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   Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:15:03 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

   don’t want to give this too much attention, has anyone seen this?

   a whole suit of shamelessly generated #gnome slop apps. the music app is an obvious copy of Amberol!

   https://gnomestarterpack.com/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:14:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Vadim Rutkovsky

     @vadim @hbons Did you see that they’re vibe coded?

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     Vadim Rutkovsky (vadim@m.vrutkovs.eu)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:14:49 JST Vadim Rutkovsky

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     @hbons I used to work on GNOME Music and my first draft was an obvious copy of existing apps. This is how most people learn. We don't know if it's the case or what we'll become of it just yet - maybe some benefit of doubt in these trying times?

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     Hylke Bons 🥜 (hbons@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:14:50 JST Hylke Bons 🥜

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     • Vadim Rutkovsky

     @vadim are you kidding?

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     Vadim Rutkovsky (vadim@m.vrutkovs.eu)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:15:02 JST Vadim Rutkovsky

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     @hbons wasn't that GNOME concerned about the lack of newcomers? Are we now shaming any attempts to get started?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:24:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Vadim Rutkovsky

     @vadim @hbons Maybe because people have better things to do than become techbro whisperers?

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     Vadim Rutkovsky (vadim@m.vrutkovs.eu)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 06:25:00 JST Vadim Rutkovsky

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @hbons yes. I'm also aware that he did Bitcoin and token stuff previously. He is mad as a hatter, especially the idea of "democratizing" development by instructing an agent in the issues.

     And yet I don't understand why people get their pitchforks out instead of reaching out and providing help (assuming anybody got time for that)