I barely cared about the Roald Dahl changes before, but hearing that they are forcing updates to customers who had previously purchased uncensored ebooks makes me want to throw my Kindle in the trash. pic.twitter.com/5SEaoHUb3b
— xlr8harder (@xlr8harder) February 28, 2023
Editing As A Service
- 84
- 142
Top Poster of the Day:
YALLAHblessYoTraplord
Current Registered Users: 25,835
tech/science swag.
Guidelines:
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good slackers would find interesting. That includes more than /g/ memes and slacking off. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual laziness.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably lame.
Help keep this hole healthy by keeping drama and non-drama balanced. If you see too much drama, post something that isn't dramatic. If there isn't enough drama and this hole has become too boring, POST DRAMA!
In Submissions
Please do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It should be explicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
Please don't submit the original source. If the article is behind a paywall, just post the text. If a video is behind a paywall, post a magnet link. Fuck journos.
Please don't ruin the hole with chudposts. It isn't funny and doesn't belong here. THEY WILL BE MOVED TO /H/CHUDRAMA
If the title includes the name of the site, please leave that in, because our users are too stupid to know the difference between a url and a search query.
If you submit a video or pdf, please don't warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. That would be r-slurred. We're not using text-based browsers. We know what videos and pdfs are.
Make sure the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective. Good clickbait titles are like "Top 10 Ways to do X" or "Don't do these 4 things if you want X"
Otherwise editorialize. Please don't use the original title, unless it is gay or r-slurred, or you're shits all fucked up.
If you're going to post old news (at least 1 year old), please flair it so we can mock you for living under a rock, or don't and we'll mock you anyway.
Please don't post on SN to ask or tell us something. Send it to [email protected] instead.
If your post doesn't get enough traction, try to delete and repost it.
Please don't use SN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. If you want to astroturf or advertise, post on news.ycombinator.com instead.
Please solicit upvotes, comments, and submissions. Users are stupid and need to reminded to vote and interact. Thanks for the gold, kind stranger, upvotes to the left.
In Comments
Be snarky. Don't be kind. Have fun banter; don't be a dork. Please don't use big words like "fulminate". Please sneed at the rest of the community.
Comments should get more enlightened and centrist, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
If disagreeing, please reply to the argument and call them names. "1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be improved to "1 + 1 is 3, not 2, mathfaggot"
Please respond to the weakest plausible strawman of what someone says, not a stronger one that's harder to make fun of. Assume that they are bad faith actors.
Eschew jailbait. Paedophiles will be thrown in a wood chipper, as pertained by sitewide rules.
Please post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. All press is good press.
Please use Slacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples weak ideologies.
Please comment on whether someone read an article. If you don't read the article, you are a cute twink.
Please pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Don't nitpick stupid crap.
Please don't be an unfunny chud. Nobody cares about your opinion of X Unrelated Topic in Y Unrelated Thread. If you're the type of loser that belongs on /h/chudrama, we may exile you.
Sockpuppet accounts are encouraged, but please don't farm dramakarma.
Please use uppercase for emphasis.
Please post deranged conspiracy theories about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and dang will add you to their spam list.
Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, report it and our moderators will probably do nothing about it. Feed egregious comments by replying instead of flagging them like a pussy. Remember: If you flag, you're a cute twink.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyancesâthings like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. That's too boring, even for HN users.
Please seethe about how your posts don't get enough upvotes.
Please don't post comments saying that rdrama is turning into ruqqus. It's a nazi dogwhistle, as old as the hills.
Miscellaneous:
We reserve the right to exile you for whatever reason we want, even for no reason at all! We also reserve the right to change the guidelines at any time, so be sure to real them at least once a month. We also reserve the right to ignore enforcement of the guidelines at the discretion of the janitorial staff. Be funny, or at least compelling, and pretty much anything legal is welcome provided it's on-topic, and even then.
Do not use outdated operating systems that are unsupported to access SN. What are you, poor?
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
/h/slackernews LOG /h/slackernews MODS /h/slackernews EXILEES /h/slackernews FOLLOWERS /h/slackernews BLOCKERS
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
One of the many, many, many reasons why analog books continue to be superior.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You won't be saying that when I bust down your chud door and change your chud books with my anti-chud marker, will you, chud?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Books in the USSR literally had censorship that clumsy.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Hot
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
True, but in this case it's more of a reason why you should just pirate your ebooks instead of buying them. Kind of the same reason why pirating games is better than getting them full of spyware/malware/r-slurredware but with a licence...
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Profitmisia will not be tolerated, please do better
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Sup idio
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
you're not supposed to actually buy ebooks
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Yeah wtf imagine buying a wall of text, just download everything in PDF format.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
ebooks are just web pages in a zipfile.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
or epube format on piratebay
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I can still break into your house at night and scribble my edits in your analog books
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You should c*m on them
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Huh, that's weird. Why are all the pages in these books already sticky?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Whatever you do, donât touch his copy of Anne franks diary
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
sorry i am not tryin to help the sensitivity readers.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
What an r-slured but sadly needed phrase
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Enjoy your unsanctioned copy of The Fires of Heaven while I get to enjoy the new, canonical flashback of Moiraine and Siuan's time as pillowfriends before she falls through the red doorway.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
how many analog books can you fit in yer pocket?
YEAH TAHT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. CHECK MATE ATHEIST.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
a kindle is a fine piece of hardware, but to be safe from oligarchic censorship you should only store pirated ebooks on it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Books and pdfs and physical copies of anything digital to a storage device is the only way to actually have semblance of ownership of something.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Or just use zlibrary
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Didn't get it
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
https://singlelogin.me
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
They have a telegram bot that works fine
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It's even on regular internet too: https://singlelogin.me
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Alive and well. Clearnet access is even back.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
*libgen
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Whatâs that?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Or you can just pirate audiobooks like a normal person
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Choose one
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Frick off illiterate
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Only to kindle. PDF readers stay winming harder than both
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Or you know, download your ebooks locally where they can't be force updated.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Just pirate pdfs and epubs lmao
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
I was talking to my mom about this a week ago. She literally thought it was right wingers making these changes as part of their plan to censor everything. No joke.
I explained how that made literally no sense given the changes but I don't think that explanation clicked.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Tell your mum I said she's r-slurred
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I'll tell her for the both of us tonight
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Okay thanks babe
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Can you bring some dino tendies?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I would, but your mom controls all my good boy points and I've been very bad
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
she wouldn't understand/comprehend
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
She missed about 20 years of culture wars
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The real answer is that both my parents get most of their news from NPR and CNN and MSNBC so it's honestly difficult to have any kind of political conversation with them. It feels like the opposite end of old folks who just watch FOX.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Loads of people are like this. They never update the paradigm they learnt when they were in their 20s.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Neighbor what
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
This is literally, unironically, word-for-word 1984
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
We can just take all those words out of it. Problem solved
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
It can only be 1984 if it comes from the government.
Itâs a private company, it can do what it wants.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I can't wait until we rewrite 1984 so I don't have to hear this comparison anymore.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Yeah I was gonna say this is almost literally weâve always been at war with Eurasia shit
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This is in the first chapter lol
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
use libgen u tard :3
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
buying an e-book is like buying a mp3
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
-Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Juvenile histrionics from a commie simp written as a reaction to mcarthy 2 when actual literal commie spies were being caught
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Love the art not the artist. Next your gonna tell me not to enjoy Chinatown or Hogwarts Legacy
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
My edition of Moby Peepee got changed to Moby Fronthole
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This is why you buy the device, never the serive. I jailbroke mine, blocked all internet access. purged the ads and installed a better 3rd party reading app
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Buying a digital book is just dumb
But having your digital book or any other text in any of the proprietary formats is beyond r-slurred
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This is why I
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Wtf got changed in the books btw? Iâve seen a million thinkpieces but no actual substance
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Here you go Queen, OP posted all the changes in side by side tables if you scroll through the thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1154tr5/the_hundreds_of_changes_made_to_roald_dahls_books/?sort=controversial
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Thanks queen thatâs dumb af lmao, I hate British people
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
yeah its super dumb
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Sounds like they didn't force an update, but people who bought rights to access it re-downloaded it and it was different.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
!r-slurs and !women stay winning, frick !chuds
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Do you own a digital copy of the Bible? Well soon globohomo will edit it to make Jesus gay. Welcome to the Brave New World
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
.... Leased. They own the book, you have a license to view it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
So your telling me I could hack a childrens book now?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context