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Applications: Calibre, Laser, Systemtap, and More
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Calibre ebook manager adds AI-powered writing game
The latest update to Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, features an AI-powered writing game. Calibre v9.15’s “Create Your Own Adventure” mode, per the release notes, lets you build a fictional world and hand control of it to an Hey Hi (AI) who will manage it in real time based on your responses. A bit like old text-based RPGs, I guess. The changelog notes, with obvious understatement, that the feature is “a little different” from Calibre’s usual fare, adding it began as a way for developers to test the tool’s Hey Hi (AI) backend before developing into “something fun to use”.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Laser is a new, modern CD ripper for Linux
Under my bed is a giant box of CDs that I’ve been meaning to rip for years. Some aren’t on Spotify, some are, but not the right version and one is by an artist I’m half convinced is a folk memory – perhaps the Mandela effect in action. Laser is a new GTK4/libadwatia CD ripping application for GNU/Linux that’s coaxed me into getting on with the job. It’s not just old timers who may have need. CD sales in the UK are booming as younger buyers put off by the gentrified price of vinyl turn to cheaper physical formats.
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LWN ☛ Systemtap 5.6 released
Version 5.6 of the Systemtap tracing tool has been released.
BPF LSM hooks and XDP packet-processing probes for the --bpf
runtime, BTF-based kernel.tracepoint probes, statement execution
tracing, a new @enumname() operator, richer runtime error context,
dyninst hardware watchpoints, modern systemd service templates, and
broad GNU/Linux 7.2 runtime/tapset compatibility work.
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Linux Handbook ☛ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #26.13: Know Your File, File-based Workspace Certifications and More
Sometimes the fastest fix is just asking the right question first.