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@flowinho Wow, that sounds way out of proportion. But if I read the article right, Ladefuchs consciously took the risk of using someone else’s photograph without permission? So there actually was a copyright infringement. It’s just that the fee was way high, considering the circumstances?

(Sorry about those naive questions, but my understanding of German is very basic, so I have to rely on translation software.)

@flowinho Thanks for sharing. From what I can grasp from that article, trolls are trying their luck, hoping to scare people to pay up. But it’s not clear if they actually have a case that would hold up in court? I’m with you; trolls are stupid. 😊

@flowinho I’m interested in this. Are there any examples of individuals with non-commercial blogs or websites being sued?

@manton Two questions one might have. If I don’t have ActivityPub activated, what will happen if I participate in a conversation with Mastodon users (mentioning them)? And: I got a DM via email; how do I reply?

@AndyNicolaides The URL you’re referring to is a redirect to this feed: https://thedent.net/feed.xml. The latest post there is What I’d Like To See Added to Weblog.lol. But it does not contain your shorter post. That’s why they won’t show up on the timeline. So you have to either add the RSS feed I provided earlier or another feed that contains the shorter post, like https://thedent.net/feed.json.

@AndyNicolaides And the feed I mentioned in my previous post shows up on the Edit Feeds & Cross-posting page?

@hollie Yay! 😊 Apples Terminal User Guide is a dryer read but could complement the zines. It contains tips and tricks, like how pressing the up arrow key reveals previously typed commands (and lets you rerun them).

@hollie I guess everyone’s terminal journey is slightly different. For me, it was lots of practice. And reading: operating system manuals, books, and (later on) resources on the web. Also, lots of practice. 😊

I have yet to read them, but macOS Terminal and Shell and Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal look similar to the books I learned from back in the day.

Julia Evans’ zines are lovely! Once you get the basics of the terminal down, Bite Size Command Line! and Bite Size Bash! might be interesting reads.

@vincent Automatically authenticate on Micro.blog in the in-app browser. So when a person follows a book link, they can add it to their bookshelf. Or when following a link to a plug-in, they can read about it and tap install.

@gaelicWizard Well, nothing is really stopping you from doing that in theory. In practice, one usually wants to limit the number of items in an RSS feed. You don’t want it to contain every single post you ever made, as such a file can be pretty big. Some feed readers will have trouble reading such a file. That makes it inappropriate to use the feed as a substitute for your archive page.

@manton I haven’t really told anyone before now. 😊 Thanks! It might be a nice feature to add officially. The feature could be opt-in by adding ?includeConversationLink=true or similar to feed URLs.

@rickcogley The theme’s CSS overrides the CSS from the plug-in in your case. One workaround is to add the following to your Custom CSS. Ping @jokef and @kottkrig.

ul.bookshelf.bookshelf li { list-style-type: none !important; }

@pratik Annotating, taking notes & doodling is the primary use case and where it shines. Getting DRM-free ebooks and PDFs on the reMarkable is easy. On Apple devices, you install the app and get a send to reMarkable option in the share sheet.

For locked-down books, you must get rid of the DRM first. It’s relatively straightforward with Calibre and DeDRM_tools but much more involved than borrowing a book via Libby on an iPad. And you might commit a crime when circumventing the DRM protection, depending on the laws where you live. 🦹

@Mtt Yeah, I’m with your guy. A reMarkable will not add additional value if you’re solely reading novels. You’re better off with the Oasis.

@pratik @odd @vincent Oh my, I already have a challenge finding time to work on my projects. 😅 Seriously, though, I hope they find someone to take over. Looks like a worthy project. Sustainable open source is hard to get right.

@Mtt Absolutely! If you define full-length as a piece with hundreds of pages. Mostly books suitable for the larger E Ink screen: rich in illustrations, tables, diagrams, and so on. Like programming literature and other non-fiction.

Science papers, magazines, comics, and manga also work well. For regular novels, I usually reach for my Kobo, which is closer to pocket format.

@vincent Maybe this is fixable in the WebView/iOS end, but another solution could be to replaceState every time another post scrolls into view and when new posts have been successfully fetched.

So, at any point in time, the WebView’s url looks something like this:

https://micro.blog/hybrid/more?before_id=14512374#post_14512201

Then, if the view is reloaded, the timeline will look more or less the same.

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