hellinkilla [comrade/them]

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  • I thought I would really like having backlight and paid extra for it. I find I almost never use it. I’d probably be just as happy having a booklight to attach to my keyboard for the offtime I need to see the keys in the total dark.

    When I do use it, I use plain white (or the closest approximation) solid on for all keys all the time. No effects no movement.

    Why would you want breathing or other animations? Is it an aesthetic thing or is there some utility? I have a low low end kb that defaults to something like this everytime it gets powered off/on and I can only use it in extreme emergencies because it’s very annoying to me. But given the popularity there must be some benefit.

    Is there anything unique to mkbs with regards to lighting? Can’t all kinds of kbs have backlight?




  • I don’t find this to be very credible sounding.

    It tells you some numbers as though they are supposed to sound high but there is nothing for comparison. For one thing, of course a lot of people who work in a tel aviv office are ex IDF. Israel has conscription and israel is a theocratic apartheid state… I’d expect ex-IDF are well represented at any professional job in tel aviv. Who else would work there?

    Then it gives this weird list of names. Why are they screenshots of word documents? Why are they screenshots at all? Such a strange way to to present information. Here’s one:

    There are 72 names attributed to US locations and 49 to tel aviv. I tried to find out how many workers facebook has in the US. I keep finding it has about 74k; I think that’s global. This page says there are 13k in North America. This slightly older page says 23.4k in US. Assume the lower (13k) that gives 0.55% of total. Is that much of an over representation? How many former military/intelligence people generally are working at meta? How much mil/removedare working at other tech companies, and how many ex IDF?

    Since we have no context against which to compare, the reader is left to themselves to fill in the blanks. Insinuation and nothing more.

    This is in “news”. What is the news?















  • I’d say not always but you should interpret it in context for the situation.

    Having no demands is a criticism against many loose oppositional groups. In some ways its hard to see how they would have “a demand” because they aren’t an organization. They are a transient mass unified by sentiment.

    Its not impossible to have such an even on the road to a productive outcome. But in this case I’m very skeptical.