If he’s wealthy then he has a lot of assets which can serve as a guarantee for the creditor.

I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!

You thought Lemmy’s co-founder and main developer is a bot? Lmao

Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan. It’s a tale set in 5th-century Egypt and the Levant, following a coptic monk’s journey amidst the theological controversies of the early Christian curch. Apart from the protagonist (and his devilish visitor) I think all the characters are historically real as well as for the events. It’s a very interesting period during which Christians, Jews and Atheists coexisted, although perturbently.

The admins are principled Marxists so they wouldn’t sell out or concede without a fight.

Thank you for your input! I read your review and I appreciate the fact that you mentioned History, that “great disorderly Tangle of Lines.” I refrained from tackling it mainly because of a quote that I am still struggling to wrap my head around:

As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,— with all the secular Consequences, flowing from that one Event, design’d and will’d to occur. (Ch. 7, p. 75)

Also, I can’t get past how relatable M. is:

Mason gapes in despair. He’ll be days late thinking up any reply to speech as sophisticated as this.

In the hidden Journal that he gets to so seldom it should be styl’d a “Monthly”

I’m afraid this is not an ebook reader, but a book tracker.

This is an offline tracker, so it doesn’t compare per se. There were talks about integrating bookwyrm into the app, but as of now there is no public API.

This project was actually my exit way from Goodreads. Unlike another commenter, I found virtually no issue with searching for books in European languages. All the statistics which GR offers are available, and you can easily import your books to the app. And of course, no ads, zero trackers and open source.

The only caveat is the social aspect, since this is an offline tracker.

Edit: If you have any concerns, hop on the matrix community where the dev is active.

See https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android/issues/90#issuecomment-1722339001

Out of interest, how often do you find issues looking for books on OpenLibrary?

Neat! Thank you for sharing.

No it doesn’t, only system packages are admitted as viable options for WebView, hence the need for root privileges.

I am intrigued to know what is the original message.

I see myself blowing up a pipeline.

Not open source but the app is ad free and has zero trackers.

Exactly, I had to exclude Jerboa from the firewall since many instances started using cloudflare.

I was in a similar spot and gave up before starting. This is due to several reasons: 1) My circle of relatives and friends, like yours, neglect their privacy and would not engage with me in a serious conversation regarding it; 2) educational institutions, businesses, organisations and even governmental bodies may rely on WhatsApp for communications; and 3) the two big telecom monopolies offer enticing mobile data deals for using WhatsApp.

While I am not saying you should give up, you should go for modest goals (e.g. converting your close family to signal when chatting together) and eliminate optimistic expectations so you don’t get crushed.

100% with Cromite’s built-in ad blocker + adguard filtering

88% with Mull (default ublock settings)

Personally it made me nostalgic since I left spotify a few years ago and I long for those summer nights listening to my playlists while writing and reading.