deskthority

Honestly esr I hope you have to explain every single bit of your stupid plan. This is classic fucking 'I'm so smurt' shit, you bang on about wanting to get soarer declared dead, then suddenly it's 'well ACKSHULLY I never wanted to do that! I've only been posting about doing it for 10 pages! you're s...

https://ultrasonicmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/cleaning-keyboard-1.jpg Don't you think water boarding is going a bit far? Just a random thought that contributes nothing: Soarer shared his code under a username that was never concretely tied to a real name or address, so basically anyone ...

You know Soarer's probably long fucking dead from something like cancer and his body now full of worm or it ashed body would not care anyway about what happened to his code. He has no way to profit from it being probably dead and he never had any of his familly use the code to make the profit he co...

Just out of interest, I decided to check the relevant legislation for getting someone registered as presumed dead in the UK. (3) The court has jurisdiction to hear and determine an application under this section only if— (a) the missing person was domiciled in England and Wales on the day on which h...

so, clean-rooming?

Personally, my favourite breakfast is lawyers, preferably al dente.

Flamewar, or flambée?

Honestly, cleaning the PCB with isopropyl alcohol is really your first port of call. These old boards can be coated in some real funky old flux. A whole column or row not working implies there's probably something wrong around the controller.

How did the clean room version get made? Did they analyse Soarer’s hex file and document its behaviours? Or did they read Arakula’s source. One of those rooms is cleaner than the other. ;) But neither method is actually legal to open source without Soarer’s explicit permission. That’s the quandary ...

Easy_Spinach wrote: ↑

28 May 2021, 02:16

> argue over 10 pages trying to protect a copyright nobody cares about
> proceed to torrent another 20gb of intellectual property over night

100% bet this is going on

If the version on github is legit the version that was sent to you in confidence and not a cleanroom version, not cool. Not cleanroom anyway if you're looking at the reversed code yourself.

Easy_Spinach wrote: ↑

28 May 2021, 01:53

Might have found him: here

damn, you actually did it. props.

I know Arakuka’s work. He didn’t want it distributed. Is that someone else’s remake? (Trello looks real badly designed.) Arakula passed me a confidential keyboard controller reverse engineered off of Soarer's Converter. Because of the way he made it and unclear instructions on Soarer's last wishes,...

Password protected copies of Arakula’s reverse engineering project, distributed against his will. “Rad.” If all we cared about was getting our grubby hands on the code, this conversation (ahem :roll:) wouldn’t exist. Stolen code is no good to anyone. If you'd read the trello card involved, you'd un...

Well, I've just finished reading the whole 9 pages of this thread... WOW what a journey! Just adding more information to this thread hoping that it could help: https://trello.com/c/49xeEOPm/15-arakulas-reverse-engineered-soarers-converter Dude this is rad work. Glad someone is going down this path ...

A good faith effort has already been made. And documented? The documentation matters quite a lot here. Indeed, that's the entire point. I don't remember soarer ever putting his converter under any license. That means you can't redistribute it at all! Everything is copyrighted, and if no permission ...

Honestly, if you want to ban me over the way I've posted, ban me. I will happily accept if keyboardjoy or any moderator doesn't want me here anymore. I can accept if there are repercussions to my actions.

Or yeah. Open source it and if you get a c&d... cease and desist. it's not hard.

I'm aware that I have also crossed a line relentlessly trolling you, before anyone else pipes up with that, but I'm unrepentant. At least I'm not planning to fuck with a dead guy's family.

Meanwhile, I have checked the land registry for the address that webwit had, and it's not owned by Soarer. Well, that's progress. It raises the Bayesian weight on the theory that he's dead, which is unhappy but I was already assigning that a 70%+ probability, so not much has really changed. So if y...

You're saying "you think", which is simply not a convincing statement. You said you have a lawyer who was going to chime up in this thread if needed. Have they done so and identified themselves? No. And at this point I'd have a much more difficult time persuading the attorney to show up than I woul...

Meanwhile, I have checked the land registry for the address that webwit had, and it's not owned by Soarer. So if you'd decided to post it publicly you'd have doxed some family that had nothing to do with this mess. Good job. Maybe we can put this stupid thread to bed now? This seems like it has the ...

I use "his" in the classic English sense when an non-sex-specific third person pronoun is called for. Point of order here, but using him in that situation is improper English. The correct gender neutral third person pronoun is "they." Whoever told you him was gender neutral was mistaken. Singular "...

I think the answer to this whole debacle is quite obvious... If someone wants to continue expanding on soarers work decompile it and throw it on github. If soarer wants to suddenly come back from the grave to dispute his work being expanded upon then so be it and then we will also possibly know why...

If someone in the UK doesn't mind paying 3 GBP and promises me to keep the address private and not pass it on, you can register here and check the owner(s) of his last known address: https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/eservices/FindAProperty/view/QuickEnquiryInit.do The free info says there is n...

The downshouters here might want to think about what kind of incentives they're creating. When you recruit someone to apply specialist knowledge to solve a community problem, then greet the attempt with vicious personal attacks...it's not likely to go unnoticed in the future. Consider that, and ref...

Once again: there is an established way of doing this without legal liability, and that's to cleanroom the software. Surely easier than going to these lengths. Would you mind elaborating on that please?I mean I am not entirely sure what cleanrooming a software mean Someone with access to the decomp...

Once again: there is an established way of doing this without legal liability, and that's to cleanroom the software.

Surely easier than going to these lengths.

webwit wrote: ↑

27 May 2021, 17:09

Got his real name and last address when I sent him something. Searched for it. I'd say he values his privacy and would hate to see those details published on the Internet.

ding ding ding

I am once again in awe of the fact that you'd rather take this to court than just cleanrooming the converter you're so obsessed with.