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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

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  1. MoltenMonster · · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment&#x2F;pa1spia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;AsahiLinux&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1whecn1&#x2F;comment...

    &gt; The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.

    1. cromka · · focus · HN ↗
      I find it extremely ironic that big corp openly steals IP en masse to build their models but hackers are still concerned about using same models for their reverse engineering work.

      I think at this point the hacking community needs to grow some balls.

      1. cogman10 · · focus · HN ↗
        It&#x27;s because it doesn&#x27;t matter how copyrighted material ends up in a project. If an LLM reproduces copyrighted material (which is very hard to verify) then the lawsuit from the copyright owner can still sink even robustly funded projects.

        The fact is, open source has much more liability than closed source software does. If copyrighted material ends up inside a private code base it&#x27;ll be nearly impossible for the owner to discover that and sue.

        1. 1dom · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; If an LLM reproduces copyrighted material (which is very hard to verify) then the lawsuit from the copyright owner can still sink even robustly funded projects.

          Do you have many examples of this actually happening that you could share?

          I really don&#x27;t see how this issue is going to be feasible for courtrooms to deal with in a world where big tech are bragging about large percentages of all their code being produced by LLMs.

          1. VBprogrammer · · focus · HN ↗
            In the 90s aircraft manufacturers basically stopped whole segments of the market (anything smaller than a piston twin) due to litigation. I wouldn&#x27;t be horribly surprised to find we spend the next 10 years fighting about this stuff in court.
            1. mschuster91 · · focus · HN ↗
              The lack of modern small airplane designs, especially engines, is the extensive and thus expensive certification process. Most of what is a &quot;new&quot; airplane usually is derived from a very old, grandfathered design.

              The only real innovation for small planes is in the electric flight area - when you gotta do a full certification anyway as you&#x27;re piloting an entirely new drivetrain, you can financially afford to be much more innovative on other parts of the design.

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