It's so unusual a thing to do that it becomes clever for that reason. Maybe other things too—I haven't looked. But I'd say it passes the "interesting new phenomenon" test (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Small things can do that as easily as big ones, if not more.

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You should install it and then try reading your own grumpy comment again. See?