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  • if you’re here to recommend ladybird, tell us why you’re doing advocacy for that trash fire in spite of the well-sourced, ah, downsides pointed out in article and video linked from the OP.

    same for brave. I don’t give a fuck if privacyguides told you it was the goodest browser.

    if you’re here to advocate for ladybird or brave and haven’t read the article in the OP, fuck off. don’t come here pretending to discuss something you haven’t read.









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    MtoNotAwfulTech@awful.systemsCoordinating a post-Calibre path forward
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    19 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