just imagine how many religions he can get into now

don’t really have to be one to know how past reverse engineering cases have gone

oh nooooo whatever would we dooooo

not ones that involve pasting the gpl into files.

companies have been sued over using the same names for functions. this is absolutely not clean room.

what made it easier for me was to think of it as design by contract. if you start by describing the interfaces, you can basically autocomplete the functionality.

i wrote a driver for an i2c device in rust because i needed to sanity check my c implementation, and after defining the types of each register i wanted to use i could just ignore types entirely because it all became implicit.

not saying i particularly like how much magic there is in rust, just that i get it.

they brag about reimplementing software from companies they were laid off from with llms. llms are trained on shittons of source code both open and proprietary, which they are known to be able to regurgitate verbatim. also, if you’ve worked with a proprietary codebase at all, you can not be let even close to a reimplementation or it’s legally not clean-room, no matter how much you pinkie promise to not use any of what you learned at your former workplace.

these people wouldn’t know what a “clean-room” was if it swallowed them whole

it’s basically exactly the same as the old agreement, just with fewer allowed us military bases and more recognition for greenland as a nation. if he’d read it, he probably wouldn’t have signed it

in the best case it’s that, and you wonder why it’s not automatic. in the worst case half the packages on the system just brick themselves.

my only issue with mint is that full version upgrades are still a hassle. if that’s something that bothers you, you could switch to something else. otherwise, just keep on keeping on.

exactly.

“closer ties” is a statement of intent. “associate member” is a category of member.

yes. all of europe is doing that.

the eu doesn’t have anything called “associate membership” so if this passed they would have had to actually define what that means. makes sense to change the wording to something less formal but equally signifying.

need it to be a hierarchical thing? otherwise just cp -vur src/ dst/ >> files.txt && sort -bdufo files.txt files.txt and look in the file.

…yeeeees? that’s what i said that started this entire thread.

…compiled? it’s all written in x86-specific assembly language. you’d have to rewrite it from scratch.

source available != open source. unless explicitly rejected by the creator through a license or waiver, all the immaterial rights of any work still rest with them.

i get that it’s terry, but just saying “it’s open source” feels a lot like the “i declare bankruptcy” bit. he didn’t actually waive any rights there.