I'd appreciate critical feedback or suggestions, as I intend to submit my comments to the Task Force behind the WCAG 3.0 once I'm happy with them.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822945

Points: 2

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a) move from these services to something self-hosted; and

b) combine all the various types of media into a single catalogue.

The only two self-hosted tools for this that I've found so far are Bookwyrm and Koillection. Bookwyrm has interesting social features through ActivityPub, but as far as I can tell it isn't extensible to media other than books. Koillection is content-agnostic, but doesn't come with any default media types (inconvenient) doesn't appear to have any sort of import function for the data I export from the sites I'm currently using (dealbreaker).

The key features I would like are:

• visually customisable;

• record notes for each item catalogued;

• automatically retrieves cover art; and

• provides CSV importing.

Can anyone suggest anything that would fulfil these? As far as I can tell, unless someone can suggest something I've overlooked my options are:

• whip up something basic myself (but I'm time-limited at the moment so would like to avoid this if possible);

• use Bookwrym and modify it to extend the Book object; or

• use Koillection and try to manually import my data directly into the database.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33764189

Points: 4

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I currently have a Hugo blog, repo hosting with Gitea, a self-developed travel microblog/tracker. I'm thinking about playing around with Mastodon and Matrix at some point, or perhaps Solid.

The last thing I really want is a cataloguing tool for tracking books I read/films + TV I watch/games I play/music I listen to. This would replace the various social cataloguing sites I currently use (Goodreads, Letterboxd, Followmy.tv, Grouvee and Last.fm, respectively).

I've not been able to find a suitable pre-existing tool though. Bookwyrm looked interesting with its ActivityPub social features, but AFAICT it's limited to books only. I also looked into Koillection which was much more flexible, but doesn't seem to have any import ability for my pre-existing data.

Does anyone know of anything that might suit my purposes? I would like if it could automatically download cover art and I am ambivalent towards social features. I could bash together something simple myself but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

And, to perhaps make the point more pithily, that is a quote from a blog post I wrote four years ago and which better expresses my thoughts than anything I could have come up with just now.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...

[0] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Intelligence+in+An+Insecure+Worl...

https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlr/vol41/iss4/2/

If your issue is that an online handle is not someone's legal name, how would you handle someone who goes by a certain form of their legal name (e.g., using their middle name rather than their first name)? How would you handle someone whose name includes a title (e.g., ‘Cpl Bloggs’ or ‘Ambassador Taylor’)?

Everyone has a number of labels used to identify them, and the appropriateness of each is dependent on the situation being used. In the context of an article about the online community surrounding someone's online blog, which they publish under a certain name, it is entirely appropriate to use the relevant name. The only way that that person's legal name would be relevant to the article would be if it was reporting on their conduct outside of that community as well, which this article does not appear to have been doing.

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On a related note, we also have volunteer Independent Monitoring Boards for prisons: https://www.gov.uk/volunteer-to-check-standards-in-prison

And voluntary magistrates' courts which try all cases first (although they pass serious ones on to the Crown Court): https://www.gov.uk/become-magistrate

And Patient Participation Groups for all GP practices: https://www.napp.org.uk/ppgintro.html

I don't know if any of these are also the case in the US, and the UK definitely has problems of its own, but it does seem to be leaps and bounds ahead in terms of citizen oversight and institutional transparency.

Brookings also followed this up with a report entitled "Following the success sequence? Success is more likely if you’re white."[1]

Note that I don't mean to make any claims as to OP's political outlook or motives in sharing this article.

[0] https://youtu.be/aDMjgOYOcDw?t=594

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/following-the-success-seq...