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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

This was the second fork I heard of, the first being "clbre" ("calibre" without the a and i):

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

I'm out of the loop, apparently.

What happend to Calibre?

I’m mad.

there’s no such thing as an open source LLM you fucking clown

I'm driven beyond irrationally mad about this. How can it be called open source when they cannot legally share the sources with you because they're stolen? Watching the OSI wrap their little green keyway around the AI industry is one of the factors that helped deprogram me away from the starry eyed idea I had about FOSS.

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...

Rereading's also got a blog up now

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.