If someone finds out that this is fake, please just… shh, let us have this one

As soon as I saw the logo the theme song played in my head.

I’ve found the quality on Gutenberg varies massively - since an epub is basically a zipped html file, I’ve had plenty that are just barely-converted text files, with problems like incorrect character encoding and that everything’s one big chapter.

Yup, roadie wrap those cables and maintain things well.

My laptop is nine years old and has done more travelling than most people and has been used at the beach, on boats and near a waterfall. It’s needed new memory, the spinning drive replacing/upgrading to SSD and a new battery but I’ve never cared about cosmetic damage. It’s also clean, because that’s part of maintenance.

My Kindle looks like the end of Rocky II.

Maybe! I checked the Amazon update page and it looks like older models aren’t getting the update. Lucky you.

Unfortunately, just before that video aired Amazon broke jailbreaking with their 5.18.1 update (both for existing and new jailbreakers). WinterBreak is broken. Hopefully it can be worked around, but my guess will be that it’s not going to be possible again.

I’m going to get a Kobo Clara BW and use Koreader on there.

Tech is a tool to me and tools shouldn’t be pristine and unused.

My criticism would be that there’s no cuticle, but if it’s 100% realism you’re after then I guess that’s not top of the list…

Can’t stand it in my ass (Mungo’s Hi Fi)

I’ve researched this and I’ll be buying a Kobo once my Kindle finally dies (it’s lived a hard life). I’ve bought DRMed books from some non-Amazon sources and had to go through the steps to strip their DRM so I could read them on the Kindle - this was using Calibre. Mostly those other sources were using Adobe Digital Editions (DeDRM can handle it).

I have yet to find if there’s a self-hosted option that would replicate what Amazon does - i.e. tracks read position and lets you download and read via an Android app or a website. I do have Calibre-web set up, but haven’t fully looked into what it can do yet.

I was on a site that did that and was confused why my text search wasn’t finding much. Thanks devs for breaking basic browser features.

It’s so good that initially assumed they were different photos and the joke was it wasn’t an edit at all.

I don’t know this meme format, who’s that? Tim Apple?

I thought you mean he’d mailed it to you.

It’s almost a productivity hack.

You’re right, and even the Lemmy devs get this wrong in the docs:

You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them, or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

Note that it doesn’t talk about the quality or appropriateness of the comment, just that you can suppress it by downvoting.

Ok, so Lemmy doesn’t cause the same amount of duplication, but I’d still argue that dedupe is valuable: it saves on hosting costs (your costs, in this case) and users will get a small advantage in having slightly higher cache hits.

Yes, for example go to https://infosec.exchange/explore

I see the top post as https://infosec.exchange/@[email protected]/113433063621462027 and the image is https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/cache/media_attachments/files/113/433/063/582/671/258/original/71da3801e4e4f08c.png

The link is to the original on https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/433/062/676/773/993/original/f828afef5cc7ed1c.png but if you click the javascript loads a modal with the local cached version (same image as the thumbnail that infosec.exchange loads.

There’s lots of different codebases across the fediverse so perhaps some hotlink, but local copies is the default.

I think the major advantage is the deduplication - when an image goes viral across Mastodon (or Lemmy) it’s currently stored hundreds or thousands of times, each with its own cost. Do you dedupe (for either your customers’ benefit or your own)?

The botsin.space Mastodon server shutting down is sad news, it’s a pretty important server and if you didn’t like bots it was handy that you could just block one server and block loads of them at once.