He recorded a rough version of the riff on a cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.

When he listened to the recording in the morning, there were about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes".

My e-book management currently consist of storing a bunch of files, both .epub, .pdf and .azw3 stored either by author (fiction) or by topic (non-fiction), for various sources (purchased e-books, downloaded via University subscriptions, Project Guthenberg and some from Library Genesis/Anna's Archive). For some time I'd been wanting to organize them better, with a web UI to download in a format of my choice and to be able to share with others.

I first found out about and became interested in Booklore, as it seemed to fulfill my needs, and decided to research it more in-depth and oh boy, what drama... I am aware of the Grimmory fork, but I am not touching that with a ten-foot pole until it has matured and can be generally considered to be trustworthy.

So instead I started experimenting with the more established Calibre + Calibre-Web setup (I decided against Calibre Web Automated, as that also seemed a little shady). I find the UI of Calibre-Web to be fine enough for my use, but would have loved to be able to edit more metadata in the UI (it appears I am unable to add a cover for instance). But the Calibre server has so far been very frustrating to work with for me, and does not fit my desired workflow at all. I basically want to be able to dump my files onto my server (and continuously sync local files to the sever), get the metadata mostly automatically sorted with easy options to amend missing metadata (preferably from a web UI and not that screen-share thing that doesn't even work in Librewolf). I have not found a way for it to automatically import new books, and if I reimport from the directory I dump my books in, it will reimport some of the books where the metadata was changed (some it will realize is the same, and ask to skip), so I end up with multiple duplicates. I work under the assumption that its mostly user errors so far, and I will try to master it better, but so far I find it very intuitive.

I will be looking more into Kavita as well, but so far I know very little about it.

How are you setup in your homelab for e-book management? Would love to see some examples of well-established workflows that works for you.

From: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116340012218871207

I wish everyone happy and joyful holidays, especially in these turbulent times. May this season bring you moments of peace, warmth, and hope.

Source: https://theycantalk.com/post/811826614259318784/cast

The futures price is “almost giving a false sense of security that things are not that stressed,” said Amrita Sen, founder of Energy Aspects, in an interview with CNBC’s “The Exchange.”

“You are seeing it but the financial market is almost masking the true tightness that everywhere else is showing up,” Sen said. The price for a barrel of diesel in Europe is almost $200 per barrel right now, she said.

If this goes on a bit longer, this is going to have profound and lasting effects. The political effects might be larger than the oil crisis of 1974, since at that time there were no ready alternatives for oil as an energy source in heating and transport.

Paywall? https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.politico.eu/article/nick-thomas-symonds-britain-eu-point-man-reset-deal-can-be-done-summer/

Israel attempting to fabricate sexual misconduct.

I dont like how it looks now, and i remember somebody here provided steps how to revert

Russia plans to send a second ship carrying oil to Cuba, the Russian energy minister has said, as the Caribbean nation struggles under a crippling United States blockade.

Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday that the cargo was being loaded and would be brought to Cuba.

“Cuba is in a total blockade; it’s been cut off. Whose shipment of oil made it? A Russian vessel broke through the blockade,” Tsivilev said, referring to a first Russian tanker that reached the island earlier this week.

“A second one is being loaded right now. We will not leave Cubans alone in trouble.”

The UK government is like: "submit ID first before you use iPhone", like WTF? As apparently, they are considering on making that the default way to unlock a cellphone whilst spying on you (like they already are) keeping tabs on what apps you're currently using, have downloaded or purchases made online.

Their Online Safety Act is stupid ever since it was enforced last year as that has done nothing except for making people bypass it entirely (like there's cases of game characters used to circumvent age verification & facial scans) so I'll assume the same will happen with this (fake ID's) just to unlock iPhones.

https://mastodon.world/@exocomics/116337066121706995

Traveled to Ryazan with my family yesterday. At some point, dense fog covered the whole city. Photo: view of the Ryazan Kremlin from the defensive embankment.

(my first post on lemmy, heh)

https://mastodon.world/@exocomics/116337066121706995

When will they ever learn?

The recipe for "fresh baked bread" that the wrapper claims to be baked "every day - Homemade Style". Apparently, an incredibly clever AI model has come up with something truly special and delicious here - but I still really hope the kebab shop doesn’t start baking its flatbread that way - even if "it will bring more chewi":

"I clove garlic, crushed
I quantity tunc btini mixture, Kcupf (75g) whole -egg miyoBiuiK
1 tablespoon (om Jto paste
1 tablespoon Worcestershire uuce
2 tablespoons fresh breadcrumbs
sea salt and cracked black pepper
8 rashers bacon, rind removed
12 discs white bread, touted
bunec for spreading
2 vine-ripened tomato's, sliced
50g baby lettuce leaves.
4 tablespoons store-bought fruit chutney"

United States President Donald Trump has slapped a 100 per cent tariff on some pharmaceutical drugs made outside the US, with Australian-made products facing the highest levy despite carve-outs for other countries.

Credit to https://ohai.social/@redsad/116337151875225025

A mysterious data center company has drawn the ire of local residents in Ohio. They voice concerns about the impact on their water supply, noise pollution, and rising energy costs — and criticize the secrecy around the 600-acre project. The shadowy developer, a Delaware-registered LLC, appears to be a front for one of the largest tech companies on earth: Meta.