Maybe it’s just that I don’t really find the topic interesting, but I’m a little confused.

The author spends some effort arguing that it was not about a working end product (the mentioned ports) but just the learning and solving the puzzles.

How is this different than people building wooden cabinets by hand instead of buying from IKEA? That the latter exist should not take your fun in your hobby away.

I mean, I get it from a different standpoint, I kinda lost all drive and fun in contributing to FLOSS at the moment, but I’m not shutting down projects and declaring the end of an era, I’m just spending my time on other things. Or is this so niche that the author feels well-informed enough to canonically declare the field dead (e.g. because they were the biggest community site), but other fields (writing software, for example) are being declared dead by lots of people, but the resistance is noticeable and we’re seeing more and more projects not accepting AI contributions. (Or maybe it only looks that way because they’re ‘late’ to go public with it)

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Did you know that many of the ideas of Git came from an earlier system called monotone? The monotone site is still alive today and its FAQ tries has to address all these new ideas like using hashes for ids.

Anyway, if you didn’t know that, today you learned a lesson about ideas and who gets the credit.

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And here I am barely able to do basic stuff in Ghidra for CTFs. News like this makes me wonder what’s the point of it all…

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