sethish

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Comment · 2 years ago

And society doesn't have to keep paying artists. It's a terrible, distopian future, but there's nothing to say we can't.

Comment · 4 years ago

Oh we're team public domain. But this repo is only an index and we don't control the upstream licensing. Check out gitenberg or unglue.it and reach out to @gluejar if you want to talk about free ebook metadata.

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't see a question in the parent's comment?

Nothing in particular on the 055 page isn't canonical. But any other page on the wiki might contradict anything on any other page. For instance, there are a number of other SCPs and articles that provide conflicting explanations of SCP-055.

Comment · 5 years ago

The release was moved back to September 7th. The book ended up being 2x the length, and extra weird to typeset and translate to audiobook. I quite like the existing audiobooks. The narrator seems to be good with languages, and is familiar with the Iliad (Rage!)

Comment · 5 years ago

I can't recommend the author's novels highly enough. Terra Ignota, the first book being Too Like the Lightning.

Comment · 6 years ago

Debatable. Venture capital in the technology market hasn't shown consistent return on investment in terms of revenue. Contrawise, the interstate system and the CCC were effective government investments.

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm not sure who I would trust, but I don't generally trust university research departments to produce high quality, reusable software. Not that industry projects produce consistent quality software either, but fewer of those projects are open sourced.

Comment · 6 years ago

An old roommate of mine had the opposite system that he called spite-driven development. He and a collaborator would always try to be the one with the latest commit in their shared project, out of spite.

Comment · 6 years ago

Except that edge, safari and chrome are all derived from the codebase that Google controls

Comment · 6 years ago

There are about 400 GITenberg books that have CC-by licensed covers provided by Recovering the Classics. If you're interested in using that art for your PDFs I can find you the index!

Comment · 6 years ago

It's not so much about just adding git to books, but git to the transcriptions of books from printed materials. There are errors in the transcriptions, many books are lacking formatting, and many books pre-date Unicode and are in ascii. Tracking the book's source files in git makes it easier to collaborate on making these changes, or seeing what changes have been made.

Comment · 6 years ago

Now I remember, that was the reason I wasn't more clear about the connection to PG when I wrote the website https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/giten_site/. Since then my co-founder Eric Hellman has been doing engineering work for Project Gutenberg, as well as running the rest of the Free Ebook Foundation, which is the parent org of GITenberg, free-programing-ebooks, and Unglue.it.

I think that the GITenberg collection contains all of the books in PG. At this point, the creation of new repos is automatically done when Distributed Proofreaders creates a new book in PG. Originally, I didn't include around 400 PG books due to their creators claiming copyright, and didn't include Bruce Sterling's book because he wouldn't let me re-license it creative commons rather than his pseudo-public-domain license.

Not much has been happening with GITenberg itself in the past few years. But luckily, a lot of the concepts and code are getting upstreamed into PG. Which in my opinion, is way way better.

Comment · 6 years ago

Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.

Comment · 6 years ago

You might be more familiar with another project the Free Ebook Foundation maintains: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ Which is one of the top-10 repos on github by number of stars.

Comment · 6 years ago

[Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/) has accomplished a lot in producing better ebooks of public domain texts.