cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967

for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527

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[–] 8 points 7 months ago (29 children)

Isn't the LGPL supposed to be relicensable as opposed to GPL's share-alike?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    No, LGPL just allows linking to differently-licensed software.

    Basically linking copies some code from the library into the program that uses it, making any linked software a derivative work.

    Sellers of proprietary software libraries give permission for this specific type of linking in their license. LGPL gives the same permission to people who are otherwise following the GPL. LGPL used to be called the "library-GPL" because it is the GPL plus permission to use the library linking mechanism.

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    One of the commentors in there claims that Claude will straight give you struct sk_buffer. I dont have access to Claude but I vomited and went to chatgpt and it said it was copyrighted and couldnt give it to me. I know we hate AI, but ir changes so fast make sure your info is right. We cant take them down with falsehoods, even if they are freshly made false. If anyone has Claude and can test let me know.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You can ask the LLM the same question a hundred times and it might not give you the same answer it gave someone else. The way it responds is a combination of random chance and the language used to ask the question.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I used whatever free tokens I had asking and every time it said it was a copyright violation in different ways. Make of that what you will but dont underestimate these oligarchs. They're weaving past, present, and future into the biggest ball of shit ever created and it rolls in their favor.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    So no one is going to say what chardet is, huh.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago*

    It's a library for detecting which character encoding a string is encoded with.

    Here are the docs for the vibe-coded rewrite, and here is the version before it.

    The new vibe-coded version also adds language detection; it isn't clear to me why the current version of the readme shows it classifying the string "It’s a lovely day — let’s grab coffee." as Spanish with 99% confidence, without any comment in the docs about that being a misclassification, but I guess that if the LLM-authored program says it is then that must be one of those phrases that looks the same in Spanish as in English 👀

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