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The developer of the increasingly popular BookOrbit project recently had a bit of a Scooby-Doo moment after being unmasked by the community as the developer of Booklore, a similar app that gained notoriety earlier this year for its sudden disappearance after having been called out for code quality issues, contributor mistreatment, and license abuse.

And while there's probably something to be said about second chances, the developer's responses in the linked thread read more like whoops-I've-been-caught than an actual change of heart. The decision to operate under a completely different identity without disclosing the Booklore connection also has yet to be addressed while coming off as somewhat deceptive.

I'd recommend steering clear of the project for the time being – regardless of how tempting it might be.

In other news and activity:

• RustFS, an object storage platform that quickly gained popularity after MinIO sh*t the bed, is now considered generally available with its v1.0.0 release
• The Portainer team announced they're dropping the community edition with the release of their upcoming v3.0 release (while still offering three free nodes of the mainline version to all who apply)
• Navidrome picked up experimental support for Jellyfin's music API, which means users can now also stream from most Jellyfin clients
• Configuring apps from the interface is so hot right now as Frigate (NVR) and Dynacat (dashboard) both picked up the ability to bypass their clunky YAML config files (yuck)
• The Raspberry Pi OS September 2026 update finally introduced a dock/launcher to the microcontroller's minimal desktop interface
• Users who've been on the fence about making the jump from Tautulli to Tracearr can finally rejoice – newsletters have arrived
• LG wants everybody to know that they're not always listening (although I doubt anyone is going to buy it)
• Somebody developed a custom 'Hey, Donut' wake word for Home Assistant (HI, ZEV)
• Ever find yourself looking for a pickle, cracking face, left/right thumb, or monarch butterfly emoji? Me neither, but they're here anyway with the release of Unicode v18.0.

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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Neko can be easily deployed via Docker and doesn't require additional containers.

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Command Line Corner

Use the rename command to easily rename multiple files (or file extensions) at the same time using patterns in the file names:

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$ rename 's/example/test/' *.txt
$ ls
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$ rename 's/.txt/.csv/' *.txt
$ ls
    test-1.csv test-2.csv

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