Readit Newsphilippnagel commented on Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books bubblin.io... · Posted by u/marvindanig
I couldn't find any info on your page regarding the royalties model that you're going to use. How much of a cut are you going to take? Is it going to be closer to amazon's 70% or closer to bandcamp's 15%?
Why do you have the restriction to original work and public domain work "with your own take"? For me, personally, that's a bit disappointing, since I work largely on digital reproductions of public domain work leaving it "as is".
One of my leisure time pursuits is to find interesting old books on cavalry, making them into high-quality reflowable e-books. It's a lot of work. I sometimes have to find multiple originals in libraries and antiquarian bookstores if there isn't a single original available in a good enough condition. Then I type them in multiple times to make sure there are no typos. I scan & vectorize the graphics. Then I produce nice reflowable EPUBs and ensure compatibility with a wide range of hardware. That kind of thing is hard work, and yet that sort of work is probably not protectable by copyright. It's been a personal frustration of mine that platforms for bookselling are often so uninviting towards that kind of content. -- It would be pretty easy for me to take a work like that and make it into an edition "with commentary", but, honestly, I'd much rather allow these works to shine in their original glory.
Would love to get notified. My email address is public.
philippnagel commented on How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017) fastcompany.com/90145427/... · Posted by u/jpelecanos
Some people are a bit crazy and love the X220 enough to attempt a FullHD mod (with custom hardware and rerouting of the external eDP signal/lane internally). Not for the X220T though.
A kit was for sale here: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=122640
Edit: better wording
I still have one of these in storage. I did upgrade to an older T-series model before trying to install it. Feel free to email me if you want to have it in exchange for shipping costs (located in Germany).
philippnagel commented on Going FLOSS-only on Android codingquark.com/floss/201... · Posted by u/ericdanielski
I'd love to do this to my phone (Moto G4). However I absolutely need my banking app, and I know it just wont work without Google Play running. Likewise as the article says, Google Maps is a must even with location tracking off. I do switch off as much personal data leakage as I can, but I'm not naive enough to think that Google isn't still collecting data on me.
Unfortunately, I just don't think a free open source phone will full modern functionality is ever going to exist.
One tangential issue I have, is that all NFC-payment apps seem to use Google Pay or some sort of API detecting custom roms or root, disabling NFC-payment features.
Yeah so the line from Munich to Berlin is new. There aren't any industrial landscapes as such on the direct way, so I kinda wonder what way via ICE you ended up taking ;D
Probably Bitterfeld.
philippnagel commented on Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica situation facebook.com/zuck/posts/1... · Posted by u/runesoerensen
"... we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform, and demanded that Kogan and Cambridge Analytica formally certify that they had deleted all improperly acquired data. They provided these certifications."
How is it at all possible to certify that data has been deleted and no copies were taken..?
"formally". Technically you cannot.
https://youtu.be/1Nh_vxpycEA