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Journalists Having Bad Ideas About Software Development
Programming Git
23 hours ago 162.5K views 0 shares
Journalists Having Bad Ideas About Software Development
So a tech journalist just suggested that open source should "ban itself" in certain countries based on geopolitics. That's like suggesting gravity should stop working in specific time zones because of trade disputes. The entire point of open source is that the code is, well, open . It's publicly available. You can't "ban" something that's already distributed across millions of repositories, forks, and local machines worldwide. Even if you deleted every GitHub repo tomorrow, the code would still exist on countless hard drives, mirrors, and archive sites. Trying to geofence open source is like trying to un-ring a bell or put toothpaste back in the tube. The MIT license doesn't come with geographical restrictions for a reason. That's literally the opposite of how information distribution works on the internet. But hey, at least we got a solid Boromir meme out of someone's fundamental misunderstanding of software licensing and distribution.

Replace Github
Git Webdev Programming
1 day ago 132.8K views 0 shares
Replace Github
Someone just declared war on GitHub and the official GitHub account swooped in with the most passive-aggressive "please share the repo link bestie 👀" energy imaginable. It's giving "I dare you to actually build something better" vibes. The sheer confidence of GitHub basically saying "go ahead, we'll wait" while sitting on their throne of 100+ million repositories is CHEF'S KISS. They know nobody's replacing them anytime soon, and they're not even trying to hide it. The ratio of engagement on their reply? *Devastating*. GitHub really said "talk is cheap, show me the code" and the internet collectively lost it.

Finally Inner Peace
Git Webdev Programming
1 day ago 200.8K views 0 shares
Finally Inner Peace
You know that feeling when you discover a GitHub repo that looks like it'll solve all your problems, and then you check the commit history? Most of the time it's either "last updated 4 years ago" or the dreaded "initial commit" from 2019. But 5 hours ago? That's the developer equivalent of finding a warm pizza in an abandoned building—suspicious but absolutely delightful. It means the maintainer is not only alive, but actively working on it RIGHT NOW. No more praying to the open-source gods that your issue will get answered sometime before the heat death of the universe. No more forking a dead project and becoming the reluctant maintainer yourself. Just pure, unadulterated hope that your pull request might actually get merged. This is what serenity looks like in the chaotic hellscape of dependency management.

Open-Source Archaeology
StackOverflow Git Programming
1 day ago 210.3K views 0 shares
Open-Source Archaeology
Every developer's proudest moment: getting complimented on code you copy-pasted from Stack Overflow at 3 AM. The secret to writing "clean and beautiful" code? Find someone else who already solved your problem six years ago and ctrl+c, ctrl+v your way to glory. It's not plagiarism, it's called "leveraging the open-source community." The real skill isn't writing the code—it's knowing which GitHub repo to raid and having the confidence to accept credit for it with a straight face.

Bro You Used MIT
Git Webdev Programming
2 days ago 225.4K views 0 shares
Bro You Used MIT
The MIT license literally says "do whatever you want with this code, I don't care." It's the most permissive open-source license out there—you can use it, modify it, sell it, tattoo it on your forehead, whatever. So when a dev slaps MIT on their repo and then has a meltdown on Twitter because someone actually *used* their code, it's like putting up a "FREE PIZZA" sign and then crying when people eat the pizza. The cat's bewildered stance perfectly captures the rest of us watching this drama unfold, wondering if they've ever actually read the license they chose. Pro tip: if you don't want people using your code, maybe don't pick the license that's basically the digital equivalent of "take it, it's yours."

Bruh You Used MIT
Programming Webdev Git
4 days ago 193.5K views 0 shares
Bruh You Used MIT
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.

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Guys, What's The Best Linux Distro To Install On My Pc?
Linux
7 days ago 189.1K views 0 shares
Guys, What's The Best Linux Distro To Install On My Pc?
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
8 days ago 286.8K views 0 shares
Clod Is Opensource This Is The Future
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
8 days ago 332.8K views 7 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!
AI Git Programming Debugging
9 days ago 285.7K 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
9 days ago 244.6K views 3 shares
Linus Torvalds Repo
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
10 days ago 242.9K views 1 shares
Would Not Wish This Hell On Anyone
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.