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  • Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?

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  • Every time I have tried it just introduces a layer of complexity I can't tolerate. I have struggled to learn everything required to run a simple Debian server. I don't care what anyone says, docker is not simpler or easier. Maybe it is when everything runs perfectly but they never do so you have to consider the eventual difficulty of troubleshooting. And that would be made all the more cumbersome if I do not yet understand the fundamentals of Linux system.

    However I do keep a list of packages I want to use that are docker-only. So if one day I feel up to it I'll be ready to go.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • elite nerds who use lemmy will be able to circumvent

    if the snobs are fine, why care?

    those people kvetching about how the endless September ruined everything will have their wish

  • selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts?

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  • I'm sure a lot (the majority) of people who are interested in selfhosting block ads. Need a different business model.

    On the other hand a lot of people interested in selfhosting appear to have cash to throw around on their hobby. Might be better to

  • selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts?

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  • Email list tracking is much worse.

    It gets me riled up because every email list does it. Even when I know that the people who run it have no interest in it. Non-profit, non-creepy organizations have it turned on by default. They may not even be aware of it.

    It turns me off the whole concept of email lists because I have to be on guard to not click any of their links by mistake.

  • selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts?

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  • ublock doesn't seem to strip refers. Try clicking this and see the URL bar: http://yahoo.co.uk/?illusionist

    I didn't ask the admin, I am asking the community for a sanity check

  • selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts?

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  • Yup the only place to post it. :D

  • easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?

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  • Well it looks like just what I wanted! I'll put it on my "when I get comfortable with Docker" list. Which due to it's rapid growth, is becoming a "reasons to get comfortable with docker" list.

    Looks pretty new, since June or July this year. I will admit I am suspicious of projects making claims like "Learning curve ✅ None". I find they tend to assume a lot of prior knoweldge. I will check it out in a while, I think.

    BTW the link you posted has tracking, not sure if that was on purpose.

  • easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?

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  • So do you add the books in bulk to the library then use the iOS app to scrape and apply the metadata?

  • easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?

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  • In a physical archive, effort is made to retain as much original relation between the materials as possible. The order of books on a shelf, items placed inside other items, etc. If there is an envelope containing a bunch of press clippings, notes, photos etc, you don't disassemble it to be filed by date and type, completely apart from each other. You keep them together, in order.

  • easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization?

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  • in theory if you wanted to you could use hardlinks to retain the original file structure while also having a nicely organized version available. most of the Arrs support this although TBH I do not trust them with the files I wish to preserve in this way. Since there's not too many of them I just zip up copies of anything I want to retain exactly and let the software work with a duplicate. And hardlinks of course would still be subject to editing like retagging.

    Of course if you are accustomed to your library being organized in this manner and it suits you, then there is no reason to change. :)

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  • I tried beets but it takes so long to do any task. Even if I just ask it to look up 1 album. beet import /path/to/album I got frustrated trying to learn it.

    Was surprised about being unable to find any --verbose argument so I could at least see what was going on. Does it just take forever to do anything?

  • RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation

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  • It's sort of weird to upload because it's already on the hard drive where I want it to go.. Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.

  • Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities

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  • a special word for being prejudiced against the Roma People

    According to wikipedia you have several choices: "antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia".

    Furthermore there are terms "porajmos (also porrajmos or pharrajimos—literally, "devouring" or "destruction" in some dialects of the Romani language)... Balkan Romani activists prefer to use the term samudaripen ("mass killing")" to describe the holocaust on Romani people.

    It's difficult to over emphasize how willfully ignorant the above commenter is. They don't care about jews or roma. This is an example of real anti semitism, which continues to pervade, and is the reason why Israel and its oligarchs can get away with mislabeling legitimate activity as such. Because everyone knows there are people like this running around who are seeking to ride the wave of empathy for the palestinians (who they also don't care about) to stir up anti-jew attitudes.

  • RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation

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  • yes that is correct. it is a server/client solution so you can track you progress.

    zero finding ability. try Lazy Librarian.

    remember that audiobooks are relatively rare due to their high production costs. so a lot of books do not have an audio version. Could consider text to speech.

    there are some massive torrents that have like thousands of audiobooks in them and you have to go and select which ones to download. I'm not sure how I stumbled on these in the past so if you figure that out let me know.

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    Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base

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  • Yeah I can't believe my employer forces me to use a computer that's constantly popping up trying to get me to play games or read gossip.

  • RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation

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  • Readarr is just a tool that facilitates downloading via bittorrent or usenet. You can just use those the old fashioned way without it.

    Edit: The program Lazy Librarian that some people are mentioning also assists with the searching and downloading, if you prefer not to do it by hand.

    You can purchase audiobooks too, especially from authors who make them available on DRM-free platforms.

    And there's always https://librivox.org/

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  • Slavery is still a word and we still all know the word, no question about that, but at least in Europe, legalized slavery isn’t really a concept we need to put a lot of political effort into, because it doesn’t exist any more.

    We don’t need to have laws governing how slaves are treated, how the process of freeing slaves go, how former slaves are treated in society. We don’t even need to have discussions about that topic, because there’s no legalized slavery any more.

    I guess you have never heard of the UK's 2015 Modern Slavery Act ("An Act to make provision about slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour and about human trafficking, including provision for the protection of victims; to make provision for an Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner; and for connected purposes").

    If you web search for any organization or company that's active in the UK, you will find they have a bunch of disclosures and policies relating to slavery. Here are some randoms ones to save your fingers from working too hard: the NHS, Apple, Levi's

    There is movement towards EU-wide anti-slavery legislation.

    And in the same vein I think it’s justified to think about whether Jews really still need this protected status over e.g. Muslims or refugees. At least over here, it’s not so rare that e.g. refugee homes are set on fire by right-wing extremists. All sorts of Jewish institutions in my city have a permanent police guard stationed outside of them to protect them from potential attacks, even though they haven’t really happened in decades, while mosques or refugee homes usually don’t have that.

    Presumably you have spent zero moments looking into the validity of the claim about no attack in decades, just like the one about slavery being a non-issue. I proceed on the premise that you are ignorant and incorrect.

    "Anti semitism" describes a unique and specific form of bigotry which is deeply entrenched in Europe and elsewhere which is influenced by European culture. It's different than anti-black racism, orientalism, or islamiphobia to name a few. They all "deserve" their own words to describe the nuances.

    Obviously you should do something about people's houses being set on fire. Jews are are certainly not the primary barrier. I bet if you were to look at people who are in positions to actually do anything, you'll find most of them are Christians. And do you think those cops who are paid to stand around all day as street furniture would really change anything for the better if they were re-deployed? They'd probably assist the arsonists.

    Israel is a criminal enterprise from top to bottom. It has many advocates, the most effective and powerful of whom are not jewish, who conduct themselves in heinous fashion. Israel was created after WW2 by europeans who were semi-regretful about the holocaust, but were happy to not have a bunch of poor jewish refugees returning home. And by Europeans who didn't regard the arab or muslim inhabitants of Palestine as human beings. Europe and the US have been in active support and benefiting from Israel's crimes for decades.

    We need to be able to use our brains to get through the swamp of propaganda without falling back on old bigotries. Blaming jews for structural problems is one of the core tenants of nazisim. I don't know if you are a nazi or you've just picked up a bit of it through culture, or something in between.

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  • I think it actually trivializes the allegations made by the IDF solidiers because the substance of historical "blood libel" myths seem almost gentle by comparison of what is actually going on. Baking bread with the blood of the occasional child would hardly even be noticed among the on going horrific carnage.

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  • I believe that in Judaism there is some traditions of interpretation which can justify the current situation. But it isn't a religion based on obedience as much as discussion so it isn't a matter of what is "said" as much as what is understood.

    However much more relevant is the powerful and mainstream protestant Christian prophesies where the Rapture can be hastened by people taking certain steps, including having a jewish state in israel. (The jews, like most other people, will ultimately get horrifically exterminated during the Rapture, which is considered desirable to adherents.) Impatience for this Rapture is one of the reasons people and governments support Israel. American Christian groups provide way more funding and material support for Israel than jewish groups do.

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  • what theocracies of any religion haven't "ended in tears"?

    Part of me really is starting to wonder if giving folks who think they’re God’s special chosen people was a terrible mistake.

    I think you missed a word or two there.

    I'd suggest the mistake was giving people a country which was already occupied by other people. Whatever myth gets used to justify it, be it god's chosen people or manifest destiny.