Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I might try it.

Nice but 1) doesn’t Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it’s a client app. Should this post be in a different group?

Only for Europe? Darn.

In an interview I’m fine with any structure or topics you want. By informal structure I meant in the software UI, not the interview. I’ll to post more tomorrow or so.

I hadn’t heard of that comment, which wasn’t as dumb as it sounds, though some obvious solutions were overlooked and the phrasing wasn’t great.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.edu/

I’ll try to take a closer look and I might be up for an interview, since the concept interests me. I generally prefer less formal structure. Do you remember DMOZ? It might even still be around.

Looks interesting, first thing I notice is that the demo loads rather slowly. Why not just a wiki?

Thanks. My phone is on 14 and won’t get another update, oh well.

latest release of android

Does that mean 15?

I’ve used nextcloud for this but it’s not great. I’m sure there are better alternatives.

Command line mplayer has been plenty for me.

Might be worth patching fail2ban to recognize the scrapers and block them in iptables.

I’m satisfied. Virmach has had ups and downs but their network is fast too.

If you want something Hetzner-like in North America, you might look at OVH. They have a data center in Beauharnois (BHS), Canada, which is near Quebec. It’s not too different from using a server in the Northeast US.

That article is almost 4 months old and yeah, the internet in EU is better than in the US. But you can get US plans with plenty of bandwidth. I’ve been happy with buyvm.net and there are many others. Hang out on lowendspirit.com for a while to get a sense of things.

Usually you write the book with a text formatter and package the results in to an epub, so IDK if it’s common to edit the epub directly.

The epub is just a zip file containing a metadata file and a bunch of simplified HTML files (one per chapter). So if you’re comfortable editing HTML, or better yet writing scripts, you can probably slap together something simple that unpacks the epub, strips those images out of the pages, and re-packages the epub.

Github: Microsoft code hosting site that feeds all your code through AI training and tries to lock you in through their pull request and related machinery. Once used a motto like “social coding”, but let go of that when they realized Facebook for nerds didn’t sound that great. Software is mostly proprietary besides Git itself.

Gitlab: 1) a Github competitor (gitlab.com, code hosting site with somewhat similar features; 2) the software for that site, huge and bloaty and slow, written with Ruby on Rails. You can self host it if you want, but yecch.

Forgejo: Git front end software, fork of Gitea and/or Gogs. Small and fast and written in Go. Fewer features than Github or Gitlab. If you want to self-host, I’d use this or some variant. Quite easy to install and run.

Gitweb: comes with git, pretty rudimentary but has old school attractiveness at least for me. Really just a browsing interface. No pull requests or anything like that.

Git, just plain Git: if you are self-hosting a project for yourself and maybe a few friends/collaborators, it’s fine to just use git with no web stuff, and push/pull by ssh. You’d manually install account credentials for your friends. This is really the simplest, but NO fluffy UI or other creature comforts.

Fossil: amazingly small and fast alternative to all the above (fossil-scm.org) but uses its own VCS (Fossil) that doesn’t interoperate with Git. I think the author said he might convert it over sometime. It’s written in C! Uses sqlite as repo backend instead of the file system like git uses. Has built in wiki, bug tracking, documentation viewer, etc. and used about 2MB of ram last time I tried it, ridiculously small (Gogs used around 40MB and Gitlab uses gigabytes).

Sourceforge (sf.net), very old school code hosting site, not of much relevance any more. They released an old old version of the software a long time ago and that got forked to become Savannah.

Savannah (savannah.gnu.org) hosting site for GNU and related software. Also savannah.nongnu.org for non-GNU stuff in the same spirit. I don’t know the exact criteria for putting stuff on nongnu but I think it’s on a project-approval basis, rather than letting everyone upload whatever they want.

Darcs (darcs.net), another alternative to git, better in some ways, written in Haskell, lost most of its users after a self-inflicted footbullet around 5y ago. There was a hosting site (darcsweb?) for it but that looks to be gone now.

There are a few more of them too, none of much importance these days even though some were interesting.

I’m on a 4gb machine right now and it’s tolerable if I don’t do too many things at once, but Google Docs bogs in particular bogs it down.

Upgrade that box or repurpose it for something else. Web bloat has made 2gb machines useless for browsing and 4gb marginal, if the user needs Google docs, put in 8gb or more.

Very reliable hard drives don’t exist whatever the price. You need RAID. But, look at backblaze drive reliability statistics to identify some obvious problem drives to avoid. It would help if you said what you are trying to do with the drives, what capacity you want, etc.

If you look closely, a .epub is just a zip archive of a bunch of very simple html pages. So extracting the zip and viewing the HTML with a browser works fine.