Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)

Trump once lied that he would never ever implement the #Project2025 demands.

He is now at 34%

https://www.project2025.observer

To the young(er) people among my followers (especially in Europe) that feel powerless and frightened by all the stories about a possible war with Russia and a supposed defenceless Europe.

This is nothing new.

Your parents have lived through this. As have your grandparents. Your worries will not change what's happening. It is perfectly OK to accept that and focus on The Good Things in your life. We will get through this. We already have many times. And trust me, it was even worse in the past.

The US under Trump is a rogue state. The rest of the world needs to make sure that is contained, IMHO.

Trump Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro
The lawsuit came hours after the justice received an indictment of Brazil’s former president, who is an ally of President Trump.

(gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/americas/trump-brazil-bolsonaro-judge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE4.AZD1.aEB4sew1nPKC&smid=url-share

As someone who knows a tiny bit about mechanical engineering, I tip my hat to the fine engineers at Bombardier. A plane that tips over, gets a wing sheared off but keeps the main structure intact so that no passenger has died? That's not just luck. That's solid engineering.

Meanwhile, over on Twitter/X, sending links to connect via #Signal are blocked and marked as malware.

I am sure this is just an unfortunate bug ;)

Source: https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal

"Menschenkette hält AfD-Politiker auf

Nach ihrer Kundgebung auf dem Münchner Königsplatz sind die AfD-Mitglieder zum Tatort gezogen. Erreicht haben sie ihn jedoch nicht. Ihnen stellen sich seit etwa 12 Uhr zahlreiche Menschen entgegen.

Gewerkschaftsmitglieder, alte Menschen, Jugendliche aus der Antifa haben sich untergehakt und bilden eine Menschenkette. "Ihr werdet unsere Trauer nicht instrumentalisieren", rufen sie den AfD-Leuten entgegen."

(Possibly paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-anschlag-auto-demo-kind-mutter-gestorben-statement-familie-li.3201601

@timbray What works for me (MacOS 15.3): Calibre, current version, https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools deDRM plugin, add Kindle serial number in plugin configuration. Restart Calibre, import the awz(3) files downloaded from Amazon with the "Download & transfer via USB" option. I have imported and converted my 210 eBooks that way successfully.

@timbray Some of my followers have successfully automated the download from Amazon part with the Greasemonkey script I mentioned in https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114002221924654676

Are you now slowly starting to understand that Trump was bloody serious when he repeatedly said ‘You won’t have to vote any more’?

Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) beklagt, dass seine Partei noch nie so viel Polizeischutz benötigt habe wie in diesem Wahlkampf.

Vielleicht fragt er mal den KollegInnen der Grünen was man da macht um trotz allem weiterhin für Grundrechte und Demokratie zu kämpfen.

(possibly paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bundestagswahl-2025-news-kubicki-demonstranten-gegen-rechts-demokratie-li.3199972

IMHO: Open Source and Free Software is global, transnational by definition. Our communities should be open to everyone willing to participate. This is why I always am weary of projects like these "national clouds" or "national operating systems" from a few years ago (that went nowhere) or, the newest, the #EuroStack project that promotes an isolationist approach while claiming to embrace Open Source/Free Software. You can't be one without the other, folks.

Every year at FOSDEM and every day on the internet you can meet thousands of people working on the #OpenGlobalStack, the commons of software, united through open licensing, even if we never had such an explicit big plan. Bottom-up, decentralised solutions will always be more sustainable than top-down IMHO.

Let's face it, Europe (and other parts of the world). The USA is not our ally anymore. Trump and his robber barons have their own agenda (if they really have one, I can only see short-sighted action causing immense damage and chaos).

The earlier we accept this and act accordingly, the better for all of us.

This is my very personal opinion.

So yes, I am in the market for a new ebook-reader. Nothing special, should be similar to the Kindle Paperwhite (1st gen) I have been using over many years. Backlight is a must. High resolution a plus. Long battery life (weeks) should be obvious. So if you know about a good and not so expensive device, please share!

(All 210 books done)

Now just to be very clear. I have paid for each and every single one of the 210 books, so I see my actions as making a personal backup that is actually usable. Is all. I can now #selfhost my books, just as I do with my music, TV Series and movies (that I have also all bought, most of it as physical media. Yes, I have quite a big space reserved for physical media like vinyl, CD, DVD in my apartment. Ripped all of it to my NAS Server)

To those that have a lot of eBooks from Amazon and don't have the time/patience to manually click through the download option:

Python script to download all eBooks:
https://github.com/Jedi425/BulkKindleUSBDownloader/tree/master

Greasemonkey script to download all 25 per page (you still have to manually click to open all pages, but then all 25 per page are downloaded automagically)
https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js

Thank you to @eBerdnA for sharing this tip in the comments!

Saved and liberated the first 100 books I "bought" at Amazon for my Kindle. Amazon will stop offering the "Download & transfer via USB" option, so I am downloading all 210 books now. After downloading, I hunt them through Calibre and a certain plugin to remove the DRM stuff, convert the books to EPUB format so I can put them on a new ebook reader that is more open than the Amazon walled garden. And in future I will buy my eBooks someplace else. #ByeAmazon

Hand-crafted, artisanal IPv6 routing instead of mass-produced default gateways. #NetSnob

Inspired by one of the reasons IPv6 struggles with broad adoption, IMHO. So. Many. Notations. Making life miserable trying to work with it. (and yes, you can copy/paste both regexes from the ALT text, you're welcome)

Source: https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists/src/branch/main/2023/20230422LogCheck.md