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First Builds of Arcalibre 0.0.1
Last month, we said that one of the main goals of the rereading Project in 2026 would be to get pre-alpha builds of Arcalibre up and running. Though it's been a long process getting there, today, we're happy to make the very first builds of Arcalibre 0.0.1 available. [...]
https://blog.rereading.space/first-builds-of-arcalibre-0-0-1
@vonnieda @zkat Calibre's adoption of AI was a deep betrayal, and also Kovid Goyal's work for almost twenty years is a massive gift that we continue to be grateful for.
Both things can be true.
For more details, please check out our post at https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor.
@vonnieda Our use of `just` is under reconsideration given what has come to light about AI tainting; thanks for raising that!
https://codeberg.org/rereading/arcalibre/issues/28
More generally, it is not wrong to have principles and hold to them. Open source is and always has been a political project. The rereading Project is no exception.
As per discussions at https://codeberg.org/gen-ai-transparency/open-slopware/, `just` should be avoided as tainted due to its endorsement of MCP. Since Arcalibre is quite young, it's a good opportunity to remove `just` before it gets too entrenched in our build system. This will also require u...
@vonnieda We don't think "witch hunt" is a fair characterization; the term "tainted" has long been used in the F/OSS community to refer to incompatible licensing.
In the same way, the rereading Project has been very clear about what our principles are, and why AI adoption of any kind is inconsistent with the user-, labor-, and art-focused goals of the project.
From that perspective, we agree with the list and its goals.
Avoiding AI in your open source software can be really difficult — it seems like it's everywhere lately. Thankfully, @zkat put together a great list of projects to avoid, as well as possible alternatives.
We're honored that Arcalibre is listed as an AI-free alternative to Calibre — we're working as hard as we can to live up to that goal!
We're now on Bluesky as well, thanks to @fed.brid.gy!
The fediverse will always be our primary social media home, but now you can follow us via ATProto, too.
Interested in helping the rereading Project decide who and what we want to be? We now have a draft version of the Project Charter up on Codeberg!
https://codeberg.org/rereading/governance/pulls/1
Check out the discussion over in the community forums as well:
Books are art, and art is labor.
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