Bryan Steele 🦋🍁
@brynet.ca
AKA brynet@. Canadian 🇨🇦. I like tinkering with OpenBSD and occasionally other Unix-like systems. In other words, not a MCP. He/Him. hacker^Wslacker. @canadianbryan previously.
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Just remember to pkg_add intel-media-driver if you have Intel graphics..
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Just remember to pkg_add intel-media-driver if you have Intel graphics..
BSD, ISC, MIT? dealers pick. But if your bad-faith argument is that permissive licencing means permission to ignore the rights of the original authors, then I must've missed your post placing everything you've written in the public domain, all things as being equivalent in your eyes, right?
January 12, 2026 at 1:58 AM
BSD, ISC, MIT? dealers pick. But if your bad-faith argument is that permissive licencing means permission to ignore the rights of the original authors, then I must've missed your post placing everything you've written in the public domain, all things as being equivalent in your eyes, right?
Permissive licensing is not a license to plagiarize.
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Permissive licensing is not a license to plagiarize.
The open source licenses we choose also carry explicit terms for use, redistribution & modification. It's not a free for all for these billion dollar companies to strip-mine our code use it however they like, without terms or attribution.
That's not fair use. That's why your argument is dishonest.
That's not fair use. That's why your argument is dishonest.
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
The open source licenses we choose also carry explicit terms for use, redistribution & modification. It's not a free for all for these billion dollar companies to strip-mine our code use it however they like, without terms or attribution.
That's not fair use. That's why your argument is dishonest.
That's not fair use. That's why your argument is dishonest.
If that's what you call being wrong, and called out for it, sure.
January 12, 2026 at 12:31 AM
If that's what you call being wrong, and called out for it, sure.
Do you think he feels it's unrelated, I won't answer for him.. but come on, get real..
So dishonest.
So dishonest.
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Do you think he feels it's unrelated, I won't answer for him.. but come on, get real..
So dishonest.
So dishonest.
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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January 11, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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"We have incorporated filters and other technologies that are designed to reduce the likelihood that Copilots return infringing content."
Reducing the likelihood sounds an awful lot like "Oops, we'll try to be better to hide our plagiarism", to me.
Reducing the likelihood sounds an awful lot like "Oops, we'll try to be better to hide our plagiarism", to me.
Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers - Microsoft On the Issues
With customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copy...
blogs.microsoft.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:41 PM
"We have incorporated filters and other technologies that are designed to reduce the likelihood that Copilots return infringing content."
Reducing the likelihood sounds an awful lot like "Oops, we'll try to be better to hide our plagiarism", to me.
Reducing the likelihood sounds an awful lot like "Oops, we'll try to be better to hide our plagiarism", to me.
Several billion dollar companies trained their LLMs on open source code, and they would even reproduce code snippets verbatim, including comments, but without attribution, and were even caught doing so.
Comparing this to Google v. Oracle is such a bad faith argument.
Not a good look, Bryan.
Comparing this to Google v. Oracle is such a bad faith argument.
Not a good look, Bryan.
January 11, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Several billion dollar companies trained their LLMs on open source code, and they would even reproduce code snippets verbatim, including comments, but without attribution, and were even caught doing so.
Comparing this to Google v. Oracle is such a bad faith argument.
Not a good look, Bryan.
Comparing this to Google v. Oracle is such a bad faith argument.
Not a good look, Bryan.