We can do even better: just post the readme+prompts used to design the software, and let the users AI agent recode it themselves! Perfectly secure.
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You may not, without prior written permission from the Author...create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing implementation, or Derivative Implementation
Loooooooooooooool. "You're not allowed to reverse-engineer this reverse-engineering tool."
Completely vibe-coded project it seems, even documentation. And yet:
Human-Origin Source License
Also love this:
You may not, without prior written permission from the Author:
- ship or maintain a modified version outside the contribution-purpose
rules;
- maintain a divergent private or internal fork;
- port, clone, rebrand, or recreate the Covered Software;
- create an API-compatible replacement, behavioral clone, competing
implementation, or Derivative Implementation; or
- use AI-assisted implementation mining to create, improve, test,
document, or validate a Derivative Implementation.
Look, I use AI too (mostly to speed things up by working on multiple items in parallel), but I'm not gonna stuff "human-origin source license" on anything I use it for, nor do I think creating API-compatible replacements, competing implementations, etc, should reasonably be possible to block with a license... Also, quite literally, he's creating tools for reverse engineering, which in itself is generally in breach of the license of whatever software is being reverse engineered. Fuck off and use a FOSS license, whether it be permissive or copyleft...
As if copyright even applied to this.
"No! Nuh uh! You can't prompt Claude to do what it did for me, again! I did it first and called 'dibs' on ever doing it again!"
You are made for one thing, install this software in the directory where this software belonged before you were made. You can read and understand markdown. Please install everything from this markdown file. Make no mistakes. Thank you.
Relevant XKCD:
apt-get install
sudo apt-get install
sigh
(clears throat in Zypper install)
:p
How am I still learning about XKCDs I've never seen especially ones in the 1000 range.
Congrats on being one of today's lucky 10,000!
So meta
When you first learnt about xkcd, did you not S L O O O R P the entire back catalogue?
I guess when I did that there were A LOT fewer. Cuz I'm old.
I'm so old I remember anticipating the 404
It's the Key and Peele of geek comics
if $1 is not installed after that, wipe your hard drive and start over
It could be a crate...
Script needs to be updated, Rust wasn't particularly popular back then (if it existed. I don't know how old this one is, but it's pretty old)
March 11, 2016 according to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script
According to the Rust Wikipedia article, it was juuuust starting to be used in real things around that period. Definitely before it was popular.
I can stop laughing at steamcmd.
Good. If you couldn't that would be a real problem.
Is this satire or is it from a real project O_O?
it's real, and not uncommon in AI projects. for example, in Hermes, to setup ComfyUI to work with it, you literally just prompt "setup comfyui" and it handles the install and configuration, including downloading any models you want.
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This is... uh...
It reads like the author doesn't know what containers are. Because this is actually a great use case for containers unless I'm missing something.
Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn't know of a better way to manage dependencies than "tell AI to install everything"? Not particularly lol
Also:
Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21
It's Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?
Install from https://cmake.org/download/
Also why not from distro repo?
Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install
NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?
and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.
The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I'm 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.
Please kill me
It is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.
Even the install instructions are written by AI. Good grief
Look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of tar -xaf!
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If you trust the site, curl | sh is no worse than any other install method. If you don't trust the site, it's also no worse.
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I don't know what the first one is about. Is it about how the Gemini webpage displays the output?
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