-term viability of a project. these issues can be imperceptible or not important in smaller projects.

but they're not limited to FOSS. i think these are probably fairly well-studied ideas in any form of organizations - business, social groups, churches, non-profits, unions, etc. i don't really know where to start to learn more about this or what the right approaches are (and i suspect they're often pretty unique to the group in question). i don't have an answer but i'm really interested in the huge grey area between fully-gatekept cultures and fully-open ones.

completely different world, but i've seen this happen in music spaces as well.

the idea of gatekeeping is often seen as elitist or exclusionary (fairly enough in many cases) but i think this can be an exaggerated description of a culture that necessarily requires a standard of... let's say, desire to engage with material on a sufficiently deep level. many things can be for anybody, but they are not for everybody.

in the past i've seen the phenomenon of "opening up" subcultures or previously-niche intellectual/art fields described as democratization but i think that ignores a big part of what causes this, which can more accurately be described as commodification. access to difficult things was formerly measured by one's ability to expend effort in order to get there (ignoring, for now, the structural conditions that set one up for success in that effort). when these things are commodified, these efforts and identities become products to purchase, the right to which is nearly never limited; in fact, it's almost seen as evil to imply that they should not be available to any individual at any time that individual may desire access.

i know we all have to start somewhere, but there has always been some historical filtration that leads people who are not truly engaged with a subject on a deep level to disengage at some point. that's changing at a novel rate and scale across so many subcultures. it seems like a lot of us are just surprised at how many people even want access to what were once our sanctuaries and we're not capable of grappling with what it takes to adapt to these changes.

i don't think this will pass or that things will return to "the way they were" but there will always be pockets that resemble previous subcultural forms. we just have to re-learn how to identify them with a keener eye and how to better avoid or more-appropriately interact with those who have a more superficial interest in them.

Artificial limitations open many new avenues for new and exciting revenue streams.

the danger started when he took control of the car.

i wonder what the venn diagram of "downvoters terminally incapable of placing themselves in a dangerous hypothetical in which they are not in control of a life-threatening situation" AND "people on hn who work on these products" looks like.

hopefully it's small. realistically... i'm scared.

politics and hack takes abound, but there were some legitimately funny people on twitter (some of whom've migrated to other platforms).

mostly bad, though.

based on other replies to the parent, at least some folks feel differently :) but generally i'm not very optimistic about it.

not saying parent feels this way but the target class of this website often does not separate the two. we're still sloughing off the goofballery of objectivism, i guess.

    > Q. Is this HIPAA compliant?
    > A. Please do not store patient information in DNS.

love this. reminds me a little of something else in the realm of DNS "hosting" posted to hn a few years ago [0][1]

[0]https://banner.triweb.dev [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502097

i have health insurance, i know i got it, and i rode it out without going to the doctor (not saying that was the right choice, it's just what i did).

i guarantee you that first number is wildly non-illustrative of the reach of this outbreak.