layzerjeyt @ laserjet @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I wish more projects would have cheap rate subscriptions. Bitwarden was my first floss subscription and I don't even consider canceling it even though I don't really need any of the premium features. (I think its more like 1€ per month.)

But these "its the price of a fancy coffee per month" ones.... Girl I haven't had a fancy coffee since like 2018.

I would love to remove non floss obsidian from my day but its just so gosh darn useful. I came across Silverbullet a while ago in one of my periodic searches for alternatives.

Main issue getting in the way for me to even try it is docker. I understand that once you are comfortable with it, its convenient, but I never got there. I have tried running it every so often and its always some kind of issue that makes me give up. I keep a list of docker-only software to try in the event I ever get over that hump and this is on it.

As a competitor against obsidian, Joplin etc the docker pre req is a very high bar to clear. Overwhelming majority of users of note taking apps have not and will not run docker.

Knowing this, it makes me less excited about this project as it exists today because the best thing about obsidian is the giant user base creating so many plugins and tools to work with it. I wouldn't care for vanilla obsidian at all, it is made great by all the community generated add ons. So a small user base is kind of inherently a knock against any given project for me.

I don't know or presume this projects goals. If they want to be an alternative to desktop apps for less technical user-base, this would have to be resolved. But totally legit if that's not the priority.

hmmm I just tried this out and using cp -lr on a directory. I appears to have recreated the whole directory structure, hardlinking the files; because directories can't be hardlinked. Is that correct? If so wow.

I don't use *arrs. A few years ago they were way more than I needed and quite complex to get going. I get the impression they are more mature now. Maybe is time to check out again.

I will look through the website you suggest. At first glance I am at odds with the author as I'm not at all "picky". But probably something to glean about how to work things out anyway.

Am also on linux. I have a bigger question about how to manage the downloaded files overall but I decided to start with a more specific post and see how that went. ;)

Previously I would move everything after done and a bit of seeding. Lately I've just been letting it accrue where it lands and seed indefinately. However that's not really viable as I move past VLC as media player. Media management software (kodi, jellyfin etc) has file structure requirements, it wants to write nfo files and so on. Also I don't have infinite HDD space so some stuff I just delete after watching.

Is there some kind of tool you use to manage the symlinks? Or you create them all manually in the cli or gui/cli/tui file manager? What's the workflow?

Another benefit of leaving everything in the torrent client is remembering what I already have without doing a file system search all the time. I do really like that aspect.

I'm the opposite

Them: You should check out this show I've been watching, it's great. Do you have Disn-----

Me: I can get anything online. How do you spell the name of the show? Thanks for the rec. If you need help getting anything you aren't subscribed to let me know.

what do you do with it?

same same same

can anyone please point me to some piece of writing that explains how IA didn't willfully self destruct?

everything i read about this legal action, even when I read IA's stuff about, sounds moronic. doomed to fail and lose big for themselves and for others by setting a loser precident.

It's great that these projects already exist

but it hurts accessibility that you need to be "in the know" to find out about it.

every media outlet has to mention WayBackMachine; it's such a great outreach and legitimizing

Ive always used cryptsetup and never seen any intructions like how you are describing. I wonder if you have a different use case than I do? It seems like adding more complexity to start with one decryption method only to change it soon. Why?

Dont just consider if its "legal". But also if it is aligned with institution policy.

Depending on the details maybe it would be the kind of thing theyd have to declare when publishing? Like as a conflict of interest.

Could be other equity type avenues depending on details.

You can use something as simple as a browser extension like SingleFile that can automatically download complete, contained copies of anything bookmarked or only certain URLs.

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Community has a wide range of options

But all our tripod, angelfire, geocities etc websites were little art projects.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/browse-the-web-like-its-the-90s-with-this-free-service/

i search for error messages all the time on ddg and it usually finds relevant results. it fails when errors are not sufficiently obscure, such as a common python error occurring in many code bases, permissions errors, vaguely-worded errors etc. But there is no way for the internet to guess context in such a situation. spam is not a problem.

if google is so bad stop using it.

and there are websites like https://wiby.me/ that exist to assist people in finding the old-type content.

Sometimes I have resorted to searching blog domains and it isn't bad for the right queries.

You know what the claw end of the hammer is for right?

Actually 2 hammers are really good to take out a nail sometimes. You use one hammer to tap the claw of the other one under the nail.

Honestly I have a cat paw type nail puller but 9/10 hammer is the answer.

I agree. So much of the web now functionally happens on the socials which are not indexed/accessible to crawlers.