strobe 5 days ago

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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freedomben 5 days ago

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.

SoKamil 5 days ago

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

toebee 5 days ago

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.

aclark 5 days ago

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

mrandish 5 days ago

> Assuming both can exist in harmony.

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

I'll show myself out.

Magma7404 5 days ago

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.

teddyh 5 days ago

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.

gapan 5 days ago

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

teddyh 4 days ago

Maybe they only asked an LLM about it?