Post #2919729

2026-05-14 02:47 UTC

@lina@vt.social I suppose it stands to reason, in a way, nothing has been done right? In just the same way I still write code despite knowing an alternative implementation doing exactly what I wanted already exists in the Library of Babel. There is clearly no design nor intent there - it amounts to merely noise. At least that's my view

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@amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-14 03:48

@gfaster@tilde.zone @lina@vt.social i think the issue from the programmer's perspective is that: a very large portion of users *will not care* that the implementation was slop-coded and *stolen*, only that it exists. the credit is erroneously going to go to the person who *stole* Lina's work and nearly none of the credit is going to go to Lina herself who actually did all the hard work here. programming and reverse engineering is very much a field where work being attributed and credited correctly is extremely important, especially when it comes to things like career advancement and just plain *satisfaction in one's work* so her being credited for being the one who did this work is really really important in general. (you may notice I keep emphasizing the word *stolen* here. *stolen* is the only correct word to use here, Lina published her reverse engineering work and progress out of a sense of goodwill and a desire to be transparent to her community, and the slopcoder here stomped all over that and decided to steal *her* work that this person had no right to steal, and take all the credit for it by putting it through a slop generator.)

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