...Gets more downloads than the thing(s) people already had downloaded. I wonder why that would be. How could a brand new app have more downloads in a short timeframe than an app that has been out for years?

The secrets of the universe are so confusing..,

I heard you like Copilot, so I put Copilot and Copilot in your Copilot, so you can slop while you slop.

The number of people questioning the relevance of Fark on Slashdot, as if Slashdot has been relevant in the last decade.

Slashdot USED to do SOME original journalism, long long ago. Now, it's nothing more than a very low-volume link aggregator itself, with occasional effort put into some posts here and there.

So he waited until he could delegate the task to an LLM, instead of doing ANY work on his own from the look of things.

That's an amazing degree of laziness.

Boo hoo hoo.

That's what they're supposed to be doing. The people running them may not know that, but... This is what they signed up for.

Duplicate question, answered in this post that's written in PHP5 and had an SQL injection vulnerability.

Yep, that's definitely why it's the #2 app (now #1 in the US actually) for the iPhone, for use with XCode.

100%.

...archives. It's not even the printer itself that would do this, but the print server, print queue on the local box, and probably third party logging/archival tools.

To be surprised by this is to be surprised by the idea that video cameras record video to a central server and might also have some local storage.

Skills atrophy with lack of use. They were taught how to read an analog clock when they were ~7 years old, and then never used the skill again.

It's hard to expect a child to retain skills they haven't used. I learned how to use a sewing machine in Home Economics back in 1994 or so. Damned if I could get one started today.

Also notice that most of the states into this are police-friendly states already.

It's weird seeing blue states allowing this, and red states getting onboard with technology when they also want voter ID and all that stuff.

I don't understand why this article exists. Why a "long term reader" of Slashdot would submit it. Why Slashdot published it. Why I clicked it.

Did this guy really just discover that "merch" exists, and has existed for decades as a fundraising method for projects?

That's why it will fail. It's a Linux guy's side project. It'll never be complete, and it will only ever solve the needs of the guy building it. Just like so many other "You know what the world REALLY needs? Yet another desktop environment!"-inspired projects.

Coulda just contributed to the wheels that already exist, instead of making another one.

... environments, so we made yet another one instead of contributing to Open Source in a meaningful way."

They didn't control the DE, so they made their own they could control. Delightful.

Pretty much anyone that's been awake since COVID's peak.