“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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  • before hearing about it

    while* hearing about it. The only introduction is a bulleted list of what the project is and isn’t that Liam copy–pasted from their docs. Nothing about any anticipation; nothing about how long it had been in the works; nothing about the authors; no link to a release blog or previous story discussing it in any way; nothing about finally being in a playable state/anything related to the dev cycle. Liam talked about it like it popped into existence (true) and they were just hearing about it for the first time (true).

    Combined with what I said above, it’s just basic media literacy that I’m reading about a dead-end throwaway project.

    it’s deeply cynical

    I gave it a shot by reading the article, which was more than it deserved.


  • Yeah, “as expected”. The project showed up out of nowhere five days ago and is clearly vibe-coded to fuck and back. The talk of how “oh, it accelerated development, but we checked everything, we swear” is obvious bullshit like it is with basically all of these dime-a-dozen, dead-end slop projects that are showing up everywhere.

    No, it would not “just as readily have been an entirely human passion project”, because those take months to years, and you therefore hear about them organically as they’re in development; they don’t show up out of the aether to get a few paragraphs’ mention on an obscure Linux blog. Even from a statistical point of view, those passion projects are vanishingly few compared to the slop projects.




  • the fuck is this?

    Proof positive that only a tiny minority of people on Lemmy bother checking a post past the headline when it comes to politics/news.

    I’ve seen a link to BBC News before where 50 people upvoted it (zero downvotes except mine), except the entire time, it was an invalid URL and went to a 404. No comments except mine, which was calling this out and asking OP to fix the URL (they never did; comment was upvoted 1:0).

    This post isn’t relevant to this community at all, is posted by a 3-year-old account with essentially just this post, and breaks literally every listed rule of this comm.