Cyberpunk Librarian
@cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social
Systems librarian, podcaster, coder, musician, author, and cyberpunk.
Podcasting:
Cyberpunk Librarian: https://cyberpunklibrarian.com
The L0WL1F3 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/
Mastodon:
https://masto.hackers.town/@cyberpunklibrarian
Podcasting:
Cyberpunk Librarian: https://cyberpunklibrarian.com
The L0WL1F3 Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/l0wl1f3podcast/
Mastodon:
https://masto.hackers.town/@cyberpunklibrarian
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I seem to have a bunch of new followers so I figured I'd say hello! I'm Dan. I'm a Polaris ILS administrator, systems librarian, database admin, data analyst, podcaster, cyberpunk, and professional weirdo.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
Look, I need you to stop whatever you're doing, and take a few minutes out of your day to go listen to a full cast audio performance of Harlan Ellison's classic "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman.
Starring Robin Williams as Harlequin.
M a s t e r p i e c e
archive.org/details/2000...
Starring Robin Williams as Harlequin.
M a s t e r p i e c e
archive.org/details/2000...
2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Science Fiction Radio Drama Series by NPR
archive.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Look, I need you to stop whatever you're doing, and take a few minutes out of your day to go listen to a full cast audio performance of Harlan Ellison's classic "Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman.
Starring Robin Williams as Harlequin.
M a s t e r p i e c e
archive.org/details/2000...
Starring Robin Williams as Harlequin.
M a s t e r p i e c e
archive.org/details/2000...
Nerdy librarian stuff incoming.
A few weeks ago, I released a browser extension. And if you're not a systems librarian working with Polaris ILS and SimplyReports, it's absolutely useless.
But what if you work with Polaris and SimplyReports, but you're not a systems librarian?
Well...
A few weeks ago, I released a browser extension. And if you're not a systems librarian working with Polaris ILS and SimplyReports, it's absolutely useless.
But what if you work with Polaris and SimplyReports, but you're not a systems librarian?
Well...
Doing More With SiReS Ex – Ideas for a non-Systems Librarian
Over the last few days, a couple of people (literally, two… maybe three) asked if I could talk about some use cases for SiReS Ex. Basically, what does this thing do and why it might be useful…
cyberpunklibrarian.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nerdy librarian stuff incoming.
A few weeks ago, I released a browser extension. And if you're not a systems librarian working with Polaris ILS and SimplyReports, it's absolutely useless.
But what if you work with Polaris and SimplyReports, but you're not a systems librarian?
Well...
A few weeks ago, I released a browser extension. And if you're not a systems librarian working with Polaris ILS and SimplyReports, it's absolutely useless.
But what if you work with Polaris and SimplyReports, but you're not a systems librarian?
Well...
Always remember.
Never forget.
The United States Government chose to starve its citizens. And it chose to do so multiple times.
Never forget.
The United States Government chose to starve its citizens. And it chose to do so multiple times.
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Always remember.
Never forget.
The United States Government chose to starve its citizens. And it chose to do so multiple times.
Never forget.
The United States Government chose to starve its citizens. And it chose to do so multiple times.
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The real ones know that if you look in the dictionary, under ‘Catchfart’ is this man’s picture
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The real ones know that if you look in the dictionary, under ‘Catchfart’ is this man’s picture
Ya know... sometimes it's nice to pause just for a moment and remember that someone *made* technology. There are stories to be told and some of them are deeply human.
Like that one guy... who created TIFF.
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Like that one guy... who created TIFF.
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use.
It has taken 10,000+ hours to create tha...
inventingthefuture.ghost.io
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ya know... sometimes it's nice to pause just for a moment and remember that someone *made* technology. There are stories to be told and some of them are deeply human.
Like that one guy... who created TIFF.
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Like that one guy... who created TIFF.
inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
Every Halloween we sit outside, give out candy, drink beer, and use the projector to play something on the screen.
This year, it’s Silent Hill 3.
This year, it’s Silent Hill 3.
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Every Halloween we sit outside, give out candy, drink beer, and use the projector to play something on the screen.
This year, it’s Silent Hill 3.
This year, it’s Silent Hill 3.
I wrote what is probably one of the most focused, small audience browser extensions ever. It's targeted at librarians using Polaris ILS and SimplyReports. And if you don't know what that means, then it'll be worthless for you. 😅
SiRes Ex – Extracting SQL from SimplyReports
Come with me on a journey. I may have written one of the most laser focused, single minded, small target browser extensions ever. If you work with Polaris ILS, you may have also worked with SimplyR…
cyberpunklibrarian.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wrote what is probably one of the most focused, small audience browser extensions ever. It's targeted at librarians using Polaris ILS and SimplyReports. And if you don't know what that means, then it'll be worthless for you. 😅
This is an issue I've been dealing with professionally and I felt it might a little too "Inside Baseball" to talk about elsewhere but, ya know, when the 404 is covering the collapse of a major supplier of library materials? It's not just a professional issue anymore, it's fully public. 📚
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is an issue I've been dealing with professionally and I felt it might a little too "Inside Baseball" to talk about elsewhere but, ya know, when the 404 is covering the collapse of a major supplier of library materials? It's not just a professional issue anymore, it's fully public. 📚
This song has been all over my feeds for the last few weeks. They posted the chorus and, damn, I loved every note I heard.
It dropped tonight, and the entire thing is fantastic.
The band is Chasing Abbey. The song is ÍORÓNTA. (Ironic, in English.)
It dropped tonight, and the entire thing is fantastic.
The band is Chasing Abbey. The song is ÍORÓNTA. (Ironic, in English.)
Chasing Abbey - ÍORÓNTA (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Chasing Abbey
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This song has been all over my feeds for the last few weeks. They posted the chorus and, damn, I loved every note I heard.
It dropped tonight, and the entire thing is fantastic.
The band is Chasing Abbey. The song is ÍORÓNTA. (Ironic, in English.)
It dropped tonight, and the entire thing is fantastic.
The band is Chasing Abbey. The song is ÍORÓNTA. (Ironic, in English.)
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Libraries and archives made open discovery systems with lots of facets that now face a scourge of AI bots brute force scraping up their data.
“these crawlers appear to be designed to extract maximum data, regardless of the computational or infrastructure costs imposed on libraries and archives”
“these crawlers appear to be designed to extract maximum data, regardless of the computational or infrastructure costs imposed on libraries and archives”
I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
journal.code4lib.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Libraries and archives made open discovery systems with lots of facets that now face a scourge of AI bots brute force scraping up their data.
“these crawlers appear to be designed to extract maximum data, regardless of the computational or infrastructure costs imposed on libraries and archives”
“these crawlers appear to be designed to extract maximum data, regardless of the computational or infrastructure costs imposed on libraries and archives”
I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
journal.code4lib.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second
journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489
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Ok, smartguy. So what're we supposed to do? Find a qualified American without a history of sexual misconduct who wants to run for office but doesn't want to feed us all bit by bit to the great god Moloch AND has cool tattoos that don't have anything to do with NAZIs? You just hate to win, don't you?
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Ok, smartguy. So what're we supposed to do? Find a qualified American without a history of sexual misconduct who wants to run for office but doesn't want to feed us all bit by bit to the great god Moloch AND has cool tattoos that don't have anything to do with NAZIs? You just hate to win, don't you?
This $800 experiment caught unencrypted calls, texts, and military data from space
FTA:
...the researchers determined that roughly half of the geostationary satellites within range were transmitting unprotected data.
www.techspot.com/news/109860-...
FTA:
...the researchers determined that roughly half of the geostationary satellites within range were transmitting unprotected data.
www.techspot.com/news/109860-...
This $800 experiment caught unencrypted calls, texts, and military data from space
A new academic investigation has exposed a widespread and largely overlooked vulnerability in global satellite communications. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and the Univers...
www.techspot.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This $800 experiment caught unencrypted calls, texts, and military data from space
FTA:
...the researchers determined that roughly half of the geostationary satellites within range were transmitting unprotected data.
www.techspot.com/news/109860-...
FTA:
...the researchers determined that roughly half of the geostationary satellites within range were transmitting unprotected data.
www.techspot.com/news/109860-...
Look, I'm just gonna say this and add my voice to the others who are saying the same basic things.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Look, I'm just gonna say this and add my voice to the others who are saying the same basic things.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
I don't care that Microsoft decided that your Windows 10 laptop shouldn't work anymore. If you can't use it, do not throw it away. Find a Linux nerd. We'll use it. We'll make it work for someone else.
Things I find myself saying because of my genetics:
"Dammit, I need to go shave my wrist because my watch keeps pulling out the hair."
"Dammit, I need to go shave my wrist because my watch keeps pulling out the hair."
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Things I find myself saying because of my genetics:
"Dammit, I need to go shave my wrist because my watch keeps pulling out the hair."
"Dammit, I need to go shave my wrist because my watch keeps pulling out the hair."
So I remade this meme for a couple of reasons.
1. The one I found, the image quality was absolute shite. It was one of those things where it was probably posted multiple times to Facebook.
2. I picked a much better picture to go with the text. 🤣
1. The one I found, the image quality was absolute shite. It was one of those things where it was probably posted multiple times to Facebook.
2. I picked a much better picture to go with the text. 🤣
October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So I remade this meme for a couple of reasons.
1. The one I found, the image quality was absolute shite. It was one of those things where it was probably posted multiple times to Facebook.
2. I picked a much better picture to go with the text. 🤣
1. The one I found, the image quality was absolute shite. It was one of those things where it was probably posted multiple times to Facebook.
2. I picked a much better picture to go with the text. 🤣
Ya know, when I said OpenAI should get fucked, this isn't what I meant.
www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
www.404media.co
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Ya know, when I said OpenAI should get fucked, this isn't what I meant.
www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
Today marks the 154th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. Nine square kilometers of Chicago burned to ground.
As the city rebuilt, they decided to create a public library and, on January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library opened up in a water tank that survived the inferno.
As the city rebuilt, they decided to create a public library and, on January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library opened up in a water tank that survived the inferno.
Book room in the Old Water Tank
Measuring 58 feet in diameter and 28 feet high, the Book Room in the water tank was originally able to accommodate 3,157 volumes. Its most important feature, however, was that it was fireproof.
cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Today marks the 154th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. Nine square kilometers of Chicago burned to ground.
As the city rebuilt, they decided to create a public library and, on January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library opened up in a water tank that survived the inferno.
As the city rebuilt, they decided to create a public library and, on January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library opened up in a water tank that survived the inferno.
I seem to have a bunch of new followers so I figured I'd say hello! I'm Dan. I'm a Polaris ILS administrator, systems librarian, database admin, data analyst, podcaster, cyberpunk, and professional weirdo.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I seem to have a bunch of new followers so I figured I'd say hello! I'm Dan. I'm a Polaris ILS administrator, systems librarian, database admin, data analyst, podcaster, cyberpunk, and professional weirdo.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.
Reposted by Cyberpunk Librarian
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Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.
From the Libraries community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Libraries community
www.reddit.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.