• LumpyPancakes@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Tried WordCraft on Debian today.

    Document looked good. Was started from a Word template

    Time to save, click browse, give name, click save. New file didn’t appear though. Try again but in Home folder, this time it saved.

    Some basics still a little touchy. Finished it off in Libre instead, then had to go back and save as DOCX so normal people can still open it.

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      5 hours ago

      It won’t be long now before a P-51 called “Congress and the judiciary” swoops in and bombs REA with some “rules for thee” bullshit. That will complete the third panel of this meme.

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        Anti-circumvention laws already exist and carry penalties including prison, it only takes one judge to create case law that this kind of reverse engineering is circumvention and then it’ll disappear from the commercial Internet.

        The safest way to go is to create the software from scratch, using reversed engineered proprietary software to make a different, but very similar, product is a legal minefield and largely unnecessary given that the same AI time that goes into reverse engineering the project could be directed towards making a clean room replacement which could completely avoid those legal issues while still replacing the product with a FOSS product.

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      2 hours ago

      Yea, we need a Panel 3 with the Rocket Launcher Guy plane as an actually human foss developer.

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    11 hours ago

    If only the Software actually functioned, and didn’t require the quality of life of half a small City, the theft of the labor of hundreds of thousands to millions of human authors and foss programmers, and more Power including Training than all of the combined Watt hours of the Humans who wrote it in the First place.

    or some Shit.

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    11 hours ago

    … anyone here who remembers how tom hanks was then shrapnelled to bits just milliseconds after by exactly that gun barrel?

    yeah… me neither