Arthur BesseMar 5

"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite

https://lemmy.ml/post/44059976

"No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967 [https://lemmy.ml/post/44059967] > for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pilgrim], he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011. > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527 [https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/968527] > > > HN comments [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259177]

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So no one is going to say what chardet is, huh.
Mar 6 at 11:12pmWeb
Show threadArthur BesseMar 7

It’s a library for detecting which character encoding a string is encoded with.

Here are the docs for the vibe-coded rewrite, and here is the version before it.

The new vibe-coded version also adds language detection; it isn’t clear to me why the current version of the readme shows it classifying the string “It’s a lovely day — let’s grab coffee.” as Spanish with 99% confidence, without any comment in the docs about that being a misclassification, but I guess that if the LLM-authored program says it is then that must be one of those phrases that looks the same in Spanish as in English 👀

Character encoding - Wikipedia