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Download over TOR / run your podcatcher from Tails.

Thanks for the lead!

It looks like the Buddy Read feature does in fact start with a specific book and organize a group around it, but it invites me to specify all the people that will ever be in the group right away, at group creation time. I get three ways to invite people:

• “Machine-learning powered reading buddy recommendations” - Unspecified voodoo. Three users are shown.
• “Community members who have this book on their radar” - Probably folks that have this on their public ‘to read’ list. Three users are shown.
• Specifying users directly by username

This doesn’t quite fit the “I’m up for this, let me know when it starts” mechanic.

I could create a new group & invite all three of the users with this book in their public ‘to read’ list, but I think folks treat the the ‘to read’ list very, very casually – not at the “I’m ready to commit to a reading group” level. These three users have 723, 2749, and 3771 books on their ‘to read’ lists respectively. I see that I somehow have have 46 books on mine, & haven’t been thinking of it as a ‘ready to commit to reading group’ list.

Regulation is slow, full of drama, scales poorly, & can result in a legal thicket that teams of lawyers can navigate better than the individuals it’s intended to advocate for. Decriminalizing interoperability is faster & can handle most of the small/simple cases, freeing up our community/legislative resources to focus on the most important regulatory needs.

X11 for xdotool. ydotool doesn’t support (& can’t really support with it’s current architecture) retrieving information like the current mouse location, current window, window dimensions & titles. Also, normal (unprivileged) user ydotool use requires udev rules or session scripts and/or running a ydotool daemon & many distros don’t yet ship with this Just Working.

X11 for Alt-F2 r to restart Gnome Shell without ending the whole session. This is a useful workaround for a variety of Gnome bugs.