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    MtoNotAwfulTech@awful.systemsCoordinating a post-Calibre path forward
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    20 hours 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



  • imagine being this dedicated to being fucking mid

    e: correction, rolling over and exposing your belly for generative fucking AI of all things isn’t mid. it’s fucking broken behavior, especially right after similarly unpopular garbage (crypto, metaverses) pushed by the exact same people failed in the market because the target audience mostly just sneered at it and refused to buy in

    like I’m sorry you feel like you’re forced to buy CoD 7 or whatever other AAA games succumb to this shit, but have you considered expanding your tastes past garbage? if you want to say fuck you to Tim in a language he understands, go play a good epic game or a a great epic game for free instead of paying $80 or $200 or whatever the fuck these jokers think it should cost for fucking trash.








  • like god fucking damn what did keepassxc do that made all these little fuckers pledge allegiance to it? what about this mediocre blog post is convincing? did y’all miss the context that this post is accompanied by a bunch of posts on other official keepassxc accounts where they give incorrect and potentially dangerous information in defense of their use of LLMs?



  • gonna have to start cleaning up some of the posts from the more long-winded assholes with opinions that aren’t more complex than “well I trust them to not let the technology known for creating security vulnerabilities run wild on their codebase, because they made the exact same promises every other project makes when they go all-in on slop”

    for a fucking password manager of all things









  • yeah nah we don’t need this centrist AI booster crap here but thanks anyway

    But from all sides really, also wild to just claim they don’t know what a zero day is and that’s just made up.

    some motherfuckers really see a security vendor claim a zero day can’t be exploited at scale for a local application, ignoring gigantic classes of vulnerability enabled by misconfiguration, combined exploits, or malware, and go “woof, maybe it’s true! they do make my favorite password manager after all, who are you to say they’re wrong” as a bunch of Russians walk off with their bank info