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The disclaimer he put up on the website is comical. "In coordination with [original author], I will be _evolving the brand_ to …"

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I honestly chuckled reading this “in coordination” comment.

Imagine being slapped across the face, and instead of saying you were slapped, you say…”in coordination with the back of their left hand”.

This entire thread actually makes me so angry for the N++ team. He was being so kind in his wording and was clearly being taken advantage of.

“I’m in NYC you have my WhatsApp” wtf does that even mean…you eat chopped cheese and have a cell phone?

A charitable interpretation is that the author is very young, by my estimate of how they write and their confusion of how accountability works it’s probably a middle-schooled kid first dipping their toes into software.

> it’s probably a middle-schooled kid first dipping their toes into software.

They've got a fake LinkedIn profile (that's 9 years old) if that's the case showing professional experience, and are using someone else's image on it and their GitHub profile and personal site.

https://aletik.me/

More likely, the guy is just a clown.

The GH contributions heatmap on the about page that's entirely blank before April is either peak performance art in the agentic world, or he graduated top of class from clown school.

The way they’re acting is par for how a lot of adults view the world. Disregarding intellectual property rights is some people’s entire personality on the internet. Piracy and ignoring IP law have been glorified for years as being an anti-corporate rebellion, but the anti-corporate message has been lost by many who believe that IP rights and trademark shouldn’t exist at all. Even when the targets are anything but corporate.

Smells like AI slop past its expiration date, to be honest.

Maybe this is some weird attempt to see if malicious takeover with bots is possible

Given the way the guy who "ported" Notepad++ to macOS is behaving, it's hard to think of any actual altruistic reasons to do any of this. If Don Ho wanted to port Notepad++ to macOS with LLMs, he could have just as easily done it himself and arguably achieved a superior result.

This whole endeavour on aletik's part seems like vanity at best and probably just a malware vector down the line regardless.

> malware vector down the line

My concern is the ones that didn't get caught and are waiting to pull a Jia Tan.

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