https://feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

[why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

I used gitit for a while. It’s git backed and you can propagate it around that way.

There is no need for this.

My only experience with the fediverse so far is Lemmy and I can understand why some forum users might not want to change to it. Too much censorship, too many bots, less continuity of the user base, etc.

I’m not sure what this post is trying to convey. The fediverse is another thing designed to kill old school forums, I thought?

Avoids the need for a network connection or server, though I guess you could run it on a local socket. The UI might be preferable too.

If the kobo hardware device can read drm’d epubs, it is “using drm” to do so. I’m asking if Calibre can read those same drm epubs. Do you know if it can, maybe by adding a plugin? I know there was something like that for Kindle files. Thanks.

Thanks yeah I don’t have a kobo reader so was asking if there was a way to read paid-for kobo downloaded books that have drm, similar to how decss lets you watch DVDs that you bought. I don’t mind paying for books but don’t want a locked down reading device with it’s own crappy software and possible invasive phoning home.

Yes I’ve been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it’s decent. I’m a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.

I didn’t downvote anything fwiw.

Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a kobo book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.

Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I might try it.

Nice but 1) doesn’t Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it’s a client app. Should this post be in a different group?

In an interview I’m fine with any structure or topics you want. By informal structure I meant in the software UI, not the interview. I’ll to post more tomorrow or so.

I’ll try to take a closer look and I might be up for an interview, since the concept interests me. I generally prefer less formal structure. Do you remember DMOZ? It might even still be around.

Looks interesting, first thing I notice is that the demo loads rather slowly. Why not just a wiki?

Crosspost bots have been discussed many times and they are generally not wanted. Let reddit do its own thing. The extension sounds preferable to a bot if it’s only for use by post authors.

Thanks. My phone is on 14 and won’t get another update, oh well.

latest release of android

Does that mean 15?

Might be worth patching fail2ban to recognize the scrapers and block them in iptables.