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Don't know if this is a real thing or a gag, but if the latter, I give you a 10/10 for humor and sarcasm. If the former, my complaint is that on the sysinfo page, I can't see pertinent info (i.e. the product dimensions) from my text-based browser, lynx.

Update: I am able to reproduce the issue on w3m as well. Please fix your web site to be more command-line friendly.

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The FAQ specifically addresses this and states that it's a real thing that you can buy and have delivered. It is likely a great gag gift.

That being said, the cringe-worthy use of female model photos on every single page certainly help make this page kinda hilarious.

It's definitely cringe-worthy that all the graphics are not replicated in ASCII art to support command-line only browsers. How insensitive! With lower-resolution ASCII-art, the models can be made to look more gender neutral, IMHO.

I feel like I've seen more gender-obvious ascii art than other kinds of ascii art

Upon further thought, I propose a new HTTP header sent from browsers to the web servers:

1) the gender the end-user identifies with, or lack thereof

2) the end-user's sexual partner preference, or lack thereof

With this HTTP header info, the web server can then display the most politically correct ASCII image, plus the most optimal sales conversion rate for this product #win-win

Time to make a IETF RFC

Headers? Protocols? Today we create JavaScript DOM APIs for this kind of stuff. A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences... WebPreferences sounds about right. /s

> A general all-purpose API to collect, persist and negotiate user preferences

I thought that one was called Facebook.

Prefix all these headers with swj_ or sjw- :)

I hate this website so much.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm talking about all these comments on HN thinking they're hilarious by making fun of "political correctness" or "SJWs" or whatever the vogue thing for self-styled obnoxious individuals to make fun of is.

The keypad website is amusing.

Life gets better when you realize that on any polar issue, both side will have vocal extremist idiots and it can be amusing to poke fun at the whole lot of them, regardless of one's personal position.

I don't think "politically correct" means what you think it means. Your use in this context doesn't make sense (e.g. a person's preferred sexual partner is not a matter of "political correctness," nor is their gender identity).

Would you please not post flamebait to HN? We have enough trouble without it, and like most attempts to be funny, this is not as funny as it thinks it is.

sorry about that; honestly not flame-baiting. I do generally think that better ad targeting means, well, an advertising copy that is more relevant to the actual end-user. As opposed to sending a totally irrelevant and wrongly targeted and offensive message to the wrong person. But I also do think the issue is around the balancing of privacy needs--and that's a tricky balancing act. TLDR: not trying to flame-bait, but I can see how it might have come across as such

It would have been funny if they were the designers. Their Twitter page does the same thing for some reason.

Edit: of the product, not the web page.

There's a school of thought that the best design is when you don't notice it. Maybe a professional designer did this, intentionally. It's generating word of mouth, alright.

Given that there's exactly two individuals in said photos, in multiple poses, holding the object in question, they probably aren't stock photos at least. I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product.

I don't know if I believe a "designer" touched this page. Most designers would cringe at this page. (I like it, for what it's worth, it is excellent at communicating the product and the intent with which you should understand the product.)

I suspect they are either the people who developed the product, employees of people who developed the product, or friends of the people who developed the product.

And you'll remember it and talk about it.

Screw design, the mission was accomplished!

> I also kinda doubt models were specifically hired to market this product.

Wait how much do you think it costs to hire some models for a half-day shoot? They could easily be friends, yes, but it's not inconceivable that someone forked over a little dough to do an amusing photo shoot.

...or they're stock photos of a person holding a generic small object which has been replaced with the product via image-editing software.

Ya, these things have been around for a couple years now and the website sucks but I could see some IT people buying them.

It is real, I have one!

Do you know if it has Cherry stems?

I don't have one, but on the FAQ page it states it's rated for 8 million keypresses, and Cherry MX switches are rated for far more - typically 20-50 million. 8 million is a typical number for conventional rubber dome keypads, and would be low for mechanicals.

That doesn't exclude the possibility that the stems are compatible with Cherry keycaps, but I would be surprised and impressed if they were.

Obviously we can't take 8 million seriously with all those IPv6 addresses out there.

Here is a teardown of the IPv6 Buddy if you're interested... https://www.flickr.com/photos/70359193@N05/sets/721576293696...

Perfect, thanks! Not Cherry stems. Too bad.

"Please fix your web site to be more command-line friendly."

I can't tell if this is a real thing or a gag.

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