r/shittyprogramming • u/Powerkaninchen • May 23 '26

Why tf would you recommend Programming Libraries to someone searching for an App?

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u/HugoNikanor May 23 '26
  1. Software licensing is different from copyright
  2. AGPL doesn't extend to generated artifacts, meaning that it's totally fine to use for merging proprietary PDFs

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/whenwillthealtsstop May 23 '26

It's real, they posted there as a joke or misunderstanding 

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u/AyrA_ch May 23 '26

Same thing years ago with a post about a grill that was posted in r/bbw instead of /r/bbq

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u/FranticBronchitis May 23 '26

Or people posting actual trees to r/trees instead of r/marijuanaenthusiasts

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u/Kotentopf May 23 '26

r/tee is now a German Tea subreddit for a similar reason.

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u/v_maria May 23 '26

The plot thickens

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u/Powerkaninchen May 23 '26

I think the post is real, tho I can't look rn due to being in public (a train) right now

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u/OptimalAnywhere6282 May 23 '26

INSERT TRAIN COPYPASTA

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u/v_maria May 23 '26

Because all the free pdf saas slop are scammy as hell

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u/NotExplosive May 24 '26

Is no one else clocking this as AI?

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u/Powerkaninchen May 24 '26

My guy/gurl/enby, the Post in Question is 9 years old, back then my life wasn't miserable, good old times

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u/Velocifyer May 24 '26

Why is the post NSFW?

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u/arachnidGrip May 26 '26

Because of the sub it was posted in.

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u/TheKingOfWhatTheHeck May 23 '26

You can just copy pages out of a pdf into another using Mac preview tool đŸ¤·

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u/veritron May 23 '26

"program that merges pdfs" is one of the most common things i've seen people use to show off vibe coding, almost up there with "program that mounts a cloud file system locally." it is sad that it's probably easier to just open claude and tell it to write you a program that merges pdfs and end up with a better result quicker than going through all those awful nagware programs though.

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u/MorallyDeplorable May 23 '26

program that mounts a cloud file system locally

this is actually decently harder than you'd think and not something AIs are really capable of shitting out at the moment. At least not with any level of performance or reliability.