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Alice
Alice
alice@societas.online
#lustig #german #science #reading
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-jonny-
jonny101@pod.geraspora.de
#writing #reading #psychology #growth #life

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

The Simpsons Predictions
#pa #Quote Posted by amor (here)
Re Example 3 by Matthew: The Translator of Baby Speech (should be Thoughts of Baby).

This episode of the Simpson's gives me an opportunity to say that this is a forecast of the fact that they have engineered your computer monitor and your Television Monitor TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS. I have actually had this happen to me twice where I instantly understood what was happening and had a speech exchange with the man on the other side of the screen.

Now as to your computer, It has been engineered TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS, WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY ARE STORED AT THE NSA, ETC. In the meanwhile, it speeds up finding what you are looking for in their SEARCH section, as it shows up even before you can type it in. Further, I have found dense pages of print passing my eyes when I am in the bathroom facing the white floor tiles. This brings up the distinct possibility that they are PROGRAMMING YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS. A good way to produce HUMAN COMPLIANT ZONBIES!

The print is passing my eyes so quickly that it is not possible to read it or even identify individual words as spaces between words seem to have been omitted (I suspect as an energy saving device).

Many decades ago, while reading a Popular Mechanics Magazine, I read a small paragraph reference as to the fact that experiments were being done towards thought reading and having it register on a computer screen, first as words, then as pictures. I realized this would allow them to do all they are doing today, reading the thoughts of ALL ANIMAL LIFE as well as programming the subconscious minds of humans, and collecting and storing their thoughts. NO! I AM NOT CRAZY, JUST OBSERVANT, KNOW WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND AM VIGILANT.
I've have had similar experiences.

Hackers could get inside your BRAIN: Experts warn of growing threat from monitoring and controlling neural signals

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"About 1.5 weeks ago I was sitting on my stationary exercise bike and pondered that the seat was rather narrow. Within the hour I was on the #internet and got hit with advertisements for bicycle seat covers that I never searched for. If they're #reading my #thoughts and sending that #information somewhere then where's the receiver? Is it local, cell tower, satellite or do I have #brain implant(s)? "

danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Calibre eBook App Now Supports Audio ePubs and Custom Notes

Ubuntu style desktop screen with menu bar down the left side. In the middle is the Calibre app window, showing various icons along the top and fliters down the left side for author, languages, series, formats, ratings, news, tags, and identifiers
If Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, was a book itself it’d surely be a perennial bestseller, thanks to an exhaustive, multi-faceted feature set.

And in the latest Calibre 7 release, the feature set expands yet further. The latest version introduces a clutch of new capabilities to the manager’s existing roster of ebook conversion, syncing, reading, and editing options.

The standout addition in Calibre 7.0 is the ability to store notes linked to various book attributes within your Calibre library. You can stash notes related to authors, publishers, book series, and more so you can keep track of information relevant to you.

The notes are exactly what I’ve been needing to keep a chronological list of a specific author’s books, as he published them in a different order to that of the actual events. This is now allowing me to keep that reference on hand as I push the nest book through to my e-reader.

Calibre 7 also lets you attach “data” files relevant to a book with that book, and manage and access said data within the app. What kind of data? Well, that’s up to you, but it might be PDFs, web links, office documents/essays, images, etc.

These are really some substantial updates to the Calibre app.

See https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/calibre-ebook-manager-now-supports-audio-epub-notes
#Blog, #books, #calibre, #opensource, #reading, #technology

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Vivlio builds an EU-based bookstore-agnostic e-book platform with open-source DRM

An e-book reader lying on a multi-coloured background. The reader shows some black and white book titles in tiles on its front page.
Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to the Kindle and Kobo e-readers. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with different goals.

“The fundamental principle of the Vivlio model, which really sets us apart from Kobo, for example, which has a partnership with Fnac, is that we guarantee two things to our partners. First, the customer remains their customer. This means that the customer account is a bookseller’s customer account, not a Vivlio customer account,” DuprĂ© said.

“Second, a very large portion of the sales generated by the Vivlio ecosystem go to the bookseller. In other words, we leave most of the margin to the reseller . . . That’s the contractual, legal and operational promise,” he added.

Adobe’s DRM hasn’t evolved in years. It’s clunky, hostile to the end user and Adobe takes a cut on each transaction. “The company literally almost died because of [Adobe’s DRM] as we were having major problems. It accounted for 80% of our customer support requests,” DuprĂ© said.

Vivlio contributed to Readium LCP, an open-source DRM solution that doesn’t require an Adobe account (or any third-party account).

So, this is in interesting approach. What makes Kindle popular is of course the Amazon “bookstore”, and Amazon has kept that non-compatible with other readers, as that is their trump card. Amazon also has a massive number of books at good prices, so that has been difficult for anyone else to compete with.

And as much as many hate DRM, it’s still a core part of the publishing industry so you need seamless support for it otherwise many popular books are not going to be available. Vivlio has addressed this, and I hope that LCP gets more widely adopted vs Adobe DRM.

One problem I found though was that although the Vivlio website is quad lingual, the shop seems to default to French without any visible means of switching to English. The same happened when I clicked on the option to buy an e-reader. This is not going to appeal to global audiences too much.

See https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/30/this-small-french-company-wants-to-build-the-open-alternative-to-kindle-and-kobo/
#Blog, #ereader, #reading, #technology, #Vivlio

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adamblewett@diasp.org
Adam Blewett

Simon Winchester. Knowing What We Know

A small excerpt, 500 pages of history; from the exchange of modern medicine and philosophical view points. ‘This extract was about the profundity of our reliance on autocorrect and Bot enhanced intelligence.’ The book covers a timeline, fewer than three centuries of discoveries, copyrighters, innovators.... For the most part, a timeline of progression, could profoundly benefit civilisations, or discredit our ability for humanity. It’s a suggested read: the introduction of typeset and the way the world has introduced immediacy, via communications (journalism). Becoming of knowledge, learner to sociology, imprinting the world a transient place #SimonWinchester #reading fascination, history’s making us feel insufficient.