Fun, I can't get to it because I can't get past the "Making sure you're not a bot!" page. It's just stuck at "calculating...". I understand the desire to slow down AI bots, but . If all the gnome apps are now behind this, they just completely shut down a small-time contributor. I love to play with Gnome apps and help out with things here and there, but I'm not going to fight with this damn thing to do so.

My understanding is that is they don't really care if the AI bots got the data on gitlab, but the problem is that the bots are very aggressive and have been slowing down the gitlab instance too much. I definitely agree it isn't great, but I don't know what a better option would be. Also once it passes the page once it should save a cookie and you'll be good to go for a while.

And another one, not open source but in AI sphere: https://www.diabrowser.com/

Thanks for the heads-up! We weren’t aware of the GNOME Dia project. Since we focus on speech AI, we’ll make sure to clarify that distinction.

Ditto this! Dia diagram tool user here just noticing the name clash. Good luck with your Dia!! Assuming both can exist in harmony. :-)

> Assuming both can exist in harmony.

I'm sure they can... talk it over.

I'll show myself out.

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.

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.

Of course, how could they have known? Doing a basic web search before deciding on a name is so last year.

Maybe they only asked an LLM about it?