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I was excited for a new Helium browser release and it just turns out that people these days don’t even do a single google search before using a name that is already taken.

https://slashlos.github.io/Helium/



Couldn't try to (together with Theo / t3) bully the Homebrew developers into a forced takeover of a package [1] if it were a conflict-free name.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/pull/229061


The cask has not been majorly updated in almost 10 years years and is used to connect to a mobile app that hasn't been on the Play Store for almost 5 years, while easily underneath the minimum threshold of downloads for being removed. What's wrong with asking to expedite the removal process, considering the process is detailed in the guidelines?


> What's wrong with asking to expedite the removal process, considering the process is detailed in the guidelines?

Asking is one thing, the other thing is not accepting the decision of a maintainer on a topic that is at the maintainers discretion and instead taking it to social media [1] [2] for it to be brigaded.

Addendum: It additionally appears that this was filed before the browser was even launched, if the Wayback Machine and their social media posts are anything to go by.

[1] https://x.com/uwukko/status/1970161297783238905 [2] https://x.com/theo/status/1970266199469810127


There are, unfortunately, only 118 different element names to choose from. Few of which end with -ium.


Wow, that's a real fuckup.


No commits on that project for 5 years, so what are you talking about?


Also, superseded by He3 https://slashlos.github.io/He3/




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