#indieweb 2025-02-16

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[KevinMarks] This is great https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
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sebbu what an interesting read
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sebbu [KevinMarks]++
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Loqi [KevinMarks] has 9 karma in this channel over the last year (32 in all channels)
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sebbu it might have been the font i had on a spirograph a about thirty years ago ?
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Lars-Christian Anyone know of a directory to find where you can purchase a specific book DRM-free?
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Lars-Christian All I can find are articles or listings of stores that offer DRM free e-books. But I don't want to check X different stores if they have the book I'm looking for.
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sebbu Lars-Christian, i know some sites that list where you could buy a book, like wordcat, but not sure about drm-free. why not remove the drm from the ebook yourself ?
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Lars-Christian Thanks @sebbu. I already do that. But I reckon there's something in the terms that I'm in breaching by removing the DRM. It's not a problem, per se, but it would be nice to be fully on the right side of everything.
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Halian Lars-Christian: if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft ;)
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Lars-Christian Hah, I'm inclined to agree with that in principle. But I'm not sure it would hold up in a court of law if the terms explicitly prohibit it.
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Lars-Christian Although typing that out, I'm reminded of the story about the Wandersail from the Stormlight books.
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sebbu i know 7switch.com (previously immateriel.fr) doesn't do drm, but it's in french
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sebbu https://standardebooks.org/ doesn't do drm either, but you probably won't find your book on it
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sebbu (but it has a nice manual on how to make an epub, which is a reference)
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Lars-Christian Thanks @sebbu Was familiar with Standard Ebooks. Great resource!
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Lars-Christian Sounds like a project _someone_ should pick up... A searchable books database with links to where you can purchase specific books without DRM.
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sebbu i know such project, but for printed, rentable or ebook versions, not specifically no-drm
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sebbu like worldcat which i cited previously, there are others
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bossy DRM is decided by the publisher, nearly all books released will feature DRM, but some are easier to crack (Kobo) than others (Kindle)
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sebbu i remember cracking some ebooks i had rented at a library, was pretty easy too (it was using adobe digital edition)
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bossy Afaik most platforms do bear minimum in terms of DRM, the only ones absolutely hell bent on locking people into their platform is Amazon.
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bossy I’m ditching my kindles and moving over to something else
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jmac One for [snarfed] or any other Bridgy expert: My automatic, Webmention-based POSSE-posts to BlueSky don't seem to be passing along any of the illustration or summary information in my posts' OpenGraph tags. I *suspect* this is due to Bridgy abbreviating article-link URLs with ellipses instead of passing em straight in, but I'm not positive. Example of what I mean: https://jmac.org/misc/bridgy-question.png
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jmac Is there some way I can tune either my Bridgy account or my own posts (the microformats of which I have complete control) to make this work more like I want?
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[snarfed] jmac the link preview on Mastodon there is generated by Mastodon, not Bridgy
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[snarfed] Bridgy classic doesn't consume OGP or other metadata at all
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jmac Indeed! But I don't know why Bluesky (this is Bluesky, not Mastodon) makes the preview for my hand-pasted post, and not the Bridgy-posted one that has the same link in it
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[snarfed] ah, because the Bluesky _client_ generates that preview, not the server
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jmac oho
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[snarfed] link previews for Bluesky would be a good feature request for Bridgy classic!
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jmac Hearing "Bridgy Classic" reminds me that Bridgy New Flavor also exists so I am trying that for the first time. And possibly setting up an extremely ill advised solution that involves both
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jmac OK, I'm trying to suss out Bridgy fed now! I made https://bsky.app/profile/jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy, hurrah! Then I made a Mastodon post, which shows up at posted on https://fed.brid.gy/ap/@jmac@masto.nyc, whoo! Buuuut the post isn't visible on https://bsky.app/profile/jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy. Did I miss a step?
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Loqi misses a step too
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jmac I see that clicking the "N minutes ago" hyperlink about my post on https://fed.brid.gy/ap/@jmac@masto.nyc returns "No log found!" so I wonder if I might have jumped the gun a bit here
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[snarfed] jmac posts only get delivered to fediverse instances where someone has followed you
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[snarfed] oh sorry, you're going the other direction
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[snarfed] I do see one post on https://bsky.app/profile/jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy ...?
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jmac Yeah, it appeared some minutes after my messages here. I've posted two more and set a ten-minute timer to see if they'll show up too.
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jmac Dang, haha, it federated that one message from half an hour and that's all so far. Does it work on a queued delay
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jmac ? (which, totally fine if so!)
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[snarfed] ah, sorry, not a queued delay, no, it's usually only seconds to tens of seconds, but yeah we're backed up a bit right now
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jmac No problem! Another post snuck through in the meantime. I'm happy it's here at all!
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capjamesg[d] [Joe_Crawford] I found the quote I was looking for!
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capjamesg[d] https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/06/the-web-is-yours
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capjamesg[d] [edit] https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/06/the-web-is-yours
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capjamesg[d] > But James… What if I never get a reader? Email me. I’ll take a look at your website! I’ll be your first reader.
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Loqi [preview] [James] The web is yours. Our experiences on the web are mostly made by someone else. Social media networks decide what content to show you. YouTube tries to ascertain, based on all the information the platform collects about you, what it thinks you may like...
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