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Bruh You Used MIT

1 day ago 179.5K views 0 shares

The MIT License is basically the "do whatever you want with my code, I don't care" of open source licenses. It's one of the most permissive licenses out there—you can copy, modify, distribute, sell, and even use it in proprietary software. The only requirement? Keep the copyright notice. So when a dev slaps an MIT license on their repo and then gets mad that someone "stole" their project... buddy, you literally gave everyone permission to do exactly that. That's like leaving your front door wide open with a sign saying "help yourself" and then calling the cops when someone takes your TV. The Persian cat's dramatic pose perfectly captures the absurdity of complaining about something you explicitly allowed. Should've gone with GPL if you wanted that copyleft protection, my friend.

Guys, What's The Best Linux Distro To Install On My Pc?

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4 days ago 177.9K views 0 shares

Ask any Linux user what distro you should use and watch them immediately launch into a passionate defense of their own choice while politely nodding at yours. It's like asking a parent which kid is their favorite—they'll say "they're all great!" but you know damn well they have a preference. The truth? Everyone thinks their distro is objectively superior while simultaneously respecting your terrible decision to use something else. Ubuntu users think Arch users are masochists. Arch users think Ubuntu users can't read documentation. Gentoo users are still compiling and can't join the conversation yet. Pro tip: The best distro is whichever one you've already spent 6 hours customizing and are now too emotionally invested to switch from.

Clod Is Opensource This Is The Future

AI Security Git Programming

5 days ago 275.3K views 0 shares

Someone trained an AI model on a random person's social media posts and released it as "clod-7b-instruct" - a budget knockoff of Claude. The README is basically a confession: "it's vulgar, incomprehensible, possibly immoral and illegal" but also "it's my daughter and i love her." Then admits they have no clue how it works, vibed the whole thing into existence, and may have accidentally committed their password to the repo. The raw honesty is refreshing in a world of polished AI releases. No benchmarks, no safety alignment, just pure chaos trained on someone named Iris's internet presence. It's like watching someone duct-tape a jetpack to a shopping cart and calling it transportation infrastructure. 10/10 would not deploy to production but would absolutely clone the repo to see what horrors await.

This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

Linux Programming

5 days ago 238.6K views 1 shares

This Is Jehan Pages, The Top Developer Behind Gimp, A Free Open Source Photo Editor. Adobe Executives Hate Jehan. Because Of His Hard Work, Adobe Lost Millions Of Dollars

Behold the absolute MENACE to Adobe's subscription empire! Here stands Jehan Pages, the legendary developer who dared to make professional-grade photo editing accessible to mere mortals without requiring a monthly blood sacrifice to the Creative Cloud gods. While Adobe executives are out there charging $54.99/month for Photoshop, Jehan's over here maintaining GIMP like "what if people could just... edit photos... for FREE?" The audacity! The betrayal! The absolute CHAOS this man has unleashed upon Adobe's quarterly earnings reports! Sure, GIMP's UI might look like it time-traveled from 2003 and the learning curve is steeper than Mount Everest, but you know what? It costs exactly zero dollars and zero cents. That's the sound of Adobe's CFO crying into their expensive latte. Real talk: Open source heroes like Jehan are the reason we still have choices in software. Mad respect to everyone who contributes to FOSS projects while giant corporations are trying to subscription-ify literally everything we touch.

Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

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6 days ago 269.4K views 0 shares

Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

So Linus Torvalds just casually merged a branch called 'antigravity' where he used Google's AI to fix his visualization tool, and then—PLOT TWIST—had to manually undo everything the AI suggested because it was absolutely terrible. The man literally wrote "Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is." with the energy of someone who just spent three hours fixing what AI broke in three seconds. The irony is CHEF'S KISS: the creator of Linux and Git, arguably one of the most brilliant minds in open source, got bamboozled by an AI tool that was "generated with help from google, but of the normal kind" (translation: the AI was confidently wrong as usual). He ended up implementing a custom RectangleSelector because apparently AI thinks "builtin rectangle select" is a good solution when it absolutely is NOT. The title sarcastically suggests Linus doesn't know AI is useless, but honey, he CLEARLY knows. He just documented it for posterity in the most passive-aggressive commit message ever. Nothing says "AI is revolutionary" quite like manually rewriting everything it touched.

Linus Torvalds Repo

Linux Git Hardware Windows Programming

6 days ago 228.6K views 3 shares

Someone claiming to be a "computer programmer of 40 years" just stumbled onto GitHub, discovered Linus Torvalds, and wants Windows support with Nvidia drivers for... the Linux kernel. The "NT kernel" search, the "Good things in life are never free" quote, using an Nvidia card for their CPU—this reads like the most elaborate troll post ever written or someone who genuinely thinks GitHub is a Windows software download site. The beautiful irony? They're asking the creator of Linux—a guy who famously said "NVIDIA, f*** you" on stage—for Windows support on his AudioNoise repo. It's like walking into a vegan restaurant and demanding they add more bacon to their menu because you heard the chef was good at cooking. The username "computerexpert88" is just *chef's kiss*. Nothing screams expertise like demanding build instructions for a Windows executable from a Linux kernel maintainer's hobby project. Someone's colleagues are having a good laugh right now.

Would Not Wish This Hell On Anyone

Microsoft Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

7 days ago 233.9K views 1 shares

Someone tried to parse .docx files and discovered the Lovecraftian horror that is Microsoft's document format. Turns out "zipped XML" is like saying the ocean is "just water"—technically true but catastrophically misleading. The ECMA-376 spec is over 5,000 pages and still doesn't document everything Word actually does. Tables nested 15+ levels deep? Valid XML that crashes Word? Font substitution based on whatever's installed on your machine? It's like Microsoft asked "what if we made a format that's impossible to implement correctly?" and then spent 40 years committing to the bit. The solution? Scrape 100k+ real .docx files from Common Crawl to find all the cursed edge cases that exist in the wild. Because when the spec lies to you, the only truth is in production data. They even open-sourced the scraper, which is either incredibly generous or a cry for help. Fun fact: The .docx format has a "Compatibility Mode" that changes behavior based on which Word version created the file. Because nothing says "open standard" like version-specific rendering quirks baked into the format itself.

Ultimate Betrayal

Git Webdev Security Programming Frontend

7 days ago 152.9K views 0 shares

Someone just nuked an entire FAQ section from Firefox's codebase—specifically the one where they pinky-promised to never sell your personal data and protect you from advertisers. You know, that whole "That's a promise" bit that made Firefox the good guy in the browser wars. The diff shows -8 lines of pure idealism being deleted. No additions. Just... gone. Like deleting your principles from version control because, well, business is business. The irony is chef's kiss—removing the promise about protecting privacy in a commit that's now permanently documented in git history. Nothing says "we changed our minds about that whole privacy thing" quite like yeeting it from the source code. The real kicker? This is in the Firefox repo itself. The browser that built its entire brand on NOT being Chrome just casually deleting their privacy manifesto. At least they're honest about it... in the most passive-aggressive way possible.

O Git Hub Of The Lake What Is Your Wisdom

Git Webdev Programming

7 days ago 148.3K views 0 shares

O Git Hub Of The Lake What Is Your Wisdom

The GitHub Octocat has emerged from the depths to deliver the most painful truth in software development: your "original" idea is definitely sitting in some dusty repo somewhere. Plot twist? It exists in four different states of completion—two abandoned attempts, one elegant solution that somehow works, and one cursed implementation with zero documentation that probably summons demons at runtime. The broken heart emoji really drives home that special feeling when you discover your weekend project already exists with 50k stars and was archived in 2019.

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

Linux Iot Hardware

9 days ago 247.8K views 0 shares

Someone tries to dunk on Linux by saying it "never succeeded," and the comeback is absolutely nuclear. Linux literally runs on everything —from supercomputers and servers to Android phones, smart fridges, and yes, apparently the microcontroller in your mom's personal massager. The irony? Linux is probably the most successful OS kernel in human history by deployment count. It's running the internet, your router, your TV, and now... well, intimate devices. The "never succeeded" take aged like milk in the Sahara. Turns out when you're embedded in billions of devices worldwide, you've succeeded pretty hard.

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Git Webdev Programming StackOverflow

10 days ago 306.5K views 0 shares

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Designers will fight to the death over who thought of rounded corners first. Programmers? We've all copy-pasted from Stack Overflow so much that code ownership is basically a philosophical debate at this point. And GitHub users have evolved past shame entirely—stealing code isn't theft, it's "collaboration" and "open source contribution." Fork it, slap your name on the README, call it a day. The real power move is when someone forks your repo, makes zero changes, and somehow gets more stars than you.

How To Explain Github To Non Programmers

Git Webdev Programming

11 days ago 252.8K views 0 shares

How To Explain Github To Non Programmers

So someone finally cracked the code on explaining version control to your non-tech friends. Git is the underlying technology (the actual content management system), while GitHub is just the fancy platform where everyone hosts it. It's like saying "Kleenex created tissues" when tissues existed way before Kleenex slapped their brand on them. But honestly? The analogy works better than you'd think. Both platforms are hosting services for content that already exists elsewhere, both have... questionable content moderation at times, and both have comment sections that make you question humanity. Plus, they both have a "fork" feature, though one is significantly more family-friendly than the other. Next time someone asks what you do on GitHub, just tell them you're "collaborating on open-source projects" and watch their brain try to process that without the PornHub comparison.

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