Tesseract Memes

Two developers walk into a bar, both complaining about Tesseract. One's mad because it's injecting malware and DDoSing servers (which, uh, seems like a pretty solid reason to hate something), while the other guy is over here having an existential crisis because it requires JavaScript. The priorities here are absolutely unhinged. It's like saying "I hate this serial killer because he has bad fashion sense" while someone else is screaming "HE'S LITERALLY MURDERING PEOPLE." The security nightmare versus the mild inconvenience of enabling JS in your browser is such a hilariously disproportionate comparison that it perfectly captures how developers can get weirdly obsessed with their pet peeves while ignoring actual catastrophic issues. The "We Are Not The Same" format nails the disconnect between legitimate security concerns and the JavaScript-hating purist who'd rather watch the world burn than enable a scripting language. Brother, your servers are being DDoS'd. Maybe reconsider your priorities.

Two completely valid reasons to despise the same framework, yet somehow you're the unreasonable one for suggesting literally any alternative at the standup. The privacy advocate hates Tesseract because it phones home to Google. The backend dev hates it because they have to npm install 47 packages just to OCR a receipt. Both are correct. Both are suffering. Neither will win the argument with the PM who already put it in the sprint. Fun fact: Tesseract was originally developed by HP in the 1980s and later open-sourced. Google picked it up in 2006, which is when the trust issues began.