imglorp
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
Well that's your problem right there! There are trillion dollar companies profiting off the back of open source projects without supporting the projects adequately. Why should they be scraping for funding for basic table stakes like audits?
https://www.seeedstudio.com/2-4GHz-FPC-Antenna-1-16dBi-for-X...
To the contrary, innovation is proceeding full speed, despite patents. The only thing patents are doing is 1. enriching the lawyers on creation, 2. restraining law abiding innovators in country (meaning all other countries will proceed to ignore it anyway), 3. give the advantage to all other countries, and 4. enrich the lawyers again if they can find one of the in-country infringements to pursue (again ignoring all the others).
None of these outcomes is beneficial. The system is broken and antiquated. Ditch it.
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And also the end of the open internet, replaced by slop addiction walled gardens.
And of course accelerating climate change with full throttle fossil fuel use to power it all. https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to...
New aids have a highly configurable user experience that will be deeply personal to the user: what do various taps and gestures do and how sensitive are they, what are the different discrimination modes (party, music, conversation, car, etc), and how to get to them, automatic behaviors etc. There's usually a user BT app but it's usually a horrible vast subset designed to keep the gatekeeping intact.
There's some disruption to be had here somewhere between the $3000 gate-kept experience and the $130 airpod one. It should include some open hardware and protocols, let the user adjust all the user knobs, but should retain the audiologist's role regarding the actual hearing profile and safety.
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