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Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by baranul »

myko wrote: post #95
b800h wrote: post #81

Whenever I hear anything about Zig it seems to be drama. Very bizarre, will avoid.

This is the first drama I've heard related to Zig, and seems to have nothing to do with the project itself–this is someone writing an online book about Zig

Zig has previously been involved in all kinds of drama. Including involving money, battles among developers, attempts to split/fork the language, and self-pushed conflicts with other programming languages. This is just the latest, in the long series.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by matkoniecz »

projektfu wrote: post #83
NeckBeardPrince wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would be a valid reason to allow this? That just seems mind-numbingly stupid.

Censoring insults or illegal speech (depending on jurisdiction) would be the main reason I can think of.

in such case ability to delete comment would be enough

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by doe88 »

vintagedave wrote: post #31
ayhanfuat wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed: @zigbook changed the title "Fix license violations" "Im mad because you wrote code similiar to mine >:(" 3 minutes ago ( https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/43 )

Wow. It's also an extremely reasonable pull request, here's the only commit: https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/compare/main...SuperAugus...

I really loved this PR, very fair, appropriate, sensible, proportionated; masterpiece! Could easily be used as example in all git commit writing guides around (half-joking).

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by yoyohello13 »

jamiejquinn wrote: post #94
b800h wrote: post #81

Whenever I hear anything about Zig it seems to be drama. Very bizarre, will avoid.

Ditto... I love Zig as a language but I worry the high-level community builders (including Andrew) are a little too antagonistic to foster a positive, tolerant, patient community in the long term. In saying that, my infrequent interactions in the reddit and discord are always pleasant.

I don’t think Andrew is a bad guy, but his tone seems to attract a certain kind of person. All the technical people I’ve interacted with in the Zig community have been awesome, but for whatever reason it also attracts a lot of people who are just there to shit on anything mainstream.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by kyleee »

kklisura wrote: post #64

There should be something of an OFAC Sanction List for SWE for people who blatantly transgress moral and ethical lines.

Ahh good idea; like the Brady list for bad police officers in US. Just have to figure out how to ensure it has teeth and doesn’t become a witch hunt

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by omoikane »

kachapopopow wrote: post #11

I just can't get over how ridicioulus the "no ai" statement is. I really love the part where llm.txt has the same notice, something humans will never read, or the fact that llm.txt exists considering that there is distaste for AI in every part of this llm generated book.

The "no AI" statement reminds me of the Chinese idiom: "there are no 300 taels of silver here" (there is no money buried here). It's a clumsy way of denying something.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A4%E5%9C%B0%E7%84%A1%E...

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by gnarlouse »

ayhanfuat wrote: post #22
gnarlouse wrote: post #14

Had a conversation with the Zigbook maintainer. It’s either a young kid or somebody that has some serious growing up to do. Just generally weird behavior.

Indeed: @zigbook changed the title "Fix license violations" "Im mad because you wrote code similiar to mine >:(" 3 minutes ago ( https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/pull/43 )

At one point they added a “R******D COMPLAINT” (censored for HN) ticket sticker to… idk, oppose AI-use accusations? Somebody seemingly talked them down from it though. Just bizarre. Like watching a midlife crisis through GitHub issues.

Re: Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground

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Post by ktm5j »

the8472 wrote: post #98
tomalbrc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It obviously does not discourage abuse

No, that's not obvious at all. A single event is evidence that some abuse still happens, it does not tell us how much more abuse there would be in the counterfactual where the history wasn't available. discourage != prevent all

I get what you're saying, but I feel like they should highlight comments in some way if a repo admin completely replaces a comment with different text. I'm struggling to imagine a situation where that would really be appropriate. The "Edited by: username" seems too easy to overlook.
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