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These commit sha's do not match the original: 4526863 - Initial commit
Where are you getting that hex prefix from?
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How is paying for a DRMed book ethical? I agree that buying a DRM free book is clearly right, but if someone is only providing a book in a way that infringes on your rights, why would you give them money for that? If someone sells a book that you want to read and you have the money to pay for it, by all means, buy it. But if you are unable to buy the book because the author decided to publish it in a way so that you…
Your right to buy a DRM-free book? I put that in the same bucket as my "right" to buy your house for $1.
And yes, DRM infringes on essential rights, it not only limits what you can do with something you supposedly bought, but takes away your control over your own hardware.
And even more basic is the right not to get frauded. If someone claims to be selling something to you, but then they only give you locked down, perhaps even revokable access to it, then they are defrauding you.
Hell hath no fury like an engineer angered! This was such a good read and epitomizes hacking: "Was it worth it? To read one book? No. To prove a point? Absolutely. To learn about SVG rendering, perceptual hashing, and font metrics? Probably yes."
This is essentially how I find myself defending a lot of my DIY stuff. "Wait, you work in tech, why would you ever work on your own car when you can clearly pay someone else to do it???" Because I like to learn things.
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Where are you getting that hex prefix from?
Sorry, I don't comment very often and not trolling. I had GitHub open to the repo on my phone and seeing that it had been taken down grabbed a screenshot of the page https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP
The repo as I and many other people cloned it has the first commit ("first commit", not "initial commit") at Oct 12 23:20 Z, and the "done" commit at Oct 15 19:37 Z.
A likely explanation is that pixelmelt squashed both commits at or after they put up the blog post, but didn't force-push the rewritten history to github until it hit HN and blew up.
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Sorry, I don't comment very often and not trolling. I had GitHub open to the repo on my phone and seeing that it had been taken down grabbed a screenshot of the page https://imgur.com/a/IzUA8mP
The HN thread began on Oct 16 at 20:22 Z. If you visited that github page instantly and took that screenshot instantly, even accounting for 21 hours due to rounding, the commit in that screenshot had to be after Oct 15 23:22. The repo as I and many other people cloned it has the first commit ("first commit", not "initial commit") at Oct 12 23:20 Z, and the "done" commit at Oct 15 19:37 Z. A likely explanation is that…
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How is paying for a DRMed book ethical? I agree that buying a DRM free book is clearly right, but if someone is only providing a book in a way that infringes on your rights, why would you give them money for that? If someone sells a book that you want to read and you have the money to pay for it, by all means, buy it. But if you are unable to buy the book because the author decided to publish it in a way so that you…
If you buy the book on Amazon, then the author gets some money, but if you don’t buy it, then they don’t. And it’s not like you have zero alternatives, you could also just buy the physical copy in most cases. So when you say you’re unable to buy the book that’s not truthful. No one is forcing you to steal their work, you have the option to just not read their work if your distribution preferences are so specific. And…
Btw, in Poland where I live, every ebook shop sells drm free books. Every single one. Why? Amazon don't sell polish books, yet kindles for the long time were the only readers available, so people had to use a cable to transfer the books. And kindle can't read any other drm than their own. So shops had no choice and it stayed that way.
So maybe a third option (not really but maybe?) is to buy polish version and use Ai to translate it?
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In general, if I don’t have to pay someone to produce something I can provide a better experience to my customers than those who do. It’s why archive.is is so much better to read on than a news site. Might as well ask “when I engage with GPL projects it’s so much worse of an experience than if I just bundle the code and distribute it without a license, why?” It’s often cheaper to not comply than to comply. But my kin…
> In general, if I don’t have to pay someone to produce something I can provide a better experience to my customers Amazon theoretically makes money with which they pay people to make the user experience good. Pirates have... a few nerds with some spare time?
But fortunately, with AI content starting to become better we will be able to transform regular people into IP maximalists arguing that copyright protection schemes should be embedded even more than they are today.
That rather sounds like a bug to me.
I'd try browser automation to get the book pages, then OCR it (or just store them as images).
A gentle reminder that physical books are still available, and quite inexpensive when purchased used from, e.g., library book stores or thrift stores. It has no DRM, has a Paper White™ interface, and even has a nice smell and feel. You can loan it, give it, or sell it to any human without hassle or legal risk to yourself or them. You can highlight, add notes ("marginalia"), fold the corner of a page for a bookmark. O…