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Monday, August 28, 2023

[15:55:21] Harzilein can i find out from nickserv how long the timeout for claiming your registered nickname is?

[15:56:05] Harzilein for some reason i haven't enabled sasl auth for rizon and would still do that, but the answer would be interesting anyway

[15:56:06] Harzilein !bang

[15:56:08] Harzilein !reload

[15:56:09] Harzilein !bang

[15:56:12] Harzilein !reload

[15:56:14] Harzilein !bang

[15:56:40] Harzilein at some point my nickname would be forcibly change if i don't react, so i'm wondering if i can find out that time

[16:04:25] Harzilein amiga600, Fensta: that's generally valid advice, still, i like to introspect all introspectable things, and what that timeout is set for an individual nickserv instance is an interesting thing

[16:04:49] Harzilein AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[16:04:57] Harzilein HALLO?

[16:05:35] Harzilein i live on ircnet primarily where nicknames-can't-be-owned is one of the few policies

[16:06:04] Harzilein amiga600: oh, i'd totally expect a keen interest in those timeouts to eventually get noticed by ircops on a particular net

[16:36:09] Harzilein !bang

[16:36:11] Harzilein !reload

[16:36:13] Harzilein !bang

[21:45:44] Harzilein jmjl: there's a nice way through docbook and epub to get good kindle output from gnu texinfo docs

[21:46:14] Harzilein jmjl: so things like coreutils (and even bash has info docs even though it's the rare gnu package that also has a decent manpage)

[21:47:03] Harzilein jmjl: i think the info docs aren't more pedagocical at all

[21:47:15] Harzilein jmjl: but they have internal hyperlinks, can't complain about that

[21:47:31] Harzilein jmjl: given that searching on the kindle is a bit awkward to begin with

[21:49:50] Harzilein jmjl: no article, but what i do is texi2any --docbook coreutils.texi (from a coreutils checkout/distro source package), dbtoepub coreutils.xml, then load coreutils.epub into calibre

[21:50:52] Harzilein jmjl: i have a slight aversion against the method because it overwrites a file content of which is known _in principle_ but i wouldn't be able to know if mine would differ and i miss out on some information

[21:52:06] Harzilein jmjl: or ebook-convert docbook.epub docbook.mobi

[21:52:43] Harzilein jmjl: ebook-convert coreutils.epub coreutils.mobi i mean

[21:54:00] Harzilein jmjl: you found that high ranking on google, but the mobileread docs for that info are more comprehensive and were up to date last time i looked.

[21:55:48] Harzilein personally i was tempted once the shop mostly broke on that model and someone had set up a spiffy thing that speaks its api and does calibre opds instead

[21:56:26] Harzilein (but of course needs "mitm" certs set up to work)

[21:57:00] Harzilein the same

[21:57:12] Harzilein bought one for my mom and one for myself around christmas that year

[21:57:40] Harzilein oh wait, was mine silver?

[21:57:42] Harzilein hmm...

[21:57:51] Harzilein but it's a kindle4 alright

[21:58:58] Harzilein Ziginox: nopes, deliberately didn't get a touch

[22:00:07] Harzilein jmjl: i never unlinked mine and again, _i haven't rooted mine_, i just understand the procedure enough that i'd do it if overwriting that file wouldn't annoy me

[22:01:00] Harzilein jmjl: it's not super critical, it's only that if i want to restore it, i'd rely on what others claim are the official backups. and that would not be a problem _either_ because what is claimed to be the content of that particular file is benign too

[22:01:43] Harzilein yeah, mine still works, and i think i can even still buy a book with a direct link, but something broke with the catalog

[22:03:07] Harzilein i liked to use the email feature, but then enough people used it in bulk that even private usage required another confirmation step

[22:03:23] Harzilein of course i had scripted _that_, but it's really not too hard to plug a usb cable in

[22:05:23] Harzilein i have a perl program "zapzi" here that does a bit of the oldschool "munge websites into palm pilot docs" thing (for epub though, with easy hooks to add automatic conversion and/or processing by third party programs)... but then, it's as easy to do the same for calibre.

[22:08:02] Harzilein jmjl: the jailbreaking step as described is really self-contained. anything that _might_ break functionality comes later as things that require the jailbreaking step (and likely will also assume you did one of the steps like "enable ssh" or - which is also slightly scary, but could already be reversed by simpler means than installing a backup - installing new certificates _in addition_ to the ones from amazon.

[22:08:16] Harzilein jmjl: +)

[22:10:54] Harzilein <CaptainJack> ☠ Harzilein digs up an a message in a bottle n' it reads: How did the pirate call his mate? On his aye phone!

[22:11:03] Harzilein !bang

[22:14:49] Harzilein personally if your library has adobe digital editions versions, i'd look hard and close if they really do _not_ have an alternative thing (say, a website version that can be scraped)

[22:16:50] Harzilein i have a 2.3.7 phone where of course many vendor apps no longer want to talk with their backends and tls support isn't up to par. but i chug along with it fine with an ssh client and forwarding w/e i need from my shared host.

[22:17:18] Harzilein (and of course that is harder on the battery than operator-supported messaging would have given me)

[22:37:32] Harzilein it's interesting, when you knew sony from things like their laptops etc. they were where microsoft is now wrt annoying proprietary shit

[22:38:19] Harzilein they are indeed a nice runner up wrt popularity (i.e. people to run their head against the wall until someone succeeds)

[22:40:01] Harzilein i'm a loyal lineageos user, and i think the path to using replacement services, even though the step with the replacement certs or w/e is unsupported by their devs - is well-documented

[22:40:19] Harzilein (or replacement package ids or w/e)

[22:40:43] Harzilein i was considering ... let me look it up, the name was ridiculous, it sounded like a 4chan board...

[22:42:16] Harzilein "/e/", can you believe that name?

[22:43:19] Harzilein jmjl: what Ziginox says

[22:43:35] Harzilein jmjl: you _should_ familiarize yourself with the unbricking procedure for piece of mind

[22:43:46] Harzilein jmjl: peace*

[22:43:59] Harzilein amiga600: please stop the noise

[22:44:41] Harzilein amiga600: we are talking about 10y + platforms with a well known update history and plenty of docs. the occasional outliers that are holding the tools wrong nonwithstanding.

[22:44:59] Harzilein jmjl: that's because they have to support it

[22:45:17] Harzilein jmjl: so _their_ approach to make support easier is that kubrick distro

[22:45:40] Harzilein jmjl: you can just expand their iso and introspect things yourself and do things the way they do

[22:46:24] Harzilein jmjl: that's already quite experimental.

[22:47:21] Harzilein jmjl: personally if you want to salvage the browser i'd use something that drives a browser on some other machine of yours and presents it as a website with its own form for where the address bare goes and the like. a handful of such retro-proxies exist.

[22:47:36] Harzilein ComputerTech: no. it's embedded linux.

[22:48:09] Harzilein ComputerTech: you could install something like a wap browser, but their browser fits the capability of that "cheap mass produced" device _just so_

[22:48:42] Harzilein ComputerTech: remember that they basically just took a nominal amount of money for the device

[22:49:25] Harzilein ComputerTech: less costly device for them to build means they have to sell you fewer books (or relatively fewer crap books) to recoup their loss

[22:50:51] Harzilein yeah, there was one i had already stepped on though that i wanted to rip apart and i managed to stick the power button in and there's no obvious way to get it out of its aluminum cage without complete disassembly

[22:51:57] Harzilein jmjl: huh?

[22:52:03] Harzilein jmjl: you asked about the browser.

[22:52:35] Harzilein jmjl: there are of course _projects_ on mobileread, likely long dormant, that tried to give you alternative browsers

[22:53:00] Harzilein jmjl: but they always have to work within the constraints of the relatively specialized runtime

[22:53:57] Harzilein jmjl: if you want something stable, tethering to some other machines (even through wan, it's not the _latency_ that makes this a crapshow) seems likely to give the most enjoyment for keeping the device useful

[22:54:22] Harzilein jmjl: note in that forum post that he was already after the "changing the screensaver" bit

[22:54:38] Harzilein jmjl: i'd not start with something that gives you bling

[22:55:41] Harzilein jmjl: confirm that the jailbreak worked, do the ssh thing because most of the other things utilize it (at least support-wise, i.e. it's not without alternatives) and see if just being able to put on new books over the network improves your experience.

[22:56:25] Harzilein jmjl: personally i liked the wap-like experience of the kindle shop, and again, using that feature set with an opds server with your calibre content might already be quite enough

[22:56:38] Harzilein jmjl: and that was the most tempting thing i saw

[22:57:05] Harzilein jmjl: but it also involves a more thorough read

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