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Archive for November, 2025

Publish the prompt

17:58 · Filed under Writing

Good advice about using LLMs over at Ploum’s:

If you are tempted to use an LLM to generate a text, don’t publish the output of the LLM. Publish the prompt! That’s where your information is. It is what people want to hear.

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Muon Qt6

12:34 · Filed under Software

A year and a half ago I wrote about how to forwardport (reverse backport) Muon to Ubuntu 24.04. Unfortunately, in the meantime bitrot has occurred and it won’t just compile anymore. But I’m glad to have found a legend named Evgeniy Harchenko has created a Qt6 port. 😉

All you need to get back up and running is their version of QApt (diff) and their version of Muon (diff). Beware, some of the required packages have slightly different names than they do in Debian/Ubuntu.

It’s lovely to have Muon back.

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KOReader 2025.10 “Ghost”

12:58 · Filed under Software

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

Ghost

Apologies, I don’t have much time to write release notes today. As usual there’s been quite a bit of activity. One of the most visible changes is that if you like stable page numbers, artificially generated stable page numbers can now be easily configured under navigation (image) → Settings → Stable page numbers.

Keeping in tune with not spending too much time on release notes, here’s a copy of the included help text:

By default, one screen equals one page. Any change in the book’s formatting will therefore result in renumbering: new total pages, different chapter lengths, new locations in TOC and bookmarks, etc.

Select stable page numbers if you prefer page numbers that are independent of layout settings and consistent across devices:

  1. Publisher page numbers (℗): normally equivalent to a specific physical edition. Only available if supplied by the publisher.
  2. Characters per page: a page will be counted for this amount of characters (sometimes called logical or synthetic page numbers). Use this if no publisher page numbers are available or if you prefer to have consistent page lengths for all books.

Since stable page numbers can start anywhere on the screen, you can choose to display them in the margin, regardless of other settings.

‘Stable page number list’ shows a table of all stable page numbers and their corresponding screen page numbers.

This month’s logo was contributed by @Sonnenfee

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2025.08...v2025.10 — closed milestone issues

Installation instructions: Android • Cervantes • ChromeOS • Kindle • Kobo • PocketBook • ReMarkable • Desktop Linux • MacOS

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