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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

[00:14:55] Harzilein can't calibre drive deDRM if you supply it? can't it not even _download_ it?

[00:15:38] Harzilein ah, you are not talking about kindle books in the first place

[00:17:16] Harzilein yeah, as i said, personally i found the whole thing around that program horrible and would recommend anyone to stay away from those outlets. at least in germany, some best sellers seem to be available in unobfuscated/-encumbered epub if one must avoid amazon for some reason

[00:18:47] Harzilein yeah, but my point it that's a shitty version of free to begin with

[00:19:11] Harzilein that's what i meant earlier, usually people come in contact with that through "free" outlets like library systems

[00:19:27] Harzilein and usually it turns out those library systems buy packages from multiple vendors

[00:20:28] Harzilein and maybe have one that ostensibly requires a reader app or a web reader which can both just be mitm'd or scraped (i.e. you need to figure out how your library's sso interaction with the vendor works)

[00:21:09] Harzilein because that is so much prefered to letting that ade crap onto your system in the first place

[00:21:15] Harzilein and then trying to drive it

[00:21:30] Harzilein i mean that's the kind of friction the drm vendors _sell_ to the book vendors

[00:22:20] Harzilein the regular "every api to emulate is a tiny bit different" is just another day on the internet

[00:22:29] Harzilein and most libraries accomodate that too

[00:22:42] Harzilein like those packages that also include bespoke magazine reader webapps

[00:23:49] Harzilein check _those_ for books. maybe in some years the librarians were lazy/underfunded and didn't catalog every vendor link their users are entitled to use. go to a book that _has_ an online reader link and work your way back to _their own_ (usually bad, but only as bad as amazon's) catalog

[00:27:18] Harzilein personally i know i'd likely get shocked how things are unbearable with drm'd books if i were to return to my birth hometown's library system

[00:28:04] Harzilein -system

[00:28:48] Harzilein hamburg's library system is above average. they seem to accept deals where they get lots of crappy stuff (you know, like the things you'd find as self-published on kindle)

[00:28:56] Harzilein though

[00:29:39] Harzilein but they tend to know that always having their users update to the latest will rarely improve the situation for the user community

[00:30:50] Harzilein i did this stuff once when i did lab computer support at the sociology department, it was arduous

[00:32:37] Harzilein jmjl: yes of course

[00:33:34] Harzilein jmjl: with "desktop" integration set up the right way, it should be little more than setting a check mark ins some preferences dialog i think. you can also run the server from the command line though.

[00:33:51] Harzilein jmjl: yes, you can connect to opds servers with calibre

[00:34:16] Harzilein calibre can be both opds server and client

[00:35:54] Harzilein i find calibre somewhat bloated, but i did run it once and connected with... not sure if it was fbreader with some plugin...

[00:36:02] Harzilein from my android phone

[00:36:10] Harzilein run it as server once*

[00:38:22] Harzilein jmjl: "manipulate"? whispersync is the delivery mechanism, the email service has a different name

[00:39:23] Harzilein jmjl: it used to require a "convert" in the subject more often, it seems to have become better when passing through .mobi and .azw3 files you converted yourself

[00:40:16] Harzilein well the infrared detector is important if you have lag/lag spikes

[00:40:23] Harzilein i recommend 9 and 8

[00:40:44] Harzilein because 9 helps you get golden ducks when you just lost your improved ammo

[00:40:50] Harzilein otherwise they flee

[00:41:27] Harzilein (i wanted to write super zombis ;)

[00:42:13] Harzilein ideally you buy the improved ammo yourself instead of waiting to get it randomly too, because you avoid the lesser improved ammo that way

[00:42:18] Harzilein and it's not _that_ expensive

[00:42:49] Harzilein kot: would work great for porn too i'm sure :3

[01:09:47] Harzilein latest release is fine. ideally not some random git checkout but a release.

[01:10:41] Harzilein but what esjay says, even debian's python rarely has the interpreter's version as the bottleneck (they have a _default_ python, and that gets upgraded more slowly)

[01:11:53] Harzilein it's the wider "ecosystem" (i hate that word) that occasionally needs major coordinated transition (or just random work because they changed something and imposed it on the community) that can get outdated on distros

[01:12:28] Harzilein but even then, it's fairly painless to then just backport what's already cooking in the distro packaging's repo (and soon pushed to unstable) if you need it

[01:14:16] Harzilein doing that whole virtualenv thing and updating every minor thing once it became available in the languages' package repos/hubs was often just a distraction imho.

[01:15:36] Harzilein (or with the interpreter: boy what _fights_ people have fought over the right way to build rubies and to then select between them... that was a shitshow around 2012)

[01:16:24] Harzilein from an admin's perspective: devs are usually way too eager to update their shit

[01:17:33] Harzilein of course in some organizations, admins have too much of an iron fist too

[01:19:20] Harzilein i remember reading that at some point during ruby on rails' heyday, bbc no longer was attracting enough devs to work on specific perl code on solaris instead of rails and one project was basically porting the entire rails philosophy to perl (which never had a shortcoming of web frameworks in the first place)

[01:20:23] Harzilein wonder if that was a success at least (i.e. if they succeeded in getting those devs that would otherwise have said "no way i'm going with something that won't be a marketable skill 5 years down the road" with a rails-like facade on perl web things)

[01:21:49] Harzilein jmjl: as in the graphical display of it? i think those are just some numbered positions. could be paragraphs or words or w/e.

[01:22:25] Harzilein jmjl: no idea if in authoring the .mobi files you get to select some numbering scheme

[01:23:12] Harzilein !shoot

[01:23:20] Harzilein heh

[01:29:43] Harzilein jmjl: exactly

[01:31:29] Harzilein uhm

[01:32:08] Harzilein look at hackaday, i think there were some services that send you used kindle parts

[01:34:25] Harzilein also the guy who runs gmane mentions an epaper display with hdmi on his blog

[01:34:35] Harzilein if it doesn't need to be a _kindle_ display

[01:36:17] Harzilein yeah, well, any kind of dealing with flex cable stuff is not fer the faint of heart

[01:42:08] Harzilein <Serion> would be cool to have IRC on one

[01:42:38] Harzilein Serion: personally i found some workable webirc setups... but with the "highscore entry style" input it's not fun

[01:43:06] Harzilein Serion: i would have tried a lot more with the browser

[01:43:28] Harzilein Serion: but luckily i got most of that energy out of my system with the wii and its web channel before

[01:44:55] Harzilein oh and obviously old things like ytalk's "wrap around instead for scrolling" become new again with epaper :D

[01:45:04] Harzilein of*

[01:46:53] Harzilein <Serion> "highscore entry style"?

[01:47:17] Harzilein Serion: kindle 4 only gives you the 5 way button, four more buttons on the bottom and four more on the sides

[01:47:40] Harzilein Serion: so you have to use the 5 way button like an arcade joystick when it's time to enter your name in the highscore

[01:47:59] Harzilein there's an xkcd about that too

[01:48:12] Harzilein (nowadays it's the tvs that have this)

[01:48:14] Harzilein you said irc client

[01:48:29] Harzilein again, if it's _epaper_ you want, you dont _need_ a kindle one

[01:49:22] Harzilein personally a palm III with the light turned on was a decent "statistics" monitor too

[01:49:27] Harzilein and i like the look on that a lot

[02:21:12] Harzilein Serion: heh

[02:22:06] Harzilein Serion: forwarded that to someone who constantly bemoans my using /me in inferior venues that don't support it

[21:30:43] Harzilein tssss

[21:30:44] Harzilein :D

[21:42:51] Harzilein can you limit .u output if you know the first one will be a hit? i.e. does .u take flags?

[21:43:23] Harzilein :DD

[22:56:04] Harzilein ComputerTech: why do you buy corona in warsaw /o\?

[22:57:27] Harzilein ComputerTech: but he also has brok and zywiec and tyskie?

[22:57:44] Harzilein :)

[22:59:15] Harzilein i had those mentioned and lech and lomza

[22:59:45] Harzilein (i can do a ł, but i don't feel like typin' _everyone's_ diacritics, k?)

[23:03:23] Harzilein i haven't had a brok in 21 years though... but i liked that it was easy enough to order and _all_ that beer, even going out, didn't meaningfully cut into a studen't travel budget :)

[23:03:35] Harzilein student's*

[23:04:11] Harzilein (likely slightly less true nowadays)

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