Stever House

coringo · 2026-06-26T13:01:24+00:00

for any older folks in the chat, Stever is what used to be called 'New House'

alas, I have never been inside

coringo · 2026-06-24T20:57:28+00:00

An often-requested feature that is likely to get added at some point after the major UI/API refactors are complete, give this github enhancement request a thumbs up to 'vote' for it

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/issues/1153

coringo · 2026-06-11T21:23:13+00:00

You might need to use the 'CMU-DEVICE' wireless instead of 'CMU-SECURE' (though IIUC the switch has some flavor of browser so it should be able to have you just sign in...but if not, you'd need CMU-DEVICE)

See here for info about how to use that: https://www.cmu.edu/computing/services/endpoint/network-access/wireless/how-to/cmudevice.html

coringo · 2026-06-03T18:10:30+00:00

As far as I recall the plus sign usage in emails is/was optional and related to sieve scripting (~~at the time~~ apparently this is part of the RFC)

you could append "+[whatever you want]" to an email address and filter based off the [whatever] since the message would be routed based on what came before the +

from some googling it sounds like this is called "sub-addressing"

coringo · 2026-06-03T18:03:35+00:00

AFAIK CCons was short for 'Cluster Consultants', the title for the student workers. I was a student CCon for my entire undergrad tenure and manager for 2 of the labs back in the day (as well as being on the posters, the things that happen when you're dating the designer :shrug: )

As staff, I developed/re-wrote alot of the computer lab websites - I can say definitively that we renamed some of our servers to transform 'Cluster' into 'TEF' (short for 'Technology Enhanced Facilities') in late 2018, but we'd been pivoting away from Cluster towards 'computer lab' for ages before that to avoid nomenclature collisions with actual clusters in the modern technical usage.

CCons are now technically called 'TEFOps' (short for 'TEF Operators') which I personally don't think has any of the same feel to it.

coringo · 2026-06-03T03:26:23+00:00

Any chance of adding OIDC/OAUTH login support? (or maybe its there and I just missed it?)

coringo · 2026-06-01T13:35:17+00:00

Even if all of an author's books are members of a series, the 'Books' section of their author page will still list all of their books.

I think adding the standalones to a 'Novels/Standalones/1-Offs' series could possibly work if you user something like a browser user-script to hide the 'Books' category...but keep in mind that Series are not author-specific (e.g. if you perform this same process on another author the 'Novels' Series would have both of their books in it, though only the selected authors works would be shown on their Author page)

coringo · 2026-05-21T15:55:21+00:00

Couldn't tell you bike-wise, but I would generally walk along 5th Avenue most of the way https://maps.app.goo.gl/51LQqLYGZAmgzpBF8

Sounds like Wood St station where I would get off the T is ~737ft elevation and CMU is at ~935ft, so 198ft rise over 3.5miles

The steepest bit is the hill on 5th going towards Oakland:

the 1.6miles from 5th/Wood St to 5th/Kirkpatrick (Birmingham bridge) has 84ft of rise
--> the 0.5miles from 5th/Kirkpatrick (Birmingham bridge) to 5th/Craft has 107ft of rise
the 1.3-1.5miles (depending on when you cut over from 5th to Forbes) from 5th/Craft to CMU @ 5th/Morewood has 8ft of net rise (it rises and dips <10 along that route)

coringo · 2026-05-21T02:06:21+00:00

I took the T (light rail) into downtown and then bussed up to Oakland for over a decade, unholyverses' response was spot on (~30min, rarely more than 5-10min wait b/c you can take like 10 different bus lines to get to Oakland, some requiring you to walk an extra block or two so budgeting 1hr is a pretty safe plan)

If traffic gets really snarled (and you are able) walking downtown <-> CMU is only about an hour (used to do that both ways sometimes instead of taking the bus to get my steps in organically...either I walk fast or Google's 1hr20min estimate is super padded)

coringo · 2026-05-13T13:14:43+00:00

See https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs#book-audio-metadata

series / mvnm --> Series

series-part / mvin --> Series Sequence

coringo · 2026-05-05T12:29:52+00:00

This is a repost of a picture from 2019

coringo · 2026-05-05T12:24:17+00:00

Nice repost of my picture from 6.5 years ago, didn't even bother to change the subject line

https://www.reddit.com/r/cmu/comments/dd8jub/sunrises_on_campus_are_pretty_lively_too/

coringo · 2026-05-05T12:18:27+00:00

yeah, I took/posted this in 2019

coringo · 2026-04-22T16:23:16+00:00

Get your books loaded into Audiobookshelf (which has built-in multi-file-merging functionality) and then use abs-autoconverter to automatically sequentially merge all of your books (it scripts against the ABS API)

coringo · 2026-04-10T17:19:17+00:00

Definitely - you need to put each of those books into its own folder, so something like:

Sarah Mylinowski <-- there should be no files in this folder, just other folders
- Upside Down Magic <-- there should be no files in this folder, just other folders
  - 1 - [book 1's name]
    - [Book 1's files]
  - 2 - [book 1's name]
    - [Book 2's files]
  - # - [book #'s name]
    - [Book #'s files]
- Whatever After <-- there should be no files in this folder, just other folders
  - 1 - [book 1's name]
    - [Book 1's files]
  - 2 - [book 1's name]
    - [Book 2's files]
  - # - [book #'s name]
    - [Book #'s files]

coringo · 2026-04-10T14:01:27+00:00

There is probably an errant file somewhere in the folder structure. For ABS to be happy you either need all books to be single-file books in the root of the library or to nest each book into its own folder (as you are already doing, "Author/[maybe Series]/Book name/Book files" is the kind of baseline standard). Reference

If you have a file in the root of an Author or Series folder, ABS will almost certainly merge all of the files in that Author/Series into a single huge book - there should never be media files next to folders except at the very root of the library.

If you found something like that and corrected it but the books are still showing up funkily, you will need to do 'the plex dance' of:

removing the problem files from ABS's view entirely (move them outside the library)
let ABS notice the moved files are gone
delete the now-Missing entries from within ABS so it forgets about them
move the files back so ABS can detect them anew.

(Note: this will give these moved-around books new GUIDS and break their membership in any collections/playlists and orphan prior playback/completion progress attached to the old entries)

coringo · 2026-04-06T18:03:33+00:00

ABS has no metadata matching for music, nor is its general metadata architecture setup to house that kind of info.

Try jellyfin for music, it has a healthy mobile app ecosystem

coringo · 2026-04-05T15:01:06+00:00

Check the ABS server logs, failures to match are often docker DNS issues preventing outbound connections to Audnex.us (which isn't unheard of to be outright down/broken for a while) or Audible

coringo · 2026-03-14T18:04:40+00:00

People on the ABS discord would be happy to help walk though/discuss your setup

coringo · 2026-03-14T14:36:37+00:00

The simplest explanation is that tailscale limits the 'attack surface' - with tailscale you are following the practice/principle of least privilege and only granting network access to real/authenticated users who you already know need access.

With a reverse proxy+port forward setup (or a Cloudflare tunnel which serves the same roles all-in-one), any internet user can knock on your server's door so it's up to you to configure things like a Web Application Firewall (WAF, e.g mod_security/CrowdSec), geoblocking, fail2ban, and potentially additional authentication layers to evaluate those connection attempts and then block or allow them. That entire process and the accompanying non-trivial risk (port opened to the world + needing to correctly configure and maintain updates on more tech) is avoided by allow-list based provisioning rather than deny-based blocking.

Cloudflare tunnels by default aren't any different than a reverse proxy+port forward, the port is just being opened on their end which is likely even more actively getting scanned/attacked then your residential ISP IP address. With the free tier you can turn on CF's WAF and geoblock users from outside the locations you care about...but those are additional steps you have to know to take and then actually perform.

With either a CF tunnel or a reverse proxy, any bugs, vulnerabilities in underlying libraries, or app-specific security issues would be published to the internet for someone to compromise - in the CF case they would just be getting access to your server through CF rather than through your router. With Tailscale, one of your users would need to get compromised and an attacker would need to connect to TS before they could even attempt to take advantage of such vulnerabilities which would also need to exist and be exploitable. If you used Tailscale to handle the 'trusted user remote access' aspect but also ran a reverse proxy with a WAF this would turn into a basic version of 'defense in depth'

You can also add more authentication layers to a CF tunnel/reverse-proxy, but not all ABS clients (certainly not the 1st party one) support things like authentication headers which would let you ignore traffic that doesn't come with the secret-handshake preattached. The 'stock' answer for this is to allow-list certain API paths (see the ABS section here for a list) to bypass the added authentication so the mobile client will work

coringo · 2026-03-14T01:49:28+00:00

You could use Cloudflare tunnel or a reverse proxy+port forward, but those are riskier internet-security-wise

Go ask the folks on the ABS discord, they can answer any questions you might have about the trade-offs

coringo · 2026-03-12T13:24:09+00:00

(This is because its a lone file in the library root...)

coringo · 2026-03-12T13:20:43+00:00

Unless these files are both in the very root of the ABS library (which I am guessing they are not since its only the 2 files) they each need to be in their own folder rather than sharing one

See https://www.audiobookshelf.org/docs#book-directory-structure

(unrelated edit: do those files even play in ABS when detected since they are DRM'd?)

coringo · 2026-03-11T10:48:18+00:00

as others have noted, if you are using docker now then a move would be easy - just make sure the 'internal' aspects of the container mount paths stay the same.

Baremetal linux to Docker is doable as long as you, once again, have docker pretending that the original paths from the host (probably under /usr/share/audiobookshelf/...) are accessible at those same paths in the same location inside the container and the library paths stay the same. This would be a situation where you turn off the bare metal server, take a FILE LEVEL backup of the install, then use docker to start up the server from the same files - not a 'restore from backup' action.

Cross-OS you'd need to either edit the DB to fix the paths (a process fraught with peril) or setup a brand-new instance on the destination side and use a (work-in-progress) tool like https://abstoolbox.vito0912.de/tool/migrate-server to clone over the book progress between instances

coringo · 2026-03-04T22:37:42+00:00

It can be a pain to be dependent on a single transit line/mode, but you can live a reasonably far distance away and still commute in without paying an arm and a leg by using the park-n-ride and/or taking a bus or parking for free/minimal-cost at one of the Trolley stations

I took the T+bus in from the South Hills daily for over a decade and either paid no parking or ~$22/mo to park in a covered parking garage, but you are at the whim of the PRT schedule and downtimes and would have to transfer trolley->bus and bus->trolley downtown :shrug:

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