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> They cobbled it together using a Raspberry Pi, a portable hard drive, and the Camlistore software built by Fitzpatrick and Slatkin. Do tell, how could someth
by claudius 13y ago
> They cobbled it together using a Raspberry Pi, a portable hard drive, and the Camlistore software built by Fitzpatrick and Slatkin.
Do tell, how could something be less black-boxy than that?
- dobbsbob 13y agoSomething with at least hardware documentation. Pi is a bunch of binary blobs so might as well just make Android webservers, at least it will be a pocket sized bunch of sealed patents
- nl 13y agoPi is a bunch of binary blobs Wow, you have pretty high standards! High standards are good. A running platform is also good. Raspberry Pi has 2 binary blobs - the boot blob & the GPU blob. Personally, I'd prefer if they weren't needed. But I think the availability of a cheap, widely deployed and capable computing platform is more important. Yes, there are other choices that could be made for the hardware. People should be encouraged to explore those other options. Nevertheless I think the decision to build something on RaspberryPi is a good one.