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Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

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I share your distaste for people whose only contribution is subtraction but suggest you lay off the sarcasm though. Trolls; don't feed. (Well done on your project BTW)

I don't see any sarcasm from me in the thread. I had serious questions. Perhaps you could point out what you see? Thanks for the supportive words about the project.

Literally all you did is bitch and moan about someone asking a simple question, lol. Go touch grass.

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#242

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I don't see any sarcasm from me in the thread. I had serious questions. Perhaps you could point out what you see? Thanks for the supportive words about the project.

Perhaps I misread "Maybe take a walk and get some fresh air?" - no worries though.

I've certainly seen people say similar things facetiously, but I was being genuine. I'm not sure if beeboobaa was trolling or not, I try to take what folks say at face value. They seemed to be pretty attached to a particular point of view, though. Happens to all of us. The thing for attachment is time and space and new experiences. Walks are great for those things, and also the best for organizing thoughts. Einstein loved taking walks for these reasons, and me too. It feels better to suggest something helpful when discussion derails, than to hurl insults as happens all too frequently.

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#243

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I don't see any sarcasm from me in the thread. I had serious questions. Perhaps you could point out what you see? Thanks for the supportive words about the project.

Literally all you did is bitch and moan about someone asking a simple question, lol. Go touch grass.

I already had my walk this morning, thanks! If you'd like to learn more about copyright law, including about all the ways it's fuzzy around the edges for legitimate uses like this one, I highly recommend groklaw.net. PJ did wonderful work writing about such boring topics in personable and readable ways. I hope you have a great day!

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#244

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I'm always happy to stand up for folks who make things over people who want to police them. Especially when nothing wrong has happened. Maybe take a walk and get some fresh air?

You're so brave

Thanks!

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#245
Mime type detection is very interesting thing. I wrote media type detection for McAfee Web Gateway 7.x and because it was a high performance proxy, the detection speed was a major focus, but also the precision, especially for "container types, like, MS Office, OLE-based files, etc. The base of it was a simple Lisp-like language that allowed to write signatures very fast, and everything was combined with very aggressive caching of the data, so we avoided to read data again and again, and used internal caches a lot. In tests, the detection was ~10x faster than file, and with more flexible language we got more file types recognized precisely. Although there were challenges with some formats, like, OLE-based files had FAT directory structure at the end of the file, and you were need to walk the tree to find the top-level structure to distinguish Excel file from Excel file embedded into Word.

Streams detection was also quite funny task...

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#246

Mime type detection is very interesting thing. I wrote media type detection for McAfee Web Gateway 7.x and because it was a high performance proxy, the detection speed was a major focus, but also the precision, especially for "container types, like, MS Office, OLE-based files, etc. The base of it was a simple Lisp-like language that allowed to write signatures very fast, and everything was combined with very aggressi…

Ah, I remember, the self-extracted .msi file was one of the quite challenging files - it's executable, it's a .cab file, and OLE2-container

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#247

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Literally all you did is bitch and moan about someone asking a simple question, lol. Go touch grass.

I already had my walk this morning, thanks! If you'd like to learn more about copyright law, including about all the ways it's fuzzy around the edges for legitimate uses like this one, I highly recommend groklaw.net. PJ did wonderful work writing about such boring topics in personable and readable ways. I hope you have a great day!

no thanks, not interested in your american nonsense laws. lecturing people who are asking SOMEONE ELSE a question is a terrible personality trait btw

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#248

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I already had my walk this morning, thanks! If you'd like to learn more about copyright law, including about all the ways it's fuzzy around the edges for legitimate uses like this one, I highly recommend groklaw.net. PJ did wonderful work writing about such boring topics in personable and readable ways. I hope you have a great day!

no thanks, not interested in your american nonsense laws. lecturing people who are asking SOMEONE ELSE a question is a terrible personality trait btw

If you can’t undermine someone’s argument, undermine their nationality. American tech culture doesn’t do this as much as it should, perhaps because we know eventually those folks wake up.

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I already had my walk this morning, thanks! If you'd like to learn more about copyright law, including about all the ways it's fuzzy around the edges for legitimate uses like this one, I highly recommend groklaw.net. PJ did wonderful work writing about such boring topics in personable and readable ways. I hope you have a great day!

no thanks, not interested in your american nonsense laws. lecturing people who are asking SOMEONE ELSE a question is a terrible personality trait btw

181 out of 195 countries and counting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

Look at that map!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Berne_Co...

P.S. Berne doesn't sound like a very American name.

You would really learn a lot from reading Groklaw. Of course, I can't make you. Good luck in the world though!

Re: Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

#250

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no thanks, not interested in your american nonsense laws. lecturing people who are asking SOMEONE ELSE a question is a terrible personality trait btw

If you can’t undermine someone’s argument, undermine their nationality. American tech culture doesn’t do this as much as it should, perhaps because we know eventually those folks wake up.

Not sure what your point is, but why would i care to learn about the laws of some other dude's country that he's using to support his bizarro arguments?
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