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You've never heard of "the most funded project in Kickstarter history"?

This project is the continuation of Pebble watches after they sold their assets to Fibit, Fitbit got bought by Google and Google open sourced Pebble software.



Spatie (creators of a bunch of Laravel/PHP packages) is postcardware, too! https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards


This post just makes me realize that one day I need to buy myself an oscilloscope.


+1 for ControlD. I've been using for a while, and whilst it does have false positives sometimes and I need to manually add a site to the allow list, it works great for me. Also, their support has been very helpful whenever I needed something.


I read it as "how much is actually assembled in Finland versus arriving pre-assembled?"


Yes, but which pieces are put together there and which are already assembled elsewhere?


Exactly this (when nitpicking the phrasing). Is putting the finished unit in the box "assembly" of the delivered product?

OTOH, I'm not sure how much it matters. Apple products are "designed in California" (which is a bit of a lie to begin with), and very much assembled overseas.

Of more interest is how few units they've pre-sold compared to mainstream phones. I wish them well, but I doubt they'll change history.


Is putting the finished unit in the box "assembly" of the delivered product?

I've seen "Packaged in $country" on boxes before, so I suspect they are two different things.

Like food made in Canada that shows up in American chain stores being labeled "Distributed by QFC." There's lots of rules about this sort of thing.

Reminds me of back in the late 90's when Wal-Mart was all rah-rah about "Made in the USA!" on all of its products. Then my company bought every employee a Sam's Club membership and the cards were all marked "Litho en Mexico."


there is a legal differentiation between putting a finished product into a box ("packaged in") and assembling component pieces ("assembled in")


It's almost like a "ship of Theseus" problem. If something arrived in Finland for assembly that could theoretically be disassembled, does the final product count as being assembled in Finland? What even counts as "assembling"?


What does their website say?


> Hiding filename extensions was one of the capital sins in computer history

Amen. The first thing I do on any (Windows) OS installation is make sure file extensions are shown. I guess Microsoft did that for "simplicity", but it also made for easy "virus.jpg.vbs" files.


A puppy.jpg.vbs file would be shown as "puppy" with "VBScript" in the type column. The full name may be worse though. "puppy.gpj.vbs‬"‭ (which is actually "puppy\u202Egpj.vbs\u202C") looks like an image extension, but is a script (as the type column also shows).

Edit: Looks like HN removes those directional override characters. When present, the text looks like "puppy.sbv.jpg"


Wait, which Outlook is this? Is it "new Outlook" or "Outlook (new)"?


Copy (5) of Outlook (2).final.revised.4.exe


.vbs


It's the one that nags you to upload all your IMAP passwords and email to Microsoft's cloud.


Or Outlook.com, their free webmail alternative to Gmail?


Apparently, not the one that comes inside Copilot :)


Wait, which Copilot is this? :-P


It's Copilot all the way down.


There are 2 that are a bunch of software. But AFAIK, they have the same Outlook inside.


Outlook CoPilot Legacy But Also Preview


> recruiter at a small crypto startup

That's your first red flag right there.


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