Thanks for the suggestion. I know Audiobookshelf, but it’s audiobook-first and the EPUB side is basic, it doesn’t do the KOReader ↔ web position sync I built this for. And no worries about the AI part, I was upfront in the post on purpose. You don’t have to use it or like it. I built it for myself, it works for me every day, and I shared it in case it’s useful to someone else. That’s all.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t let the anti-AI bullshit get you down. You built something that worked for you, it isn’t the basis of national security for everyone and you wanted to share it. And you opensourced it so if I want to bolt on an IRC downloader or something, it’s easy.
I appreciates you.
pogmommy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Debatable
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Just can’t resist eh.
I have an old seed drill and the ECU smoked itself last fall. $6000-8000 if I can find a used one and then wait for it to show up, hopefully it works.
Pulled out Hermes on GPT5.5, spent the weekend building a DIY unit that monitors shaft and airspeeds, controls clutches, and gives me a browser page that I can watch all that stuff. I’m currently sitting in the tractor and waiting for it to build me a new feature I didn’t have on the old monitor where I can manually enter acres done.
It would have taken me months to build this and I’d have done nothing but work on that. Now I can tweak this while I work, or even access it remotely and change things if someone else is using it.
People can get on their high horse all they want, it cost me almost nothing to build something I can modify as I wish now. AI has democratized software. Hate it all you want, it works.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
lol
n2024@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the perfect example, honestly. Same spirit: a real problem, solved fast with the tool in hand. Hope the acres-done feature compiles before you finish the field 😄
B0rax@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Nice project!
If you mean that everyone can now build something that most likely will fall apart in the future, where nobody knows what’s actually inside as nobody reads it, where you might get hit with copyright claims because you stole code willy-nilly (you can’t hide behind the AI, you did it), that is full of security issues as well as structural nonsense and you may never know if the LLM decides to delete everything star anew while blasting a 6000€ hole in your pocket doing do…
…well then yes, it “democratized” something.
The 'ol Jethro Tull