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will0on Google open-sources the Pebble OS

Try that URL again :)

It was a transflective memory LCD, which Pebble marketed as "E-Paper" (not the same as E-Ink)

Rebble is the open source infra that has been keeping Pebbles alive since ~2016. See: rebble.io and https://github.com/pebble-dev

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the team)

RePebble is a new thing by Eric, the original founder of Pebble and is unrelated to Rebble.

> Is Rebble making hardware as well as RePebble?

Potentially! We have always talked about it, but some of the announcements today have thrown us for a loop so plans are still being discussed.

> Is RePebble also open source and community owned like Rebble?

Remains to be seen, but if I had to guess it's unlikely.

will0on Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal

Looks like it changed a month ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1doc3pt/updating...

will0on lldap: Light LDAP Implementation

Funny that the L in ldap stands for lightweight, and yet clearly there is interest in a lightweight version of what has become a somewhat bloated protocol.

will0on UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

Do you exit the vpn in the UK, or somewhere else?

will0on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

As of Android 14 you cannot install apks if the sdk target version is too old. You must use adb with a special flag.

will0on Searching for 'Telegram' on Twitter is blocked

Not for me (UK)

will0on Show HN: Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi

Looks like it's been hugged to death. Archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221102223146/https://purplehoi...

will0on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

We'd love to offer something like that, but there's all kind of considerations around liability with repairs. Plus we're entirely run by volunteers, and watch repairs take a lot of time.

That being said, a store for refurbed Pebbles might be doable, but it would be a big time and cost overhead.

will0on Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

The actual number of Pebble users is likely far higher, this is just the count we get from our side at Rebble.

There are more Pebble users out there using Gadgetbridge for example.

will0on The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]

The first episode of the US office is pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of the first episode of the UK office. After that they diverged a fair bit.

will0on Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite

Why?

will0on Our plans for Thunderbird on Android

Arguing for electron on hn? Brave.

(I like electron fwiw, it's enabled me to have a desktop experience with applications that would've otherwise never come to linux)

will0on The Modos Paper Laptop

I have a Onyx Boox Note Air, and it's amazing for reading / writing. I have an SSH app on it (it's Android) and the experience starts to fall apart there. I can type significantly faster than it can refresh and render the characters.

That being said I'm sure there's some magic you could do to reduce latency here if you tried. I know it does some magic behind the scenes with the drawing to improve responsiveness.

will0on Canon Camera Museum

Perhaps most interesting is the .canon tld

will0on Success and Failure at Pebble

Timeline is a (mostly) supported feature on Rebble!

will0on Success and Failure at Pebble

Check out rebble.io/howto to get started. If you have any questions we're on Discord[0]

[0]: https://rebble.io/discord

will0on Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially)

> you can then use either TOTP or Email (if you specify both, it will default to using TOTP) to login thereafter to make things quicker (it can take up to a minute until profiles update).

I guess at this point it's more like login with loginwithhn?

will0on A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today

Without a polarised plug it means current can 'flow' the 'wrong' way through the toaster, backwards through the heating coils.

Which is to say when the toaster is plugged in but off, the heating coils could still be live, and touching them would shock you.

will0on Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

I like this quote:

> 21 million bitcoins seems like a low limit to set. According to [0] the exchange rate is currently 221 Bitcoins per USD, so the total value of all possible bitcoins is only 95000USD.

Today 95000USD is worth 1.51BTC

will0on Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down

Yes

will0on The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

Correct

will0on Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right

Have you seen beeper?

https://www.beeperhq.com/

will0on Null

Perhaps it's 'allah'?

will0on Wyze $20 Smart Watch

I know you said you don't want a replaced battery, but if you were interested in doing the (fairly easy) battery replacement yourself, there's a link to where you can purchase a battery on Aliexpress here:

https://willow.systems/pebble/#hardware

will0on Wyze $20 Smart Watch

Pebble may be long gone, but there are plenty of people still using them with 90% of the functionality still intact!

will0on Ask HN: What caused the worldwide outage on YouTube yesterday?

Nothing from Youtube officially yet. Probably BGP.

will0on Reddit's Stock Threads Become a Must-Read on Wall Street

They're referring to /r/wallstreetbets

will0on Air-filtering bus to launch across six regions in the UK

Hopefully Southampton can get it's shore power[0] sorted, the cruise ships idling are more a pollution problem than the busses.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-50562113