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>Any major complaints on the dactyl-manuform? I can see the lack of per-key RGB being annoying.

No complaints from me. It was only my second soldering project. It was quite a bit of work but the results were very nice. I know RGB is possible its just that my soldering skills aren't quite ready for that. I'm not sure whether or not per-key RGB is possible but I didn't look into it. Bluetooth is also an option although I didn't try it out. Some people don't like 3d printed cases but I thought the end result looked nice.

I used zeal tealios (silent tactile) switches for mine. I'm thinking of attempting to make an alps version with some vintage Amber switches (IMO the best clicky switches ever made).

Not sure if you're making fun of scientology or referencing FNM. Both are good things to do.

I didn't try the Moonlander but I had an Ergodox-Ez which was its predecessor. I ended up making a dactyl manuform and it was my favorite out of every keyboard I've tried. Just wish it was easier to make one with RGB so I can program different colors for different layers like the Ergodox.

>The model f revival exists for collectors and is functional, but is just bespoke enough to me that it's more of a collector's item than a mass product.

Definitely not a mass product. The project IMO is a disaster even for a group buy type thing. I ordered long after it was an existing product and tons of people received theirs already and come to find out at that point it was still going to be a year+ wait for most people and they under no circumstances will attempt to even ballpark how long its going to take. There's a lot of work involved for the guy running the project but it would be nice to know if I'm looking at waiting 3 months, 6 months, a year, or more. Delays are understandable but that's not all that's going on here.

>Is it just me or do mechanical keyboard aficionados sound strangely like audiophiles?

In some ways perhaps. In most ways not really. There are hundreds of mechanical key switches and many of them feel significantly different from one another. There are indeed bad switches and there are indeed good switches but 99.99% of them fall into the "good category". There's no objectively "best" switch. There are so many types that are good and will last practically forever that its just a matter of personal preference for the way they sound and feel. Some people like quiet switches. Some like clicky. Some like tactility. Some like smoothness. Some people need ergonomic features like split layouts and tilting. Some people prefer standard layouts.

I have some very expensive keyboards (rare vintage stuff and modern custom builds) but in regards to custom boards, once you get over $300-400, you're basically paying for fashion/brand names/artificial scarcity/aesthetic craftsmanship and not utility. Honestly a $60 GMMK with a person's favorite switch (probably around $30-60 more depending on what you want and how big of a layout you use) and a $30-50 set of keycaps will get you 90% of the value that people get out of more expensive brands.

Audiophiles' hobby includes a bunch of stuff that literally has no impact on anything. For some things there's no added value even when taking only aesthetics/superficial stuff into account. There is audiophile hardware that makes a real impact, but there are also people that swear that their absurdly expensive accessory X provides a significant difference when hooking it up to a signal analyzer proves otherwise. With keyboards you are generally either paying for a fashion accessory or an actual discernable difference in the way something feels and which one you are paying for is usually obvious going in.

Both hobbies suffer from diminishing returns that hit hard and fast. You don't have to be a wealthy person to get a great experience from audio or mechanical keyboards.

My wife has a few chronic illnesses so I've encountered more doctors than the average person. There are two primary types that account for all but one or 2 out of around 30 that we have seen in order to attempt to get my wife effective help.

1. The type that's too incompetent to diagnose anything more complicated than a cold or a broken bone. Usually they are general practitioners, sometimes they are specialists.

2. The type that might have been a productive person but they are too arrogant and/or lazy to diagnose anything but the most common things that pop up in their specialization. If its starting to look like its going to take any amount of effort at all to diagnose they'll throw their hands up and literally claim they don't know and its probably just something you'll have to live with.

It would be foolish for a layperson to think they can train themselves to be a doctor using google and diagnose a wide range of medical conditions in a large group of random patients better than a doctor. Its not foolish at all to think that given you have all the time in the world since its your life, that you might be able to do some productive things and try to figure out what could theoretically be wrong with you so you can make a more educated guess about which specific specialist might be able to diagnose your condition or rule out one that you suspected you might have. 99% of doctors are going to make a basic effort and then pretend its just some unknown chronic thing you probably shouldn't worry about, even if you feel like you are dying on a daily basis. Or diagnose you for one of the common things that doesn't fit your symptoms, give you medicine that will either not help at all or actually exacerbate your condition, and then double down on the diagnosis. And its not just about finding the right type of specialist, you can go to two specialists within the same field and one can be completely worthless to you because they have no experience with your set of symptoms.

I've gotten too many blank stares from doctors when asking them basic things that they should know to buy into the notion we seem to promote in the US that all of them are geniuses.

FYI Not an anti-medicine, anti-vax conspiracy nut. I just went through a nightmarish ordeal for several years trying to get help for my wife. Her condition is a physical condition that's misdiagnosed 80% of the time as anxiety. Once you have anxiety listed on your medical record, good fucking luck getting any of these arrogant assholes to do their job. Once you do get a diagnosis, the results of treatment are pretty mixed, but mostly not amazing. Fortunately it doesn't significantly shorten a person's life, but it does make it difficult to live it.

I've seen mildly famous and wealthy youtubers (famous for being sick youtubers, in some cases having the same condition as my wife) get teams of doctors working together hand in hand to figure out some rare set of conditions and make a person's life better. Most doctors I've encountered will figuratively tell you to go fuck yourself if you even want them to talk to another specialist. The closest I came to that was spending several thousand dollars sending her to the Mayo clinic. They rush you through a series of tests and then send you home without doing much of anything at all, hoping that you have a good team of doctors that can pick up where they left off. If you don't (and you won't) its a massive waste of time and money.

Would you say its easy or possible to learn reversing while you learn binary ninja? I bought a license a while back and was struggling to figure out how to do things I could easily look up tutorials for in other programs so I ended up not using it much. I found a couple of videos that were pretty out of date and other than that I saw that there were expensive training courses from a single company.

You guys should try and get someone to write a book kind of like the IDA / Ghidra books that Chris Eagle did.

There could be something out there I just missed. Got any advice?

They have a reputation of being one of the most aggressively anti-piracy companies that exists.

Its a tiny part of the basic truth that leaves out any criticism of Assange. It doesn't entirely revolve around the leaking of a single video of a US helicopter killing civilians.

There's a 0% chance that Epstein is alive and a 0% chance she walks on those charges. Miscarriages of justice do happen but for the most part life is not a poorly written TV drama.

He mentioned a single thing that Assange has done. That's not bringing people up to speed. Its disingenuous because its a more complicated situation than that one thing describes. And that statement stands whether a person supports him or is hell bent on seeing his life permanently ruined or ended.

Usually when stuff like that happens the community is quick to fill in the gaps by making software compatible with other controllers. The market for this one is so small though that it might take a while.

Perhaps the company will come up with a resolution though.

The creator sells boards with either matias or vintage alps. There's a limited supply of the vintage ones though. You can also buy a kit and provide your own switches of IIRC when I emailed him he said you can also send him the switches if you wanted a variant of the Alps that he doesn't have.

I've tried modern and vintage and even modern ones modded to feel like vintage in various boards and the real vintage ones are far superior.

This uses Alps keyswitches which many people think are the best ever, me included.

I think some of the space cadet keyboards used hall effect switches which were supposed to be pretty good too.

This board is modelled after a non-space cadet keyboard which I don't think used either hall effect or Alps.

>They're probably being hosed by their suppliers too, since I can't imagine they have the money to invest in serious volume.

There are no suppliers IIRC. He spends like 2 weeks making a set of keycaps by hand and that's why its so expensive.

He also manufactures the cases himself.

The result is the same if you don't give a shit about the quality of the keycaps you are using. Most people don't care at all and that's fine. For those of us who do care even a little, the result is obviously not the same. Even if you don't want to pay for the more expensive option the difference in quality would be apparent.

Also, custom keyboards are basically fashion accessories (and I'm typing this on a $1200 fashion accessory so that's not a criticism of people who like fancy keyboards). After you get above a few hundred dollars the diminishing returns hit hard and fast and at that points 99% of what you are getting is aesthetics unless you're talking about some kind of rare vintage board. Luxury items are frequently priced different from practical items. Lots of people will pay 10-100x the price of an item because it was "made by hand" just because they want to enjoy the expertise of the person who made it rather than just have an object that was produced by a machine.

Generally speaking, thicker keycaps are considered by most enthusiasts to be superior to thinner ones. Pimpmykeyboard's quality is good but not amazing. Also, this is a keyboard for people that like ALPS. There's a million custom boards for people that want MX.

If you just want custom keycaps for a modern MX board KAT Space Cadet was a group buy from over a year ago and it finally just started shipping. There are likely lots of people in /r/mechmarket that are going to be selling sets.

It has the sublegends on the top like the original but not the ones on the front side of the keycap (I don't think modern manufacturers are even willing to try that).

If you don't want to go with KAT Space Cadet, GMK has a similar set that should be shipping soon, if not now. Once again there will be people selling them on the aftermarket.

Its not based on the Space Cadet keyboard at all. Its based on a different Symbolics board which is also a very nice looking and highly desired keyboard among collectors (although not as famous as the Space Cadet).

IMO its fairly faithful to the one its actually based on:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/symbolics_keyboard_pn_365407.html

I mess around with a lot of custom modern and vintage alps keyboard stuff. I'm pretty familiar with the Keymacs project although I don't own one yet because its pretty expensive. I'm going to be attempting a very similar build modelled after the same Symbolics board in the near future using wood for a case and most likely MX switches due to the difficulty of sourcing keycaps for Alps.

>I see a lot of red flags here. They claim it’s “over-engineered”, but it looks like the opposite.

Fair criticisms for some of it, but parts of it are over-engineered and the term over-engineered is usually a marketing gimmick anyways. This keyboard was a labor of love for the creator. He wanted a thing to exist and he went about learning, making, testing, and tweaking for many years. He makes everything by himself besides the PCB (which would be foolish to do).

The majority of the cost of this keyboard is in the keycaps, which are the part that is over-engineered IMO. They are possibly the best keycaps on the market by a long shot. Each key is hand-poured by this one guy (at least when it was first on the market) and it takes a very long time to make a set. People begged him to sell just the caps but he said given the labor intensive process he thinks a lot of people would laugh at the price he would have to charge.

This case was specifically designed for Alps switches. Vintage alps switches are considered by many people to be the best mechanical switches ever created. The case here might not be milled from a giant, solid block of metal, but with Alps switches you don't necessarily want that. Most people are looking for something with acoustic properties that make Alps sound as good as the vintage boards from which they came. The Keymacs case isn't the most expensively manufactured case in the world, but it has great acoustics and sounds better than most modern Alps cases, which in turn means it sounds better than almost all modern keyboards period to those who like the clicky/clacky keyboard noises. I happen to think it still looks very nice though.

There's a lot of people that are obsessed with old Lisp machine keyboards, specifically Symbolics keyboards. This isn't an exact replica, but it is more a reimagining of a specific model of Symbolics keyboard, only with the added benefit of it being compatible with a much better mechanical switch than the original (although some of the old ones had very good switches too).

The creator is well aware that at the price he's not going to sell these to anyone aside from die hard alps/Symbolics fans. Last I heard he was looking into options to manufacture things in a less labor-intensive way but the cost is pretty justified given the amount of work he puts into it.

>No cable?

Fair point but the people buying a board like this are probably using a $100 custom cable with aviator connectors.

>Every single piece aside from the switches seems to be fully custom made.

For this keyboard layout the PCB and keycaps pretty much had to be custom made. The whole point of the board is using the Symbolics layout. My understanding is that if you try to get a set made by GMK/EPBT/ the other big keycap manufacturers they are limited by the molds they have for specific sizes/profile and the price being reasonable is based on being able to move a large number of sets. The switches are basically the only thing that didn't have to be custom made as a matter of necessity.

I don't recall saying that they still were. It happened when paypal was still practically the exclusive payment method on their platform. So probably more than a couple of years ago but the date it happened wasn't important. It was the details of the incident and Paypal's poor reaction to it that are pertinent to this conversation.

This happened to my father a couple of years ago and Paypal's incompetent support decided that a tracking number associated with a package addressed to a different person that weighed only a few ounces was evidence that the seller shipped a 10ft antenna to my father.

He ended up shutting down a side-business of selling antiques on Ebay because he doesn't trust Paypal to not let a scammer steal hundreds of dollars from him again because they are too stupid or indifferent to read.

Its subjective. I have a $1200 Topre modded with a Norbaforce case and custom domes, pretty much as good as it gets, but its not even close to my favorite keyboard. Its nice but I'd rank Zeal tactile switches, Box Jade, Box Navy, Tactile Alps, Blue/White/Amber Alps, and Zeal linear ahead of them.

So far I like Amber Alps the best by a large margin. They are kind of hard to find though. Like I said though its subjective. There are some people that try every key switch under the sun and still like MX Browns the best. There is no "best" switch and there is no wrong choice.

Also, for the uninitiated, a Topre is a unique type of rubber dome keyboard. Unlike most rubber domes, they actually feel quite nice and better than many mechanical switches. They aren't technically a mechanical switch though.

>The entire point of having a liberal democracy is that we are the government, and we can pull it back from authoritarianism.

We technically can. We also can technically elect people that understand technology. But practically its 100x more likely that I, a person that works with technology for a living, magically finds a way to provide my family with a decent lifestyle doing somethign that doesn't use computers at all. And I view the chances of that happening to be almost non-existent.

Yes I mean that companies may hire someone with data science skills but no security specific work experience.

In fact the job you posted says this:

"Passion to the cybersecurity is mandatory, though no previous experience or knowledge is required"

Where have you looked? If you have domain specific experience with security it would really help but security is growing so rapidly I suspect they probably have trouble filling all of the data science/ML/AI roles without also hiring people who have focused on other areas.

I hear quite a bit about security companies/large companies with mature security programs trying to build services/products that utilize AI. FireEye/Mandiant, Rapid7, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Talos, would probably be good places to look.

And to elaborate on this the explanation I read stated that with DSM-IV you had a bunch of specific disorders with their respective checklists of symptoms which didn't accurately reflect variations between individuals and the overlapping symptoms. (Since its a spectrum). This led to situations where people didn't check enough boxes to be eligible for certain treatments that might benefit them because they were associated with a slightly different diagnosis than the one they had.

>generally understand and care how they are perceived

Personally, I do care how I am percieved. I want to be a legitimately good person. However, we sometimes do things that make it look like we don't care what others think of us because it doesn't always occur to us that what we are doing isn't normal. Even when beforehand we think of what a normal and appropriate thing to do might be we could totally miss the mark and do something weird that gives the impression that we don't care.

I've had a similar experience. I would love to stop using Windows but I have found that ProtonDB wildly exagerrates the compatibility of games. I had game breaking issues with 50% or more of "gold" rated titles and even some with a "platinum" rating.

>Security cert, no assembly or even C knowledge.

Work at a security company. Everyone I know with "research" in their title is legitimately great.

That being said there are different types of security researchers. It seems like you were focused on vulnerability research/exploit development/offensive stuff. There's also malware analysis, intelligence, and detection research.

Just like exploit development, malware analysis requires reverse engineering skills. However, Intelligence analysts and people doing detection research often have incredibly deep and broad skillsets that don't involve knowing assembly or C, yet they are still doing amazing work. Some of them are also reverse engineers, but depending on the role its not the standard by which I would judge competence.

I've seen orgs that hire mostly bureaucrats, but if a person has genuine passion for security they can find a fun and challenging place to work.