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Data collection?

Data collection?

Posted Apr 4, 2025 12:02 UTC (Fri) by maharmstone (subscriber, #174156)
In reply to: Data collection? by ddevault
Parent article: Catching up with calibre

I once sent Kovid a polite e-mail saying precisely this, and asking him for a way to disable the telemetry, and received a torrent of abuse in return. Horrible man. Apparently he doesn't think that what he's doing is telemetry.

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Data collection?

Posted Apr 6, 2025 19:58 UTC (Sun) by Flameeyes (guest, #51238) [Link]

He's definitely… a personality.

I used to package Calibre for Gentoo (from before it even had that name, it was libprs500 — named after the Sony Reader eInk devices), and even provided patches a couple of times… but never really managed to build even a slight bit of relationship.


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