davisr

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by davisr 1mo ago
Having a ghostwriter in your ordinary life is absolutely cheating. It's letting someone, or something, else write for you and pass it off as your own. Personally, I'm insulted any time someone sends me LLM-generated media.
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by davisr 1mo ago
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 coordinate with reMarkable AS, so it's not
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by davisr 1mo ago
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, used by several thousand people. Beyond backup/restor
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by davisr 1mo ago
I use Redirector in Firefox to rewrite URLs to the old Wikipedia: { "description": "Old Wikipedia", "exampleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page", &
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by davisr 1mo ago
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 place, that's their right, and *that righ
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by davisr 2mo ago
I earn income selling copies of free/libre/open source software. Other people could too, if they tried, but they don't.
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by davisr 2mo ago
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 to have marginalia. I've tried special dotcode pens, po
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by davisr 3mo ago
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 having all public excursions recorded, cata
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by davisr 4mo ago
So all I gotta do is eat some poop and it will save me from becoming a handsome, funny, unique genius?
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by davisr 5mo ago
Are you AI? You joined HN 5 years ago, dawg.
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by davisr 5mo ago
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 need to relinquish their shackles by using technology that
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by davisr 5mo ago
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/projects/rcu/
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by davisr 5mo ago
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 making a useful, durable product (the RM1) to flashy m
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by davisr 5mo ago
There is also discussion about this happening in /r/RemarkableTablet: https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1ssquyu/r...
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ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce(e24.no)
50 points by davisr 5mo ago|18 comments
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by davisr 6mo ago
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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by davisr 6mo ago
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by davisr 8mo ago
It's not revisionist. The entire NeXT codebase was literally compiled with GCC.
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by davisr 8mo ago
Just browse with JavaScript off, or with NoScript. People think it's inconvenient, but it's really not.
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by davisr 8mo ago
I love what Microsoft is doing. Keep it up!
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by davisr 8mo ago
Not a single mention of General Magic or Magic Cap, the software running on the tablet? Smh.
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by davisr 8mo ago
Copyright licenses are not one word. They are written with intent, and usually at minimum that intent is to credit the original author.
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by davisr 8mo ago
CALEA has given the FBI backdoor access to all telecom traffic for the past 30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
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by davisr 8mo ago
No, Microsoft is staffed by over-educated conformists who were specifically hired to maintain that empire.
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by davisr 8mo ago
If you're using Microsoft in 2026, that's on you. You can't be mad at the lawnmower that cut your foot off, it's just doing what it does.
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by davisr 8mo ago
Because the World Economic Forum, where our political and corporate leaders meet and groom each other, point-blank advertised "you will own nothing and be happy."
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My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL(old.reddit.com)
504 points by davisr 9mo ago|262 comments
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by davisr 9mo ago
"Fauxpensource", if you will.
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by davisr 10mo ago
No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.
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by davisr 11mo ago
You can use CSS for interactive-esque things like that. Use JS for all I care, just don't make it mandatory. You /could/ refresh the page with new values. You /could/ paginate your flow. You won't, because you&

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