The BookLore Github:

https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Has a shelf of comics to see how reading on the server works:

https://demo.booklore.dev/library/3/books?view=grid&sort=titleSeries&direction=asc

It looks like I might be misremembering though, and there might not be a torrent search / download, just the OPDS server to download to a remote device on some client apps.

For downloads then looking at my docker compose it looks like I chose LazyLibrarian over bookshelf but I can’t tell you why.

I asked something similar (its just asking about ebooks) and some of the answers there may help:

https://mander.xyz/post/39809286

I have notes for a follow up but I didn’t finish my testing and am still using mostly commercial options.

I think I didn’t find anything good for syncing between devices (unless own a kobo reader) but Calibre OPDS was workable as a server and both Booklore and Calibre Web had options for downloading but both have to deal with book torrents often not being available / bundled without the name and I think I liked Booklore more, but was going to go with Calibre Web since I thought I could share the library file (and I travel so for now my “server” is a virtual machine on my laptop that is often not running).

Finally read the transcript, here are some quotes:

And I think that lends you very well to paying attention to what these guys were doing and saying and thinking, which made no sense to me at all. I mean, it had its own internal logic, but it wasn’t logical.

Because as I’ve always said, no sector of society has benefited more and suffered less from the government than Silicon Valley. They’ve got such a chip on their shoulder. They’re so angry. They feel so badly done by. And they have no sense of how much the government funded all that research, did everything to make their lives possible and comfortable. Yet they’re violently anti-government.

you wrote a paragraph that is probably the best explanation of tech-libertarianism or fascism ever written: “It bespeaks a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human. It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with the preference for and a glorification of being the solo commander of one’s computer in lieu of any other economically viable behavior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”

I feel like with the Netscape IPO and all the money that began to be made in Silicon Valley is they really bought the Milton Friedman thing of stockholder theory of value. So anything that affects tech price, stock price is bad.

Once money started really pouring in, they were being lauded as like the smartest, coolest, most amazing, wonderful people that ever existed. And so who would have the strength of character to question that? Nobody, I would say, generally, people are scratching you behind the ears and telling you that the way you are, however limited it is, is perfect and perfect for this moment

In Cyberselfish, you divided tech libertarians into the Ravers and the Gilders. And the Ravers were kind of the tech libertarian types who go to Burning Man and have some countercultural characteristics. And the Gilders were more of the suit money obsessed types, the conservatives

How did the book affect your life?

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I don’t know why writing that book was such a professional death sentence for me. I didn’t write it with the idea of I’m a whistleblower and I will now get death threats. I didn’t think that would happen. It affected my life terribly. It threw me $65,000 in debt. I could never get published anywhere, not a book, not an article, whether it was on technology or something else. It really was like the book had placed a curse on me. And I felt really bad about it. Like, was it a bad book?

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I think if you’re a writer or any kind of creative person, you want to feel, and this is narcissism, at least for me, you want to feel you’ve created something of lasting value. And having this validation come 25 years later goes, I did create something of lasting value, however we wanted to define it. When I wrote it, I did not think it was too ahead of the curve. I was describing what I was seeing then and I didn’t understand why other people didn’t see it

Looking back at what you wrote, does anything about where we are or how we got here shock or surprise you?

I thought there would be more correctives, you know, that culture of computer freedom and privacy, the way the Bay Area has traditionally been what a friend of mine calls a blue church as opposed to red. I thought those corrective forces would be in play. I didn’t realize how pervasive the Wall Street mentality, which is shareholder theory of value and I can do whatever I want and it’s fine. I didn’t realize there weren’t going to be correctives to that. That is one of the things that surprises me.

Interesting. I’m not going to watch the video but was curious. Here’s her wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulina_Borsook

I didn’t find a good summary of her book “Cyberselfish : a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high tech”

I think this is the transcript of the video:

https://www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-borsook-saw-tech-fascism-coming/

And it seems like the youtube video is just The Nerd Reich podcast if you want to listen to audio only

Intelligent systems need perception to understand, predict, and navigate their environment. These sensory capabilities reflect what’s useful for survival in a specific environment: bats use echolocation, migratory birds sense magnetic fields, Arctic reindeer shift their UV vision seasonally. But when your world is made of text, what do you see? Language models encounter many text-based tasks that benefit from visual or spatial reasoning: parsing ASCII art, interpreting tables, or handling text wrapping constraints. Yet their only “sensory” input is a sequence of integers representing tokens. They must learn perceptual abilities from scratch, developing specialized mechanisms in the process.

Its not quite anthropomorphising but there is a lot of poetry there explaining a statistical model

This is great! I’ve been telling everyone who will listen that we should be doing this but that since it’s more expensive than clear felling land for a solar plant that’s installed on the ground, it needs legislation. Anyone know of other countries that have done this? I hope more will follow

First your post presumes most animals can talk in a sophisticated way instead of some primitive signals. Then it presumes scientists aren’t working on understanding animal communication.

Scientists did this with whales and the story broke. The reality of that story was that it was like some musicians splicing some bird songs together and a bird came to listen for a little and leaving. It got blown up by excited people who wanted to believe we were talking to animals.

Did you even bother to open up google scholar and do a half assed search before posting that and then adding it here?

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Agreed after the yes.

I’m not sure how what you said either: justifies the comments not fitting that label; justifies that “any practice that restricts my personal freedom in any way is bad” is a practical ideology; or even establishes much a link between what you’ve quoted and what you’ve said. And I think you need to be doing one of those to be making a counter argument

I think that marking things as “safe” could have more complications than this depending on their definition but I think you’re right that’s probably all this issue is. This is almost the only sane comment here. Everyone else seems to be frothing at the mouth and I’m guessing its a decent mix of not understanding much of how these systems work (and blindly running tutorials for those that do self host) and blind ideology (big companies are bad / any practice that restricts my personal freedom in any way is bad)

Save yourself the click:

• It used to be rich in the 50s
• It is defensible (mountains and oceans)
• It has mostly weak neighbours (besides Brazil)
• It has a good climate for agriculture
• It has a good river system for logistics
• It has a good natural port
• It has resources

It ends by using a chess analogy instead of saying the country didn’t play its cards well and wasn’t well governed. From my scan it somehow missed or didn’t put much emphasis on the 1976 military coop and the situation that lead to it or any instability since

It’s probably trying to tie into the US funding Argentina but uses a lot of words to not say a lot

I don’t think my IDEs are quite as colourful as his. Did he choose a deliberately bad colour scheme to try to make a point?

Trying hard to justify their epiphany… and trying to justify their plugin and advertise it.

Downvote because the source title is misleading and the OP didn’t mention it. Some of the deep dive into the situation was interesting though

I wonder if there is some metadata any viewers use that I could also sync between devices

What page I’m on. I’ve tried a few things that basically open you to the start again. Especially with PDFs (so opening research papers on the iPhone. Thats not really self hosting but part of the system that needs to work together).

I’ll update the post so people get this in first pass. Thanks!

Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised if the loud mob is right but it seems like we’re all guessing with not much info. Agreed that it’s a bit fascinating. I’m definitely not upset with my decision to leave the US

I’m not, and the poster doesn’t seem to be, saying this isn’t some sort of retaliation for saying Charlie Kirk did some bad things. The Trump admin does do plenty of that. But a lot of posts are saying it’s definitive when it’s not. At the very least, based on how the law seems to be still enforced, they need some sort of pretext. The poster at least takes some time to address that instead of screaming loudly with certainty about an uncertain situation where we have pretty partial information.

Slightly off topic, I went looking for court documents instead of news articles but failed to find anything.

The lower courts have been blocking the administration a lot. Ignorant of you to lump every part of government together. And kind of infuriating when the lower courts are about the only thing restraining the executive in Trump’s second term.

Thanks for actually adding context and an assessment. Sorry you’re getting downvoted by people that don’t like it