This is how I do it, and for good reason: Reddit aggressively rate limits API calls. I’ve read they’ve limited us to ~100 requests / 10 minutes. That’s fine if you run an instance just for yourself. If you’re hosting a popular public instance, chances are you’ll run into a brick wall pretty quickly.
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<cries in 100 MBit/s connection>
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Aber, wie ich sehe, ein Landsmann. Für erschwingliche Glasfaser leben wir einfach im falschen Land.
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Recently read a comment here: “Think you have a backup? Delete your drives now. If you’re hesitant, you don’t really have a backup.”
As true as that is: I’d be in the “hesitant” category because I only back up my data / containers, not my bare metal system and its config. Do you guys? (Proxmox users will probably do, but what about the rest?)
These are great proof of China’s superiority! Until you see the Chinese questionnaires:
Choose an option:
[ ] My government serves the people
[ ] I want my social credit score to take a nosedive. No more bank loans, government permits, study or career opportunities for me, please!
They did beat America in the race towards oppressive authoritarianism, but under Trump, the U.S. has caught up a great deal. So much winning!
True; I skipped this part because the comment I was replying to was about taxpayer money bailouts. What you’re describing is the creation of an artificial moat against competitors. And it is correct that this is also a motive behind pushing for regulation.
This is clearly the exit strategy here. That’s why AI companies’ try to label their products as “dangerous” and call for their own regulation. On the one hand, they want to be regarded as a matter of “national security” because they bloody well know that this gives them access to taxpayer money, which in turn can bail them out of their failing bet on data center build-out. On the other hand, it helps them shift liability onto regulators if things go south and allows them to say: “We told you we wanted regulation, but you wouldn’t listen.”
Do not conflate the Zuck or other Silicon Valley suits with hackers. They lack both the technical skill and the ethics.
1·9 days agoNo offense taken. With AI-generated texts becoming ever more pervasive, you’re right to be suspicious. 👍 I get that the bullet-point-ish style of my OP gives people ChatGPT vibes. 🤖
I could give you a run-down of ten tell-tale signs of AI writing style if you like. 🔎
Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.
But there’s people out there! (shudders)
I’m not an LLM and I don’t use any for writing my postings, if that’s what you’re getting at. ;)
A Booklore fork! Yes, that does make sense, since Grimmory’s commits oddly start with v 2.x.x
It does not, however, change my outlook much. Booklore, too, was a very young project (initial commit: March 2025) and heavily vibecoded by a handful of people.
Grimmory sounds like a new kid on the block, and indeed, it is. I’ve looked into it, and here’s what I’ve come up with:
- initial commit: March 2026 --> very young project, blazed through 24 releases already
- 165 contributors, but upon closer inspection, it relies on only two frequent contributors --> if they lose interest, the project might fall dormant or die entirely
- as per its AI policy, the project embraces AI as a tool, but expects contributors to understand what they’re committing, and reserves the right to throw out blatantly vibecoded contributions. --> Whether two people can actually enforce this policy when getting firehosed with AI contributions remains to be seen.
With all that in mind, I think I’ll give this project a pass for now. Like you said, it’s some work that goes into curating a library and making sure the metadata is correct, and if that locks me into a project that may or may not exist several months or years from now, I’ll probably stick to one of the more established projects with a higher likelihood of long-term maintenance.
Feel free to elaborate. ;) I don’t mind ditching folders. The question is: how do I get at said metadata with the least amount of manual effort, how do I make sure that it’s accurate (sifting through thousands of files is not fun), and how is the metadata stored - particularly so that does not lock me into one application that can only understand its own metadata scheme, and once it dies or I want to switch to a different one, I lose all the work I’ve put into curating my collection. That’s why I was considering folders as an option: they are a software-agnostic way of organising my library.
That sounds reasonable. So you’re essentially throwing everything into one folder and let software do the rest? May I ask what software you’re using, and how it stores your tags? Does it use metadata files or a database?
DSL.
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<spuckt sein Müsli über den Tisch> Wo gibt’s 300 Mbit für EUR 40 monatlich? <recherchiert> Ahja, Vodafone. Eigentlich nicht schlecht. Wie sind deine Erfahrungen mit denen? Kriegt man bei denen eine eigene öffentliche IPv4-Adresse ohne CGNAT?
Sitze leider im tiefsten Rentnerviertel; hier kann man froh sein, wenn die Leitungen aus Kupfer sind und nicht noch Fachwerk. Glasfaser sollte verlegt werden, aber dann geriet die Deutsche Glasfaser an den Rand der Insolvenz. Mal sehen, wie das weitergeht. Für mein bisschen Homelab reichen mir 100 MBit (bzw. magere 40 im Upstream) derzeit noch aus. Das könnte aber anders werden, wenn ich mehr Nutzer dazubekomme, mit denen ich mir die schmale Upstream-Bandbreite teilen muss.