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strobe ◴[] No.43754236[source]
just in case, another opensource project using same name https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia

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Magma7404 ◴[] No.43754991[source]
I know it's a bit ridiculous to see that as some kind of conspiracy, but I have seen a very long list of AI-related projects that got the same name as a famous open-source project, as if they wanted to hijack the popularity of those projects, and Dia is yet another example. It was relatively famous a few years ago and you cannot have forgotten it if you used Linux for more than a few weeks. It's almost done on purpose.
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teddyh ◴[] No.43755121[source]
The generous interpretation is that the AI hype people just didn’t know about those other projects, i.e. that they are neither open source developers, nor users.
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gapan ◴[] No.43756075[source]
Of course, how could they have known? Doing a basic web search before deciding on a name is so last year.
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1. teddyh ◴[] No.43764078{3}[source]
Maybe they only asked an LLM about it?