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Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books. https://codeberg.org/rereading DNS is still propagating, but https://rereading.space should be up soon as well.

Cassandra Granade writes:

Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books.

https://codeberg.org/rereading

DNS is still propagating, but https://rereading.space/ should be up soon as well.

  • self@awful.systemsMEnglish
    161·
    3 days ago

    for anyone coming here to kneejerk defend calibre’s shithead developer because mindless advocacy is the only use you have for open source software:

    • we don’t give a shit that the LLM crap is optional, it’s still damaging
    • we don’t give a shit that the LLM crap might run locally, it’s still supporting a system built on mass theft
    • there’s no such thing as an open source LLM you fucking clown
    • please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community
    • if you use calibre in a server context then none of this is workable, but calibre’s developer only cares about his personal desktop and he wanted slop so fuck what anybody else wants I guess
    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community

      I’d heard of these but never looked into it (hadn’t needed to), opened now and saw who the bug was reported by. imagine getting that report from that source and then your first answer is to start arguing

      double up that multiple distros going back older than that report have had support for automatic user mount systems (and that calibre could’ve just used that)… goddamn

      recently I ran into the term “outsider programming” and I really like it as a frame for the kind of inexpert contributors (driveby or otherwise) that you get in a project like calibre, people who just trying to make their own little thing work as best they can - you could look at e.g. the code for the dedrm plugin if you want some examples of this. but then you also get whatever the fuck goyal is doing here, which is … far the other way

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    3·
    1 day ago

    As soon as I heard about the inclusion of AI Tools in Calibre, I nuked my flatpak install of it and got Thorium Reader to act as a stop-gap. I know there are going to be security issues in this latest version of the application because he added optional slop tools…That is one of the major bugbears of any “AI” tool. Fuck AI, can’t wait until CEOs and other fools move on to the next grift…

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    47·
    3 days ago

    I like the idea but are you actually willing to maintain a fork? I am asking because looking at the commit logs of calibre it is, for all intents and purposes, a one developer project. With other successful forks it is usually some of the existing developers that create a fork. In this case there doesn’t exist much of a developer community, so you should expect that you will continue to maintain this largely by yourself.