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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 My thoughts in FOSS.

https://habla.news/u/laeserin@getalby.com/1718428898562

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ChipTuner | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Funny thing. I regularly look at people's code. I probably peruse the .NET std libs and garbage collector code daily along with gnu libc and musl sources (mostly looking for hidden cryptographic functions). I pop through Damus and other C apps like strfry and such. I learn so much by looking though other projects code. I read TLDR and look through the code of FOSS apps if it's doing something I'm interested in daily.
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ChipTuner | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I will usually check in to see what @Michael J has been up to also.
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Michael J | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 And I appreciate the feedback you give from looking into it!
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 That's why you're good. 🤷‍♀️

You're not the sort of programmer he's worried about having a look at his code, tho, as you're just curious and learning new techniques or how to implement some NIP.

You still go build your own thing, often in a different language, which is too much effort for a copy-cat.

I mean, we used to reverse-engineer implementations from compiled code, and you can soon probably have AI do that for you.
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, at some point soon hiding code will be a waste of time and cheap to reverse
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Michael J | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 And this is why I think closed-source is a dead end.  It's too easy to figure out implementations, if you're motivated enough.