[-] obosob@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago

I'm short, no, the keyboard you are describing does not exist. As others have pointed out, you might need to design your own.

Besides the Y key requirement, the curved requirement is also going to make it a little trickier to design. If you want it curved then you'll have a hard time making a PCB, so you'd probably want to hand-wire it in a 3d printed case or something. If you don't necessarily need curved and would settle for tented then it'll make that a little easier. Tented means when the two halves are tilted opposite directions with the middle highest and the edges lowest (like a classic A-frame tent). This would allow for two flat PCBs. You could make the halves separate or attached to each other depending on your preference. Presumably the numpad would then be flat relative to the desk.

The closest thing that came to mind, by the way, is the keebio KBO-5000 as this is a pretty traditional tenkeyless layout (no numpad) but split, and can thus be tented with the addition of some feet or a wedge of some kind, then you can just have an external numpad. But as you can see, the Y key is in its correct spot on the right, rather than the left where you'd prefer it. Either way, hopefully this provides some inspiration for your design.

Happy designing.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 39 points 1 year ago

It's a nonsensical statement to us programmers too.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Generally yes, for keyboards without a number row we will tend to use some combination of those kinds of tricks. In the past I've had numbers on the homerow under an fn key (note that said fn key is on a thumb key so easier to press than the standard location for fn keys on regular keyboards). Currently I have a number row as vertical combos on my Sweep (34 key low profile split). So q+a = 1, w+s = 2, and so on. As well as a numpad on one half under a fn key (we call these layers). So for long strings of numbers I use the numpad layer, for short ones I use my "virtual number row".

However, I got here gradually, my first split was a keebio Iris (which has a number row) and have gone progressively in the direction of smaller ones. There are a good number of numrow inclusive splits out there. Some examples:

  • ergodox
  • moonlander
  • dygma raise
  • Lily58
  • Sofle
  • Iris

Splitkb.com is due to release the Elora (Kyria, but with a number row) Any Day Now™️

On foot pedals, I have a stack of them but haven't got around to making use of them in any projects yet. Others have

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[-] obosob@feddit.uk 36 points 1 year ago

Even with AI models that can identify that there are birds in the picture. Having it decide with accuracy that the picture is of a bird is still a hard problem.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Ricardo was testing in production

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago

I know this doesn't answer the question but I want to offer some advice instead.

In my opinion just don't. If the company want you to have access to emails on the go then they should give you a company phone. If they don't, why are you trying to? Don't put work things on your personal phone.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Any specific infringement material (by which I mean media) would only be on the user's home server. Links to content aren't what is actionable for a DMCA notice as far as I'm aware. And the DMCA does not require platforms to actively monitor or remove potentially infringing content, only to follow the takedown procedure when sent an appropriate notification. If they follow that then they are protected from liability. That's US law but IIRC the implementations in most of the rest of the world are similar if not the same. And here's the rub: even without those communities, LW will still need to have a DMCA agent and take action against content when notified because people can and will upload infringing media here on other communities.

They're not exposing themselves to additional risk by having the piracy communities unblocked. People can and will discuss piracy, in abstract terms at the very least, all over the place. And discussion of copyright infringement is not copyright infringement anyway. Any liability and risk they do hold they will still have to worry about now regardless.

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[-] obosob@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

If you want to put a controller on the underside of a keyboard, like the promicro, you can do it with just a standard MX or choc footprint by straddling the switch footprint. But if you swap the switch footprint with a kailh hotswap socket footprint the pads overlap with the promicro's through holes. So to keep the promicro under the switches you'd need to rotate it or remove some of the pins from the footprint, giving you less IO. This is designed to be able to be placed over the hotswap footprint.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

Does your lemmy instance have a character limit?

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

There is a more performant C++ implementation but it's been a long while since I've used either it or the java implementation. Worth checking out.

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

I think this is related to the recent security vulnerability that affected, notably, lemmy.world. Even unaffected instances mostly decided to invalidate existing user sessions just to be sure and this required resetting Jerboa and some other apps that presumably hold onto a cached version of your auth token even if you remove the account and re-add it or something. So it was necessary to clear the app cache and storage to reset it and add accounts again.

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Hi all,

/u/OBOSOB of /r/ErgoMechKeyboards here.

On 12th June we decided to join the API strikes happening across reddit both because of personal convictions; and a few posts from the community requesting us to do so. Those posts were also met with broad agreement from the active members of the community. Many users (no I don't have numbers) suggested at that time that we don't limit ourselves to 48 hours.

Once I finally got around to announcing our participation less than 24 hours prior to the start of the strikes, again there was support from vocal members to keep it down indefinitely. I was already keen on this course of action.

Over the course of Monday and into Tuesday it became clear that reddit were not going to capitulate with a mere 48 hours of disruption, even stating as much, and I solidified my position to keep it down.

To be absolutely clear, this decision was made UNILATERALLY by myself and myself alone, I did not poll the community in any semblance of a representative manner to do this, no other people were involved. For better or worse, that's the decision I made and I am sticking to. I have been on reddit for over a decade and have used third-party apps to do so for that entire time, this issue is just too important to me personally to give up over.

The above point is important, for a long time I have ultimately moderated /r/emk alone. /u/ijauradunbi, the creator of the sub, made myself and /u/HardAsMagnets (Germ of gboards.ca) mods at inception and that is how it stayed. Germ went AWOL after some difficult life events and it transpires that she has basically quit the Internet at this point. /u/ijauradunbi has, likewise, not been seen in over a year, I've met him in person so I know he's real, just I think he's busy starting a family. That just left me, alone, moderating the sub.

/r/ErgoMechKeyboards has always been very easy to moderate, you all are very well-behaved, there was rarely "spam" in the strictest sense and most of my modding activities involved approving comments and posts that linked to aliexpress (reddit automatically spam filters those). As a result I never really felt I needed "help" and I have a light-touch approach to moderation when it comes to content, believing instead to let the upvote/downvote buttons do the talking in anything but a clear breach of the minimal rules to keep things on-topic.

However, I'm ever aware that whilst I don't personally feel I abused my position in any way, the lack of accountability and capacity for abuse of power that comes with moderating alone is, in and of itself, a problem. I kept meaning to get around to asking others to join as mods, but never did. I had some candidates in mind.

I won't flatter myself in thinking that /r/emk was big enough for that "power" to mean much on the grand scale of things, but still it is a community that matters to us and having good and accountable community leadership is important.

Likewise, I have no illusions that a 42k member subreddit will have any real impact on reddit's bottom line by continuing its protest, this is about the principal of the thing to me, and that's why I won't relent despite that fact. People are free to petition the admins for control over the sub and bring it back online if they wish.

So what's next?

If reddit make comprises on their policy regarding third-party apps' access to their APIs, especially for those that are free and open-source. I'll make it public again. Maybe this community will look at this incident and gravitate instead to here or elsewhere anyway, reddit are exposing the vulnerability of centralised control of a platform so even if they back down, that might not be enough. However, we've seen this before, and it is rare that these big migrations stick. Reddit itself was the benefactor of a migration away from Digg and Slashdot when they made decisions the community didn't like, so it can happen, but more often than not, it doesn't. The network effect is strong and the community with the critical mass of users will always be the bigger attractor than the theoretical threats posed by centralisation.

If reddit does not, I will eventually make the sub restricted and make sure it's archived by the wayback machine, since it has a lot of useful information in there. I have received lot of modmail from people finding the sub via Google and finding they don't have access. I want to look into solutions for migrating the sub's wiki, since I put some work into that and I think the information there is useful, I'd also like to expand it and as such will try to make it easier for people to contribute to, that's if someone else just doesn't beat me to the punch and do it first. If you have the time and are willing, please do.

Hopefully in the event that reddit fail to capitulate then this will become EMK's new home, rather than someone making an alternative subreddit or resting control of the sub. I doubt I'll use reddit much or at all if I can't use RIF to browse it.

I want to thank the community for the support, I have been replying to as many of the join requests as I can and of those who have replied to my reply, the sentiment has always been positive. I think I have only had one user deride /r/emk's participation in these strikes, that's pretty impressive.

See you all around. Embrace the jank. Keep it ergo. Eschew rectangles. Fuck spez.

obosob

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