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Obsidian offers the ability to link notes together, it uses markdown and plain text to store your notes, it has a plugin ecosystem, and the visual knowledge graph that lets you explore topics and the relationships between your notes. BUT it's proprietary, so we have Logseq. It takes notes as markdown files, it has more than 150 plugins, and a bunch of themes, it has mobile apps, it's private, and it does have the same linking features and knowledge graph.

It even lets you create queries to generate tables with all the information you need, based on the links and data you entered in your notes.Logseq even offers their own syncing solution if you want that. It's available for Linux, as an AppImage, and for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

Another really powerful app is Notion. While it's free of charge, it's also proprietary and doesn't have an official Linux version.

The closest thing you can find in the open source world will be AppFlowy, and while it's really close, it's not as feature complete just yet. You can create your own structure, with pages and subpages, and you have a few page types, like calendars, boards, tables, or documents. You also can mix these types on the same page, like having a board with cards, that you can also present in a table, or on a calendar, but you won't get as many templates as what Notion offers.

If you want a more full featured app, there's AnyType instead. It's also open source, and has a Linux client and mobile apps, but the interface is a bit more involved and less clear to start with than AppFLowy.

Now this one, you might not have as much control over, generally, a company or project will impose Slack or Microsoft Teams on you. But if you have all the power, then you might want to take a look at Mattermost.

It's a fully open source Slack / MS Teams alternative, that you can self host. It lets you create channels, and chat, with side threads, file sharing, screen sharing, and audio calls. It can be integrated with a bunch of developer tools to automate things, you can format messages with markdown, or code snippets, and all messages can be archived, with full history search.

If all you need to organize yourself is a board, you might use Trello. This one is pretty easy to replace: you can just use Focalboard. You can either self host it if you want to let multiple people access the same board, or you can just use it as a personal app, with a macOS, Windows and Linux application.

If you need to create and edit PDF documents, you might use Acrobat Pro, from Adobe. You can always open them in GIMP, Inkscape, of LibreOffice Draw, but these tend to either open a single page, or break the document's formatting. Libreoffice draw does a great job IF you have all the fonts used in the PDF installed on your system , but editing text is generally handled in a line per line basis, instead of recognizing things as paragraphs, which can be a pain to deal with.

Visual Studio Code's ... code is licensed under the MIT license, so it IS an open source / free software project, but the binary you can get from Microsoft isn't open source. The alternative, thus, is easy: VSCodium. It's built on the open source parts of VS Code, but removes all the tracking, telemetry and proprietary components. It's compatible with VS Code's plugins and extensions, and has the exact same interface and features, but in a nice open source form.

I want to have a mirror of my local music collection on my server, and a script that periodically
updates the server to, well, mirror my local collection.

But crucially, I want to convert
all lossless files to lossy, preferably before uploading them.

That's the one reason why I can't just use git - or so I believe.

I also want locally deleted files to be deleted on the server.

Sometimes I even move files around (I believe in directory structure) and again,
git deals with this perfectly. If it weren't for the lossless-to-lossy caveat.

It would be perfect if my script could recognize that just like git does, instead of deleting and reuploading the
same file to a different location.

My head is spinning round and round and before I continue messing around with find
and scp it's time to ask the community.

I am writing in bash but if some python module could help with it I'm sure I could
find my way around it.

TIA

additional info:

• Not all files in the local collection are lossless. A variety of formats.
• The purpose of the remote is for listening/streaming with various applications
• The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.
• The home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.
• The local machine cannot act as a server

Platform watched words lists

Video name/description and comments that contain any of the watched words are automatically tagged with the name of the list.
These automatic tags can be used to filter comments and videos.

Global word list

1. Navigate to Administration section 01:01
2. Click on Moderation -> Watched words 01:03
3. Click the large button labeled Create new list 01:04
4. Add a List name; in this demo, we’ll call it Global word list 01:05
5. Add one word or group of words per line Words section. In this demo, we used: {"Donald Trump", "funk whale"}. Click save. Your list are now in affect. That's it. 01:12
6. To find and marked comments or videos, you go to the respective Administration section -> Overview and choosing either Videos or comments 03:34

Users word list

1. Navigate to your videos at My Videos 02:14
2. Click on the Comments tab, then select Watched words 02:16
3. Click the large button labeled Create new list 02:20
4. Add a List name; in this demo, we’ll call it Users word list 02:22
5. Add one word or group of words per line Words section. In this demo, we used: {"binaries", "big sale", "phishing"}. Click save. Your list is now READY to be activated, meaning it’s not yet in effect 02:28
6. Activate your newly created list of words/tags to mark comments and keep them hidden from the public until you approve them: example.org/my-library/auto-tag-policies. 02:43
7. Check the box to make the list active 02:43
8. Whenever a comment is flagged by any of your listed words, you can find it in Comments on my videos, where you can either approve or delete the comment. 03:22

Global bad words

Donald Trump
funk whale

binaries
big sale
phishing

It is recommended to install and use the Akismet plugin. It's free and has worked well for me for the past 25 years or so, with only a handful of spam getting through the filters. 04:21

akismet, do require a API code to work. 04:49

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.

"There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly... there is video. That is something the public does not know," Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.

Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.

FBI Reveals There's Video to Prove Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself

Dan Bongino, the FBI deputy director, made the remarks on Fox News Thursday.

^{Peter Aitken (Newsweek)}