Ever since Readarr was officially discontinued, many forks and replacements have popped up. I'm currently running pennydreadful/bookshelf, which seems to be chugging along. Faustvii/Readarr is also around but seems to not be actively meaintained??

There's also Chaptarr, which looks promising, but I've heard concerns about it being vibe-coded and such (see rreading-glasses: "I do not endorse the vibe-coded Chaptarr project."). Does anybody know to what extent this is true, and what the code quality is like?

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Berlin has invested hundreds of billions of euros to rearm since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and aims to play a major role within the North Atlantic Alliance, particularly as the US moves toward isolation.

China has a considerable competitive edge over Korea in robotics, electric vehicles (EVs), battery and also semiconductor industries, excluding the memory chip sector, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade (KIET) said in its latest report on the countries' competitiveness in advanced industries. The report is based on a survey conducted on industrial experts in September.

The title says basically everything but let me elaborate.

Given the recent news about the sold out of harddrives for the current year and possibly also the next years (tomshardware article) I try to buy the HDDs I want to use for the next few years earlier than expected.

I am on a really tight budget so I really don't want to overspend. I have an old tower PC laying around which I would like to turn into a DIY NAS probably with TrueNAS Scale.

I don't expect high loads, it will only be 1-2 users with medium writing and reading.

In this article from howtogeek the author talks about the differences and I get it, but a lot of the people commenting seem to be in a similar position as I am. Not really a lot of read-write load, only a few users, and many argue computing HDDs are fine for this use case.

Possibilites I came up with until now:

1. Buy two pricey Seagate Ironwolf or WD Red HDDs and put them in RAID1
2. Buy three cheaper Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue and put two in RAID1 and keep one as a backup if (or should I say when?) one of the used drives fails.

I am thankful for every comment or experience you might have with this topic!

If the overall EU budget is reduced, the EU’s Horizon research and innovation fund is the most likely casualty, according to the analyst. The Commission has proposed €175 billion for the fund, compared to €95 billion in the current budget.

Cuts to Horizon would undermine Europe’s attempt to attract researchers from across the globe, mainly the US.

“What started as a ruckus at a K-pop concert in Malaysia has snowballed into a wave of racist online attacks by some South Korean users against Southeast Asians, triggering a rare show of regional solidarity across social media,” the Jakarta Post reported on Monday.

The dispute reportedly began following a DAY6 concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Jan. 31, when a person identified as a Korean fan site operator allegedly snuck a professional camera with a long lens into the venue, despite such equipment being banned on the premises. After Malaysian netizens shared a video of the individual in question on social media, Korean online users accused them of violating the person's privacy. Malaysians countered that the person was being exposed for breaking the rules.

Users from other Southeast Asian countries, such as Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, chipped in and even asserted their willingness to boycott Korean pop culture content and Korean-made items from brands such as Samsung Electronics and Olive Young. This led to the online hashtag “SEAbling,” a portmanteau of the abbreviation for Southeast Asia and “sibling.”

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Demonstrations spread to Tehran’s Al Zahra University one month after security crackdown left thousands dead

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protests just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.

The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US. Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran – with the next round in Geneva on Thursday. Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there is no deal.

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In a bid to ridicule Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, some students climbed trees in the campus and hung toy mice from its branches – a way of saying he was hiding underground like a mouse. Reports said students chanted “death to the dictator”, “for every one killed, a thousand will follow” and “the blood that has been spilled will never be washed away”.

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It is their juvenile form that has turned an odd-looking, slippery fish into an expensive commodity. Elvers are now Canada’s most valuable fish. Driven by demand in Asia, glass eels can fetch thousands of dollars per kilogram (approximately a one-litre bottle full)—even sometimes more than $5,000 per kilogram. In 2022, fishers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick earned $39 million from 7,557 kilograms of elvers harvested, according to DFO.

Authorities mounted rescue operation after group of five lost control of ice sheet in Stockholm archipelago