Not all hackers are ethical.

True. But the comment I was replying to was talking about hackers with a kind of “ethos” / ethics.

Do not conflate the Zuck or other Silicon Valley suits with hackers. They lack both the technical skill and the ethics.

A man of culture, I see!

No offense taken. With AI-generated texts becoming ever more pervasive, you’re right to be suspicious. 👍 I get that the bullet-point-ish style of my OP gives people ChatGPT vibes. 🤖

I could give you a run-down of ten tell-tale signs of AI writing style if you like. 🔎

Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.

Like so?

But there’s people out there! (shudders)

I’m not an LLM and I don’t use any for writing my postings, if that’s what you’re getting at. ;)

A Booklore fork! Yes, that does make sense, since Grimmory’s commits oddly start with v 2.x.x

It does not, however, change my outlook much. Booklore, too, was a very young project (initial commit: March 2025) and heavily vibecoded by a handful of people.

Grimmory sounds like a new kid on the block, and indeed, it is. I’ve looked into it, and here’s what I’ve come up with:

• initial commit: March 2026 --> very young project, blazed through 24 releases already
• 165 contributors, but upon closer inspection, it relies on only two frequent contributors --> if they lose interest, the project might fall dormant or die entirely
• as per its AI policy, the project embraces AI as a tool, but expects contributors to understand what they’re committing, and reserves the right to throw out blatantly vibecoded contributions. --> Whether two people can actually enforce this policy when getting firehosed with AI contributions remains to be seen.

With all that in mind, I think I’ll give this project a pass for now. Like you said, it’s some work that goes into curating a library and making sure the metadata is correct, and if that locks me into a project that may or may not exist several months or years from now, I’ll probably stick to one of the more established projects with a higher likelihood of long-term maintenance.

Feel free to elaborate. ;) I don’t mind ditching folders. The question is: how do I get at said metadata with the least amount of manual effort, how do I make sure that it’s accurate (sifting through thousands of files is not fun), and how is the metadata stored - particularly so that does not lock me into one application that can only understand its own metadata scheme, and once it dies or I want to switch to a different one, I lose all the work I’ve put into curating my collection. That’s why I was considering folders as an option: they are a software-agnostic way of organising my library.

That sounds reasonable. So you’re essentially throwing everything into one folder and let software do the rest? May I ask what software you’re using, and how it stores your tags? Does it use metadata files or a database?

Hi there,

thanks for not staying true to your username. ;)

[let the LLM] apply metadata to the file

How does this work in practice? I’ve got a bunch of .pdf, .epub, .txt, even some .doc files lying around in a folder. What would an LLM do to them? Write a bunch of .xml files with a file name identical to the corresponding book, or what?

That’s fair.

Now let’s see which of these waste materials I can recycle, and which of them I could, theoretically, leave untouched in their current state for 250-500 years without investing a single Dollar. (The illegal Sweetwater dump was cleaned up, btw. Picture 1 is supposed to be the clean-up.)

it can be stored on site for half a century without issue.

Oh yeah. These issues are so mild that after your “half a century”, we need to dig everything back up, reseal it and find a new place. Playing a thousand years’ worth of musical chairs with radioactive waste may sound fun to you - until one day, the music stops and you can’t find a chair.

To help answer your question, could you first

a) provide information on the total energy generated by the waste materials in pictures 1 and 2, just so we can be sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison and we can be sure that we’re looking at roughly the same amount in both pictures?
b) assess the capacity of the waste materials in pictures 1 and 2 for 1) further damages to the environment and human health, as well as 2) their potential for being recycled?
c) fast-forward these images about 250-500 years and then reasses which one depicts the greater environmental problem and cost factor?

Praising nuclear and deploring the cost of wind? That’s funny, considering the still-unsolved problem of securely storing nuclear waste for thousands of years. It’s almost like we have left the factor with the largest potential cost out of our calculation…

I’ve got your exact setup:

• running immich (and other services with valuable data) at home (on OMV!)
• backup server at family member’s house
• regular backups from here to there through Wireguard tunnel with Borgbackup

AMA!

I don’t want a compromised device on the family member’s network to compromise mine

If with “mine” you mean the pi Zero, I wouldn’t worry too much about that. Just configure the pi’s firewall to drop all traffic from the LAN (they have no business with this device anyway), except any incoming traffic from the router on the Wireguard port.

Immich is entirely free and open-source software and got a grant from the FUTO Foundation, which is fiercely pro privacy. As such, it does not engage in any data sharing. Development is financed through the grant and purchases of the server licence (I got one; it’s ridiculously good software).

Ah! I use virt-manager + qemu on desktop Linux, mainly to try things and and contain dodgy software (Windows). I didn’t know it was commonly used on headless servers. Thanks for pointing that out!

I’m self-hosting immich (with ML-based facial recognition, semantic search and OCR) and psiTTSa, an offline text-to-speech engine.

(Prob not the answer you were looking for, but a reminder that “AI” is more than just LLMs.)