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• Charlie Stross commented on Outage report
  Wrong. IF you try to do it that way, you'll need to manually grab the Kindle's device PID or serial number (which is used as a decryption key). Then enter it into the calibre plugin manually. It's simpler to install the Kindle app on Windows (as in comment 240) then rely on the DeDRM plugin to automatically grab the PID from the installed Kindle instance whenever it opens a Kindle file you downloaded. Oh, remember to move the folder where Kindle stashes its downloaded files to somewhere easy to find (from within Calibre, when you're telling it to import files)....
• Paul commented on Outage report
  Well, my way works for me, and I imported my most recent Amazon purchases before I posted just to check it still does. I've had Calibre and a kindle for several years now, and have been through a number of iterations of this. It is true that you need to get your Kindle serial number for the DeDRM installation, but as that is included in the installation instructions I didn't think I needed to mention it....
• David commented on Outage report
  macOS doesn't seem officially supported in varnish-cache. Is there an easyish way to install it? I've found lots of areas where the M1 chip is pretty amazing but getting things compiled is always a bit tricky....
• Poul-Henning Kamp commented on Outage report
  I managed to get it onto the M1 mini I bought to get coverage for OSX, but it was, as you say, a bit of a frankenstein exercise :-/ But once you get the necessary dependencies installed it compiles out of the box....
• Pigeon commented on Outage report
  Looks like the wankers are at it again. I tried to sign in about a quarter of an hour ago and encountered exactly the same failure: .htaccess being reported as unreadable, resulting in the sign-in page and some of the CSS being inaccessible. Reading the blog about half an hour before that was fine; and now it seems to be fine again, or it will do if this comment ends up being posted OK. If that's Charlie doing his super-bat-sysadmin thing on Christmas Day, then thank you very much Charlie, that's dedication!...