https://feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

[why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

“Study war no more” was supposed to mean something entirely different.

Avoids the need for a network connection or server, though I guess you could run it on a local socket. The UI might be preferable too.

If the kobo hardware device can read drm’d epubs, it is “using drm” to do so. I’m asking if Calibre can read those same drm epubs. Do you know if it can, maybe by adding a plugin? I know there was something like that for Kindle files. Thanks.

Thanks yeah I don’t have a kobo reader so was asking if there was a way to read paid-for kobo downloaded books that have drm, similar to how decss lets you watch DVDs that you bought. I don’t mind paying for books but don’t want a locked down reading device with it’s own crappy software and possible invasive phoning home.

Yes I’ve been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it’s decent. I’m a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.

I didn’t downvote anything fwiw.

Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a kobo book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.

Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I might try it.

Nice but 1) doesn’t Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it’s a client app. Should this post be in a different group?

In an interview I’m fine with any structure or topics you want. By informal structure I meant in the software UI, not the interview. I’ll to post more tomorrow or so.

I’ll try to take a closer look and I might be up for an interview, since the concept interests me. I generally prefer less formal structure. Do you remember DMOZ? It might even still be around.

Looks interesting, first thing I notice is that the demo loads rather slowly. Why not just a wiki?

latest release of android

Does that mean 15?

That article is almost 4 months old and yeah, the internet in EU is better than in the US. But you can get US plans with plenty of bandwidth. I’ve been happy with buyvm.net and there are many others. Hang out on lowendspirit.com for a while to get a sense of things.