Every five years, I'm giving Calibre a new try for managing my +10,000 e-books. And every time, this (sorry for my French:) PoS software, which tries to do everything all at once without doing anything of it well, crashes on me. This time, it ended up in a race condition and froze my PC (Ryzen 3900X, 64GB RAM) until the Gnome Settings Demon killed it ("Application Stopped. Device memory is nearly full. An application was using a lot of memory and was forced to stop").

Fun fact: Calibre crashed on an early-2000s plain text e-book file by experimental artist and poet Kenji Siratori , likely because his writing contains a lot of computer code symbols that Calibre misinterpreted as markup or program code. Another proof for terrible code quality if Calibre is vulnerable to code injection by e-books.

Siratori, and his codework contemporaries (Alan Sondheim, mez breeze, jodi...), would certainly appreciate this.

#codework #ebooks #floss

Writing and coding are entangled >>>>

#!/bin/bash

echo unsettling structures
awk 'BEGIN {
while (structures -e power)
print "destabilising " binary++
}'

#queercode #codepoetry #codework