Its not wrong though

Open source ≠ Source availiable

Example of non open source programs with source code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proprietary_source-available_software

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In this thread: Programmers disassembling the joke to try and figure out why it's funny.

Cute. It would be funnier if it was correct.

For people interested in the difference between decompiled machine code and source code I would recommend looking at the Mario 64 Decomp project. They are attempting to turn a Mario 64 rom into source code and then back into that same rom. It's really hard and they've been working on it for a long time. It's come a long way but still isn't done.

https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

No, it is wrong. Machine code is not source code.

Okay, boomer here, be gentle.

So back in the ‘70s I dabbled in programming (now called “coding”, I hear). I only did higher-level languages like Fortran, Cobol, IBM Basic, but a friend had a job (at age 13!) programming in assembler. Is assembler now called assembly, or are they different?

It just occurred to me that AI in the nearish future will probably/almost certainly be able to do this.

It's honestly remarkable how few people in the comments here seem to get the joke.

Never stop dissecting things, y'all.

IDA Pro (a disassembler) is closed source but came with a license that allowed disassembly and binary modification. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case.

Joke aside, that's kind of like claiming that any web frontend is open source because you can access the built, minified and often obfuscated source of it.

What about server site executed code?

I feel old watching this meme template

If you wanna skip a few inconvenient instructions in X86 assembly, throw a few No Operation instructions in the right places.

NOP = 0x90

OS - obfuscated source

I've wondered: Can you go deeper than assembly and code in straight binary, or does it even really matter because you'd be writing the assembly in binary anyway or what? In probably a less stupid way of putting it: Can you go deeper than assembly in terms of talking to the hardware and possibly just flip the transistors manually?

Even simpler: How do you one up someone who codes in assembly? Can you?

Source available

You can have the code of any software with a decompiler. Especially with Java and C# for example.

Yeah but which version of assembly

Open source code refers to the comments and the documentation.

All fun and games if you don't value your time.