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AI Cloning should be illegal. And I think it might be. It feels self-evident, but we may need to wait for the courts to be sure. This morning, I took a full Windows application from Microsoft, had AI reverse-engineer it using NSA's Ghidra into a set of atomicizable actions, then translated those actions backward into Rust logic, then compiled the Rust into a brand new application. And it did it. In one shot. So the process is: C Code -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe then Exe -> OPS -> Rust -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe So you feed it an application, and it produces a Rust version of that same application with 100% of the same functionality and appearance and "none" of the original code - just the logic behind that code. I don't consider this coding. It's not even vibe coding. It is piracy. This might be a hot take, but cloning an application when the application itself is used as an input does NOT, in my mind, yield an independent work. I'm even dubious about letting the AI base its work on the application. I specifically did NOT do so for TMOG (tmog.org) because I didn't want it just copying. So I wrote a huge spec instead (which I guess could just be copying via indirection, but I'll leave that aside for now). This time, I chose an in-the-box Windows application as a proof of concept, but there's no reason this couldn't be applied to Photoshop. Or heck, have the AI port Final Cut from the Mac to Windows. That's a bigger ask, of course, but we're not far from it. And so I propose we ruthlessly distinguish any process that uses an application binary itself. Prompt -> Code -> Binary == OK Binary -> Prompt -> Code => Binary == Clone

AI is helping us to break free from the shackles of the Woke Activists of Open Source. Over the last few months we've seen massive progress (major forks, new systems, brand new software), developed using AI, by non-Woke developers. The speed has been so extraordinarily rapid (and the quality so high) that it is quickly rendering the DEI-focused, discriminatory Open Source organizations... irrelevant. We can debate the various pros and cons of AI... but rendering "Woke Open Source" irrelevant will be a major win for Tech freedom.

I feel sorry for IntelliJ but I will not renew it at my corp job. I have not used or opened it in 3 months...

🚨Breaking. Hannah Spencer’s campaign manager ADMITS mosques secretly endorsed the Green candidate despite charity rules forbidding it. I said this happened at the time. They cheated. Link below.

How many pencils, how many humans, how many hours would it have taken to recreate the Adobe suite by hand?

Oh brilliant! … tougher sentences for men who rape children are delayed! because there isn’t enough prison space. But the man who denies criminal damage after allegedly slashing a migrant dinghy is on remand because they say he poses a “significant risk to public safety.” Which tells us apparently child rapists aren’t a “significant risk to public safety” then?

ImageFlow is NOT just another vibe coded photoshop. It has all features photoshop has, full support for PSD files, object selection, smart objects, full support for variable fonts, ligatures, can open and export to pdf, svg, psd, png, avif… ImageFlow.dev

"We're about to see an absolute bloom in software development as the price of development plummets and everyone realizes how much automation we still have left to do in this world... Don't go down with the pencils. There's so much to build. We need you." world.hey.com/dhh/over-my-de…

TotalEnergies boss Patrick Pouyanné says European refineries once regarded as liabilities are “suddenly becoming goldmines.” Yet Britain has allowed its refining capacity to dwindle from nine refineries in 2000 to just four today. Time to focus on our domestic energy security - bonus if it's also a 'goldmine'. #CostOfNetZero

So the person behind that @thegreenparty "Zionism is Racism" motion is a close friend of an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted a suicide bombing at Heathrow. She even offered to testify in his defence. The Green Party must be so proud of itself.

🚨Council boss quits rather than sign off £35m Abu Dhabi overpay — A senior director at Labour-run Manchester City Council walked out after being told to rubber-stamp a £35 million purchase of a run-down retail park — millions above the next bid — reserved for Abu Dhabi’s owners of Manchester City. He warned then-chief executive Joanne Roney the order left officials “severely compromised.” The same site is now lined up for Andy Burnham’s “Number 10 North.” Public cash, a sweetheart valuation, and a resignation nobody in power wants to explain.

Andy Burnham built his rise on Abu Dhabi money. Manchester City have just been found guilty of 114 charges for disguising around £830 million of owner funding as sponsorship. This is financial misconduct of the most heinous scale. Burnham's response? He would be “really concerned” to lose them. The site of Burnham's Number 10 North is land the Emiratis were handed first refusal on. Like every other Labour politician, Burnham is captured.

London’s descent into a third world dump is so depressing to witness.

The Afghan resettlement schemes are a crime committed against the British people, committed in plain sight by Tory ministers. Almost 40,000 Afghans have been smuggled in. 10 TIMES the number the Tories initially claimed. They spent £3.1 billion of your money on these schemes, and that will rise to DOUBLE that within a few years. Afghan nationals in Britain are 22x more likely to be convicted of sex crimes than Brits. The Tory ministers who did this do not care. They boasted about it. Could not stop gushing about how many they had imported. The average resettled household has 5.5 people. One man brought 22 family members. The fraud committed on these schemes is off the charts. Nobody voted for this. They must be held to account.

The Truth About Napoleon. 🇫🇷 Join us tonight for a fascinating conversation with historian @aroberts_andrew as we go beyond the myths, legends, and misconceptions to uncover the real story of Napoleon Bonaparte. His rise, his ambition, his victories, his failures, and the legacy he left behind. Don't miss the full episode tonight, Wednesday 7th October, at 7PM UK | 2PM ET on YouTube, Facebook and X.

There should not be a single foreign national family living in London social housing, or anywhere else. If they cannot financially support themselves in our home, they should leave or be made to leave.

Another day another big data breach What happens if you’re forced onto digital ID verification and are hacked or the computer says no? Thats all on top of a draconian Two Tier surveillance police state with LFR & arrests for hurty words while shoplifters and worse carry on unimpeded No to social media ban Digital ID verification Freeze One Login NOW @Togetherdec

I sympathize with programmers who worked on systems they never cared about, for customers they didn't connect with, and took all their working joy from the mechanical act of turning tickets into code. You have to care about the software to be excited about making it w/ agents!

Nvidia Says Wayland Not Faster Than X11 Wayland uses more RAM, is missing features, and is no faster than X11 (Xorg or XLibre).

Published my Omakey — your real physical keyboard for your Omarchy from the mobile. Use for cases when you dont have access to "normal" keyboard. I use it with my SteamDeck. My mobile is always with me. Includes a tool to make your own layout and also includes 10 crazy ones My personal layout is Omakey Pro! Check it out. I am gonna make more useful stuff for SteamDeck owners! gladimdim.github.io/omakey-o…