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Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage (as of 8.16.2, this week), it has *already* been forked. For AI-free Calibre, seek out clbre:
@cstross
I don’t use it often (prefer physical books), but I’ve had success with Foliate.
My Slackware distro was on a floppy disk. I still have it! 🖖 😎 It was long before 2000s.
I don't have any authority!! Even with my #cat 😂
Why is Big Tech so afraid of AI regulation?
Big Tech continues to push for no AI regulation and it is having an impact. They want us to forget the damage done by the lack of regulation of user profiling. Instead they argue that regulating user profiling and AI would be a disaster. Clearly they are having some success with this strategy.
Hopefully regulators will fight back, but in the meantime, you have a choice when it comes to OS and browsers. Choose the one that does not force AI on you.
#AI #politics #technology #browser #vivaldi #windows #macos #linux
Why is Big Tech so afraid of AI regulation?
Big Tech continues to push for no AI regulation and it is having an impact. They want us to forget the damage done by the lack of regulation of user profiling. Instead they argue that regulating user profiling and AI would be a disaster. Clearly they are having some success with this strategy.
Hopefully regulators will fight back, but in the meantime, you have a choice when it comes to OS and browsers. Choose the one that does not force AI on you.
#AI #politics #technology #browser #vivaldi #windows #macos #linux
It is so funny when people claim Linux authority by saying, “I’ve been using Linux since the 2000s…”
Sit down. My first distro was Slackware on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. And back then, window managers were the hotness, not desktop environments. Back in my day, we fiddled with Xeyes in IceWM—and we liked it.
But none of that vintage cred actually matters, because Linux never wins people over with nostalgia. It wins people over when it finally does the thing they care about.
I abandoned Linux in the early 2010s for the same reason most people did: it didn’t have the apps or the games I needed. The OS was fine. The software ecosystem wasn’t.
What brought me back? Gaming. Not philosophy, not ideology, not a love of fiddling with config files.
Gaming forced Linux to solve real, modern problems—drivers, performance, Vulkan, translation layers, graphics pipelines. And once those problems got solved, the benefits spilled into everything else: creative apps, productivity apps, niche tools, Windows compatibility layers that actually work.
This is what people still don’t get: regular users don’t care about Wayland vs Xorg, package formats, compositor drama, or kernel minutiae. They care about whether the apps they need will run with minimal friction.
An operating system succeeds when it disappears into the background and lets people use their software. For the first time, Linux is genuinely doing that—and that’s why the momentum is finally real.
My Slackware distro was on a floppy disk. I still have it! 🖖 😎 It was long before 2000s.
I don't have any authority!! Even with my #cat 😂
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Vaultwarden.
Vaultwarden is a readily self-hosted alternative implementation of Bitwarden, a password / credential manager.
It works with Bitwarden clients, and has its own web client.
Sandra and I use it to share passwords with each other, as well as keeping our own separate vaults in sync across multiple devices.
Does anyway have advice for how to edit midi files on linux? I need to look at music notation and I need to be able to ply and hear the file.
I can't get rosegarden to play and musescore sounds like it's having buffer overruns or some other bad glitch and is unusable (without putting in some effort to fix it, which I just don't want to, ok.)
Does anyway have advice for how to edit midi files on linux? I need to look at music notation and I need to be able to ply and hear the file.
I can't get rosegarden to play and musescore sounds like it's having buffer overruns or some other bad glitch and is unusable (without putting in some effort to fix it, which I just don't want to, ok.)
A retrospective of 2025: what I learned this year
https://blog.christophe-henry.dev/2025/12/07/retrospective-of-2025.html
Where I reflect on everything I worked on and learnt in 2025. I talk about my work on Django Template Compiler and my contributions to Django Rusty Templates, Mixxx and @yunohost.
How about you? What's your retrospective?
A retrospective of 2025: what I learned this year
https://blog.christophe-henry.dev/2025/12/07/retrospective-of-2025.html
Where I reflect on everything I worked on and learnt in 2025. I talk about my work on Django Template Compiler and my contributions to Django Rusty Templates, Mixxx and @yunohost.
How about you? What's your retrospective?
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Vaultwarden.
Vaultwarden is a readily self-hosted alternative implementation of Bitwarden, a password / credential manager.
It works with Bitwarden clients, and has its own web client.
Sandra and I use it to share passwords with each other, as well as keeping our own separate vaults in sync across multiple devices.
Jolla launches its new Linux phone with a €99 refundable pre-order, aiming for 2,000 backers to begin production by early 2026.
https://linuxiac.com/jolla-launches-community-funded-linux-phone/
Audio is working for #PostmarketOS on #Fairphone5! 🎉
Congrats to Alexandre Ferrieux, who achieved this result, and to all contributors of @postmarketOS for providing a truly alternative and independent operating system for mobile! 💚
Now, AFAIK, Fairphone 5 will become the first mobile device where almost everything works with pmOS 🤩
#Fairphone #FP5 #OS #LinuxMobile #Linux
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3793#note_518427
I think it's time to call my switch from #Windows to #Linux on my work desktop a success: multiple days of "just working" without substantial linux-wrestling distractions.
Context and details, if you want them: I'm a scientist, and have developed successful (windows) computer work habits over (ahem) the last 25 years. My goal was to keep my existing workflow as unchanged as possible, but without the microsoft AI intrusions and forced updates (or new hardware).
I went with the #ZorinOS 18 pro "flavor" of linux. My desktop computer was running #Win10, and could not update to 11. Hardware-wise, zorin just worked for me: no trouble at all with my dual-monitor setup, (USB) webcam, campus yubikey, or even my (beloved and trusty) #FingerWorks iGesture pad. (I attended a zoom meeting the afternoon I installed linux!)
The computer has two internal hard drives, C for the OS, D for file storage, and I mirror D for backup, travel, etc. I initially thought to dual-boot, but that did give me trouble, so I reformatted C and installed only linux, leaving D unchanged (still NTFS).
My biggest software hurdle was #OneNote, but I've now adjusted reasonably well to #Joplin. Joplin doesn't (afaik) allow the flexible spatial layouts of OneNote, so some of my converted pages are arranged wonkily, but I could pretty much keep my existing notebook structure and habits.
This is long, but perhaps useful for someone. Ask if you want even more info, about software or whatever. 😂
I think it's time to call my switch from #Windows to #Linux on my work desktop a success: multiple days of "just working" without substantial linux-wrestling distractions.
Context and details, if you want them: I'm a scientist, and have developed successful (windows) computer work habits over (ahem) the last 25 years. My goal was to keep my existing workflow as unchanged as possible, but without the microsoft AI intrusions and forced updates (or new hardware).
I went with the #ZorinOS 18 pro "flavor" of linux. My desktop computer was running #Win10, and could not update to 11. Hardware-wise, zorin just worked for me: no trouble at all with my dual-monitor setup, (USB) webcam, campus yubikey, or even my (beloved and trusty) #FingerWorks iGesture pad. (I attended a zoom meeting the afternoon I installed linux!)
The computer has two internal hard drives, C for the OS, D for file storage, and I mirror D for backup, travel, etc. I initially thought to dual-boot, but that did give me trouble, so I reformatted C and installed only linux, leaving D unchanged (still NTFS).
My biggest software hurdle was #OneNote, but I've now adjusted reasonably well to #Joplin. Joplin doesn't (afaik) allow the flexible spatial layouts of OneNote, so some of my converted pages are arranged wonkily, but I could pretty much keep my existing notebook structure and habits.
This is long, but perhaps useful for someone. Ask if you want even more info, about software or whatever. 😂
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