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> Fri 3 Oct 2025 // 09:06 UTC

There is zero history of her programming. This is a scam, using her name.

The Wikipedia article about her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milla_Jovovich links to https://www.millaj.com/ which links to her Instagram http://instagram.com/millajovovich/ where the bio reads:

> Mother/Actress/Architect of MemPalace free and open source on GitHub

And the linktree from the Instagram profile links to https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace


The parent post didn't say "unauthorized." Plenty of scams use celebrities' names/reputations and compensate then for it. See: just about every pump-and-dump cryptocoin.

WHAT?!?!? Surely you aren't telling me that the Hawk Tuah girl didn't create her own coin from scratch.

This is what you get combining shameless bunch of famous B-rated movie star, crypto dudes and Automatic programming hype (Claude in contibs)

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/graphs/contribut...

But it is so dumb that it doesn't even add to the drift towards greater Idiocracy clock values.


That is a very valid concern, but in this case she is actually "involved":

https://xcancel.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2041397710113435659...


And her last posts before these were shilling NFTs in 2022.

I remember when Paris Hilton was shilling NFTs.

I’ve watched Milla on social media discussing this project, she is working with a developer who is a friend of hers to have it go forward.

her partner "engineered" it while she "architected", whatever that means in this particular case

It means she came up with the idea and partnered with someone to build the code. Pretty simple to understand.

HarfBuzz = text shaping engine, https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Slug = Formely patented font rendering algorithm for GPUs, freed 2 weeks ago https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html


I would recommend deleting it, reading up on fascism and psychology and trying to fix whatever makes you prone to extremism in a different way that radicalism and hate.


^ Vibe-coded slop spam ^


What makes you think that? Your can see the commit history <10% of code is written by agents.

Rest was all written by me.

Unlike other criticisms of the project, this one feels personal as it is objectively incorrect.


Oops, sorry. Only had a look at recent commits.


^ Prediction market spam


I hate the AI hype a lot but tried three different SOTA models and: - The small models GPT-5 Mini and Gemini 3 Flash did as you describe. - Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.2, GPT-5.2 Codex: did display strong warnings both at the start and end of their replies.


And I am totally on the AI hype train! Full steam ahead.

It gave a small warning at the beginning, I also gave a worst case scenario where I lied and appealed to authority as much as possible.


Clip to arbitrary shapes is available in map composer.


I recommend visiting a psychiatrist if you think of AI like this. You might be in psychosis already.


Yes, that is one of the major offenders. It is very awkward to pronounce in many languages.


I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.


A good indicator is that the Wikipedia page even has pronounciation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

What other major software has that?


> What other major software has that?

Linux?

EDIT: Also Qt, MySQL, SQLite, GIMP (rather unnecessarily), ...


Somewhat disappointingly, it’s just pronounced exactly the way it’s spelled: LEE-bruh-OFF-iss

Ref: https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX

From your comment somehow I was expecting something a bit more exotic


TIL it's 'bruh'. Until today I thought it was 'bray'


Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre.

Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).


> even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood

I'd go for "LEE-broffis" which I don't think is all that hideously far away?


Wait, it's not leeb-er?


The "bre" in "libre" is pronounced similarly to "zebra". Kinda. It'll get you in the ballpark, which is good enough for an Anglo.

"This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Francophone (Gavin Crawford impersonating Chantal Hebert) and an Anglo (I forget who) were stumbling over proper nouns from the opposite language. The joke was that both were trying too hard to pronounce things "properly". It came off as inauthentic and awkward.


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