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#11

General Discussion / Re: New Members

Last post by Geremia - May 29, 2026, 10:53:00 PM

It is gitignore aware

That's a useful feature. I'll have to use

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rg regularly.
I'm liking how fast it is.
Here's the repo: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
I see it's written in Rust. 👍 Even Linus Torvalds approves of Rust being used more now for the Linux kernel.

#12

General Discussion / Re: New Members

Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 27, 2026, 06:12:51 AM

Are there any differences beyond that?

It is gitignore aware, which is handy because I have a lot of manuals OCR'd and am actively testing different manuals against each other in terms of scan quality/text corruption. SIMD default is really nice too, non-ignored the dir I'm using is roughly 200 mb of .txts.

Now, when I push to a public repo it'll use grep equivalents of the ripgrep calls for functional equivalence, grep is more standard and I don't want to force others to make decisions about how to use their computer or have them install additional software.
For bapti[sz]m|bapti[sz]e|bapti[sz]at and variants, 3.4m lines, 168MB search size....

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rg      14,868    0.158s
grep    14,868    0.523s

#13

General Discussion / Re: Copyright?

Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 10:46:52 PM

I don't know if you saw that weird "YouCat" but its section on this could have been written by the RIAA.

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YouCat is terrible.

#14

General Discussion / "rg" vs. "grep -r"

Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 10:36:14 PM

rg grep more accessible to non tech-savvy people

Interesting. I've never used

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rg before. I simply do

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grep -r Are there any differences beyond that?

#15

General Discussion / Re: New Members

Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 08:42:07 PM

I am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruption

Is your source code for this online, such as on GitHub?

I will make it available soon, yes. I'm having difficulty right now with a system I'm developing with different "tiers" of corruption and different anticipated errors given the time period (there's quite a bit of variance here)... A couple of key works I will need physical access to rescan at some point. Concina in particular, in order to hit all possible scanning problems for necessity.. 

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rg -i 'nece(ss|ff|lT|IT|ls|lf)ita' sources/concina_*.txt I'm hoping some college students with access to original sources can help me out here.

The code is not very complex at the end of the day, I'm simply trying to make rg grep more accessible to non tech-savvy people... Catholics tend to either be very tuned in or not at all with this stuff. Thanks again for your fantastic website, it's been life-changing for me and my family. Be assured of my prayers.

#16

General Discussion / Re: Copyright?

Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 08:26:07 PM

new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data

But IP technically isn't property.

Stephan N. Kinsella's argument in Against Intellectual Property [is] that IP is not property because property rights only apply to scarce resources

Yes. I will need to see the Latin when it's released because I think this is colloquially being used: I don't like the term "property" being used here whatsoever because that's exactly how the "YouCat" conceives of "property" like this. I don't know if you saw that weird "YouCat" but its section on this could have been written by the RIAA.

The theft of intellectual property begins with copying other students' work in school, continues in the illegal taking of materials from the Internet, [...] and extends to business dealings in stolen concepts and ideas. Every acquisition of someone else's intellectual property demands the free consent and appropriate remuneration of the author or inventor.

This is downright evil, and this is the "logic" of where treating truth, ideas, etc as "property" ultimately leads you.

The syntax here requires precision and calling these things "property" is imprecise. I agree with you and have difficulty conceiving of anything other than a perishable good being "proper to" an individual. Bucceroni directly addresses this in the star analogy.

Without regard to the way the Vatican conceives of "property" I think Dr. K. should address the historical precedents for "piracy" in monastic publishing etc.

#17

General Discussion / IP ≠ property

Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 07:44:41 PM

new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data

But IP technically isn't property.

Stephan N. Kinsella's argument in Against Intellectual Property [is] that IP is not property because property rights only apply to scarce resources

#18

General Discussion / Re: New Members

Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 07:42:26 PM

I am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruption

Is your source code for this online, such as on GitHub?

#19

General Discussion / Re: New Members

Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 06:28:51 PM

I enjoy moral theology and love the Jesuit order. I've lurked here quite some time and finally have enough reasons to make an account. My other interests include studying the Bible, organic farming, GNU/Linux, and raising my family.

I am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruption (is familiar with corruptions of long s, other common errors  or even rarer ones in more corrupted volumes). It also looks for watermarks eg

VjOOQle

from the Google scans in Gury/Ballerini. I've been personally using this to find patterns in moral manuals faster for about 4 or 5 months, but of course it can be used in other latin contexts. It's possible to use this with Claude or other agentic tools to search for variations of a word/subject to locate a thesis faster/get machine translations but one of the issues with Latin is the language itself and how "loaded" the philosophical language and contexts of moral manuals/theology manuals are. Models do not and will never capture this. Anyway, since people here actually work in Latin I figured this would be a good place to get others with common text substitutions they grep for.

Along these lines I was wondering if anyone had a better scan of Azor's tome? My current one I'm having great difficulty OCR.

#20

General Discussion / Magnifica Humanitas on IP

Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 06:02:17 PM

...

Worth noting that Leo's latest encyclical seems to support Gennaro Bucceroni, SJ's position on this (see n.87x in his Theologia Moralis tome, not just the commutative justice section because this presents an entire intellectual ecosystem around ius auctoris)

Bucceroni, Theol. mor. I, n. 878

will you now distribute your book for free?

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. Furthermore, care for our common home and our responsibility toward the poor and future generations require that the use of the goods of creation and the new possibilities offered by technology be regulated in such a way as to respect the environment, avoid waste and prevent new forms of exploitation.

- [Magnifica Humanitas 67]

Or will this be "recognized and resisted"?