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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. littlecranky67 · · focus · HN ↗
        Agree. Especially since even a tainted GPU driver (tainted as in, used former Apple Engineer knowledge) is usefull as we just throw another LLM onto it and tell it &quot;rewrite in rust&quot; and get an untainted version of it (at least that is the current judicial state, and the bigtech argues in this direction).
        1. mitxela · · focus · HN ↗
          An AI doesn&#x27;t magically add copyright but it also doesn&#x27;t magically remove copyright except via diffusion of training data. It does not remove copyright from its input. Malus was a parody. If you machine-translate something from one language to another, copyright is retained no matter how sophisticated the translator is.
          1. xyzsparetimexyz · · focus · HN ↗
            How is that any different from a clean room?
            1. preisschild · · focus · HN ↗
              With clean room you just have access to the api specifications, not the internals.
              1. xyzsparetimexyz · · focus · HN ↗
                One llm writes the api spec, another writes the api from the spec. No shared context. Easy.
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