> I don't advise a haircut, man.
> All hairdressers are in the employment of the government.
> Hair are your aerials.
> They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain.
> This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
If we're talking about someone who has received a binary copy of software, then isn't this obvious?
The MIT license permits the distributor to close the source of what they've redistributed, in original or modified form. Potentially depriving the end user of the freedom to view/modify/distribute the source.
Permissive licenses prioritize rights of the software redistributors at the expense of the end users.
The MIT license permits some other developer to fork the source and close it off, but as an end user of this particular software that is under MIT (meaning that source is available, and I can take it and modify it if I need to), how does that affect me?
tmux is MIT-licensed, right? The MIT license is very similar to the (3-clause) BSD license which makes it upward-compatible with the GPL (you can incorporate MIT- or BSD-licensed code with GPL-licensed code).
Edit: and to your point of a distributor withholding the source: yeah, so? If there ever came a point where the current maintainer closed its source (unlikely), somebody with a copy of it can step in with a fork. Or the project can die a deserved death for closing its source. At this point the benefits of open source are pretty much obvious to anyone with a brain, and closing the source of an open-source project is practically suicide.
> > "It was, for all intents and purposes, akin to an automobile idling in a driveway with half a tank of gasoline. And then it exploded."
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> Not entirely unheard of.
It's not even a fair analogy, the automobile is being fueled at a gas pump... which sometimes goes boom due to static discharge.
The invasion of the bullshit generators is completely out of hand.
This level of "AI" is more like "artificial well-formed stupidity" and its volume of output is boundless. We're totally fucked if it doesn't become actually intelligent.
I'm already having to deal with clowns pasting useless chat bot drivel into GH comments and JIRA tickets at work instead using their brains and time to do actual work.
My colleague keeps joking about it being a good time to become a farmer, I'm starting to believe him.
Paying the "toll" here by prefacing my comment with "LLMs are a remarkable achievement with real-world utility; I use Copilot etc" blah blah.
But I've reached a point of disillusionment with the current "hype cycle." I'm not even advocating for "grass-fed organic hand-written" code or whatever, but for some reason the hyper fixation on automating writing and programming with the mixed results is just kind of gross to me.
It's really turned me off of "programmer culture" and makes me question the future of all this, especially as a vocation.
Maybe it says something about me, it just all strikes me as "cheap." Dunno.
> The version of Ghostscript was from 2012 and this allowed a specially crafted PDF file to execute a SUID binary and the attacker to gain access.
I don't care what version of Freebsd you're using. If your webapp is running Ghostscript against user-supplied data without doing so in a throwaway VM or at least container of some sort, no amount of updating will save you. That is an insane piece of software to be feeding untrusted input to without wearing a condom.
> people are buying “funds” of gold and driving up the price, not actually stockpiling the metal itself.
Says you. A month ago I was trying to buy 1oz bars as gifts for my niece and nephew, from Costco of all places. They were often sold out by noon, sometimes queues for the stuff.
I wasn't even trying to buy something that was going to appreciate in value quickly, it's already gone up >10% from the Costco price at the time.
USD seems doomed right now, through the lens of the price of gold in USD.
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