XPPL Documentation

About

XPPL is a space for potential pirate librarianship aimed at people who are studying the field of media culture, or as we like to call them: knowledge comrades. This library gathers all the books and articles floating around on PZI shelves and our hard drives and memory sticks, so that they can be shared. As a web interface, it hosts a curated catalogue of books and articles, and instances for uploading and downloading. It starts at XPUB, but can go anywhere we want it to.

See the XPPL project page for more on the concept & process.

Setting up an instance from image

rqlite

Git link

Documentation

Syncthing

Syncthing is used to share a synced folder among multiple computers - Documentation

Syncthing is a nice alternative to things like Dropbox or Google Drive. It allows you to synchronise data between multiple machines, which could be your own or with colleagues. Its particularly useful because it never stores your data anywhere else but on the machines that you choose to synchronise with.

They describe it like this :

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet.

Note : it is not like Dropbox or Google Drive in the sense that you can use a public machine to access your files via the web. It is only for synchronising folders between machines. Data is always stored and access locally. It is only when there are changes, and both machines are connected to the internet (and running Syncthing) that synchronisation will occur. In the case of multiple machines sharing the same content, the reliability and speed of synchronisation is relative to how many machines are linked, and connected to the internet at the same time.

Tinc VPN

- Documentation

Setting up an instance from scratch

To be continued

The lib.xpub.nl setup

We're not doing that