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jayanmn commented on Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover standardebooks.org... · Posted by u/tosh

acabal · 5 months ago

Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions, as always. We also recently celebrated Public Domain Day with an especially notable crop of books, including The Sound and the Fury, All Quiet on the Western Front, John Steinbeck's first novel, some Hemingway, Gandhi, two Dashiell Hammett novels, and more: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

jayanmn · 5 months ago

I am from India. Could you add local UPI based donation option at some point? Not everyone has card here.

jayanmn commented on Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren't wearing hijabs cnn.com/2025/03/14/middle... · Posted by u/zfg

jayanmn · 5 months ago

Using most modern technology to enforce most regressive step. I am sure this will extended to go after dissidents

jayanmn commented on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search nytimes.com/2023/10/26/te... · Posted by u/mooreds

baggachipz · 2 years ago

And as we know, "free" search is really just a way to sell ads. So Apple would be effectively getting into the ads business and competing with google on that front. I hope I speak for other Apple users when I say we don't want that. I pay the Apple tax to have some of my privacy respected and a less ad-riddled OS.

jayanmn · 2 years ago

Could Apple join hands with Kagi search?

jayanmn commented on George Orwell Complete Works george-orwell.org/... · Posted by u/muragekibicho

jayanmn · 2 years ago

..and so many advertisements.

Low quality effort.

jayanmn commented on Tell HN: (weirdly, it works now) DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt · Posted by u/thewhitetulip

jayanmn · 3 years ago

Which provider..?

Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..

jayanmn commented on Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design atlassian.com/engineering... · Posted by u/stelliosk

jayanmn · 3 years ago

>achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures.

complete region fail? How often does that happen?