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by contact9879 1y ago
installing third-party OSes on pixels does not void its warranty. It's one of the biggest reasons why GrapheneOS only supports Pixels and not e.g. Samsung's Galaxy lines.
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by contact9879 1y ago
They note in-post that it took ~2 months
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by contact9879 1y ago
Signal isn't in a Windows app store to be kicked out of, though
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by contact9879 1y ago
it is absolutely insane that we're forced to DRM our own applications to protect ourselves from our own computers
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by contact9879 1y ago
This is a revision of a paper that first appeared as an eprint back in September when PQ3 was announced. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1395
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by contact9879 1y ago
I've been using a tangential but still pdf tool, pdfux.com since it was posted here on hn Thanks for this! I'll definitely add it to my bookmarks
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by contact9879 2y ago
sure, but html isn't only used in a browser context. I have a severely under-powered ereader that I use to read epubs (html). It already takes ten seconds to paginate on first open and font size changes. I can't imagine how long i
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by contact9879 2y ago
Quick example would be https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mark-twain/the-innocents-a... Try zooming in and out with text-wrap: pretty vs text-wrap: wrap
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by contact9879 2y ago
the distributed proofreaders process does include a mandatory spellcheck
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by contact9879 2y ago
The work done by Distributed Proofreaders is pretty amazing. I try to contribute my 35 pages as often as I can. The backlog there is pretty insane even while finishing upwards of 150 ebooks per month it truly is an "online hobby that f
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by contact9879 2y ago
I can't really answer that because I haven't actually tried to use an LLM on any part of the process. The vast majority of the process is semantic markup using (x)html and proofreading. The markup process could, I guess, use an LL
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by contact9879 2y ago
Standard Ebooks grew out of a pay-what-you-want experiment that Alex did ~10 years ago
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by contact9879 2y ago
well, that would be up to Alex. but as that would require a pretty substantial organizational and responsibility shift, I imagine, no, he would not. As it is now, Alex is editorially responsible for all output of Standard Ebooks. Changing t
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by contact9879 2y ago
I think it's important to note that in the past, typesetters and printers had a much more editorial role than the process today. Authors would submit handwritten manuscripts and the typesetters in many cases would have to fix the autho
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by contact9879 2y ago
there is quite a lot of automated changes using standard ebooks open source tools package the vast majority of textual tooling is regex-galore, but there is also automated epub tooling in there too
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by contact9879 2y ago
i also don't think it needs debating. my point was that the issue, the too narrow leading in the online view, is just not going to be fixed unless someone points it out to someone that can fix it. if that's you, great! you can sub
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by contact9879 2y ago
it varies widely depending on the length and type of book and how much free time the volunteer has to devote to it Anywhere between 1 week for the simplest (straight narrative, not too much verse or endnotes) and ~1 year (thousands of endno
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by contact9879 2y ago
while I don't disagree, ¿por que no los dos?
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by contact9879 2y ago
presumably, which is why i encouraged submitting a note to the mailing list or the standardebooks/web repo on github
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by contact9879 2y ago
Yes, you signal your intent on the mailing list subject to approval by the editor-in-chief
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by contact9879 2y ago
To me, that niche is already covered by Wikisource. Standard Ebooks as a project is very strict about conforming to its editorial and quality standards. On boarding more languages would require volunteer editorial experts in those languages
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by contact9879 2y ago
No, LLMs are not used (nor would they be allowed). As for whether you would consider OCR to be AI, then... possibly?
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by contact9879 2y ago
its never too late to expand your "stuff I really like" further into the public domain! there are whole generations of wonderful and insightful works that essentially disappeared from present consciousness for no reason other than
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by contact9879 2y ago
since ebooks are primarily (only?) text you don't have to worry about UI elements and such which simplifies a lot of the css footnotes aren't really a thing with ebooks (at least as far as displaying the note on the page with the
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by contact9879 2y ago
the only issues i've found with koreader is its default margin size and its display of standard ebooks' titlepages but (I believe) these can be fixed with a fairly simple user tweaks css
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by contact9879 2y ago
this also somewhat surprised me at first but I think it's obvious in hindsight, though they don't have to be a full-blown web browser (you can go read the epub specs at W3C to see what's supported) as for (2) I'm not sur
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by contact9879 2y ago
the online view is not the primary way readers are expected to read the ebooks. downloading the epub and reading on an ereader (edit: where line height and font size are customizable) is the expected and best supported method however, contr
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by contact9879 2y ago
if you're reading a style manual it might :) but no, the manual itself is not really mobile-friendly. you can check what an actual ebook would look like though: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/louis-couperus&#x2F
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by contact9879 2y ago
That's an en-dash
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by contact9879 2y ago
and for those who already saw this first post, part 2 was published today: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/06/how-to-p...

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