Epub is html with some crap wrapping it. Converting it to text follows the html formatting, like using the lynx browser.

Mostly pandoc (for epub to text) and a few stupid python scripts. I’m a luddite and prefer reading text files. I don’t use any particular collection management beyond filenames and grep.

IDK really. I’m repeating what I saw someplace years ago. I would say do a real RAID if you manage it. Maybe RAID 5 on 3 drives.

While I don’t exactly intend to run RAID, I ended up choosing nas drives for the 24/7 intended usage,

The purpose of a NAS drive is to be LESS reliable than a regular drive, not more reliable. Explanation: if a regular drive gets a read error on a block, it will retry for quite a while before giving up. The host, meanwhile, has to wait for the data to be retrieved if the retries work. That’s all it can really do, wait and hope. Meanwhile, the waiting slows the application down.

A NAS drive instead will fail once or twice, then give up immediately, since it knows that it’s in a RAID system and that the data is also present on other disks. The RAID then puts the data together from the other drives and gets it to the host, logging the error. It will also hopefully mark the bad block on the drive with the read failure, and rewrite the recovered data to a spare sector. So this is faster than all the retries even though the drive that had the bad block gives up on it rather than attempting recovery by repeated reads.

So if you buy NAS drives, put them in a RAID.

Drives are currently around 2x as expensive as a year or so ago but they are available if you can afford them. I guess that’s better than shortages where they’re hard to find even if you can pay. We’ve had that before too.

I like to think the current situation will settle out. Who knows though. Drive space is still way less expensive than in 2010 or anything like that.

I’m used to world and ml having about the same stuff, at least with regard to my own subscriptions. Ml actually has a few rederations like hexbear that are missing from world, and I read hexbear’s covid group.

Yeah I noticed a big slowdown starting a few hours ago, but I didn’t try to identify specifics. Over on .world there are lots more newer posts.

Is this some kind of spam? There are other companies in the same space and they’ll make their own sales pitches. Web search does find some stuff about Gloria shutting down.

Scrounge an old laptop, maybe super cheap if the screen isn’t completely working. Plug in a monitor to deal with screen problems.

I never thought those leopards would eat MY face.

Is that Anne Elk, who also had the theory about brontosauruses?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYDiPizDIs

Oh no not another client app. Just use a web app. E2EE doesn’t help much for this since there has to be stored decryption keys, probably held by multiple people. So those are targets too.

Unified Push if you want to use the internet, though for important stuff I prefer to use SMS texts. For that you need a gateway. I’m still on vitelity.net and it’s ok, but I’d look at alternatives if I were doing it again. Twilio has lately gotten all weird though.

Just use a text editor. I use Emacs org files but that’s just me.

I guess I don’t understand the issues you think you’re facing with straightforward approaches. You probably don’t want it on an internet server, right? Maybe just scrounge an old laptop with no internet connection and set it up with an encrypted disk. Then use it as your journalling box. So you’re fairly safe from network attacks. You might have to worry about someone snagging the laptop itself and recovering the key somehow. Yes there are approaches you can take to mitigate that. I don’t know of any super simple ready made methods though.

Crappy popsci report. This at least has a link to the study:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260312020107.htm

I’m using FreeOTP from F-droid and imho it suffices if you’re going to use a phone app at all. The ability to back up OTP keys in principle defeats the concept of 2FA but it’s hard to live without, once you have enough keys. The thing about retain last N backups is hard to enforce without special arrangements in your backup scheme.

I have found gitit easy to install and use though not all that featureful. It uses git as a backing store and there is an apt package for it (apt install gitit).

The KM3NeT experiment has recently observed a neutrino with an energy around 100,PeV, and IceCube has detected five neutrinos with energies above 1,PeV. While there are no known astrophysical sources, exploding primordial black holes could have produced these high-energy neutrinos. For Schwarzschild black holes this interpretation results in tensions between the burst rates inferred from the KM3NeT and IceCube observations, with indirect constraints from the extragalactic gamma ray background and with the non-observation of an associated gamma ray signal at LHAASO. In this letter we show that if there is a population of primordial black holes charged under a new dark 𝑢⁡(1) symmetry which spend most of their time in a quasi-extremal state, the neutrino emission at 1,PeV may be more suppressed than at 100,PeV. The burst rates implied by the KM3NeT and IceCube observations and the indirect constraints can then all be consistent at 1⁢𝜎, and no associated gamma-ray signal was expected at LHAASO. Furthermore, these black holes could constitute all of the observed dark matter in the universe.

Neat. The story has been getting around though IDK how convincing anyone finds it.

Careful mate. Attempt no landing there.

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.