I maintain a library that is used quite a bit and I had to turn off github issues because AI bots are trying to push reporting security vulns…in a library that has no dependencies. Or AI that is setup to waste time by asking pointless questions that do not pertain to the library. The library is literally two files. Technically 3 if you include the tests.

I moved my library over to codeberg recently. So much better of an experience. Its really too bad, I have 15+ years in Github but the AI bots are going to push me out.

Interesting, thanks for the info!

Firefox on mobile. I make the website an app. It works.

Nice!

Both seem like good machines :).

It also does some niceties around fonts when you do a conversion. Some ebook readers dont come with specific fonts so they just use the inbuilt one(s).

Just FYI, older Kobos are exceptionally easy to repair and modify. They used to have an SD card as the hd you could remove and do all sorts of cool things with. They also published the version of the linux kernel they used and any modifications they (Kobo) devs had to do to get things working. It was awesome for a time. Its more locked down now… :(

I used to play around with https://quill-os.org/ and it worked decently well on kobo until the newer versions started to crack down on the mod scene.

Nowadays im thinking the open book or Diptyx E-Reader might be a better bet for long term sustainability. Its great ifixit is working with kobo, but the software is still locked down.

For a bigger list take a look: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-ebook-readers-options/

You can contact them via https://makertube.net/about/contact with your question.

I have no clue.

Registration page: https://makertube.net/signup

Fantastic talk. Also on peertube :)

Unfortunately the project is reliant on quite old tech and parts nowadays.

It works more often than not. I think it just needs to be revamped into something other than “attitude” as the verbiage. Its more nuanced than that…but I have no idea what is the correct “way” of saying it. It helps so much though in day to day posting and commenting. It essentially helps me find out if someone is a bot/troll/of just someone with an unfortunate wrong opinion lol.

I know people like to hate on piefeds “Attitude” % on users, but you can clearly see on piefed if a user is mass down-voting posts, if they are new, if they have been flagged by other instances as bots/spam/etc… it helps with finding red flags on accounts that just popped into existence.

I always get suspicious of accounts with firstsecondword123 because this is the fediverse, you dont need to post-pend numbers if you dont want to. Just make your own instance or something. But you see a lot of bots that do that, mostly on the big social media sites.

I used to use bullet points in a lot of my posts. Been accused of being a bot for that reason.

A bot wouldn’t have my bad spelling thank you very much!

Something very similar: the python community is being overrun by AI bots:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1s7gw20/the_amount_of_ai_generated_project_showcases_here/

Its happening to pypi as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1sek3gq/i_published_my_first_pypi_package_few_ago_copycat/

AI is taking over posts and people are having issues finding out if things are real or not on reddit and other sites.

I truely hate shadowbans. So glad im off that website. I swear its like a minefield of rules.

Theres a metric ton of open source clones.

I hate ai in my kernel…

Oh nice. Looks cool.

Thats a lot of money.