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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 199 points 11 months ago (5 children)

πŸ‘ OPEN πŸ‘ SOURCE πŸ‘ AFTER πŸ‘ OBSOLETION πŸ‘

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 61 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fuck that. Free & Open Source Software ONLY for ANY bioimplant tech.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not just any tech? It's already obsolete. Nobody is going to profit from it. Why not let couple nerds tinker with it?

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck ANY. ALL or STFU and you have no right to broadcast any kind of deception of the people en masse no less.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Stop reading emoji's in text just because you're sensitive. Jesus would little to no respect for your emotion inserted into others instead of being a true reading. Because it shows that you're the ignorant narcissist.

Sure, there'll be plenty to disagree with me but it doesn't matter. I'm telling you the truth that you're broadcasting about your emotional stuckage. IDGAF what people read when there's nothnng there so I'm going ti ignore what you're trying to say to me unless you somehow learn to pull the truth, pusher.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What the hell manπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ maybe answer to the right comment next time

Edit: unless this really was answer you meant for me in which case I just have no fucking clue what you're trying to say

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't read emotions in words because there are none. I don't emoji and I do what I can to be technically accurate. Doesn't stop people from making assumptions about my emotions any time I type.

Stop assuming people have emotions just because you do when reading their words.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe write in a way that doesn't include word like stfu then. Those sound quite mad. Also you calling me narcistic etc. Really makes you soind mad as hell so if it's a common problem for you that people assume your emotions wrongly then it's on you. Then your writing is shit. Also none of your comment hasnt been emotionless or technically accurateπŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reading emotions is on you. You think you know something from reading anything is narcissistic. You need an explanation of why? Easy.

Explaining that the readings your pulling being doubled by others is, at best, mass delusion. Much more likely is you prodding for something you know jack shit about and instead probing with an assumption. I repeat, an assumption. Something you have absolutely zero basis but if you're right, then I'll react some obvious giving way.

You're not. You know jack fucking squat and it's fucking obvious.

Cussing is not an emotion, BTW. It's just my habit. One I care not to discard because it expresses exactly what I mean.

But by all means, do your business and explain why you read emotions in my words.

[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you think your writing dont give away tone of emotion and the people are narcistics if they assume your emotion based on your writing then you are pretty fucking stupid. Words have emtional wight that transfer trough text. And you started this nonsense text wars after me saying calm down which is pretty fucking ridiculous. Have a nice holidays, hope you meet a lot of fellow redditors who you can argue about the stupidest shit with

[–] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Calm down was sarcasm mocking your statement of assumption.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 48 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They exist to make money not help humanity. Open source don’t make them money so they will never bother

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

They exist to make money not help humanity.

From the article...

Greenberg spent many years developing the technology while working at the Alfred Mann Foundation, a nonprofit organization that develops biomedical devices

EDIT: For those challenging what I am saying, I was speaking towards his motives, when I responded to this comment …

They exist to make money not help humanity.

I was challenging the notion that he did not care about humanity, and just wanted the money.

Its ok to want to help others AND make money doing it. (Unfortunately) We live in a society where money is needed to exist.

EDIT2: I'm all for open source.

[–] Bahalex@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

β€œhe spun off the company Second Sight with three cofounders in 1998”

The rest of the sentence from your quote. The company that put these implants into people was, from what I understand, indeed for profit.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Kind of hard to operate a company without also making money doing so. The two are not mutually exclusive to each other.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

He should have made it open sauce

[–] eksb@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Non-profits, just like for-profits, need to keep revenue at or above expenditures. Just like for-profits they end up run by executives who prioritize bringing money in to sustain the bureaucracy over doing good.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just like for-profits they end up run by executives who prioritize bringing money in to sustain the bureaucracy over doing good.

I'm going to push back against this part of your comment. You are making an assumption. You can do both, help Humanity AND make money (since we live in a society that requires money to exist).

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to enlighten them on how to run a beneficial company with no income.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Government grants... A lΓ  Lockmart.

[–] doctorcrimson 20 points 11 months ago

Open Source can and very often is profitable, though. Large companies like to trade technologies as assets, but a lot of people don't realize that as individuals they can claim full rights and ownership over their product while also making it free to use and modify.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're giving a roundabout justification for regulation.

It should not be their choice when are discussing items/services that impact health this directly. Buy the ticket (release product and profit) take the ride (support for the life of installed user base at least).

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Regulation is the only way the capitalist model works. Think about it, limiting capitalism is a majorly important part of making any part of it work because it's so backwards.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I vote for parties that are pro-opensource and promote opensource among friends and family. It's all I can do.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

What if the party is also for child murder?

And what if the other one who is against child murder is also anti-open source?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

This shit should be eminent domained and open sourced. It's in the public's best interest to have this tech available and if the people who invested in making it don't want to support it or sell it to a company that will, they don't need it anymore.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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