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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by barbazoo on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:45PM (#40649287)
Thanks for sharing!

In case anyone knows, what's the best way to get this to be readable on an e-reader? Haven't found a PDF yet, probably exporting into a PDF is the easiest since it's only a couple dozen pages maybe?!

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by lye on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:05PM (#40649497)
Save as HTML with images and run through Calibre:

  $ ebook-convert index.html book.epub
Here are the files if you trust a rando on the internet. Since they're just ZIP archives, you can unpack and inspect both to make sure there's no JS there. .mobi looks fine on my Kindle.

https://0x0.st/Xc8M.epub

https://0x0.st/Xc8B.mobi

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by barbazoo on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:15PM (#40649601)
> if you trust a rando on the internet

Why did you say that, now I have to check the files :)

Thank you

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by ballooney on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:01PM (#40650112)
A comment when an upvote would do - this is the kind of small act of generosity that I wish to acknowledge and praise in prose - thank you for taking the couple of minutes to do this. I've been feeling a little bleak about the internet lately as the SNR plummets in the tidal wave of AI seo search results, AI comments, etc. Thank you for taking the trouble. I went to EMFCamp in the UK a couple of weeks ago and had a similar resurgence in enthusiasm about simple things like asking a question of someone and getting an above-and-beyond, going-out-of-their-way response to share their enthusiasm and knowledge about something with you. We must defend these pockets of human interaction. [brought to you after a boozy work lunch but the sentiment is genuine].
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by disqard on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:20PM (#40652302)
A bit meta, but your response is part of boosting that SNR, in the best way possible.

We already saw the front-page discussion about "slop", but we don't have to let it wash over all of us, all of the time. Thank you (and GP) for doing your part!

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:10PM (#40650208)
If you've got a Kobo, Pocket seems to recognize it as an article (it often doesn't) and renders it well enough.

EDIT: Nevermind, Pocket only captures the preface (first four minutes, basically).

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by michaelmior on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @02:15PM (#40649603)
MediaWiki2Latex can convert to ePub.

https://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/