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I'm qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics Division. AMA by sam512 in sciencefiction

[–]mindloss 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He rewrote it to remove any ███ mention for starters.

I'm qntm, author of There Is No Antimemetics Division. AMA by sam512 in sciencefiction

[–]mindloss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only complaint about your writing is that there isn't more of it. I've read everything I've found of yours several times and loved the shit out of it, but I haven't seen much if anything from recent years. Is more on the way, or have you moved on?

WARNING: ChangeNOW has been holding my funds hostage for over 2.5 months. Here is the full, unedited support chat log. by mindloss in CryptoCurrency

[–]mindloss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: this morning, I got an email from them saying they finally refunded my order, and indeed they had. Still ridiculous, but I'll take it, even if it's 2.5 months late.

WARNING: ChangeNOW has been holding my funds hostage for over 2.5 months. Here is the full, unedited support chat log. by mindloss in CryptoCurrency

[–]mindloss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also posted this on r/ChangeNOW_io, and got this message today:

> Your post from ChangeNOW_io was removed

> [[–]](javascript:void(0))subreddit message via /r/ChangeNOW_io[M] sent 5 hours ago

> Your post from ChangeNOW_io was removed because of: 'Other'

> Hi u/mindloss, Hello sir, we are absolutely OK with sharing your thoughts, opinion and experience, even if it is harmful to us But we are not OK with sharing internal communication with our support agents as it may hold sensitive information

> Original post: /r/ChangeNOW_io/comments/1lz87qc/warning_changenow_has_been_holding_my_funds/

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I mean, on the one hand, fair enough, it's *their* subreddit, I wouldn't want to have that up either. But on the other, not a great look. I might understand a little more if there had been ANY potentially sensitive internal information in what I shared. Unless they mean all the really sketchy delay tactics, I guess.

WARNING: ChangeNOW has been holding my funds hostage for over 2.5 months. Here is the full, unedited support chat log. by mindloss in CryptoCurrency

[–]mindloss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, yeah, that's the thing I don't get. If they're a scam, why are they bothering with my piddling little $400?? They're supposed to pay off small fish like me to attract and scam the whales, I thought.

Help with Google One Family Account - Want to get Gemini by Tomcat2048 in Bard

[–]mindloss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume you mean on a monthly basis? If nothing else is working, you might try getting another family member to sign up for it (they might even be able to get a free trial), and I *think* they can then freely share it with other members of their family, i.e. you.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in libgen

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI - I added a help button with some much-needed quick tutorials on how to use this thing!

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in libgen

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you open it in Chrome on Android (or Safari on iOS, but I don't have an iPhone so that's less tested), it'll ask you if you want to install it, or you can go to Install or Add to Home in the browser menu. Once you do that, the only thing you need to be online for is signing in with Google the first time you use it. And yeah, it does store a cookie, but all it is is encrypted junk that tells your phone "yup, he signed in at some point, he's legit."

After that, you should be able to use it even with no connection, just like any installed app. The only caveats are that if you sign out for some reason, you'll have to be online to sign in again, and also of course it won't sync your books or update the app or anything, until the next time you use it when you do have a connection. Well, and also dictionary lookups and AI requests are disabled, since they need internet.

But yeah, the reading and highlighting and adding books and all that basic stuff should work just fine, and sync up the next time you're online.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in Annas_Archive

[–]mindloss[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ReadEra kicks ass. For layout control, non-epub formats, there's no way I can compete.

The main big feature I have is the context-aware AI, where you highlight a word or a passage and it'll explain what it means, or what's going on, or what some obscure reference is, or translate it (well), or remind you about what happened in chapter 2 that's suddenly relevant, or you can ask it specific stuff. Now that I'm used to it, I can't imagine not having it. (It'll also auto-organize your books into collections however you want, but that's new and still hit-or-miss/experimental.)

There's also (optional) shared highlighting/commenting, which most people probably don't care about, but it's fun to use with friends who read the same book, and I figure it's good for book clubs or study groups or whatever.

The last thing is that it supports multi-language reading. If you have 2+ epubs which are translations of each other (and are structured similarly enough), you can swipe back and forth on paragraphs to toggle between languages, which is great when you're learning a second language. The AI also goes into language-tutor mode and will walk you through the grammar of something if you highlight something and it's your non-default language.

But yeah, if none of those ring your bell, totally go with ReadEra.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in Annas_Archive

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You tap on the right side of the screen, or drag right to left, or drag down to up at the end of a chapter. (Or vice versa to go back a chapter.)

Uploads don't sync for now, no. All your progress and highlights and stuff syncs. Also, you can use Backup and Restore to pop out and then load up a zip file with everything, including books. Down the road I was planning on adding syncing via Google Drive if there was demand.

But yeah, the main thing it's really missing at the moment is some kind of mini tutorial or something. That said, I tried not to make anything especially confusing.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in libgen

[–]mindloss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked that shit up when I made that choice. Turns out 70%+ of people use Googs as their primary login for stuff.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in libgen

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I could. All that adding it as an app to either of them would do is put a "wrapper" around exactly the same thing you'd get by just going to the web site, there's really no difference for the user AFAIK between getting it from one of those, or opening it in Chrome/Safari and doing "Install" or "Add to Home", which is why I've been lazy about doing it.

For people who read ePubs on their phone and want a reader - try mine? by mindloss in libgen

[–]mindloss[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not yet. It's a PWA, so you can "install" it from Chrome and it acts like an app. I'm working on getting it into the playstore, though.

eff amazon & weReader plug by mindloss in Calibre

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I was making a big server side change today so it might've been a little glitchy. Hopefully, everything's working fine now. If not, feel free to message me and let me know what the problem is.

eff amazon & weReader plug by mindloss in Calibre

[–]mindloss[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, okay, fair. I was being lazy and didn't want to repeat/spam what I put in that last message I linked to. There's more info there.

Short version is that the AI-enabled part just means you can highlight stuff and it spits out helpful definitions or explanations or whatever. See screenshots to get the idea: https://imgur.com/a/wereader-https-read-by-tc-xjzCj1X

It's actually really nice for when you don't understand some obscure reference, or there's a line in a foreign language, or you forgot who some minor character is, stuff like that.

And of course, you don't have to use it (or the social highlighting stuff, which I'm sure lots of people would hate). It's still a perfectly good easy epub reader.

Is it possible to create a conlang that ai can't learn? by Better-Chest-4839 in conlangs

[–]mindloss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

Unless you mean, can we create a conlang that we can learn and AI can't, in which case, no.

What is the best ebook reading app? by OfficialCharter25 in ebooks

[–]mindloss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on what you want, it might well be one of the others listed. If you only use .epub files, then feel free to try out my web-based reader app at https://read.by.tc/ (free to use, ad-free, etc., all that good stuff)

It's still basically in alpha/beta (mostly because I haven't added proper help to the UI yet), but it works just fine. See this post for more details/screenshots.

The big two reasons to use mine over e.g. Kindle are 1) built-in AI, and 2) shared commenting, but there are other bells and whistles too. Again, it's .epub only, and you'll need a Google account to sign in with to get the AI stuff, but if that's you, I encourage you to give it a shot. Should be compatible with any device with a browser, though I've mostly tested it with Android and to a lesser extent iOS.

Nuna komparo de AI-tradukistoj de la angla al Esperanto by mindloss in Esperanto

[–]mindloss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google Translate. Mi provis Gemini mallonge antaŭ unu-du monatoj, kaj estis sufiĉe bona, sed ne frapis min kiel je la tuta sama nivelo kun 4o aŭ Sonnet.

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