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Pebble seeks to remedy the wearable industry's original sin

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That's from November, it seems like since then they have worked out some of their issues and agreed on a plan to cooperate.

https://rebble.io/2025/11/24/rebble-in-your-own-world.html

We have a better understanding of how Eric interacted with the App Store API, and we don’t think that he intended to “steal” from us there.

One of the things that we’ve understood from both our blog post and Eric’s is that we have real common ground: what matters to both of us is keeping the Pebble ecosystem alive and kicking. And from the community reaction, what we hear is clear: we can only do that by working together.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-watch-software-is-now-100percent-open-source

Pebble Appstore now has a publicly available backup and supports multiple feeds, providing long term reliability through decentralization.

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Does this plan make sense? v2

"Abolish corporate personhood" doesn't go far enough. Abolish corporations. Companies over a certain size should be forced to convert to either a worker-owned co-op or a non-profit organization. Human society needs to evolve past being centered around maximizing shareholder profits.

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The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback. Google has open-sourced the Pebble software, which means anyone — including Pebble’s founder — can make one.

What I'm most looking forward to on a new Pebble:

  • Battery life. With the battery and cpu efficiency improvements in the last 10 years, if the features and other specs stay the same then battery life should be incredible. I think month-long battery is likely possible.
  • Improved voice recognition and AI features. Pebble had voice recognition but it sent everything to a server to process. Now they could run speech-to-text on the watch itself or on the connected phone.
  • More durable buttons. A known issue with the Pebble 2 is eventually the buttons turn to mush.
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Unable to access lemmy.ml from my desktop. Anubis bot protection takes 36 minutes and then fails. CPU is Intel Celeron G530 from 2011.

Update: Eventually I was able to get in using Chrome or Firefox. Their hashrate was much faster than Pale Moon. Still can't use lemmy.ml in Pale Moon.

I tested some other instances that are behind Anubis: quokk.au, lemmy.ca, lemmy.nz. The difficulty levels they assigned me were 1, 3, 4 respectively and I was able to get in after a few seconds. dbzero uses haphash and their challnge took my browser 566 ms.

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What are some lesser known music genres that you'd recommend?

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Well calling it a whole genre is a bit of a stretch. Mark Sandman of Morphine coined the term "low rock" for their type of music and there's a couple bands heavily influenced by them that also use that label. Monique Ortiz makes music that continues the low rock vibe, and then she's collaborated with Morphine's drummer on Bourbon Princess, and put out an album with Morphine's saxophonist as "A.K.A.C.O.D." And there's also the band "Twinemen" with former Morphine members.

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