The pervasiveness and virulence of people’s belief that closed-source software is unknowable may actually motivate me to write a blog post.
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Replying to @tqbf
I prefer open source too! But the posture of helplessness assumed by FOSS advocates is toxic, esp. for mass-market software.
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Replying to @tqbf
what exactly do you mean by "helplessness" in this context? I'm not parsing it
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Replying to @radix42
“I don’t have source code ergo impossible to know what this software does”.
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For most poorly-written FOSS, I find strace a lot more useful than the source for understanding what it does.
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Replying to @RichFelker @tqbf
the source can leave a lot of "how did this even ever work?" thoughts flying around your head sometimes, that's for sure
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I find the source is often spaghetti of over-engineered internal interfaces for a fundamentally linear/flat process.
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The nice thing about strace is that it completely flattens the program's external actions/side-effects.
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