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Information Security "Customer wrangler". I fight for the users!
Currently Sr. Customer Success Lead @ Horizon3.ai
Previously Sr. Technical Account Manager @ Eclypsium

Collector of vintage computing devices and electric vehicles.
Zoom calls may be interrupted by floofy cat tail at any moment.

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dko , to random
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reader friends, any recommendations for epub sources? my last device was quite some time ago (👇), but i assume Proj. Guttenberg and Internet Archive are still a good place to start?

i was planning to get a kobo clara 2e and just sideload and/or borrow from my extremely awesome library.

are there somewhat ethical places i can buy epubs and support authors of current books?

ehurtley ,
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@dko Certain authors (@pluralistic of note) sell all their books via DRM-free ePub. (And currently has a Humble Bundle of all but his latest for $18!)

Lulu and Smashwords both are good soruces for independent authors. (Only some of Lulu's offerings are ebooks, most are dead-tree-only.)

ehurtley ,
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@dko Just got myself a new e-reader to replace my Amazon-laden old Kindle. First thing I did was load up the @pluralistic library! (And loaded Kiwix to download the entirety of Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, MDWiki, Khan Academy, and iFixit to SD card for offline reading so I have my own actual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. :-D )

ehurtley ,
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@srgower @dko @pluralistic It's a Boox Note Air3C - it's really an Android tablet masquerading as an e-reader.

I got the collection from the Humble Bundle! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

I already had most in dead-tree form, but hey, support EFF & Cory at the same time? I'll buy 'em again. (Plus it was about the same cost as getting the ones I'm missing from Powell's Books.)

pluralistic , to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Incomplete vs. overshoot; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/26/horsehoe-crab/

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A group of women's May Day marchers from the 1900 May Day labor march, dressed in period costume. In the foreground are two horizontally flipped images of a furious, hair-pulling Tweedledum as depicted by Tenniel. The left one is colored red and wears a sign that reads WRONG WAY GO BACK. The right one is colored green and wears a sign that reads NO STOPPING PLEASE PULL FORWARD.
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    • ehurtley ,
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    @pluralistic Woo-hoo! Powell's!

    One thing you might be interested in - A local information security meetup ( @rainsec ) happens last-Tuesdays at a pub about two miles away. (Lucky Lab on SE Hawthorne Blvd.) The meetup officially starts at 6:30, ends at 9:30, on the outdoor covered patio behind. If you felt like showing up (presumably after the Powell's event,) pizza and beer would be flowing.

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