laserjet

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[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I believe that in Judaism there is some traditions of interpretation which can justify the current situation. But it isn't a religion based on obedience as much as discussion so it isn't a matter of what is "said" as much as what is understood.

However much more relevant is the powerful and mainstream protestant Christian prophesies where the Rapture can be hastened by people taking certain steps, including having a jewish state in israel. (The jews, like most other people, will ultimately get horrifically exterminated during the Rapture, which is considered desirable to adherents.) Impatience for this Rapture is one of the reasons people and governments support Israel. American Christian groups provide way more funding and material support for Israel than jewish groups do.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

what theocracies of any religion haven't "ended in tears"?

Part of me really is starting to wonder if giving folks who think they’re God’s special chosen people was a terrible mistake.

I think you missed a word or two there.

I'd suggest the mistake was giving people a country which was already occupied by other people. Whatever myth gets used to justify it, be it god's chosen people or manifest destiny.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

No. Collective punishment is a crime.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The person you are responding to characterized antisemitism as "supposedly committing racist actions" which is an ignorant and hateful thing. You are arguing whether or not the existence of a word "still is justified". Words don't need to be justified or not; they go in or out of favor based on utility.

As if the problem with the Nazis wasn’t genocide and suppression of minorities, but instead genocide and suppression of Jews specifically.

This holocaust denialism. One of the major and specific problems with the nazis was their attitude regarding jews. They didn't have a problem with "minorities". They used long standing conspiratorial intolerance to consolidate power into the hands of their minority.

One of the reasons israel thinks it can keep riding the "everything is antisemetic" horse is because of how comfortable people clearly are with actual anti semitism.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

the existence of a specific term is due to pervasive and long standing existence of antisemitism in Europe.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I used lazy librarian years ago; actually it was one of the first local services I ran. Tried it more recently and had install issues; I think possibly due to my squeamishness around docker. The main dev seems helpful and consistently active.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Ya I mean I understand at the end of the day the devs have the prerogative to run their project as they please. And it's smart to have a constrained set of requirements rather than trying to be all things to all people. There's always a cost to flexibility.

I serve my TV and movies from jellyfin and it is not as prescriptive. As an imperfect workaround, the additional files can be put into a separate directory that sonarr/radarr doesn't have access to but jellyfin does.

For books, calibre tips the balance completely in the other direction of total flexibility. It's very powerful and with the right skills it can be made to do all kinds of tasks. But it's hardly the smooth initial experience of the arrs.

From my experience, the most comprehensive and robust metadata harvester is the citation manager Zotero. They have spent a lot of work on building a metadata system that is both easy to use but accounts for different versions of the same work. In academic writing you need to cite the actual document you used because it could change over time, editions, etc. Instead of making their own database, they use various 3rd party collections. And of course you must be able to customize or create items for scholarly work. There is about 15 years of chat on their forums/repos of people arguing how to best identify and apply the appropriate metadata and it's not at all smooth going even there.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The whole collection of software forces the user to limit themselves to the single version of canonical media which has been officially sanctioned by a centralized authority.

The more mainstream and corporate your media and arts interests are, the less you will notice this problem. But even with TV and movies it is a barrier once you deviate. With music and books, which due to lower production costs are literally endless in number, variations, mixes, imprints, translations, editions, covers, releases etc, it is an impossible model.

I don't know if it's too much inference but I sort of feel bad for the developers. This assumption about the superiority of homogeneous media and art pervades the projects in a way which suggests it is completely invisible to them. It's very bleak.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if I properly get the concept but it seems that rreading-glasses is something you use in addition to readarr not an independent application.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I used LL years ago before I got into any of the arrs. I was planning to return to it but ran into some sort of install/dependency issues. Maybe I'll give it another whirl in case they've solved spontaneously.

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?

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