The best thing I've seen on social media today.
A person I follow from X, bridged a gateway, reposting criticisms of their own posts from the other political side.
What I wouldn't give to see that here.
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So... the Calibre release 8.16.2, dated December 4, includes new "AI” features. It might be time to stop updating.
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.calibre-ebook.com
This December, Android is getting new accessibility updates like dark theme’s expanded option, emotion tags in Expressive Captions, easier Voice Access and more.Julie Cattiau (Google)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 17 updated and 2 added apps:
* Pano Scrobbler: a feature packed cross-platform music tracker 🛡️
* RecordMaster: Recording, Organizing, Sharing, and more – inspired by the Google Pixel Recorder app, but with more features 🛡️
RB status: 761 apps (60.1%)
Enjoy your #free #
Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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It has come to my attention that Calibre has started adding AI shit into its functionality.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT CAN I MAYBE HAVE JUST ONE PROGRAM THAT DOESN"T TRY TO DO AI BULLSHIT?
Just one? Maybe?
Anyway, if you want to have an AI-free calibre, you'll need to not upgrade past version 8.10. 😡
This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:
I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record as HAVING BEEN STOLEN BY OPENAI, and I am in fact one of the many, many authors who've had to file claims on the settlement with Anthropic.
So I am not kidding when I say I don't want that technology, technology which HAS STOLEN FROM ME, anywhere near a program I use. ESPECIALLY the program I've used to not only manage my ebook library, but even perform format conversions on my work to prep it for sale. /1
"Oh, but they're unobtrusive, you don't have to use the features if you don't want them" isn't good enough. My baseline is "I don't want that crap in programs I use AT ALL". Period. Full stop.
So I will for the foreseeable future remain on Calibre 8.10, the last known version to have no AI features in it whatsoever. And if an AI-free competitor eventually shows up, I am prepared to transfer my ebooks into a new manager if I have to.
Am I extremely fucking salty about this? YES I AM. Because, again: THIS TECHNOLOGY STOLE MY WORK and that of countless other creatives all over the world. And it's insulting and infuriating to me to see it creeping into each and every corner of my daily computer use no matter how much I DO NOT WANT IT. /End
Dear Employer,
Thank you for your rejection. Unfortunately due to the high volume of rejections I have received, I have been unable to accept yours. As a result, I must inform you that I will see you on Monday for my first shift.
Good luck rejecting candidates in the future.
With kind regards
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If you're okay with building from source and you'd like to play #Terraria on the Mac using the #ScreenReaderMod, here's a PR for you: github.com/ChipsAhoiMcCoy/Terr…
Enjoy!
This adds support for MacOS via an AVSpeechSynthesizer bridge and its matching C# AVSpeechProvider. Tested under MacOS 26.1, earlier versions might have issues. Regarding Apple Silicon Terraria is ...GitHub
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RE: chaos.social/@thefinalstrawrad…
Another nice surprise! A careful discussion and appreciation of our almost 8-year long running efforts, and its #deltachat and #chatmail artifacts. The "Signal contingency plan" comes complete with podcast, website and zine!
Attached: 1 image Our chat with Mary & Fanny, two independent technologists, on contingency for "what if Signal were blocked in the US" and their suggestion: @delta https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.The Final Straw Radio (chaos.social)
What miss it's an easier way to choose our server with an auto select (based on location) of them (if the operator of the relay agree to join), to push user accross them.
For 1 increate server failure resillience (if everyone is on the default and that one stop the whole system is down).
Finish the docker image (must be a emergency feature).
And finally approach governement like Germany, France etc to use your app, and make it more known.
There is so much censorship in the EU that 7 of the 8 countries with the most freedom of the press are EU member states.
#EUpol #Musk #Trump #Europe #pressfreedom
Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
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Changes in version 166:
A full list of changes from the previous release (version 165) is available through the Git commit log between the releases (only changes to the gmscompat_config text file and config-holder/ directory are part of GmsCompatConfig).
GmsCompatConfig is the text-based configuration for the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer. It provides a large portion of the compatibility shims.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release.
Contribute to GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Guess an #introduction is in order. Not sure I ever did one for my first instance, whoops.
Hi, my name is James an I've moved from an instance that is closing down soon.
I'm absolutely queer
but working a boring office job in Germany, trying to remind ppl at work that personal data needs protection and that genAI came fresh out of pandora's box and does not belong in their daily job.
In my free time I #write fic, #draw digital art and #read a lot of books, mostly #scifi. I play a handful of computer games like #GW2. I watch a lot of tv shows and love Star Trek
and Doctor Who.
I love #space, #nature, #cats and #photography (although my photos are just taken with my phone). I post them mostly on my Pixelfed account.
Guess that's it for now. I probably forgot a lot of stuff that people write into introductions, but feel free to ask x)
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