Notices by ✌🏿✍🏿 (jalcine@todon.eu), page 6

oh god, I'm remaking calibre

lol it'll make more sense but like the guts of what I want is here

might well as gab about some bits: I'll put more in my running week notes https://www.jacky.wtf/weeknotes/ (one's due next Monday) but so far:

* currently building koreader from source b/c it's easy
* mocked a little wrapper over `calibredb`
* overengineered the data format (but will shave parts off)

ideally by monday, I can show something (but god, my library is big)

the two places of my pain right now:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/blob/7ebd067a95886392b3894bed0d4a0c50de475b59/spec/unit/kosync_spec.lua#L72-L73

and https://github.com/koreader/koreader-sync-server//blob/14c64347627d07cf6e72552705bf1642a39a8908/app/controllers/1/syncs_controller.lua#L72-L83

because I can't tell if I'm supposed to be hashing this thing twice _or_ if there's something else missing here

(trying to auth with a koreader-sync server has been ... interesting)

so sha2 comes with md5? hm I guess this isn't too uncommon? https://github.com/koreader/koreader/blob/7ebd067a95886392b3894bed0d4a0c50de475b59/plugins/kosync.koplugin/main.lua#L12-L12

I haven't seen this pattern before

ah it was the fucking encoding

alright now we're parsing calibredb's output and now I'm asking for someone out there to pick one format and stick to it

nesting HTML in JSON that could have been a separate field makes me wanna _yell_

actually, no. we don't need that thing right now

I've finally arrived to the place where all digital book dreams go to die https://www.w3.org/ns/epub/2007/opf/

nope pushing this to the side, I am not implementing a OPF parser

this is a pre-pre-alpha lol

This formatting is going to be the _end_ of me. I don't have to write to it, that's all that really matters.

*inhale* parse once and you're done

parse once...

@liztai angry tuna has me cracking up

I keep looking at Lua runtimes and like how Microsoft effectively owns the native Node.js stack by having NPM, Roblox owning Luau makes me wrinkle my nose a bit. Probably got the post-running brain but I think I'm just going to stick to vanilla Lua.

I really hope that this forces Microsoft back into some monopoly lawsuit. Less than 1% of devices were affected and SO MUCH of global life got fucked up. Surgeries. Transit. Food. Housing (hotel rooms got locked out). https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-customers-through-the-crowdstrike-outage/

This has to be a plain example of Microsoft using its position in the world to prevent actual innovation. Thank goodness it wasn't worse. Like if this shit had fucked up my mom's dialysis machines, I really would have not known what the fuck to do.

Copied from X/Twitter:

Breaking: Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized. Not the same as the QA union. This time it’s “wall to wall”… “241 developers including artists, engineers, programmers and designers”, per the CWA. And they say Microsoft has recognized the union.

https://x.com/stephentotilo/status/1814433802153795991

#union #labor

https://www.boycat.io/ oh we got some stuff going with this

Really need to be looking into things that do not require an ISP as part of your network stack.

Thinking about net neutrality and how easy it was for Facebook to become the Internet for whole countries. Since no party is working to protect that, it's important to at least begin the conversation.

This might be irrelevant for those in comfortable places in society but when one company becomes your portal to the Web, all of that open Web stuff becomes extremely niche (and clearly Western utopian dreams).

A reminder that Biden has led mass deportations and that it's under-reported. His support has been optimized for allies of the US (Ukraine, Israel) and aggressively curtailed by other (African and Latin) countries. It's not a mistake: this is American policy.

https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/112807683608623821

Today's my birthday. I'll be doing the same as always - looking for work, studying and working with the Party for next steps of engagement. If you can, def visit https://www.jacky.wtf/support/ to throw something my way, esp for the housing fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/stay-housed-while-i-look-for-work

#FediHire #GetFediHired #LookingForWork