It's a pity Calibre to date refuses to be refactored into a self-hosted service.
The core logic should be portable, with the app just being an interface to it, but no, the entire project is so much spaghetti it would feed the entire boot for over a year... such a shame.
Daft Punk. Discovered them too late to go to an actual concert.
And same with Caravan Palace. Loved the original ensemble and style, the spirit of their concerts. The current getup is nice too, but with different vocalist and a few other band member changes, it's just not the same...
And by CEO I don't mean every single boss - I specifically mean the head of any company with a proper C-suite.
Why?
Because 99.999999% of the time, they're just shitty middle-manager yesmen who failed upwards, thanks only to their agreeability.
The CEO isn't some wizard who knows the biz inside and out. They're literally just a figurehead, someone to take the fall, sign the executive decisions, and market the company. Nothing else. Their purpose is to maximise shareholder value, even at the cost of ruining the company, and one of the methods of doing so is marketing.
so you get these absolute morons, often malicious morons, like the listed, or Musk, who know nothing about the innate workings of the company, but pretend to do so in public purely for the extra profit it brings.
Then people act shocked when the N+1th CEO turns out to be a complete dipshit who knows nothing but yapping.
As for actual pain... I was 15, and had to get one wisdom tooth extracted. Thing is, I have that gene that makes anesthesia fucky.
I did warn the surgeon, they doubled the lidocaine, and yet... the moment he started cutting my gum, that lidocaine went right out. They had to call FOUR more nurses to hold me down so he could finish the extraction and sew things up.
Pain was so bad I nearly passed out, and couldn't talk for two weeks.
Why oh why do these fucknuts always bring up their children?
Has the US really raised such a puritanical generation that parents are today incapable of explaining to their kids what a penis might be? I mean come on. If you can explain much more visible differences between men and women - say, breasts - then you can well explain the basics of a penis and a vagina. You don't have to go the full length of the bees and birds and explain sex to a three-four year old, just the basics of bodily differences...
A lot of countries want to restrict children's access to social media - not just Facebook, etc., but also in games like Minecraft, Roblox and so on, as these also serve as social platforms.
Which is actually fine and I agree with the restriction - kids shouldn't be on Facebook, Snapchat, or even Roblox without supervision. Emphasis on supervision. Why? Because paedos are proven to be using these platforms as hunting grounds for grooming. Look at Roblox - even if you manage to set up parental controls (which is almost like if it's intentionally made hard to do so), paedos can get around it by using items like signs, that allow free text entry, to communicate with kids. Rule #1: kids (and paedos) will always try to find a way around restrictions, so you want those to be as transparent (read: invisible) as possible.
The problem is, these platforms are intentionally making it impossible for parents to supervise their children's activities. Most parental controls are done in a "we had to do it so we did the bare minimum work and implemented every possible malicious tactic to deter people from using it" manner instead of actual parental protection being in mind.
Then these very same companies go to governments and plead that the current methods aren't working, parents aren't using the tools, and you can't push this level of moderation onto them - Meta execs literally admit in internal memos that at this point, they just have to accept that children will be hurt, because doing anything would affect bottom lines. Their solution?
Make everyone identify themselves. But that's not actually for protecting children - it's to continue mining even more data, because simply said, data miners have already gotten everything from everyone they could, and the only way this can be tied together even more is by adding your real identity to all that data. Oh and all your adult related browsing too, of course.
And the sentiment won't change until one of these "super duper secure, totally unhackable, totally not collecting your PII with all the rest of your data" companies gets hacked, exposed for data mining to extremes, all through dumping a bunch of politicians' and powerful people's porn habits. You think Noem's husband being revealed as a crossdresser was damaging? Imagine top politicians - especially conservatives - being outed as trans- or bestiality porn watching "degenerates" (putting it in quotes because in my opinion only the latter is problematic, but to conservacucks...), or that they're a prolific CSAM fanfic writer, and so on.
In my opinion, everyone should have the privacy to browse the kind of (legal) porn they want, without it being shouted out to the world. Or abused by corporations. Privacy is a key element of our lives, and it should be up to each person to decide how much they reveal to anyone. This entire ID enforcement can only end badly. Kids will find a way around it - they already do in the UK, I mean a simple VPN gets around it, and luckily not all governments want to implement this crap - and all it does is expose those who abide by the law, to even more data breaches and such.
Regular GPL software CAN be run over a network, but because the binary of the software isn't distributed - only an interface is provided to the software itself - the host isn't obligated to provide the source code. A lot of software hosts used this loophole to get around sharing their modifications to GPL licenced software, killing the main point.
That's why AGPL was developed - to protect hosted software. AGPL requires the host to provide source to anyone who has access to the service, not just the binary.
GPL - if I have the binary, I must be granted access to the source
AGPL - if I can access the software, I must be granted access to the source
I mean just consider the dedication needed to make a pièce de résistance right as the Red Army is almost at the doors, using nothing but the raw concrete walls of the Führerbunker as canvas, his trusty Walther PPK as brush, and his own grey matter as paint... I'd dare say it's the most consequential piece of art of the 20th and maybe even the 21st century. It's a shame it was destroyed.
A moderator cannot BAN your account. They can ban you from posting on their subreddit, and can, often baselessly, get you reported to admins (who 100% of the time side with the moderators), usually flagging any kind of modmail conduct as "threatening or harassment".
I've literally got a warning because I dared to ask a mod why they banned me - their response being a 30 day mute and a report to the admins about "Hey! I was wondering why you banned me, as I don't think my comment broke any of the rules of the sub or Reddit" being threatening, and harassment....
It's a pity Calibre to date refuses to be refactored into a self-hosted service.
The core logic should be portable, with the app just being an interface to it, but no, the entire project is so much spaghetti it would feed the entire boot for over a year... such a shame.