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50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #berkeley, the 1st of 2 fun shows featuring muscle shoals session player tim henson on 2nd keyboards, perhaps in town to contribute to garcia’s in-progress “reflections” sessions. also the 1st full soundboard of the new garcia band:

The new 'Commodore 64' is quite obviously just an Ultimate 64 in a transparent case. If you don't already have one of those, and you wanted one already, it's probably worth buying the new offering just to get the mechanical keyboard. Real C64 keyboards are absolutely awful.

Are you tired of illuminated gaming keyboards, and even the clacking sound of mechanical keyboards has lost their appeal?
Fear not, there's hope:
Gboard Dial
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-dial

Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-hi…

Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.

Keystroke Detection by Exploiting Unintended RF Emission from Repaired USB Keyboards
Md Faizul Bari, Yi Xie, Meghna Roy Choudhury, Shreyas Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00043 h…

Keystroke Detection by Exploiting Unintended RF Emission from Repaired USB Keyboards
Electronic devices and cables inadvertently emit RF emissions as a byproduct of signal processing and/or transmission. Labeled as electromagnetic emanations, they form an EM side-channel for data leakage. Previously, it was believed that such leakage could be contained within a facility since they are weak signals with a short transmission range. However, in the preliminary version of this work [1], we found that the traditional cable repairing process forms a tiny monopole antenna that helps e…

@… I’m using the default. I’ve had a lot of crashes from third-party keyboards in the past.

Let's remove the 'woke' from the people who hate it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMK96jduS-J/?igsh=amdjMjdpbm54bXY1

You know, this is like if keyboard manufacturers asking if keyboards feel pain from being typed on and "serious media" picks it up as a story
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/can-ais-suffer-big-tech-and-users-grapple-with-one-of-most-unsettling-questions-of-our-times

After more than 5 years I've finally written a post on my old blog because this post is longer. It's about my recent success of repurposing old hardware at the office to build a PC with two graphics cards. It hosts two virtual machines and each one has access to a dedicated Nvidia GPU.
With two monitors, mice and keyboards two people could even work on site at the same machine 😎 But this is primarily meant to provide remote desktops for I/O and editorial.

Took me a while to realize this: All of our buttons and knobs being replaced by touchscreens is one (possibly subliminal) reason behind the rising obsession with mechanical keyboards.

So I think the idea is to keep dropping buttons and keys from laptop keyboards until everything is just a tablet? RIP dedicated pgup/pgdn keys.
meanwhile some hardware engineer was like, "keep that dedicated 'prt sc' key, I push that 500 times per day! never touch page down, tho.."

@… Vendors (e.g., https://prototypist.net/) often sell switches in packs of 10 or offer testers with a variety of switches.
Many (most?) NuPhy keyboards seem to be hotswap, so you could stil…

@… Vendors (e.g., https://prototypist.net/) often sell switches in packs of 10 or offer testers with a variety of switches.
Many (most?) NuPhy keyboards seem to be hotswap, so you could stil…

I have never used linear switches in a keyboard. All my mechanical keyboards have clicky switches.
I am trying to figure out between tactile and linear switches. I am not a gamer so my keyboard is used only for typing.
Should I get linear or tactile? Can you help understand the choice? Thank you
#mechanical #keyboard

One of my most… lasting… memories from the #EuroPython sprints is when I almost threw this gentleman’s notebook against the wall. And that was AFTER he switched off his colemak crimes.

The traditional method of removing crumbs from the keyboard is to dynamically hit its side against the table.
Do you also use it for laptop keyboards?

Someone made a custom case for a Framework laptop to put a mechanical keyboard into it.
It's a cute idea, but I think @… keyboards & laptops look a lot nicer 😁
https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1nfc4dz/i_redesigned_the_framework_13_to_feature_a/

looks suspiciously like Model F’s they hollowed out and stuck some proto-LCARS transparent plastic in it—maybe these are accidentally the first RGB gamer keyboards ever
(Star Trek IV, 1986)

When Machines Become Colleagues
https://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=148438#respond

The Curious Brain | Trend 2 (2026) : When Machines Become Colleagues
The workplace of 2026 no longer runs on keyboards and calendars it runs on collaboration between humans and algorithms. What was once framed as “AI assistance” has matured into something closer to …

Slow day today, decided to spruce up the homelab and get some stuff organized. Still need to clean the rest of the room outside of the camera shot though.
#homelab

I have a weakness for silly foldable bluetooth keyboards. but this one has to be one of the worst ones i’ve bought. the crazy key placement/sizing and how hard I have to press makes the geezer z1 a truly terrible experience. I regret not getting the cat version, at least it would have been kawaii

@… @… It’s indeed a matter of taste: I can’t stand clicky switches ;-)
What I didn’t realize at the beginning was that many little things really do make a difference, so the same switches can feel different in different keyboards; the plate and mou…

@… @… It’s indeed a matter of taste: I can’t stand clicky switches ;-)
What I didn’t realize at the beginning was that many little things really do make a difference, so the same switches can feel different in different keyboards; the plate and mou…

Why do most commercial keyboards have the space key so long?
I have to flex my thumb or pinky like a gymnast to reach the rest of the modifier keys. So annoying.

I am looking for an app that removes all AI assistants from applications, browsers and keyboards.

@… AFAIK, U 2380 INSERTION SYMBOL, along with several others in this block, are intended to encode symbols found on keyboards.
https://commons.m.wikime…

@… AFAIK, U 2380 INSERTION SYMBOL, along with several others in this block, are intended to encode symbols found on keyboards.
https://commons.m.wikime…

Some digital pianos/keyboards have a “split” feature, which lets you put an instrument on the left hand and a different instrument on the right hand.
For pianos that don’t support this but support MIDI it seems to me that it should be entirely possible to emulate this behaviour in a synthesiser, but searching online I couldn’t really find anything about this. All I found was pianos that supported splitting the keyboard into two separate MIDI channels, but that won’t work.
Is there any way of doing this, preferably on like LMMS or something? Or any software that can get a MIDI channel and split it into two channels depending on the key that is pressed on the piano?
On Linux and open source, please
#music #midi #piano #lmms