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I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not. Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

that definition is wrong, really by just common sense

This is a shallow dismissal, which is against the HN Guidlines.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Can anyone recommend a resource for how to (architecturally) handle communication with a device over i2c? That is where I am kinda stuck atm when it comes to programming a GPS device. Backstory: at one point I was trying to use elixir/nerves on an rpi to manipulate a few sensor modules to try and produce a race lap timer for motorcycles: https://github.com/whalesalad/rabbit/blob/master/lib/rabbit/... I bit off more t…

You might find some useful information on elinux.org here: https://elinux.org/Interfacing_with_I2C_Devices

Additionally, search on the wiki of i2c.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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This is great, and sorely needed! My son wanted to get into hardware hacking a couple of years ago and had a horrible time. He ended up watching a mish-mash of varying quality youtube videos and reading blog posts which went out of date suprisingly quick.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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Please reformulate your argument, and I will check back tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ LLMs are rules based search engines with higher dimension vector spaces encoding related topics. There is nothing intelligent about these algorithms, except the trick ones play on oneself interpreting well structured nonsense. It is stunting kids development, as students often lack the ability to intuitively…

(Shrug) If you're retired or independently wealthy, you can afford that attitude. Hopefully one of those describes you. Otherwise, you're going to spend the rest of your career saying things like, "Well, OK, so the last model couldn't count the number of Rs in 'Strawberry' and the new one can, but..." Personally, I dislike being wrong. So I don't base arguments on points that have a built-in expiration date, or that…

Every model is deprecated in time if evidenced Science is done well, and hopefully replaced by something more accurate in time. There is no absolute right/correctness unless you are a naive child under 25 cheating on structured homework.

The point was there is nothing intelligent (or AI) about LLMs except the person fooling themselves.

In general, most template libraries already implement the best possible algorithms from the 1960s, and tuned for architecture specific optimizations. Knowing when each finite option is appropriate takes a bit of understanding/study, but does give results far quicker than fitting a statistically salient nonsense answer. Several study datum from senior developers is already available, and it proves LLMs provide zero benefit to people that know what they are doing.

Note, I am driven by having fun, rather than some bizarre irrational competitiveness. Prove your position, or I will assume you are just a silly person or chat bot. =3

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not. Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

Not everyone agrees with this definition. If the source is open to read, for me it's open source. The website you linked is an opinionated view on what open source is.

> If the source is open to read, for me it's open source.

That’s called “source available”. Open source colloquially implies open license.

Re: I created an open-source Hardware Hacking Wiki – with tutorials for beginners

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That's fine. It's just not open source. Don't call it open source if it's not. Definition: https://opensource.org/osd

Not everyone agrees with this definition. If the source is open to read, for me it's open source. The website you linked is an opinionated view on what open source is.

I mean, there's not a lot we can do to stop you using the phrase in this way. But you should know that you will cause confusion. The phrase "open source" is, to an awful lot of people, a technical term with a specific meaning and has been so for decades now.

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the FSF/OSI are big on emphasizing that "free/open" means more than exposing the designs and mechanisms; it means guaranteeing certain freedoms and rights to the users of your software. what you're describing is usually called "source-available".

If open source doesn't specify a license that is it under then you should only assume that the source has been made available. Both GPL and Apache licensing are considered open source, even though apache is more permissive for commercial derivatives. No one calls GPL "source-available" in common conversation regardless of OSI's opinion.

As well as some variants of BSD licenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

>Two variants of the license, the New BSD License/Modified BSD License (3-clause), and the Simplified BSD License/FreeBSD License (2-clause) have been verified as GPL-compatible free software licenses by the Free Software Foundation, and have been vetted as open source licenses by the Open Source Initiative. The original, 4-clause BSD license has not been accepted as an open source license and, although the original is considered to be a free software license by the FSF, the FSF does not consider it to be compatible with the GPL due to the advertising clause.

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