I can confirm that I’m confused for the same reason

My other thought would be that they’re doing a tiny violin

Could this be solved by having two renderers, and only using the proprietary Adobe one needed?

So what do you do when the pedantic gold standard of epubcheck says your book is fine, when it works without issue on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Thorium and everywhere else and yet Kobo says it’s “corrupted”?

I dug into this matter and found out that Kobo uses RMSDK, “Reader Mobile Software Development Kit”, Adobe’s proprietary ebook rendering engine.

Once the stylesheet was identified as the source of my woes, I could finally drill down to find which specific line was causing the issue. After creating a dozen more variations with different subsets of my stylesheet I eventually identified the culprit. It was this line:

.copyright img {
    max-width: min(150px, 30vw);
}

Once I changed it to the more old fashioned max-width: 150px; ADE opened it just fine.

But what is the problem here? The above code is perfectly valid CSS level 4, it’s just not supported by RMSDK, because its CSS parser is frozen in approximately 2013 — no flexbox, no grid, no math functions, no custom properties. Just good old float, bad font handling, and silent crashes when it sees anything it doesn’t recognize.

It’s the year 2026. Thanks to the horrendous RMSDK which Kobo decided to use as their backbone for all book rendering (probably for DRM reasons), a single line of perfectly valid CSS turns a perfectly valid EPUB file into a “corrupted file” on Kobo and just drops the whole book. No clear error message, no fallback. Just a massive fail.

What kind of info?

If you are scraping the project sites and having an LLM put together guides, they will likely go out of date over time and likely contain vital errors already. It would be much better if you simply direct users to where they can read the current up to date information.

Wouldn’t it be better to get a job at a marketing agency? You can either work your way up the ranks, or make industry connections that you can lean on to set up your agency

I don’t have any money with me right now such that I can pay, but when I get this off the ground I would absolutely pay up

This is a forum, people will share resources with you for free. Unless you are asking people to work for free lol

How would this be better or more helpful than selfh.st? It is more reputable and more likely to stick around

Some sources are still better than others.

I watched the first one. I haven’t kept up with AI video generation, but IMO it has a long way to go.

Characters seem to stare off into space or look around aimlessly while talking, it keeps cutting erratically, and the video / sound design is off. Also it looks like someone only uploaded half of the video

Maybe you can read up on video formats and encoding, or ask an LLM to handle that part for you too.

They do?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/fifthestate

On the consumer specific side: https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace

In the workplace, there are still a lot of domain specific programs that don’t have Linux support. Companies don’t have much of an incentive to port that stuff over. As for the people who just need a web browser, they probably would use Linux just fine if they could buy a computer at BestBuy that comes with Linux preinstalled

Compare that to LLM programs, where it’s a matter of “download this app instead of that one, because this one is free and that one costs $25 a month”

Having an option vs not having an option

Also Linux and Windows are pretty different in use cases and capabilities. Meanwhile, local AI models have a very similar user experience. If hardware was cheaper and people could run better LLMs locally, they wouldn’t pay monthly for it.

Is ambitiousslab@feddit.uk also the author of the blog?

A blurb about the article is nice and helps to convince people to click on the article, but it isn’t necessary. From what I can tell, ambitiousslab seems to be sharing things that they find interesting and doesn’t follow the pattern of the usual bot spam we deal with

If only we could target them better. As it is, we kill off lots of passive and allied bacteria when attacking the harmful ones.

I left another comment explaining it better, but in short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

Our gut bacteria is vital so are we eating so they can process it for us or are we eating to feed them?

Commensalism :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commensalism

Lots of these bacteria probably exist without us. We can’t exist without them but we do make a very nice house where they can live.

While some bacteria definitely can, there are others that are so adapted to building colonies inside of us that they can’t really survive outside of a mammal or human host. You can carefully create the lab environments to allow for it, but that is against the spirit of the question. My gut says ( ;) ) that anaerobic bacteria that evolved for mucosal colonization are likely to fit into this group.

Meanwhile it is possible to survive without much of a microbiome, but you end up having trouble with digestion and you are susceptible to infections since the surfaces don’t have any residents and are “available”. Newborns have low microbiome diversity and build it up rapidly after birth, and people on sustained antibiotic treatments tend to lose a lot of their microbiome.

So they keep us around.

Here is another fun one, the symbiogenesis theory.

The mitochondria was likely an independent prokaryote (bacteria) that was taken into eukaryotic (plants / animals / etc) cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

Even now, the mitochondria has its own genetic material and replicates somewhat independently. So if you went in and removed all of the mitochondria from a cell, it wouldn’t be able to make a new one. That is also why your mitochondria will match the mitochondria from your mother, since the egg cells come with mitochondria while the sperm cells don’t.

Another post, made around the same time, is also talking about “sinful” behaviour

https://lemmy.ml/post/49126051

I’m guessing that both of these accounts are going to be self deleted within a few days

Would CoMaps be a better recommendation than OSMand?

For those who are familiar with Ente, how are their apps? I use something different for 2FA and photos, but I need recommendations for people who don’t want to deal with selfhosting and backing up Aegis

Network effect is the biggest problem for messaging services, and so I would still push for Signal over the alternatives that are technically better. This guide seems like it is focussed on users who are new to the space

I agree with the Linux recommendation, but I’d offer CachyOS over pure Arch for newcomers. The limine bootloader gives a lot of peace of mind, since you can tell the user “if you get a bad update, reboot and pick an older option on the first screen”.

At some point they should just be barred from speaking at all

Thanks!

A big reason for me is that people can tell who the source is more easily, instead of seeing a generic Yahoo link. If someone is blocking or flagging a particular domain through their app / front-end, then it won’t work for a yahoo link.

Also while I don’t think Yahoo is doing something illegal, my gut says that these articles are harming the smaller news orgs. When Yahoo/MSN publishes the full article, the user likely doesn’t notice who the actual news org is, likely doesn’t go to the real news orgs website, the news org has a harder time building a brand / reputation, and over time they might become even more dependent on Yahoo to stay afloat. A lot of the time when I look up a story, the yahoo page ranks above the actual original source, and that feels wrong to me