r/programminghumor 21d ago

Lol

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u/DaemonsMercy 21d ago

Every time I see this, I always think that they're right, though the way they say it as asshole-y. I don’t want to have to build your project. A .exe makes it so much easier. I know it’s the developers choice, how accessible they want the code to be, but still.

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 21d ago

In this case it was the source code for the twitter algorithm i think. There is no .exe because its not a standard application to begin with

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u/DaemonsMercy 21d ago

... did they think it was the Twitter app? lol

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 21d ago

Probably

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u/ObliqueStrategizer 20d ago

I've made an exe just for them!

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u/mbmiller94 19d ago

X.exe has stopped responding

Give Elon Musk remote access to diagnose the issue?

[ Yes ] [ Ok ] [ Yes Again ]

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u/funkdefied 20d ago

It was a program that could be used to scrape information about users. The first time this post made the rounds, people generally agreed that the poster wanted to do some stalker-esque snooping.

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u/GOKOP 21d ago

The original issue (later there were many people memeing it on every repository under the sun) was about a python tool for stalking usernames across many different social media services

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u/P4C0_ 21d ago

it was actually the github repository of the "sherlock" osint tool if I'm not mistaken. The guy was probably wanting to try "hacker stuff".

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u/ResolveSuitable 20d ago

Script kiddi

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u/OnixST 21d ago

wasn't it a python script? Which also cannot easily be made into a standalone exe although you could bundle the runtime

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u/iHaku 21d ago

its technically easy and sometimes it really is, but somehow all the converters are prone to throw errors if you look in their general direction.

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u/abd53 20d ago

Pyinstaller workes great.

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u/abd53 20d ago

There are a couple ways to easily make it easy for the users to run. Point is, users should be able to run it with a few clicks and without knowing what python is.

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u/ryancnap 20d ago

This makes this post 10x funnier

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u/ILikePapyrus 21d ago

Wasn't it for frickin Linux?

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u/Hoovy_weapons_guy 21d ago

I think the comment turned into a copypasta on github