In the age on LLMs it's definitely way easier than what you did.

No, it’s not. I used LLMs. It was still hard as fuck, and LLMs can’t actually help you when you’re trying to reproduce someone’s graphical design (specifically the pg buttons).

If you think it’s easy, or even possible without investing months, I invite you to try.

Okay, I stand corrected. Apologies for making the assumptions I did.

I think copying a website like this is very poor taste regardless. If I see you doing this, I immediately lose trust in your product and will immediately leave.

If you can't put the effort into the face of your product, how can I trust you to put effort into the product itself? Shitty behavior, with a shitty justification self-affirmation blogpost.

I think the author's choice of words is framing the discussion. They did build their own website, but they loved the look of the one they saw, so I'd think a better choice would be "inspired by" rather than "stolen from."

I agree. It's telling that they picked such a boring and generic design to steal.

Terrible fix but it's a fix that's minimally-invasive and addresses a bug that causes a disproportionate annoyance to the fix. I can imagine your cursor lagging is something that is extremely annoying over time.

linux was plagued for a long time by lagging mouse cursor

I've been using Linux every day for the last 17 years, and that's the first time I'm hearing this.

I'm genuinely surprised.

The way you word it, it looks like a famous ubiquitous problem. Mind sharing any details?

I've also had computers with nvidia, amd (even back when it was still ATI) and intel gpu's, at least since 2006, and can't remember ever having an issue like this.

Not saying it's not an issue, but there is such an incredible amount of hardware configurations that linux supports, so it's a bit weird to say that "linux" in general has suffered a bug like this.

There was a time when it was quite bad, especially if using Wayland and under heavy CPU or I/O loads. I think this has mostly been solved now, but I do recall getting frustrated with the switch to Wayland because of it.

My latest and greatest ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 likes to do it sometimes on cachyos, I can't nail it down from a KDE or hardware issue as it never does it while docked or a external mouse

not necessarily ubiquitous, but you can encounter some issues with "lagging cursor" even today, if you use standard raspbian for example

> usbhid.mousepoll=0 > to /boot/cmdline.txt > This option was implemented to enforce a mouse polling rate of 62.5Hz which dramatically reduced the XWindow event system update rate in certain circumstances (oddball or "performance" mice can have update rates of 1000Hz, which is silly).

still does for me

whenever the CPU works hard my cursor starts to lag

People are downvoting you, but my Linux machine always feels like my mouse lags a bit compared to Windows.

Wonder why they chose to stick with the portafilter form factor rather than something custom for the method. Perhaps it just fits the task well and they don't need to change, or they want to preserve the look of an espresso machine. Though, if the water is room temp, they only really need the pressure, which doesn't need the entire machine. Seems pretty cool.

Edit: The article shows that they chose this method specifically to use the basket, and the basket allows for the vibrations they need. The other conveniences of the basket form factor also come into play; reloading, cleaning, etc. and don't need reinventing or retraining. Cool stuff. I wonder whether they'll remodel the machine around the basket and remove what's not needed if this becomes a product.

Consistency in output - this is a standard test model to replicate entire existing system and then apply changes components of the system to test a theory.

I've seen this happen a bunch too, though fortunately it hasn't been _that_ common. More often is managers that don't understand things using AI tools to try to understand them, mostly failing, and then regurgitating the LLM output during a meeting. Added as a link on my blog, too, since I have a similar article.

Monthly subscriptions for software like this confuse me. The website also obscures that it's paid at all - the first option is "download for X", then the next option is a red button to "unlock". No pricing link/page, nothing. Aimed at getting you to download and use it, then fork up later.

References mentioned all going on about productivity etc. Red flags all-round.

You click on the Unlock button, and it tells you pricing for monthly, annual, or lifetime. Not exactly rocket science.

- app named Mouseless

- need to CLICK on Unlock to show pricing

(just thought it was funny)

Quite funny how they phrase this.

"We recently discovered.." then later "..The attacker attempted to blackmail us"

So, I'd wager they had no idea of the breach until the attacker tried to blackmail them.

The demo product on the 'site looks really shoddy. Untidied-up 3D printing for $65?

The design files and firmware are open source, so you hypothetically produce your own: https://github.com/ploopyco/bean-pointing-stick

VPNs aren't anonymous, no, despite people pretending they are. Nonetheless, the findings in this report do highlight some things that make user identification easier than you'd expect it to be.

I'd not throw the report out just due to what you argue here. These findings are valid nonetheless.