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My favourite, while being stranded on a trail with a broken bike: teleport across a lake, drive fifteen minutes, then hop on a bus. Apparently you are SOL if you don't have a car. …

Maybe they're right, albeit for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps the problem is our desire to have everything, no matter what the compromises are. Perhaps the problem is our inabilit…

No for Whispersync. Kobo only offers synchronization for books purchased through them. On the other hand, KOReader does offer synchronization.

Odd. The Libra 2 (the successor to the Libra H2O) had a uSD card with a conformance coating over it. Of course, the Libra Colour uses eMMC. I wonder why then went back and forth th…

My apologies for a lack of clarity in that sentence, but I meant that publishers have to contend with people who are willing to use generative AI to make money by writing books for…

Publishing is a business. There will be real publishers who are interested in using AI for the sake of making money. Even when a publisher has integrity and refuses to sell AI gene…

I agree it won't work, albeit for an entirely different reason. There has been a shift towards labelling AI generated or AI assisted content by those who aren't attempting to misle…

> If I open my own line of home improvement stores and do no oversight on what I sell and wind up selling really dangerous lawnmowers, I'm partly responsible. While there would be …

> I have actually heard otherwise intelligent people say things just like that, including site operators who run nontrivial websites. First of all: thank you for using the word say…

I don't know what the situation is like for Kindle, but there are atleast two open source alternatives for Kobo. KOReader is the Swiss Army knife, Plato is easier to use. A few peo…

A lot of people are misconstruing what I have said, which is pointing out that this can impact regular users. It not intended as a justification to restrict on-device ADB, and it c…

> In other words: this is all but impossible to impact regular users, and it requires a particularly careless developer to be hit by it. Have you ever worked with someone who barel…

> It is really annoying to write something and have someone say (...) It's worse than that. What they are saying is the equivalent to saying that knowing how to do something proper…

> Agreed, this is what you agreed to (implicitly or explicitly) when uploading stuff to the internet. A more pragmatic approach is to acknowledge that concerning one's self with ho…

> But now I'm really reluctant to give more stuff to the free web. Because the fact that it gets scraped and added to a pile of training data to later be monetized really rubs me t…

> now there's better tech to do native ads without the intrusion and massive bad experience .... the publisher themselves can serve you a small ad This has always been possible and…

Because every time something new comes along, people will push boundaries while arguing it is acceptable. In this case, they may argue that it is no different from physically furni…

> (Speaking as a parent of three) why can't we just leave all responsibility to the parents? Then I'm sure that you appreciate that there are both legal and informal checks in plac…

While I agree on bit about horrible prices, the TI calculators are well suited to their intended task[1] so I will object to the outdated hardware part. Stability is a good thing i…

> yes there were folks from before that saw a PDP or whatever but they were rare, and usually either deep in academia or IBM etc. Was it a case of being rare, or of computers being…

Thank you for linking that since it sort of answered one of my questions: what would a person who lived in the backwoods of Oregon to escape the distractions of the world think abo…

> Just log off of Instagram / TikTok / wherever. A large number of youth will do that, but there is also a reason why children and youth are considered a vulnerable population. I c…

> Except social media as a concept isn’t the issue. I’ve been bullied before social media was mainstream. The differences with bullying via social media are: the difficulty to esca…

Perhaps there's stuff going on in the UK that I'm missing but: - I have not heard of a general cell phone ban for children and youth. They may "ban" the use of phones in schools (i…

Something tells me people's milage varies based upon how they prompt the LLM. I spent about half an hour using traditional web searches to tackle a software configuration problem t…