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.
#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager
A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out. - grimthorpe/clbreGitHub
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Hidden in the federal government’s 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a measure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years.
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While the bill lays out a plan for a minister to partially inform the public of such an order, there are no timelines. The minister may also “exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.”
The Treasury Board Secretariat suggests the measures are necessary for regulators to keep pace with technological change and find flexible ways to evaluate whether products or services can be safely introduced in the Canadian marketplace.
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“AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.” - by @pluralistic
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…
Man, Cory, you sure can turn a phrase. #grandtheftautocomplete
Unsere Lehrkräfte arbeiten seit Jahren unter sehr hoher Belastung. Sie halten den Schulbetrieb trotz Personalmangel und wachsender Anforderungen zuverlässig aufrecht. Dafür verdienen sie Respekt und Rückhalt.
#lehrkräfte #bildung #respekt #vertrauen #bildungspolitik #schule
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1000% agree
Im furious about AI. It's being sold as this amazing resource that is so good for us all. But it isn't.
Apart from the VAST drain on energy (that we none of us can afford financially or resource-wise globally) it's a drain on us individually. We WILL become stupider and less capable in all sorts of ways.
Im sick of it all. And we are never given a choice about it.
Sick of business interests telling me i need this or that technology that I really don't need and really don't want.
Sure there are exceptions:
disabled ppl or elderly need AI and huge cars and Alexa/Siri and driverless vehicles to make their lives way way easier. And that's what it should be there for.
But for the majority of ppl those things are superfluous. We don't need them. We really don't.
But we are being MADE to want them bc the market gives lucrative profits for a select few if we ALL have to use them to pay for the research and development. I don't need things delivered to my frigging garden by drone, but a small number of ppl do. God forbid someone develops these things out of the goodness of their hearts bc elderly need help. But no, let's squeeze the cash out of everyone on the planet telling them they need some delivery bc it's cool apparently.
So we are made to use internet banking bc then they take cash away. We have streamed entertainment rather than going out and making our own bc all the pubs and cinemas are shutting. We are made to use chat bots on phones bc the take ppl away. It makes me effing furious
#AI #aiwillkillus #aiwillbeourdownfall #aiwillnotfixit #aiwilleliminateusall
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:
* Jotter: a minimal, privacy-friendly notes app with no unnecessary clutter 🛡️
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
Turned on the new #GitHub "Code Quality" feature that seems to be some extended CodeQL + AI.
It's actually worse than anything #SonarQube gave us. That actually gave really good reports on code smells, regressions and coverage failure. It was reliable.
It really does appear tech companies are replacing everything with expensive, resource intensive systems that give worse results and expect us to pay more @pluralistic #enshitificaton
I’ve just seen someone on Tumblr translate the iconic “breasted boobily to the stairs” post into French, and I want to congratulate the translator on making the French version sound as hilarious as the original.
Les écrivains qui écrivent des personnages féminins :“Cassandra se réveilla avec les rayons du soleil passant à travers les lames de ses volets, cascadant sur sa poitrine nue. Elle s’étira, ses seins se soulevant en même temps que ses bras tandis qu’elle saluait le soleil. Elle quitta son lit et enfila une chemise, ses tétons pointant visiblement à travers le fin tissu. Elle seina nichonement vers les escaliers, et lolota jusqu’en bas.”
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Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.Saturation
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did you know that you can make some interesting phasing rhythms with Ableton Note while you wait for your coffee machine to descale? Unfortunately you might need to use up a whole channel for each pattern, but still
Make one channel's pattern 7 1/8's long and fill it with some random velocity percussion, and another one maybe 12 steps long with 2 hits, and just let them play off each other until the water overflows and your socks are wet with gross cleaning products and coffee'd water
Bonjour tout le monde ! Heureux de vous rejoindre dans le fédivers.
Je suis Jules Teneul, graphiste indépendant et étudiant en informatique. J'aimerais devenir développeur. Je ne sais pas encore trop ce que je ferai de ce bagage dans le monde pro. Car en général, moins un travail est bénéfique ou utile pour la société, mieux il est payé. M'enfin.
Les questions d'accessibilité, d'inclusivité du numérique et son influence sur la santé des démocraties m'intéressent particulièrement. À part mon enthousiasme pour le libre pas facho, je fais de la musique, parfois du vélo et je m'investis en asso quand j'en ai l'énergie.
À tôbien
This thread provides information about upcoming patches for Kontakt. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available. The currently available software version is 8.8.0. Please make sure that your installation is up to date.Matt_NI (Community)
Okay I'm a teacher, so let me break this down for you in the simplest terms possible.
Let's say I am teaching a math class. The subject is addition. I teach you how to add two numbers together to get a different number. Then I give you an addition assignment so you can try a few examples for yourself.
Student A writes "2+2=4". This is correct. Student A gets points both for having completed the assignment and for getting the answer correct.
Student B writes "2+2=5". This is incorrect. However, I can see that student B is trying to engage with the material. I can help student B understand their mistake and correct it for next time. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes.
Student C writes "2+2=-64,863,702". This is wildly incorrect, and the student will not receive points for completing the assignment. I can tell from this response that student C not only did not understand the material, but likely got frustrated and just wrote down any old number because they knew it was going to be wrong. I can still help student C. They're going to need a lot of assistance, but that's the job. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes, including suggestions for how to help the student engage more with the subject matter.
Student D writes "2+2=JESUS WANTS YOU TO DIE". This is obvious nonsense. It's not just that the answer is wildly incorrect. And it goes beyond the fact that the student did not complete the assignment. And it even goes beyond the fact that the student is not engaging with the subject material or my class. In addition to all that, they have also decided to insult me, make veiled death threats, and use religion as a pretext for it. Obviously I have to mark the answer wrong. But perhaps not as obviously, there isn't much I can do to help this student. They have chosen not to engage with the material, with me, or with the entire concept of learning in general. They looked at a math assignment and decided the best thing to do was insult and threaten the teacher. The best thing I can do for the rest of my classroom is pull this student out of class and try to place them in some form of therapy for whatever behavioral issues this student is clearly struggling with.
The Oklahoma U student who wrote the "essay" about her "demonic" trans science teacher is this last kind of student. She got the answers wrong. Very wrong. Her assertions were unsupported, uncited, and lacked scientific rigor. But beyond that, she just chose not to complete the assignment. The assignment was to write an academic argument about a particular scientific article. Instead of doing this, she chose to write a sermon. And if she had stopped there, she would have been in the same boat as Student C who decided that 2+2=-64,863,702. But she didn't. She decided to include in her sermon a number of insults and death threats, which were aimed directly at her instructor. And she did all this from a place of perceived religious superiority.
"TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD DIE GOD TOLD ME SO" is not an answer to 2+2.
She MORE than earned a zero on that essay. And if she had turned in that shit in my classroom she would have been taken off my roster and recommended to appropriate mental health services.
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