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I've been a big name in that "unofficial" subreddit for the past 8 years (u/rmhack), and I check it daily. I put unofficial in quotes because the moderators communicate and coordin…

The reMarkable cloud is crap and has been since the beginning. I wrote a free/libre offline management tool called reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU) that is decently popular, use…

I use Redirector in Firefox to rewrite URLs to the old Wikipedia: { "description": "Old Wikipedia", "exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page", "exampleResult": "https…

You say this as a fact, but you're wrong and I'm living proof of that. You can earn good income selling copies of AGPL software. It doesn't matter if people upload it to a public p…

I earn income selling copies of free/libre/open source software. Other people could too, if they tried, but they don't.

I buy paperbacks, chop and scan them [1] then use a reMarkable tablet + RCU [2] to do the reading. Digitizing paper books and writing on them with digital ink is 100% the best way …

Your language is far too kind for the invasion of privacy and our human expectations of what ought to be permissible. It's not just about being "recorded" in public. It's about hav…

So all I gotta do is eat some poop and it will save me from becoming a handsome, funny, unique genius?

Are you AI? You joined HN 5 years ago, dawg.

That power, today, is expressed through technology, and these overlords hold their control via proprietary software and anticompetitive business practices. To seize power back, you…

reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU) is a desktop client for managing the device offline, licensed AGPLv3 but sold for $12. Be aware, it is my software. https://www.davisr.me/projec…

What an absolute failure of their management. I've been using and developing for reMarkable since 2018 and the writing was on the wall back in 2021 when they moved their focus from…

There is also discussion about this happening in /r/RemarkableTablet: https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1ssquyu/r...

Hey mods/dang, can you put this back on the front page please? No reason to bounce it. Important licensing discussion and relevant!

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It's not revisionist. The entire NeXT codebase was literally compiled with GCC.

Just browse with JavaScript off, or with NoScript. People think it's inconvenient, but it's really not.

I love what Microsoft is doing. Keep it up!

Not a single mention of General Magic or Magic Cap, the software running on the tablet? Smh.

Copyright licenses are not one word. They are written with intent, and usually at minimum that intent is to credit the original author.

CALEA has given the FBI backdoor access to all telecom traffic for the past 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

No, Microsoft is staffed by over-educated conformists who were specifically hired to maintain that empire.