Not saying it’s perfect but doesn’t Yacy do this?

There’s a google doc transcription of this series , so you mostly dont need to suffer through the voice, if you don’t want.

This looks awesome, and I’ll explore it a bit. I love this being open source, and it looks very clean.

I’m going to pull a prior post, because I think ALL could be potential improvements for your utility. Feedback mainly sensible for Kana, but it could be applied to kanji with significant effort.

I like these resources for practicing kana:

• https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/kana
  • it’s like most other “type what you see” quizzes, but I like that it has a good selection of handwritten fonts that normalize different strokes/styles, so you can practice identifying the character written a number of ways
• https://studykana.com/practice-reading
  • just a typing test. Gives you an excuse/motivation to try to go fast. I wish it had more words, or a way to upload a word dictionary, etc. (I think your app already includes a time test but I havent yet explored. I like that the above link isn’t multiple choice)

I would LOVE for it to detect when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.

OR if you could have a “good probability” of including easily confused characters in the multiple choice. Me/nu, wa/re/ne, chi/sa, can be easily confused. I havent done drills in a long while and I know roughly the shape I’m looking for, but would stuggle to differentiate some of these cases. With 3 multiple choice - odds are good I can guess whichever is present.

Does anyone use Blaze? ( https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze )

I always thought it looked promising, even supporting peer-peer transfer, so in theory if you are transferring to multiple destinations multiple folks would seed.

Edit: ah, ni commits for the last 2 years

So, I’ll start by saying that I think FUTO may have changed their messaging on their website TODAY Regarding this. They now have three split sections,

1. what they develop/fund
2. “sponsored grants” (logos used)
3. “donations, ~60K” (logos not used)

That seems more sensible if they have small donations to OSS efforts or individuals who maintain them. It would be excellent for every group listed to review if they or any developer received donations from FUTO and publically decry falsity (as the 3 in the article mentioned)

Videos:

I don’t know Yarvin, don’t know shit about him. But wikipedia entry on him is not heartwarming. It does seem an odd choice to have the two videos posted by FUTO. The one is fairly mundane, but the interview with Rossman is just strange as hell in general, and disconcerting. rossman mostly just seems uncomfortable as heck. And Yarvin seems like an insufferable know it all who wants to explain everything and not give anybody the chance to complete their thought.

So I’d say endorsing this video is a dark side to FUTO. It should have been easy to stay mostly apolitical and focus on ownership and software. Not conversations about the efficacy of monarchy.

FUTO manifesto/open source:

I can at least palate that a group could think that open source is not working. There are successes and failures. Linux is a great success. Android is becoming less so as it is dominated more by vendors & Google. Talent, resources, time is continually sunk into would-be inferior software at companies. Those softwares that have closed source, harvest our data, and ultimately don’t have our interests in mind - are often more polished, and attractive to the majority of users out there. One or two people primarily heading an open source repo can often make an awesome competitive software, but perhaps not as polished and with the threat of losing time to maintain it, archive the repo, etc. In that regard, offering optional licenses to pay base wages to attract talent while still letting you verify the code you execute - could still be appealing if successful.

I believe in FOSS, and will embrace & use it til I die, but I’m willing to entertain they have a difference in opinion on what will most advance our interests.

I’ll take a look at the interviews later tonight.

A few minor items stuck out as a bit disingenuous to me:

The donation page that FUTO used includes this explanation: “This offer is for individuals, and may be available to small organizations on request. Commercial entities wishing to be listed as sponsors should inquire by email.” It’s pretty clear that there are special instructions for institutional donors who wish to receive musl’s endorsement as thanks for their contribution.

It DOES say that, but literally only for the "monthly contribution > 150 section. For a one time grant of 1000 dollars, it doesn’t appear to say anything.

FUTO appears to list efforts it has donated to (and use their name/logo), under the title, “Our sponsored grant programs”. Which to me seems more of a semantic argument of whether they can say they’ve donated to something or not.

The inclusion of a logo without permission is a good critique, nonetheless. Likewise, if they are lying about donating to some of these projects, that is a problem.

• The author makes a point of complaining about a video posted to odysee. There are not many great options for posting videos outside of Youtube. That FUTO would post videos to multiple other youtube alternatives, including odysee and peertube does not seem like a surprise to me. Not saying anything about the video though, until I’ve sat and watched.

Thanks!

Telemetry: I was able to find it, but it was already disabled. Maybe i noticed and unchecked it when I initially setup.

Donate button: Ah, I see where you mean. Interestingly I do not see it when accessing from my mobile device, either as a mobile site or requesting a desktop site. But when accessing it from a desktop browser I do see it in the bottom left.

A quick test shows ublock origin can block the element from showing. I believe that even if the user donates, it is not sufficient to hide this button, and the user must opt to pay for Kavita+ which is a subscription, not a one time license/etc, and forgoing it may lock other features a user is interested in.

https://wiki.kavitareader.com/donating/ https://wiki.kavitareader.com/kavita+/

I’ve been running Kavita for a year and a half +, and honestly cannot tell where the donate button is, other than going into the settings and clicking the “kavita+” selection. Maybe I’m oblivious. Can you share what you’re seeing? As well with the telemetry option?

The release tags cannot be changed or removed from the commit they were applied to. You cannot reuse a tag.

Immutable releases include protection against repository resurrection attacks. Even if you delete a repository and create a new one with the same name, you cannot reuse tags that were associated with immutable releases in the original repository.

The smart playlist editor is also baller for navidrome.

Nicotine (soulseek) -> beets -> navidrome

There’s also logseq, which I would pit into this category, and is open source

https://github.com/logseq/logseq

I realize it’s just another framework. But I think the next time I’m building something useful beyond a basic CLI I will try textualize. https://github.com/Textualize/textual?tab=readme-ov-file

I don’t care much about aesthetic and a similar interface for terminal/web seems like it would be useful.

That said, I fully agree that it’s daunting to have to deal with any existing ui. It’s really tiresome to jump through multiple hoops just to get/show info - even before trying to make it pretty.

• Access to my entire music library remotely
• A directory structure view, rather than just Album/Artist/Genre views
• Transcoding while streaming to minimize mobile data usage
• Syncing parts of my library for offline usage

FWIW, you can partially hit most of these with Navidrome with another frontend. I like using Symfonium (android) which allows local downloading, and has a directory view. I don’t think it would work offline though for the directory view. I don’t know about caching/downloading on desktop though; feishin is my favorite desktop frontend, but I don’t think it has a DL/play from DL feature.

The above is only partial. Thank you for your work and sharing. I think the discouraging comments miss that this was a passion project of yours to fill your own use case. Good work!

Thanks, I’ll check them out.

Thanks, I’ll take a look. Syncing is nice, but I’ll see how it fits!

Does anyone have current recommendations for an alternative to nextcloud file syncing/sharing?

I use it only for the below:

• synchronize some files/folders between some of my devices
• share files/folders with friends who don’t have an account; either with no password/account, or a password set at time of sharing
  • temporary/timed sharing so it is eventually no longer shared is nice, but not required
• use its webui like dropbox to upload files to my server from random machines (or download them)

And for that, nextcloud seems to be overkill.

This is the way

Symfonium on mobile Feishin on PC

I text my buddy, and say “hey do you wanna watch xyz, when you’re done with work?”. We hop on discord to chat and watch it. An hour or two timezone is not an issue, and for someone ‘local’ I’m probably not driving half an hour to their house after work. I do prefer watching together in-person, but thats not always as convenient.

Probably around 40% of my watching is via syncplay on Jellyfin, as I like watching with buddies.

Sans jellyfin you have to find a way for both of you to access the same file/stream and manually sync across snack/bathroom breaks or use the external and separate syncplay app.

I do like the external syncplay app but if I’m going to have to get the file to them anyways, why not just stream it synced? In my mind this is a really convenient feature.

It is not perfect, in my experience;

• on rare occasions, it gets ‘stuck’ and won’t sync correctly, so one will play but noth the other, pausing one unpauses the other, etc. Usually rebooting helps, but if not, I just manually sync
• there was 1 occassion which made no sense. I played a movie with a friend, we were watching together, but they were ahead of me by a whole ~15 minutes by the end of the film. Neither of us felt it was fast/slow or skipping anything.
• I haven’t had luck using syncplay on my TV. The feature exists but it doesn’t actually work.

But these are rare, minor gripes IMO. I’m glad Jellyfin has this feature.