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New comment by davisr in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

davisr — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:03:07 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics"

davisr — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:13:50 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

davisr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:22:22 +0000

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.

New comment by davisr in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

davisr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:09:29 +0000

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/

New comment by davisr in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

davisr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:25:27 +0000

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.

New comment by davisr in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

davisr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:23:33 +0000

There is also discussion about this happening in /r/RemarkableTablet:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/1ssquyu/r...

ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce

davisr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://e24.no/naeringsliv/i/ExboXl/remarkable-kutter-opptil-200-ansatte

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867176

Points: 50

# Comments: 18

New comment by davisr in "OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval"

davisr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:46:28 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

davisr — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:45:05 +0000

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New comment by davisr in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

davisr — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:17:31 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

davisr — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:38:25 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "Windows 11 January Update Breaks Notepad"

davisr — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:10:45 +0000

I love what Microsoft is doing. Keep it up!

New comment by davisr in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

davisr — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:56:14 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "30 Years of ReactOS"

davisr — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:33:19 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "European Commission issues call for evidence on open source"

davisr — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:43:40 +0000

CALEA has given the FBI backdoor access to all telecom traffic for the past 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...

New comment by davisr in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

davisr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:39:21 +0000

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

New comment by davisr in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

davisr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:11:13 +0000

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.

New comment by davisr in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

davisr — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:47:40 +0000

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."

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL

davisr — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:13:22 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395184

Points: 504

# Comments: 262

New comment by davisr in "Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached"

davisr — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:31:44 +0000

"Fauxpensource", if you will.