Feels vibe coded. Regardless, what's the intent / purpose of it?
Comment feels vibe coded. What's the purpose, intent?
Machine language generated by compilers is compiler slop.
Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment
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#12At the moment there's a [dead] subling comment by the project author explaining what it's about. Because the comment is dead I can't reply to it asking further questions unfortunately.
The project was apparently designed and created on a phone.
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#13Feels vibe coded. Regardless, what's the intent / purpose of it?
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#14Feels vibe coded. Regardless, what's the intent / purpose of it?
Serious question, how does one determine vibe coded or not?
Only a human can see the disproportionality between the amount of work and the point of it. I, a human, tried it and thought: why does this exist? It's providing nothing. For example, there's a clock "app": but why and how? No human would consider the clock inside of this to be convenient.
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#16Feels vibe coded. Regardless, what's the intent / purpose of it?
Serious question, how does one determine vibe coded or not?
The blue-purple gradient alone is a dead giveaway[0].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_791Y-vs4 (The AI Purple Problem)
Re: Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment
#17What is the point of this? It requires a huge browser to ... show weather and a calculator, which every single device with a web browser can already do 1000x faster and with 1000x less RAM?
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#18When the program first boots there is a license click-through:
> Notice
> This page is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3).
> [ ] I have read and accept the license
I am not a lawyer, but this seems wrong or at least misleading. The GPLv3 isn't a license agreement or a contract (as I understand it, though it may still fall under contract law), it's a copyright license. The GPLv3 doesn't have any restrictions to "agree" to, it merely grants the recipient the right to redistribute said software under the terms provided in the license. Thus, asking the user to "accept" the license seems odd.
Nothing wrong with informing the user that the software is free software, but I think you can safely do away with one of those checkboxes.
Re: Show HN: Gnokestation Is an Ultra Lightweight Web Desktop Environment
#19At the moment there's a [dead] subling comment by the project author explaining what it's about. Because the comment is dead I can't reply to it asking further questions unfortunately. The project was apparently designed and created on a phone.
I vouched for it and encouraged others to do the same. It doesn't appear to have been flagged and a provides a detailed rationale for the project, even though I share the doubts about the overall utility.
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#20Feels vibe coded. Regardless, what's the intent / purpose of it?
Train LLMs more… this is AI slop. I hope the OP goes and looks as others like Win95 desktop or The Classic Mac project to get a sense of what the purpose is. This. Has no purpose other than to create a desktop look alike for an os that doesn’t exist and so there’s no rules.
It’s fine if you want to create something like that. It’s not very good UX though.