Cyberpunk Librarian @CyberpunkLibrarian@hackers.town

current work is gettign pretty bad... time for a new job (at least until such time as we can depart this capitalist hellscape forever, in the meantime tho there are bills, sooooo.... )

anyway, looking for a new job. i do data egineering / analytics / data science type stuff... lotsa python and sql and many sets of data and data plumbing and all that kind of thing... if anyone has leads on that sort of work at a nice place with kind people, feel free to ping me or point me in the right direction.

Monday: Fuck you Mozilla 🖕
Tuesday: *Searches for usable browsers that are not google in a trenchcoat or otherwise have some fatal issue*
Wednesday: *angry continued use of Firefox sounds*

@CyberpunkLibrarian @feonixrift Check out: https://writefreely.org

Hey baby. Would you like to see my GIANT HARDDISK?

@CyberpunkLibrarian I'd very much like that.

I've been half-assedly kicking around an idea to build such a thing, generally referred to as #KFC (Krell Functional Context / Krell Fucking Context, variously). See also #WebFS and #DocFS which relate: accessing the Web as a filesystem (see Plan9OS) and a documents-oriented filesystem in which "paths" are actually "search queries" through various spaces (author, title, pubdates, subjects / keywords, publishers, identifiers ISBN/OCLC/LOCCN/DOI, etc).

The results of any path specification are strictly one of:

• No results (a failed search).
• One result (an identity search, at least at the time performed).
• Multiple results (a set). Which might be variously small or large (I'm thinking of some vaguely logrithmic scale for classifying this.)

I'd also like to see workflow included, some sense of a cataloguing workflow (desired, aquired, classified, converted (to some minimally-sufficient complexity best format, which is to say, LaTeX 😺 ) privacy scopes and controls, and relations between works (citations, references, translations, authors, concepts, projects, ...)

Mind, this is all but entirely vapourware.

@FiXato

@CyberpunkLibrarian Great show, and very timely!

I'm very familiar with Plex and have a server and a pro account sitting in front of several terabytes of media.

Like you, I'm not pleased with the direction that Plex has been heading in lately.
I'd been thinking about Trying Jellyfin again anyway, and your episode pushed me over the edge. It's come a LONG way since I looked at it a couple of years ago!

@CyberpunkLibrarian
For now I'm running both Plex and Jellyfin in docker containers side-by-side.
The media server containers are on their own Ubuntu server, and they're pointing at the media which is on a separate Unraid server. That makes it pretty easy to run them both in parallel until I'm totally comfortable with moving completely to Jellyfin. I've only been playing with it for a couple of days, and I'm really liking it so far.
Thanks for putting that Cyberpunk Librarian episode together!

@CyberpunkLibrarian Nothing off the top of my head. I'm largely just using files in directories myself, with index pages. That's for a small subset of my contents.

I'd run across mention somewhere to some kind of digital media library management tool that's Free Software / Open Source, though I can't remember the name offhand. I believe it's geared mostly at music and video, but can serve ebooks as well.

If you actually want to track stuff by read/not read status, or project, or classify it ... I really don't know. Most of what I've seen is a clusterf*ck.

Calibre and Zotero seem to be the nearest thing to a general sollution.

Wallabag might fit this bill, and can be self-hosted. It's more geared at HTML, though it might be flexible.

@FiXato