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SFTPGo supports OIDC and has a lot of ACL features. It allows users to have their own folders, as well as shared volumes between a group.

Empiricism is a narrower concept. It requires one to setup a system which defines "evidence", "verification", and a criterion for "true knowledge", and probably more. Afaik, Marx did not busy himself with this, and both him and Engels did not like the static manner in which British empiricism treats knowledge and reality.

While this "materialism" might sound positivistic, it isn't just merely about empirical evidence (where do raw senses stop and interpretive perception starts?) but rather it's more about aligning and rationalising our cognition as to make sense of everything (myself and everything else); to encompass as much of the whole and not only selective parts of it that bode well to our feelings and will-to-power (like superstitions or irrationalism, or fascism).

At this point I've strayed far from existence and "true meaning", which you've discussed under the CW section. You mentioned physicalism and lost of "meaning", and idealism, or turning to the primacy of minds, as an existential escape from this. Here, you come round to justify meaning with inferences from seeing others. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but some will take issue in analytical philosophy of minds and the like, with all kinds of problems: hard problem of consciousness, problem of other minds (solipsism) etc.

You've mentioned meaning quite a lot that I think you should additionally look at phenomenology for the existential question, maybe with Merleau-Ponty, then all kinds of feminist philosophy, metaphilosophy, hermeneutics, philosophy of history etc.

I have found this top down approach more empowering than looking for answers to life within the rigid framework of (often white men's) Anglo philosophy that, from bottom up, relies too heavily on the existential quantifier, a literal logical notation, to more fully deliver meaning to life.

I haven't looked through the paper linked yet, but I think that their definition of materialism develops through a negation of Hegel's system, since M&Es' "world systems" are heavily taken from the systems Hegel posed himself.

I think a close reading of how the structure of dialectics comes to being and develops through Hegel and subsequently through M&E will show that this dichotomy is more about one's orientation within the domain of natural and social sciences as knowledge machines for understanding reality rather than strictly about epistemology or ontology (it is in fact a bit of both).

As an aside, these latter categories and frameworks about what's real (i.e. the existence quantifier in logic) are framed by rigid analytic traditions that took off in Anglo philosophy where philosophers agonize in circles over what constitutes reality. Here, materialism is often denoted as "metaphysical realism", i.e. the mind independent stuff. Things-in-themselves as notions are brainteasees and an analytical struggle with this will not help any revolution whatsover. Social facts and social reality are real to us, whethe electrons are negatively charged in and of themselves is really intellectual brainmelt M&E rightly stayed away from. (For a cool way out of this hellscape, check out ontological structural realism.)

In more continental-leaning proses I find philosophers often prefer to de-emphasise such heavy categorizations; you can say the point of German idealism is to establish connections between what's in our mind and what's in front of us, rather than to separate the two.

Back to Hegel and M&E. It seems like materialism is the recognition that nature as constantly developing over time has always been changing, and will change forever. As such, there is no need for a beginning or end in an endless flow (and thus no creation, no Absolute Idea or God). To align our minds and knowledge to this nature means to recognize that science is a process of finding present understandings and synthesis, which can over time become too abstract and divorced from new development (it becomes a dogma), but then also recognizing the need to make concrete new ideas from new development, which is akin to progress in science. "Materialism" would be the constant strive to produce interpretations in accordance with nature's ebbs and flows instead of imposing what we think it should be. If "idealism" is in tension with this, then it fails to recognize the process I just described, like imposing principles and laws as universals or as static and unchanging. Very undialectical.

This brings me onto "ontology materialism", which, to answer your question, I think they, or at least Engels, never intended to understand "matter" as an essence/substratum. Anyway, I think dialectical science is against a universal appraisal of Cartesian reductionism which intends to unify all sciences under one lineage (physics -> chemistry -> biology and so on). I think it's still fine to say events are caused but what kind of substrata things belong to aren't really a part of M&E's materialism.

I managed to, through Lutris, with an old cracked version. Although I had to use winetricks to install a bunch of extensions.

Thanks for sharing, this is a must read. I really like the [Schopenhauer]-Nietzsche-Heidegger-Schmitt lineage exposé, alongside other adjacent (but of different strokes) irrationalist movements and thinkers. This quote from Chukhrov captures it nicely:

[T]he capitalist undercurrent of these emancipatory and critical theories functions not as a program to exit from capitalism, but rather as the radicalization of the impossibility of this exit.

Can scrobbling services fulfill this role for you? Last.fm works well on the free tier, Listenbrainz is free software and does a good job at recommendations too.

have a nice life (all of deathconsciousness but specifically who would leave their son out in the sun)

a silver mt. zion (all of he has left us alone...)

amenra (a solitary reign)

planning for burial (all of below the house)

lingua ignota (anything)

uboa (anything)

ex:re (all of S/T)

mount eerie (all of a crow looked at me)

panchiko (cut)

sufjan stevens (should have known better)

fugazi (I'm so tired)

nine inch nails (hurt)

midwife (all of like author, like daughter)

psychonaut 4 (all of dipsomania)

the whole genre of dsbm comes to mind

I got ads removed on mine by asking chat support. The only caveat is it needs to be registered to an account. If you get a patient employee and ask kindly that the ads are not appropriate for children, it usually works.

I didn't have ads either but being able to use KoReader is a good enough motivation for me.

• You can customize it a lot to your own liking and they do something clever with page changing that it seems a lot more responsive.
• Another thing is I used to have to convert epubs to KFX to get nice hyphenation and good typography but on KoReader you seem to be able to customize all those typography things with whatever epub you throw at it.
• Also, I have a local Calibre OPDS endpoint, you can add that in KoReader and download books over wirelessly. WiFi needs to be on when doing that but with a few tweaks you have read only root partiton so Kindle shouldn't update.

Overall there are a lot of steps to it, if you're comfortable with your current setup it's not worth the hassle/time.

Anna's Archive, Libgen, Mobilism, IRC (I use a self-hosted service called OpenBooks for this). I use Calibre for metadata sorting, plug Kindle in and move books that way and keep it on airplane mode.

Also, new Kindle jailbreak for <= 5.16.2.1.1 if anyone's interested. Managed to get KoReader on my 10th Gen Basic.

I like Halls of Torment and Boneraiser Minions, both really nice on the Steam Deck.

That's a common convention in academic papers to demonstrate pairs of correlations, it's the same as writing

"We also find a positive correlation between cognitive ability and realistic beliefs AND a negative correlation between cognitive ability and pessimistic beliefs."