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Just a PSA.

See this thread

Sorry to link to Reddit, but not only is the dev sloppily using using Claude to do something like 20k line PRs, but they are completely crashing out, banning people from the Discord (actually I think they wiped everything from Discord now), and accusing people forking their code of theft.

It’s a bummer because the app was pretty good… thankfully Calibre-web and Kavita still exist.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 78 points 23 hours ago (8 children)
[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It seems like the criteria for making it on there is fairly lax. Nextcloud makes a list by simply having an AI assistant as an optional (user-facing) feature, while none of the actual code appears to be AI-generated.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Even if the "has an optional AI assistant" was not a thing, the repo includes an AGENTS.md file, which is also listed in the criteria, and more than qualifies it as slopware.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I’d be easier to make a list of all software that doesn’t use any AI at this point

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Holy shit I almost whish I didn't read through that list...So sad to see so many projects go down this path...

[–] uzay@infosec.pub 1 points 6 hours ago

Especially since it is actually listed as an alternative to calibre there

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

That list is depressing

[–] pie_enjoyer@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago

"No, anti AI people aren't technophobic"

Meanwhile anti AI people:

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 22 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Man this list is depressing. Good to have handy though. Sad to see SearXNG and a few others on here.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Seriously... kitty, rawtherapee, keepassxc, python, the freaking linux kernel!

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Did you read about kernel they are experimenting with using it for reviews. They have some prompts for LLM to catch issues before it gets to maintainers so it frees up time. Don't see an issue if that is all it is.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 15 hours ago

It might be, but for some people that might, understandably, be already bad enough, a line in the sand if you will.

I'm reminded of this statement about LLMs and the kind of people who use them in the first place. It's an early indicator that quality (and sovereignty) of the software is going to go the incline down.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Searxng? Fuck, guess I'm just not pulling a new container.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There is this that popped up the other day, but I haven't looked into it at all to see if it's vibecoded or not: https://github.com/fccview/degoog

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Thanks, will dig into this!

[–] meathappening@lemmy.ml 13 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Booklore is listed as an alternative to Calibre 😭

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Wait Calibre is there????? Oh my god no.

[–] meathappening@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

Fortunately this exists

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 21 hours ago

Damn it!!! 😵

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

@lambalicious @jasonweiser Not sure seafile should be listed as an alternative. We couldn't include it on Debian due to copyright sketchiness/plagerism...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928975

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Geez... problems never end, do they.

I'm barely active in Codeberg. Unless someone beats me by, say, end-of-month, I might file an issue about it; that said, I'd like to be able to offer at least one (1) functional alternative rather than simply +1'ing to the complains that this or that is Never Good Enough.

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2 points 13 hours ago

@lambalicious Syncthing is what I replaced seafile with, fwiw. Works great!