davisr

Pirate Bay didn't even host content, they merely acted as a tracker for others participating in the actual file sharing. No doubt, Anthropic and the rest are sitting upon petabytes of illegally acquired media.

You must have forgotten the point of this thread was about chopping books.

I chop my books and read them on my reMarkable tablet. It really doesn't get any better.

https://www.davisr.me/projects/books/

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.

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 really quite unofficial anymore.

I don't think it's disingenuous to link to my own work, when that work was directly inspired by reMarkable's own awful software. I would call that "relevance".

I don't think it's fair to praise reMarkable's support for restoring access to files they mistakenly deleted in the first place. And secondly, their support is doing this FAR less than they used to. Some people in the subreddit report they don't do it any longer, since about 2 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1caeble/b...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1nzwt9c/d...

Another defect of theirs is erroneously RESTORING files that were previously deleted.

They do not have sync or cloud figured out.

https://www.google.com/search?q=remarkable+support+restore+d...

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/restore of editable notebook data, it has a lot of unique features the manufacturer can't/won't support (like exporting with native PDF highlight annotations).

[1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?useskin=vector",
      "error": null,
      "includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)wikipedia\\.org\\/wiki\\/([^?]+)(?!=\\?useskin=vector)",
      "excludePattern": "",
      "patternDesc": "Adds ?useskin=vector to any Wikipedia page",
      "redirectUrl": "https://$2wikipedia.org/wiki/$3?useskin=vector",
      "patternType": "R",
      "processMatches": "noProcessing",
      "disabled": false,
      "grouped": false,
      "appliesTo": [
          "main_frame"
      ]
  }

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 right* is why so many people buy a copy in the first place. You are spreading FUD.

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 to have marginalia. I've tried special dotcode pens, portable scanners...writing digitally with a stylus is the best. Yes, it destroys the paper book, but it more than makes up for it with the freedom, flexibility, and durability of the digital copy.

[1]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/books/ [2]: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

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, cataloged, and analyzed. What this panopticon of private surveillance is, is way more similar to "stalking" than "recording".

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 need to relinquish their shackles by using technology that is designed with user freedom in mind, not "lock-in", and support businesses constituted of that ethos.

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/

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 marketing and poorly designed hardware. The company I originally liked died when their original CTO, Martin Sandsmark, left.

They had so many opportunities for growth. They could have written more useful software. They double-downed on a bad file format, their program data should be natively represented in PDF objects, not JSON+binary with extra rendering required. They didn't engage with the developer community hardly at all, who literally does free work/evangelism for the brand, and knows their product better than their own employees. They can, and still should, make their software as open-source as possible, and take the best community improvements back into their mainline. They need to fire their "UX" people and put someone in charge who knows what good software should be (hint: it's not putting commonly-used buttons behind another button, just to make way for your brand's logo at the top of the screen).

I don't even want to know what their cloud spend is, but they are absolutely getting ripped off there. They need to get on owned infrastructure, and second they need to move off all of it as quickly as possible and give people the means to host data on their own network storage. It should not cost users over $40/year to host <8 GB of files. They need to give users a native option for self-hosted cloud sync and stop trying to lock customers in to their crappy SaaS-ware.

IMO if the company goes under, it will be a boon for RCU, rmfakecloud, and reManager, but ultimately after enough people pull away (and it's already started, no one can afford luxury goods, 50% of consumer spending is by 10% of the population), none of it will matter much in two years.

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!

Could you suck corporate dong any harder?

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.

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.

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."