RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115724188074793534

Taking software written as a labour of love for some 20 years by an (admittedly difficult-at-times) Indian (who still, as far as I know, lives in India), conveniently labelling it fascist-adjacent because of US politics, and then forking it to a US-based organisation is, at best, US arrogance and, at worst, US imperialism.

Plenty of Indian #FOSS organisations they could have reached out to and partnered with to host the fork, but no: USAmericans gotta USAmerican.

#Calibre

@heiseonline
trotzdem kein Grund, sich mit einem Kindle an Amazon zu binden. ( #fckbezos) #Calibre #Tolino #Kobo

@lwn Good article by @jzb, it really dug into how #calibre ended up with AI entwined with it.

👉 For those wondering about why forking Calibre now.

https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-16-open-source-e-book-manager-adds-more-ai-features-bug-fixes

#calibre #ai #opensource

L'introduzione nell'ultima versione di Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/it/whats-new) , il software opensource per la gestione degli ebook, di una funzione di IA sta già suscitando, giustamente, diverse polemiche, qui sotto la posizione dello sviluppatore e di alcuni utenti

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4552452#post4552452

https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1765053767.148776

#Calibre #ebook #IA #AI #SoftwareLibero

@informapirata
@libri
@scuola
@alephoto85
@maupao

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

#Calibre has pivoted to #AI.
Stay with version 8.10 if you wish to avoid it.

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115724188074793534

Taking software written as a labour of love for some 20 years by an (admittedly difficult-at-times) Indian (who still, as far as I know, lives in India), conveniently labelling it fascist-adjacent because of US politics, and then forking it to a US-based organisation is, at best, US arrogance and, at worst, US imperialism.

Plenty of Indian #FOSS organisations they could have reached out to and partnered with to host the fork, but no: USAmericans gotta USAmerican.

#Calibre

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115724188074793534

Taking software written as a labour of love for some 20 years by an (admittedly difficult-at-times) Indian (who still, as far as I know, lives in India), conveniently labelling it fascist-adjacent because of US politics, and then forking it to a US-based organisation is, at best, US arrogance and, at worst, US imperialism.

Plenty of Indian #FOSS organisations they could have reached out to and partnered with to host the fork, but no: USAmericans gotta USAmerican.

#Calibre

For everyone that is disappointed with #Calibre 's decision to introduce LLM bullshit, there's now a Rereading Project, which is going to maintain #Arcalibre, a sustainable fork. Read more about it here: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115691478523497546

I wish it was named Excalibre! But that aside, I think it's a good effort. Calibre was a BDFL project, and its author is not the most approachable person. His efforts in creating and maintaining Calibre are appreciated, but one-person systems are very fragile. Rereading Project has a very good mindset - starting with community and governance, instead of rushing headfirst to do code. That's a way chosen by such great projects as #Comaps and #Forgejo, and it pays off greatly.

Please give the project a boost, whether on Fedi, in discussions, or in code!

For everyone that is disappointed with #Calibre 's decision to introduce LLM bullshit, there's now a Rereading Project, which is going to maintain #Arcalibre, a sustainable fork. Read more about it here: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115691478523497546

I wish it was named Excalibre! But that aside, I think it's a good effort. Calibre was a BDFL project, and its author is not the most approachable person. His efforts in creating and maintaining Calibre are appreciated, but one-person systems are very fragile. Rereading Project has a very good mindset - starting with community and governance, instead of rushing headfirst to do code. That's a way chosen by such great projects as #Comaps and #Forgejo, and it pays off greatly.

Please give the project a boost, whether on Fedi, in discussions, or in code!