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Probably want to stop using Booklore...
(sh.itjust.works)
Quick! Someone add it to Open Slopware!
Man this list is depressing. Good to have handy though. Sad to see SearXNG and a few others on here.
Seriously... kitty, rawtherapee, keepassxc, python, the freaking linux kernel!
Searxng? Fuck, guess I'm just not pulling a new container.
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
It's not, the second I cloned it and gave codex access it found a whole whack of privacy issues. This was 100% human coded
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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.
I’d be easier to make a list of all software that doesn’t use any AI at this point
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.
Booklore is listed as an alternative to Calibre 😭
Damn it!!! 😵
Holy shit I almost whish I didn't read through that list...So sad to see so many projects go down this path...
That list is depressing
@lambalicious @jasonweiser Not sure seafile should be listed as an alternative. We couldn't include it on Debian due to copyright sketchiness/plagerism...
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accusing people forking their code of theft
AGPL 3.0 license
Too fucking bad, pussy.
Damn 99% of the time someone says not to use an open source product it's because of some obscure drama unrelated to the actual program.
But in this case the dev appears to not just be using AI code (not great but debatable) but using mostly AI code and using AI to reply to bug reports. Not something the average person wants to be running in a live environment.
I haven't used Booklore but the excitement around it was nudging me there. I think I'll stick with CWAs slower rollout.
Can't check now, but if there aren't forks named like BookTale and BookStory, I'll riot.
Jokes aside, if the license he used allows forking, dude's tripping, and could even get sued depending on the country for false accusation of crime.
And ah, Discord, great for nuking inconvenient chats. Imagine if it had happened over at a public forum so people's reactions could be backed up.
And dunno where I'd draw the line, but 20k lines imo is a bit past reasonable. How would anyone audit that many in a timely manner? But with the "dev" doing that daily, that'd be hard to even pretend.
The treekie in me wants BookData.
(edit) This made me remember The Measure Of A Man and now I'm fucking depressed. They had such high hopes for the future.
The trekkie in me wants BookData.
The extra bit about Lore being the one who could make shit up and say what folks wanted to hear while Data was based on facts and logic isn't lost on me either
"You want to seek out new life and new civilizations? Well THERE. IT. SITS!"
Truly an actor of all time. Sometimes I think Oscars and Emmys and all that shit should be able to be granted retroactively (hellooooo, "you broke your little ships" scene).
And every time the use of LLMs for open source development comes up we get the same tired spiel from people about how it's just a tool and implications that anyone who doesn't embrace it with jpy in their heart is just a Luddite.
It seems to me that it's less a tool and more like intentionally infecting your project with cancer. Sure it shows all the signs of rapid growth, but metastasization isn't sustainable or desirable. Plus I am yet to encounter a strong advocate for LLMs who isn't a cunt.
I'll argue that it is a tool, and object to automatic zealous hostility towards anyone using it, but that doesn't mean criticisms of how that tool is being used aren't valid. It seems like that is what people are focusing on here, and they definitely aren't Luddites for doing so.
I think I can provide you a great equivalent. Firearms, they have utility, but there are people who make them a lifestyle choice, and there are people who make them their whole personality. There are also a lot of people just desperate for an excuse to use one. I grew up with a couple of farmers in the extended family, I would never argue guns should be entirely banned, but I am so glad I live somewhere with sane laws around gun ownership. It would be so nice if we had similar consideration around regulating LLMs.
The danger to open source as I see it is that LLMs degrade the quality and ability of developers while increasing their throughput, and I have never once heard someone complain that open source lacks quantity, but I hear a lot of people complaining about the quality.
I think that the problem, in both cases, is culture.
It's not that either of those are bad, or bad for people; it's bad for people of this culture or people of this society. It's how the two intersect that is the problem.
It could be a tool that lifts up the worker or creative, but instead it's a tool to devalue the creative and extract power and wealth.
It highlights that people with power get a different set of rules and laws than the rest of us, and they're using that to further entrench and enrich themselves.
And it's so noisy. We are already losing bug bounties, it's swamping open source projects in poor quality or even counter productive "work" on github to get recognition, its drowning out the work of creatives, its invading so many aspects of life (education, communication, research, public policy) and its fundamentally a bad tool for so many of those areas.
I recently applied for a job and got some advice from a friend who works HR in a different industry. His advice, see if you can find out which LLM they use and run your application through it. A lot of positions are getting huge numbers of applicants so they are using LLMs to generate the short list for interview, you could have the absolute perfect application but because the LLM doesn't like the way you wrote it you are thrown out of the pool without a human being ever seeing you. It's so insidious, by being "helpful" it reinforces its necessity.
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I find an LLM is a great way to shortcut the googling itd take for me to parse random error message #506 when I'm learning a new language but that's about it. I'm also in no way writing software meant for mass consumption.
Ergo its a tool, a search engine replacement, that we wouldn't need if search hadn't gone to shit due to neglect and active internal sabotage.
Oh 100%.
I think it kinda depends on the context. If someone is just making a tool for themselves and they slap on MIT or GPL3 just because who cares someone else can have it, then sure. Who cares if it's trash if the stakes are so low that they're scraping the ground and the user base is expected to be single digits.
But when you care about the reputation of your project, or if your project requires people trust it, then yeah for sure it's not appropriate to vibe/slop it.
I have ethical concerns about the realities of how this tech is used, mainly in what it's doing to the economic and power dynamics in society. But I don't have a problem with the tech itself. That said, I have to admit that it may not be realistic to separate the tech from its inevitable impact. Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds, and all that.
How do people gain the ability to make these major projects if not for cutting their teeth on the small ones though. We cut the apprentice and journeyman stages of mastering an art out, replace it with slop, and then ten years from now we wonder why kids these days are so incapable of actually creating anything.
I have talked to kids who have told me that the assignments they got at school were so trivial they just ran them through ChatGPT rather than waste their time. When I pointed out that the reason the assignments were "trivial" was to give them the skills and confidence to do the big projects when the time came I got, at best, blank looks.
I said it somewhere else, if you are using an LLM to generate unit tests I find it hard to be terribly mad at that. If it's scaffolding documentation, meh whatever. If it's generating the main body of your project, I have concerns. Plus I circle back to how can you open source code that may have been stolen from a copyrighted work?
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I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife's kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don't waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.
I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I've heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don't leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it's handling regular ebooks just fine.
Wait, I use CWA... What do I need to be outraged about this time?
I don't have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA's dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn't really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga's Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.
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I self-host audiobookshelf, and it's working pretty well for me. It doesn't have tons of features, and the android app is a bit janky, but it does what I need and I'm happy with it.
I use it daily and I love it :)
Use it every day and it's all I need.
Reading this whole thread I’m now glad I have Audiobookshelf already. I already use it every day for audiobooks and podcasts, but hadn’t considered it for ebooks.
Just transferred my ebook collection from Booklore to ABS. I’ll miss the Kobo Sync which seems to work in Booklore, but I certainly won’t miss the AI and vibe coding!
Wow, I was thinking about switching from calibre-web soon too... Thanks for the headsup!
Classic. Another one bites the dust..
Thanks, that might explain the jank I got when spinning it up yesterday...I'll be back on calibre web or trying another option over the weekend.
Don't know that software, but that was fun to read lol
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