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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Open-source Memes

Posts tagged with Open-source

The MATLAB Subscription Crisis

Academia Research Tech Engineering Math
2 months ago 6.9K views 0 shares
The MATLAB Subscription Crisis
Nothing drives a researcher to political extremism faster than discovering their MATLAB trial expired mid-analysis. Suddenly you're staring at your life's work held hostage behind a $2,000 paywall, wondering if seizing the means of computation might actually be the rational response. The transition from "I just need to run one more simulation" to "We Need Communism" is approximately 0.3 seconds - roughly the time it takes MATLAB to display that soul-crushing license expiration message. Python users watching from afar with their free, open-source superiority complexes.

Steal What Is Stolen

Tech Engineering
3 months ago 9.6K views 0 shares
Steal What Is Stolen
The eternal dichotomy of creative professionals! Designers clutch their pearls at the mere suggestion someone had a similar idea, while programmers are basically running a communal code library with zero attribution. The open-source philosophy in programming is basically digital socialism: "Our code, comrade." Meanwhile, designers are still fighting turf wars over who first decided to put rounded corners on a rectangle. The irony is that both groups spend half their careers googling solutions that someone else already figured out. Remember kids: good programmers copy, great programmers paste from Stack Overflow.

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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

How I transformed my old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered Vision OCR server using Apple's native framework and an EcoFlow River 2 Pro. Running... Read article →

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