Cassandra Granade writes:

Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books.

https://codeberg.org/rereading

DNS is still propagating, but https://rereading.space/ should be up soon as well.

  • froztbyte
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    3 天前

    please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community

    I’d heard of these but never looked into it (hadn’t needed to), opened now and saw who the bug was reported by. imagine getting that report from that source and then your first answer is to start arguing

    double up that multiple distros going back older than that report have had support for automatic user mount systems (and that calibre could’ve just used that)… goddamn

    recently I ran into the term “outsider programming” and I really like it as a frame for the kind of inexpert contributors (driveby or otherwise) that you get in a project like calibre, people who just trying to make their own little thing work as best they can - you could look at e.g. the code for the dedrm plugin if you want some examples of this. but then you also get whatever the fuck goyal is doing here, which is … far the other way