read through some HN comments the other day and felt so intelligent by comparison. I'm kind of a dipshit so I don't get this feeling many places. pretty much just there and /r/adviceanimals
TechTakes
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
Apparently a well-known event where authors gave away a ton of free ebooks led to people getting their Kindles locked down and reset due to a fraud detector falsely flagging it as suspicious activity.
I have some positive news, someone did the math: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
Drawing on recent empirical evidence, we show that ending poverty and ensuring decent living standards (DLS) for all, with a full range of necessary goods and services (a standard that approximately 80% of the world population presently does not achieve) can be provisioned for a projected population of 8.5 billion people in 2050 with around 30% of existing productive capacity
https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/s/ZfP57OEZ8x
E-readers are now getting the AI treatment.
Glad i did not go with these guys when i was e-reader shopping, the lack of gpl sources was enough for me.
Went with a pinenote because the timing was good, and while it has some corners I dont except the debian install to become a ccp mouthpiece 🙃
Man I’ve never heard of the pinenote. Does it have anything like send to kindle?
Its a full linux os, so you can do literally anything that can be done with existing tooling. For example, I have syncthing installed on mine so i just have to drop files into a folder on another computer of mine and they show up.
The software folks have put together a decent experience in the last few years and its rather nice out of the box.