alt Hacker Newsquiquetdl There’s no point in trying to challenge those who think that knowing how to use ChatGPT makes them programmers, and that using Google and social media makes them feel like Columbo. (If you had to Google who Columbo is, you’re probably one of them.) I’ve been a lawyer for 30 years and have spent the last 20 years leading an OSPO in an organization with 210 employees. I believe SCANOSS may have made a minor mistake with its automated reporting, which could potentially go against GitHub’s rules. While the goal of the 'experiment' is completely valid, the method may not be. However, under no circumstances does this justify filling a collaborative repository (with no relevant connection) with insults and excessive aggression.
> Quique Goñi: I’m joining this discussion because within my organization, we use the purl2cpe repository daily. To leave a comment, you need to create an account, as I just did. The account creation process is far too simple and lacks proper authentication measures, meaning anyone could easily impersonate someone else."
> justify filling a collaborative repository (with no relevant connection) with insults and excessive aggression.
It's SCANOSS's fork.
> which could potentially go against GitHub’s rules
Not potentially, it does.
> we use the purl2cpe repository daily
Great, but not this fork. This fork is from SCANOSS, and I chose a repo which hard cursing (albeit due a dependency) to make my point of their hypocrisy.
> challenge those who think that knowing how to use ChatGPT makes them programmers
You really ought to look at who has commented in that thread, from well known cryptographers to other business owners. Attacking the people, rather than discussing the topic at hand, won't get us anywhere. I have not once accused SCANOSS of being bad programmers, bad at their job, etc. because, frankly, they're probably not. It's, seemingly, a successful business with reasonable development procedures. It's just that it seems they're in desperate need of ethics and PR knowledge.
> meaning anyone could easily impersonate someone else.
Interesting, from another account made just now, to be the only other defending SCANOSS. I don't think anybody impersonated Quique, because unlike SCANOSS, nobody - that I've talked to at least - is coming from a place of malice. We simply want an apology and acknowledgment wrong was done.
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Honestly, this entire comment was confusing, and written in a style that makes me suspect of it's legitimacy, as ironic as that is.