Readit NewsI have a section on my reading list for books that are available as e-books, but not as audiobooks, and that section just keeps growing ad infinitum. I seldom find the time to read, but I often have time for audiobooks, as I listen to them while driving, or doing household chores, etc.
So, when I saw your post, I immediately tried it out, and it works really well for my purposes.
One feature request: It would be awesome if there was a control for the speech rate.
The other stuff is hard to make sense of, but this part is crystal clear: The authoritarian government is asking the university to restructure itself along more authoritarian lines. ...essentially Trump wants continuity of reporting lines ultimately leading up to him, and going down to the individual faculty member, student, and foreign collaborating partner. That sort of thing could come in handy for all kinds of things in the future, not just the silly demands of the present.
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Different countries have different tariff. Is there room for arbitration? In which a 3rd party business from a country with low tariff would buy a product in one of the countries with high tariff and export that to the US, taking a small cut.
That being said: I work in a services-oriented business right now "exporting" services to the U.S. and the leadership of that company is seemingly getting very worried, trying to diversify their customer base out of the U.S.
If, in the cycle of retaliatory action, they run out of ammunition with tariffs on stuff, who knows what other crazy ideas will come to the surface: Tariffs on services do come to mind, maybe restrictions around recognition/enforcement of foreign-owned intellectual property,...
(Now, whether these various standards work well enough, is a different question. There seems to be a bit of a proliferation of them, all of which have various weaknesses ATM, so it seems there's still some improvements to be made there, but the principle is fairly sensible if you want to a) have a variety of distros and b) not have M*N work to do for M applications and N distros)
> What kind of integration do you mean?
See? The "integration" is something you only notice when it breaks (or when you're working through LFS and BLFS in preparation for your computer science Ph.D.) -- This kind of work is currently being done pretty well, so it rarely breaks, so people think it doesn't even exist. Also notice that a linux distro is what's both on the outside and the inside of most containers. If debian stops doing integration work, no amount of containerization will save us.
So, what kind of breakage might there be? Well, my containerized desktop app isn't working. It crashed and told me to go look for details in the logfile. But the logfile is nowhere to be found. ...oh, of course. The logfile is inside the container. No problem, just "docker exec -ti /bin/bash" to go investigate. Ah, problem found. DBUS is not being shared properly with the host. Funny. Prior to containerization I never even had to know what DBUS was, because it just worked. Now it's causing trouble all the time. Okay, now just edit that config file. Oh, shoot. There's no vi. No problem, just "apt get install vi" inside the container. Oh "apt" is not working. Seems like this container is based on alpine. Now what was the command to install vi on alpine again? ...one day later. Hey, finally got my app to start. Now let's start doing some useful work. Just File|Open that document I need to work on. The document sits on my NAS that's mounted under "/mnt/mynas". Oh, it's not there. Seems like that's not being shared. That would have been too good to be true. Now how do I do that sharing? And how does it work exactly? If I change the IP address of my NAS and I remount it on the host, does the guest pick that up, or do I need to re-start the app? Does the guest just have a weak-reference to the mountpoint on the host? Or does it keep a copy of the old descriptor? ...damn. In 20 years of doing Linux, prior to containerization, I never needed to know any of this. ...that's the magic of "system integration". Distros did that kind of work so the rest of us didn't have to.
https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-t...
I wonder how a code formatting tool is going to implement that.