Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Can't Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

Are there any American newspapers left that haven't turned into social media? They all seem to be:

• Ads
• Reprint quotes from rich people with no validation or verification
• Reply guys
• Ads
• "Opinion" pieces
• Reprints from other sources
• Ads
• Billionaire buy-outs to kill the platform
• Ads

Even the local stuff generally doesn't have any investigative aspects anymore.

I know it's been this way for a while but I just now realized that they really are just legacy social media. And that's sad.

Pokemon - Season 1 Episode 60 - Beach Blank-Out Blastoise
Frame 410/2412
Caption: Can't you look and
pedal at the same time?

Timestamp: 00:04:48.421

you know it’s weird, whenever a project in a controversy about LLMs bans them (servo) people seem to love it in a way that utterly drowns out the doomsaying from the AI boosters. and then when a project says or does something friendly to LLMs, there’s always backlash from a fucking gigantic number of people

the ability of the software industry to ignore public opinion has always been fucking magical, especially as it pretends to do community and democracy