zephyrvs

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[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Things are the way they are."

Seriously.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

With AfD polling at the same popularity as the SPD, that could get ugly. And everyone is still aware of the disgrace that came to light when they tried to ban the way less popular NPD. I guess some secret services would hate to lose their assets in the AfD.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

I am shocked! The CIA and the FBI? The bastions of liberty and justice?

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Especially if it's run by Sam Altman.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Let's demand Chatcontrol for the police first and see how it goes!

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Let me throw my seedbox into the ring. :)

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember how maglev was supposed to be the future when I was growing up but most European projects went way over budget and were eventually scrapped so I'm really happy to see that the Chinese finished this thing and that it actually works and delivers in terms of speed.

This feels so much more futuristic than boring tunnels.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a stupid move by the Russian state. If they're so convinced that Putin will remain in power, they'd hold elections. Navalny is in jail and the opposition will probably try to mount an attack, but unless their domestic security services know something they're not telling, it's quite baffling why they'd openly admit to such weakness.

I mean, they've embedded Zelensky's move to postpone elections in their own propanda.

Imperialism breeds stupidity.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't have to convert to mobi anymore. The Kindle backend supports epub for a couple of months already. I've also read reports that Kindle's can now convert ePub by themselves if you copy ePub files via cable but I haven't verified that myself.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Can confirm, though it's unlikely to be some piracy check. The epub just has a couple of errors that might make it difficult for Amazon's server-side epub parsing implemention:

$ epubcheck ~/Downloads/nietzsche-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-r-kevin-hill--annas-archive.epub
[...]
ERROR(RSC-005): ./Downloads/nietzsche-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-r-kevin-hill--annas-archive.epub/index_split_003.html(172,403): Error while parsing file: element "blockquote" incomplete; expected element "address", "blockquote", "del", "div", "dl", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "ins", "noscript", "ns:svg", "ol", "p", "pre", "script", "table" or "ul" (with xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
ERROR(RSC-005): ./Downloads/nietzsche-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-r-kevin-hill--annas-archive.epub/toc.ncx(62,42): Error while parsing file: playOrder sequence has gaps
Check finished with errors
Messages: 0 fatals / 69 errors / 0 warnings / 0 infos

Unfortunately I couldn't find any other epub versions. Though I just discovered the Kindle ePub fix project and converted the ePub to a fixed version using the en language tag. That seems to work because the book just showed up in my Kindle library. :)

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about this take. I'm not sure how serious you are about it, but imagine a web without Javascript. Perhaps we'd all be using proprietary abominations such as Java or Flash today, not knowing what would've been possible with a more open, albeit somewhat clunky, programming language that's supported by every browser.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good point and a few search queries later, you seem to be right. I'll move them outside for the remainder of the day. Thanks! <3

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