Today's satire is tomorrow's reality, if the last 50 or so years is anything to go by.
Malus – Clean Room as a Service
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#42malus, mala, malum ADJ bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky; It's an interesting word in Latin, because depending on the phonetic length of the vowel and gender it vary greatly in meaning. The word 'malus' (short a, masculine adjective) means wicked, the word 'mālus' (long ā, feminine noun) means apple tree, and 'mālus' (long ā, masculine noun) means the mast of a ship.
Homonym of "malice" too. Honestly kind of a brilliant name.
Re: Malus – Clean Room as a Service
#43malus, mala, malum ADJ bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky; It's an interesting word in Latin, because depending on the phonetic length of the vowel and gender it vary greatly in meaning. The word 'malus' (short a, masculine adjective) means wicked, the word 'mālus' (long ā, feminine noun) means apple tree, and 'mālus' (long ā, masculine noun) means the mast of a ship.
Homonym of "malice" too. Honestly kind of a brilliant name.
Mal: us
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#44…scanning… …fuming… …blood pressure rising… sees a quote attributed to “Chad Stockholder
Engineering Director, Profit First LLC” …oh phew, thank god for that. I actually believed this could be real for a moment!
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#45It took me too long to understand it’s satire. BP went through stratosphere before I noticed.
Let’s hope one of these fake AI grifters doesn’t take this as a serious idea, raised a couple hundred million, and do real damage.
(I’m not against AI, I just don’t like nonsense either in tech, or people)
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#46This is satire but this is where things are heading. The impact on the OSS ecosystem is probably not a net positive overall, but don't forget that this also applies to commercial software as well.
There will be many questions asked, like why buy some SaaS with way too many features when you can just reimplement the parts you need? Why buy some expensive software package when you can point the LLM into the binary with Ghidra or IDA or whatever then spend a few weeks to reverse it?
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#47Oof, this is unironically amazing!
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#49Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.
I was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.
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#50"I used to feel guilty about not attributing open source maintainers. Then I remembered that guilt doesn't show up on quarterly reports. Thank you, MalusCorp."
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Chad Stockholder
Engineering Director, Profit First LLC