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I moved my open source projects from Github to Gitlab, and you should too:

https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0 https://github.com/selfagency/microsoft-drop-ice

I use kiel in SCION-SCXML’s SCHVIZ visualization library to automatically layout complex hierarchical state machine diagrams. It is excellent software, and I recommend it.

Example: https://jsbin.com/hegiyuk/edit?output

https://gitlab.com/scion-scxml/scion https://gitlab.com/scion-scxml/schviz

If only GitHub would do the same:

https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0 https://github.com/selfagency/microsoft-drop-ice

> You mean rsync via USB?

I mean rsync via USB (but over ssh protocol - the USB mounts as a network device, rather than as a disk drive).

> Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?

I have never connected the device to wifi, so I don't know about this.

> Reminds me of this digital typewriter project using a e-ink display: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer

Related: https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter

> Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.

I agree: e-ink display + terminal + vim + mechanical keyboard would make me very happy.

> The device is open -- does that extend to the notes and filesystem itself? I'm very interested in the ReMarkable 2, but I want to be able to write scripts to handle stuff like syncing.

Yes, the notes just live on the filesystem. You can fetch them using scp or rsync. They are in a proprietary file format, but they are not encrypted, and I think there are some open source projects on github that let you view them on your desktop.

> Especially if the handwriting recognition stuff they have is something I could hook around.

I think the handwriting stuff lives on their cloud and is proprietary, so I have never tried it.

> But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower.

Yes, I can confirm this. I have never connected my device to wifi. I backup my notes to my home server using rsync.

I use Mozilla Pocket for saved articles, and I have been meaning to try this:

https://github.com/glidergeek/pocket2rm

Yes, I meant "open" in the sense that you do not need to jailbreak it to run software that has not been approved by the manufacturer, not "open" in the sense that the operating system is open source.

Although, I think a lot of their operating system is open source and on their github page (linux kernel and uboot configuration): https://github.com/reMarkable

Their Qt-based shell software, xochitl, is not open source.

Oh wow, that is pretty cool. It is a different approach from what I was envisioning, which was taking an existing lightweight terminal codebase written in Qt[0], and porting it to the ReMarkable's Qt SDK. The Parabola approach is actually running X Windows, which is pretty amazing!

[0] https://github.com/lxqt/qterminal

I have been very happy with my ReMarkable 1, and have ordered the ReMarkable 2.0.

Hacker News might be interested in the active development community around the device: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. You can ssh into it, and run arbitrary code. The SDK is based on Qt. You can also connect a keyboard to it over a USB-on-the-go port.

I have been imagining porting a lightweight Qt-based virtual terminal to the device and using it as an e-ink unix terminal. Alas, I have not yet had the cycles to complete this project.

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I got can error message on loading the user intro: "There has been an unrecoverable error connecting to IPFS. Please retry again later."

Maybe not quite ready for prime time.

Thanks!

It means state is passed in as a parameter to the state machine interpreter - as opposed to being contained in the interpreter object. This is helpful when building pure functional systems, where state is passed in from some external data store, like in Redux reducers.

I don't know about RPL, but GPL has been tested a lot. For example, in the early 2000s, Linksys was forced to release the source code of their router firmware. This project was forked and is now maintained in the OpenWrt embedded linux distribution.

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

Here is a list of GPL enforcement cases from the Free Software Foundation:

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases

I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.

IANAL, but I guess this comes down to the interpretation of "Required Components".

1.12 "Required Components" means any text, programs, scripts, schema, interface definitions, control files, or other works created by You which are required by a third party of average skill to successfully install and run Licensed Software containing Your Modifications, or to install and run Your Derivative Works.

You have to make the source of the required components available under the RPL (section 6.0-6.1).

Would provisioning software to operationalize a database within a cloud environment be considered a "required component"? Maybe. If the cloud provider made modifications to the db source to get it to run well inside of their cloud environment, and did it in a way that made it impossible to run the modified db outside of their cloud environment, without using their custom provisioning scripts, then I would argue that those provisioning scripts would be considered "required components" under the definition in 1.12. But if they are able to run the db without making modifications to it, so that it is the same as upstream, and a third party developer does not need the provisioning scripts to run the modified db, then the provisioning scripts would not be considered required components.

So, the RPL is perhaps stronger than the AGPL, but not strong enough for MongoDB or Redis Labs.

I wonder why the RPL isn't more popular for this. It's an OSI-approved license that is meant to fix the "SAAS loophole":

PREAMBLE

The Reciprocal Public License (RPL) is based on the concept of reciprocity or, if you prefer, fairness.

In short, this license grew out of a desire to close loopholes in previous open source licenses, loopholes that allowed parties to acquire open source software and derive financial benefit from it without having to release their improvements or derivatives to the community which enabled them. This occurred any time an entity did not release their application to a "third party".

While there is a certain freedom in this model of licensing, it struck the authors of the RPL as being unfair to the open source community at large and to the original authors of the works in particular. After all, bug fixes, extensions, and meaningful and valuable derivatives were not consistently finding their way back into the community where they could fuel further, and faster, growth and expansion of the overall open source software base.

While you should clearly read and understand the entire license, the essence of the RPL is found in two definitions: "Deploy" and "Required Components".

Regarding deployment, under the RPL your changes, bug fixes, extensions, etc. must be made available to the open source community at large when you Deploy in any form -- either internally or to an outside party. Once you start running the software you have to start sharing the software.

Further, under the RPL all components you author including schemas, scripts, source code, etc. -- regardless of whether they're compiled into a single binary or used as two halves of client/server application -- must be shared. You have to share the whole pie, not an isolated slice of it.

In addition to these goals, the RPL was authored to meet the requirements of the Open Source Definition as maintained by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

https://opensource.org/licenses/RPL-1.5

I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 back in 2012. This laptop has an NVIDIA Optimus chipset, and for 4 years, I attempted to get triple-head support working under Linux (outputting to the laptop screen, and two monitors). Finally, in 2016, I was able to install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers through apt on ubuntu 16.04, and everything worked, including triple-head support.

Overall, all the hardware in the laptop is now working perfectly, and has been extremely stable. It took a long time, but I'm glad it's finally working using the proprietary drivers. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten this to work yet using nouveau. I'm currently running Mate and XMonad on X, and I have a feeling it's going to be a few more years before I will be able to run Wayland on this machine.

This is good to know. I haven't tried the Ubuntu respin, but will plan to do so soon.

I backed this project on Indiegogo, and the Windows 10 unit that I received does not implement sleep correctly, so the battery drains excessively while the unit is suspended with the lid closed. After about a day suspended, the battery is fully drained. This limits its usefulness as a mobile unit, as I have to power off the unit between uses. I emailed GPD support, but did not receive a response. They are a very small company.

Other than that, it's been a pretty nice device for development. One of the nice features is that it's so small, I don't have to stow it during airplane take-off and landing, and can continue programming throughout. The keyboard requires some getting used to, though.

This is interesting. What are you using to sandbox the user-defined Node.js code?

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Does anyone know which graphics cards Mir is intended to support on release?

That's disappointing. I'm relocating there next month. I guess I'll have to travel to NYC to participate.

I hope they come to Toronto.