A fine endorsement.

First they came for people I don’t like, I assume, and I said hell yeah, there’s no way that will ever be me. Over here, officer. Come for a few more kinds of people I don’t like. Nothing bad ever happened to the French!

Only from physical artifacts? Plastics will mostly crumble from oxidation, so thank god it can’t be Funko Pops.

But I’ve seen blown-glass ornaments of a head sticking out of a toilet.

Most homes have good bones, but this one has whole preserved bodies.

“A gas fireplace is not inherently a fire hazard, so we made sure to drag this flimsy drape all the way across it.”

Okay but the ceiling runner pattern kinda works.

Bizarre to read this from the neo-luddite dingus who wrote Enough.

The particle accelerator is next to the particle clutch.

Take a slide rule to ancient Babylon because on some level I’m morally offended we didn’t figure that one out until the 17th century. Ideally this also snipes a variety of terrible numeral systems.

(Centurii-chan)

“I just wanna talk to him.”

But only if you do it like Heavy Rain.

Nah.

And if they wanted Qt pronounced any way beside “cutie,” they shouldn’t have spelled it “cutie.”

The simplest answer-- okay the simplest answer is, fuck copyright.

The simplest nuanced answer is, “rewrite this” isn’t original. No more than throwing someone’s photograph through a filter and claiming you made it. So you can’t un-GPL any block of code just by changing all the variable names, or minifying it, or telling Claude to translate it to Rust.

But if you delete everything besides the comments - is that the same program? I would say probably, especially if you’re already familiar with the missing code. Even a human author might recreate some parts verbatim. Even a wildly different result could have been achieved by not deleting anything, and just shuffling things around for the sake of difference. If you turn the ship of Theseus into a house it’s still made of the same wood.

So at what point is a human-authored do-over not the same program?

Say this guy took a sabbatical, cabin in the woods situation, and came back with exactly the code Claude would write. Of course he’s deeply familiar with the existing library. It sounds like he’s been primarily responsible for it, for a while. Is he now incapable of writing a differently-licensed alternative that does the same thing?

I miss Everything from Windows.

It’s a file search tool from voidtools, which has instant as-you-type results. It is never out of date because it tracks filesystem events. FSearch simply does not compare.

Plus the startup sound.

And it’s not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that’s straight-up illegal! Your fuckin’ commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.

I don’t give a shit what children see.

They’ll live.

Stop spying on adults.

Who could possibly give a shit?

Art belongs to its audience.

People have a right to culture.

No one in my family ever uses a garage as anything but an attached shed.