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Copying isn’t stealing. We settled this in the 90s.

I saw someone who claims to have re-implemented Photoshop in Rust using clean room specs. I haven't checked into it yet, but it seems to have a lot of interest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1wxmqpt/ive_created_o...

Now that’s interesting, thanks for bringing it up.

this “author” has been spamming his project all over social media lately. do the apps even work? everything about this screams vaporware.

Yeah, this bodes well for my meditation app frontend I'm going to release on GitHub. It should be fair use ish but it does seem GitHub is fairly friendly anyway.

Headspace without being tracked and having data brokers cross reference "anonymized" (sic! word wasn't in keyb. dict) info on when I meditate, using which program etc.?

Headspace updated it's privacy policy info recently, which got me to have it checked with an LLM. And it turns out that what you're doing on $100 per year meditation app is still being sold to anyone willing to pay. Using headspace lost it's charm. I wonder if Andy ever agreed to this.

Yes. It streams the content from the Healthy Minds Program but without a login or any of their tracking.

Here's a very rough draft of a comparison of the privacy of different meditation apps: https://litter.catbox.moe/crq4n62bf1prei8j.html

Balance is crazy! They're essentially a data broker themselves.

The word “stealing” isn’t limited to physical objects.

I would agree, should you `rm` the copy on the server after having copied it.

Thats what the copyright lobby wants you to think, but honestly, if i copy your digital item, im not stealing it as the original still exists in your possession. That you might infringe on content made by someone else because you copied them, sure but its not stealing.

What do you do for a living?

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