Still interesting, though. I looked for any more up-to-date news and didn't find any articles, although the ISP's site says they're expanding in 2025.
Deebster
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I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google's version I think I'm covered already!
Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.
The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it's now a Netflix series or something).
I guess I've just been lucky then! I've stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.
The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you'll need to stop updates. You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.
I'm planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it's currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.
So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?
Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they're not going into series properly.
None of the books I've bought from kobo.com have DRM.
I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority is set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.
Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).
You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you'll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you've side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.
Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.
I'm happy to use different set ups for the different types as they're quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.
I'm using a bunch simultaneously at this point. I need to script keeping them all in sync, or decide which one will be the winner.
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Edit: I'm getting upvotes but I'm not technically in the right here...
It uses a neutral net that he designed and trained, so it is AI. The public's view of "AI" seems mostly the generation stuff like chatbots and image gen, but deep learning is perfect for science and medical fields.
xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
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Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.
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Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.
Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring
Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)
I'm not sure about the exact setup (default or yours), but is it possible that there's a prettifier that's responsible?