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If you use Calibre to manage your ebooks (or even if you don't) I can't recommend calibre-web-automated-book-downloader enough.

It bypasses cloudflare checks, waits for the download cue, retries on fail, and integrates seamlessly with the calibre-web-automated ingest feature.

I would guess that shipping over a hundred millon devices a year is really difficult for an unknown company.

Oh goodie. Now Anglo LLMs won't just be neoliberal reactionary, but they'll have a nice seasoning of eighteenth century classism, racism, and sexism baked in as well.

I write notes in markdown (I'm not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was bad enough but it was already clear then that this is a structural problem.

People with lots of money benefit from high interest rates, and they're an important weapon in class warfare. Higher interest rates push more people into accepting worse labour conditons.

They'll just keep expecing you to pay US taxes on your non-US income and assets, but if it comes down to it withhold privileges only afforded to citizens.

Thanks. I should know, I paid for it.

Trump doesn't need to do anything, US citizenship is automatically revoked when a person becomes an employee or official of another state.

Even so, the person in question needs to submit the paperwork and pay the $2300 fee for loss of citizenship.

The "maintaining privacy" is just a bit. It's about gaining complete access to everyone's private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

To expand on that, why are IT managers so clueless about IT?

Real talk if that restaurant makes 1 of surplus value on that 20 burger the owner is happy. Restaurants (fast food aside) are not surplus value machines, quite the opposite.

I'd also like to know where food is still that cheap in the west.