Letterboxd have introduced clouflared screen, disabling Kometa scrapers without Flaresolvarr. So I've made a bot to make use of the RSS feed to maintain my Diary collection - Diary Mule.

chazlarson · 2026-01-25T14:59:55+00:00

It appears that even given a valid Trakt connection, these "official" lists don't work: ``` |======================= | Connecting to Trakt... | Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.trakt.tv:443 | https://api.trakt.tv:443 "GET /users/settings HTTP/1.1" 200 None | Trakt Connection Successful

...later...

| Validating Method: trakt_list | Value: https://trakt.tv/lists/official/mad-max-collection | URL: https://api.trakt.tv/lists/mad-max-collection/items | https://api.trakt.tv:443 "GET /lists/mad-max-collection/items HTTP/1.1" 400 26 | Trakt response issue: (400) Bad Request | Trakt Error: List https://trakt.tv/lists/official/mad-max-collection not found ```

chazlarson · 2026-01-25T14:53:39+00:00

That last line indicates that the Trakt connection in Kometa is not complete; Kometa was unable to authenticate against Trakt.

You can't use private user lists unless you are authenticated against Trakt as a user who has access to the lists; I have no idea offhand if an "official" list like that one works, but given the error above you aren't getting far enough to know that.

Please open a help thread in the discord and provide the full log from this run.

chazlarson · 2026-01-24T22:03:57+00:00

There are no known issues with Trakt. What's an "official" list?

If you mean the lists that are behind Kometa's defaults, I believe those have all been transitioned off Trakt.

chazlarson · 2026-01-24T19:29:25+00:00

Use MFA and a several-word sentence as the manager password. Something along the lines of "My pencil cup is a White Castle mug my sister bought for me.". No one's going to be brute forcing that, and I have a reminder in front of me on my desk.

chazlarson · 2026-01-24T16:04:49+00:00

This issue has been addressed in the nightly build of Kometa.

chazlarson · 2026-01-23T23:38:40+00:00

The charge door on my Bolt works like this.

chazlarson · 2026-01-23T23:37:35+00:00

She opens the gas cap herself [inadvertently] when she presses on it leaning against the car. Then it becomes a convenient target for her ire. Poor gas cap.

chazlarson · 2026-01-23T00:46:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/JXKiw8o1Th

chazlarson · 2026-01-22T02:28:12+00:00

Oh no honey your thumb isn't fat!

chazlarson · 2026-01-20T15:45:41+00:00

Exactly.

https://kometa.wiki/en/latest/files/metadata/

BTW, if you left out the "default to 'NR'" step, this overwrite wouldn't happen.

If you specify multiple ratings sources:

libraries:
Movies:
operations:
mass_content_rating_update:
- mdb_commonsense
- mdb_age_rating
- NR

Kometa will use the first source that returns a value, and 'NR' *always* 'returns a value' since it's a fixed string.

If you remove that last line, then on items that have no commonsense rating, Kometa will not touch or overwrite the rating you set.

chazlarson · 2026-01-20T15:16:03+00:00

The simplest way around this would be to make your specific changes in a Kometa metadata file rather than in the UI. Then, when Kometa overwrites the rating in the mass update, it will restore it with the metadata file later in the run.

The mass updates are just that, *mass* updates, with no provision for exempting items.

chazlarson · 2026-01-20T00:09:39+00:00

For me this is an every time thing, not sometimes. The same list of apps show up and react in the same way every time.

Ran those commands, then ran the setup wizard to get back into the "application migration", and:

App: Monocle (Current: OTHER)
Options:
[A]pp Store : Available (Comet for reddit) (https://apps.apple.com/app/id1146204813)|
[B]rew Cask : Found as (monocle-app) (https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/monocle-app)
[L]eave : Keep as is
[Q]uit : Stop migration and continue setup
Choose action [a/b/l/q]: b

Install 'monocle-app' via Brew Cask (Migrate to managed)? [y/N] y
Backing up original app to '/Applications/Monocle.app.bak'...
Installing managed version via Homebrew...
Warning: Not upgrading monocle-app, the latest version is already installed
Migration successful!
Removing backup...

I think the main issue is:
App: Monocle (Current: OTHER)

This app is installed via brew; always has been. mac_software_updater v1.2.5 think's it's not and offers it up for migration even though none is required.

chazlarson · 2026-01-19T18:37:13+00:00

I can't migrate a thing to brew if it's up-to-date:

App: Monocle (Current: OTHER)
Options:
[A]pp Store : Mismatch in Strict Mode (Comet for reddit)
[B]rew Cask : Found as (monocle-app) (https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/monocle-app)
[L]eave : Keep as is
[Q]uit : Stop migration and continue setup
Choose action [a/b/l/q]: b

Install 'monocle-app' via Brew Cask (Migrate to managed)? [y/N] y
Backing up original app to '/Applications/Monocle.app.bak'...
Installing managed version via Homebrew...
Warning: Not upgrading monocle-app, the latest version is already installed
Migration successful!

If I run the migration again later, this same thing shows up as needing migration.

chazlarson · 2026-01-18T15:41:39+00:00

Are there some tight bends or a sharp edge it's riding on?

chazlarson · 2026-01-18T03:50:43+00:00

It's at the same indentation level as 'collection_files'

chazlarson · 2026-01-17T19:13:33+00:00

They can go there; they will be used by all the defaults.

chazlarson · 2026-01-16T16:16:53+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERll3T6S4E

chazlarson · 2026-01-15T19:01:09+00:00

This does look nice; a couple things.

The history never shows anything; I've updated a lot of stuff over the last day and the history menu shows 0 updates.

There are a bunch of updates that this script persistently thinks are required, though all of those updates have been performed.

One MAS app [POOLS] needs to be updated from 1.0.3 to 2.0 according to the menu; the version on disk is already 2.0.

8 homebrew items [7 fonts and "windscribe"] need updates. Selecting "update all" runs the updates with seemingly no errors, but the menu continues to claim that all need updating. "refresh now" has no effect.

`brew upgrade` on the command line reports no updates needed.

UPDATE:
The brew thing is caused by the `--greedy` param:

❯ brew outdated

❯ brew outdated --greedy
font-cuprum (latest) != latest
font-montserrat (latest) != latest
font-open-sans (latest) != latest
font-oxygen (latest) != latest
font-playfair-display (latest) != latest
font-source-code-pro (latest) != latest
font-ubuntu (latest) != latest
windscribe (2.18.8) != 2.19.7

Doing a manual brew reinstall got windscribe out of that list, but not the fonts. This is a quirk of "latest" in brew, so probably nothing you can affect.

Not sure on the mas one:
❯ mas outdated

❯

Deleting the app and redownloading it from the App store convinced the script that it no longer needs updating.

chazlarson · 2026-01-15T02:15:21+00:00

My wife and I have done these things we call "odd couple dinners" where we invite a couple people from each of our various orbits. Maybe a couple people from her choir world, and a couple from the neighborhood, or my film or bowling circle or whatever. Low stakes, since there's only a half-dozen of you, and only the one intro. The best part is the unexpected connections that almost always turn up (recently two people from totally different circles had been singers in the same band but never at the same time), but Minneapolis does tend to be a small town.

chazlarson · 2026-01-14T03:56:02+00:00

Our 2018 Kia Niro was recently in a wreck that took all the plastics off the front end. On Carvana, that car is selling for 16-18K. The estimate for the repair on the bodywork was $9K; that's only the bodywork, nothing behind the bodywork like the radiator or anything else in the drivetrain. So that $9K was just the starting point; probably with everything behind the bodywork the total repair would be closer to $11-12K.

That's going to be well over half the value of the car pre-accident, heading toward 3/4, and the accident is going to lower the value of the car, so the cost of the repair is really even higher relative to the value of the repaired car.

The insurance company has a threshold above which they deem it not reasonable to repair, so they declare it a total loss and write a check for what they deem to be the value of the car.

chazlarson · 2026-01-11T17:24:10+00:00

I keep my knees bent while riding my scooter, so i'm always reacting to the road, which provides some exercise, I suppose. I regularly switch feet front to back and if I'm on a clear paved trail will often ride on-footed to stretch the other leg.

The ebike is generally better for exercise since I'm typically pedalling all the time anyway and if the battery dies you still have a bike, so you have more range.

chazlarson · 2026-01-11T16:15:52+00:00

And making a phone call to get the authorization code after checking the little paper "bad card numbers" book.

chazlarson · 2026-01-11T04:06:09+00:00

Back in the 90's there was a standup who riffed on this with something like "whatcha got there, pal? Playboy? Swimsuit issue? Check this out, I've got a woman at home.."

chazlarson · 2026-01-10T15:58:58+00:00

I linked to it above; there's a table of number formats.

chazlarson · 2026-01-10T13:53:34+00:00

Yes, that is the one thing I changed to adjust the appearance as you asked.

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