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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • Bondi firing a reminder that even ultra-loyalists get dumped by Trump

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  • I'm not so sure, the entire modern GOP culture prioritizes loyalty to the leader above all else (even the stock market!) I think it's possible these lieutenants understand that taking the fall for the leader will be viewed by the party to be an act that demonstrates the depth of their loyalty (and therefore helps their future career).

    EDIT: Giuliani I think is probably an exception along with some other characters like Mike Lindell that actually are too dumb to understand what's going on.

  • Bondi firing a reminder that even ultra-loyalists get dumped by Trump

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  • They must know that their primary role is to take the fall for Trump, right? Their job is to absorb the blows and bad press (and sometimes literal bullets), and once they get too much baggage they get dumped. It's mafia style governance.

  • What device are you guys hosting on?

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  • Yeah I run HAOS in a VM but I keep a backup on an SD card that I can pop into a raspi if for whatever reason the server is down.

  • Reddit no longer the front page of the internet

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  • The Venn diagram of 4chan users is a smaller circle entirely within the reddit circle.

  • What does your self-hosted e-book management workflow look like?

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  • CWA largely removes the need for running Calibre.

    I use CWA for the main book "hub" and upload everything (audiobooks and comics too) to it. Then I have audiobookshelf scan the calibre directory, and Komga do the same because the app I use for comics (cdisplayex) doesn't sync with Koreader yet.

    On the client side I use Koreader, Lissen and Cdisplayex.

    It works fine but it would be nice to have one app that syncs all progress. And my holy grail is one that can sync ebook and audiobook progress like Amazon's whispersync!

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  • Call me naive, but from where I'm sitting the old web we all love is not only still there but getting better every day with inventions like ActivityPub and the fediverse. The Google feature listed in this article is stupid but it only affects Google users.

    Google and Meta and Reddit etc, have built their own walled gardens garbage dumps, but if you look at what's left when you remove their worthless fluff, all of the good bits are still there and getting better. Just because the Good Web doesn't move at the breakneck pace of silicon valley VC-funded startups doesn't mean it's not improving every day.

  • KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable

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  • Excited for the official KDE Distro. I am a big fan of Fedora Kinoite but will probably give KDE a show once it is out of beta.

  • GIMP alternative for Linux, but proprietary.

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  • No Photogimp is not enough lol

  • Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform

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  • They’ve just rebranded La Suite Meet anyway,

    I was basing it off the top comment here which said "They’ve just rebranded La Suite Meet" (which isn't E2E) but it looks like that person might have just been talking out their ass anyway.

  • GIMP alternative for Linux, but proprietary.

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  • Honestly? I would probably pay for a GIMP clone that has a photoshop-like UI and can be installed via flatpak. $70 is a little high but if it was $20 and received regular updates?

  • GIMP alternative for Linux, but proprietary.

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  • what is it

  • Proton launches new "Meet" privacy-focused conferencing platform

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  • The open source version isn't E2E encrypted fyi

  • Makes me so wet thinking about it

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  • Suggestion for moderators

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  • Nothing stopping you from making a post when you see a service on sale!

  • Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

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  • It seems to be implying that SoCs will soon become so fast and efficient that they will always outperform custom builds in every category including price.

    There's an argument to be made there (not saying I agree).

  • Books that are like Project Hail Mary

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  • "Dragon's Egg" is a great little book written by a physicist/aerospace engineer and it shows.

  • managing e-magazines

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  • Komga maybe? It's made for comics/manga but they can be grouped.

  • Ebook host that tracks your reading in its own Web UI? Does it exist?

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  • Booklore was discovered to be vibe-coded and riddled with security issues. The dev shut down the project when discovered. Best avoided for now.

  • Ebook host that tracks your reading in its own Web UI? Does it exist?

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  • KOReader is not "fake epaper", it's an app designed to be used on ereaders which means it's UI is high contrast. FWIW I agree it's not ideal for an OLED phone screen, but it's definitely not fake epaper (more like the opposite) and makes me think you might be accidentally using something else?

    (Also KOReader is not for "certain" devices, it's FOSS and installs on basically any ereader, including Kindle, Kobo and anything running android like Boox).

    What CWA does is it integrates a KOreader sync server (can also be ran independently). In future updates CWA's web reader will sync with this progress, but for now it only shows up in the UI like this:

    THAT ALL SAID, if you are only using the WebUI and don't want to wait for CWA to update their web reader, Komga is a simple app (originally designed for Manga but will work fine with books) that has a web reader that will also remember your progress (and fwiw there is a KOReader plugin in case you want to sync that progress with an epaper device in the future).