My understanding is that this really does hurt the dev, reduces visibility to new users, etc.

Yup. It’s a thing.

Here’s the background.

Nearby Glasses

(Play store, also on F-Droid via the IzzyOnDroid repo)

That’s the joke.

You’re saying an actual human called that thing both “pen & ink” and a “typewrite”?

… Also labeled the clearly working lamp as “power outage”

… And doesn’t understand how USB works

I don’t buy it. Even if Ben did real drawing in the past, he clearly isn’t now. Edit: Or as a reply pointed out, the signature could be fake too with Ben not involved.

Actual article:

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/ensuring-freedom-one-blob-at-a-time

Best case, it’s available for barter.

Would you be up for explaining it please?

The rules also state that comics have to be attributed. If doing so is an embarrassment then yeah, it shouldn’t be posted.

Oh, that’s good to hear.

If the transporter is actually moving matter from one place to another, instead of (destructively) recording a pattern then copying it, then how could there be enough original matter to create two Rikers?

Ok, then explain Thomas Riker

Fought hard, could not defeat them all.

C:\>_

Try this:

(I just opened the image in a separate browser)

Or maybe it was long before.

Ah, perhaps. Although my reading isn’t that it’s made worse - just not as originally assumed

Would it? To me it seems both are just observational humor of a common enough and mildly amusing occurrence.

IRL of course I don’t care who the cooks are as long as they can cook what’s on the menu, and at least some restaurant hiring managers seem to agree, so I think it’s not exactly rare for the cuisine and staff to mismatch. I say “think” because I don’t notice most of the time, so I don’t have a sense of frequency.

It’s also possible that people are getting tired of the Capitalism part of it and not the Rainbow - in other words they know it’s pandering and don’t like that.