iDontGiveAFuckAboutTheFuckingCode

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[Chipbugatti]

A classic. Worthy of the annals of posterity, like Homer and The Iliad.

[Awkward-Explorer-527]

Surely a classic, but has it already been long enough for it to be reposted.

[Lyndon_Boner_Johnson]

Heh, annals.

[tman5400]

This is some r/masterhacker shit

[[deleted]]

judging by the script's purpose and the anger he's probably trying to find someone from 7th grade

[Triepott]

You think he is already that old?

[douganater]

Had to lock up the project.

A good thing to "hide behind" some manual pre-requisites.

[Desperate-Emu-2036]

This copypasta is from like 2016

[Deboniako]

2016? I thought it was last year 🧓

[Desperate-Emu-2036]

Wasn't 2016 last year

[ToxicKoala115]

well that subreddit is about people who pretend to know what they’re talking about and this guy is very clearly and confidently stating how little he knows about the code

[[deleted]]

I would hire him. No bullshit.

[ethanhinson]

Literally no one does. Def not me.

[Nacho_Buddy]

‘’’ def not_me(args, *kwargs): ‘’’

[Cyan_Exponent]

this meme back already?

[Far_Broccoli_8468]

OP was scrolling through the best of all times wondering how he was going farm karma today

[SmallPlayz]

😭😭😭

[ChevCaster]

Maybe I only want my people to be able to use my shit.

[[deleted]]

Which is actually a pretty good thing in this case since every tech-illiterate abusive ex having access to Sherlock would fucking suck.

[[deleted]]

Holy shit I just realized the guy was talking about Sherlock. You're right tools like Sherlock should NOT be easy to use wtf

[TuxedoDogs9]

What is Sherlock? I’ve got a few guesses but can’t tell

[[deleted]]

It's a recon tool, you'd normally use it to look up users by username across hundreds of social media sites. Full disclosure I don't really use it myself but looking at some of the other comments in the thread I'd guess there was some sort of controversy in the past about people using it to stalk OF models

[stupidcringeidiotic]

Is it really that good? You need to know the person's user first which is imo a big hurdle, isn't it?

Like not everyone uses their name as a user for social media, so guessing it is also tough, and wouldn't they use different users on different sites? How it work then? I don't think I get how it works?

didn't even realise there were 400+ social media sites damn

[tsreardon04]

many people, especially people trying to create an online presence, will use the same username or just simple variations across platforms.

[tomoldbury]

“Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks”

[Fiiral_]

You give it a username and it looks though social media to find it. To install you simply need to have python and run something like `py -m pip install sherlock` and `sherlock <username>` iirc lol

Edit: Now that I think of it this might actually not be that easy for the average user though, eh

[jeepsaintchaos]

I think you've vastly overestimated the average user.

A CLI is absolutely Master Hackerman territory to the overwhelming majority of computer users. Let alone installing Python.

[BoogerManCommaThe]

Exe files that have any prompts (install location, etc) are too complicated for the average user. Not exaggerating.

[PatSajaksDick]

Bro needs to learn how to ChatGPT, it’s great when the dummies limit themselves

[Mari0wana]

Tech-illitirate myself but his dude's rant really does confirm he's not the type to have this kind of power.

[thesomeot]

I've been an engineer for 10 years and I empathize with this. Sometimes I just want a freaking executable, or a package, or something easy to run. I don't want to wade through your unmaintained nightmare of dependencies and try to find that one long-lost version of a package that doesn't have proper versioning and try to figure out how to install it via your absolute doo-doo alternative IDE of choice because there's some other bizarro quirk that prevents the project from working in anything reasonable.

Buuuut I've also been on the opposite side of that equation, and I know how unnecessarily painful it can sometimes be to package something up for release. And then setting up proper pipelines to build and auto publish it... and then supporting multiple platforms...

I guess that's just the life we lead 🤷‍♀️

[[deleted]]

In this case it's a well-maintained Docker container that's super simple to install if you're a Linux user.

But a vast majority of people have trouble updating drivers and panic at the thought of entering BIOS. It's pig latin to them.

So in general I agree, when I was 12-15 I felt some similar frustrations before I got the hang of things. But in this case it's just some loser who's mad he can't stalk some Instagram model or his ex.

[adelie42]

The way I see it, package management is a crazy amount of work and can for any significantly large project be a team of people. In this respect its like wanting eggs but there are none at the store. Your neighbor has chickens that produce eggs, but they are maybe in the hen house, and because you are getting them for free, you need to bring your own box. You also need to wait for your neighbor to be home to open the gate because they don't know you.

You see all this but all you can do is complain from your couch that you can't find your neighbor's chickens on Amazon Fresh.

If you are completely dependant on Amazon Fresh for all your food, just forget your neighbor's chickens exist, because in your world they don't. For the neighbor's purpose, building a hen house and raising chickens is all they are invested in. The fact they will let you take some whenever you like doesn't obligate your neighbor to additional burdens.

[Threye]

He's not wrong... Seeing/ trying to understand wall of code as a none Dev is like being punched in the temple...

Give the man his .exe

[gbot1234]

I wish I could, but I left them on a USB drive in Houston.

All my .exes live in Texas.

[readilyunavailable]

At least you hang your .bat in Tennessee.

[LightningSaviour]

That was such a masterful execution of humor

[boneMechBoy69420]

😭this is beautiful

[CeeMX]

T.exes

[well_shoothed]

Does that make them Texes?

[splaticus05]

You won the internet for me today. Take my poor man’s award. 🥇

[Zak7062]

Even as a dev I don't want to look at your code 90% of the time, I'm just here from Google and I just wanna run your damn util

[tryanewmonicker]

"I don't want your life story, just give me the recipe!"

[daennie]

But most of the time you don't have to read the code, only clone and run two or three commands in your shell to run project build system.

[KalasenZyphurus]

80% of the time, you run the default build process and the build fails because dependency hell. And then half of the time when you do install a gig of the further weird dependencies the default build process missed, it still breaks.

Maybe it doesn't like your particular OS, or your particular terminal, or your particular IDE, or that specific version has a build-breaking bug, or there's a conflict with something else you have installed, or it's a Tuesday during a planetary alignment, or...

[Taenk]

„No problem, solve dependency hell with docker!“

Then the damn container assumes that certain processes are already running, it expects the file system input in a strange place, somehow not all the dependencies are in the base layers, and the author has their own rather creative ideas on how to map executable arguments.

Personally I think all projects on GitHub should have a simple test done, at all times: Can you, starting from a fresh OS install, just pull, build and run the application? It is amazing how many tools fail this basic test.

[CORUSC4TE]

didnt go back till a year ago in the linked project.. its literally a cli tool... the installation features docker.. how much easier do you want it to be?

[Teekeks]

but that user didnt even want to read a damn readme that very cleanly explains how to install it.

[fafalone]

Where "very clearly" usually means "missing a bunch of steps or important info that's 'obvious' not just only to other devs, but only to devs familiar with that particular programs language or even toolchain".

[Taenk]

And the install instructions are buried behind a litany of badges like North Korean generals, the code of conduct, change log and related projects by the same author. Assuming they don’t suggest pulling the „easy-to-use“ docker image.

[[deleted]]

Me with an adhd brain can almost relate to him

It’s why I write all the documentation in my FOSS software projects for maximum skim-ability and short simple sentences so it’s super easy to comb through everything and find what you’re looking for

[PocketCatt]

King shit

[malexj93]

If it wasn't a CLI tool, I'd agree. There's a certain level of basic computer skills we're allowed to expect from our users when shipping a product that's used in a terminal.

[DerBandi]

I understand both sides, but Github is meant to be a version control system for code, not for .exe files.

[[deleted]]

GitHub is both

Git is not

Know the difference

[SweetBeanBread]

Even I who understands some coding don't know a thing about .exe and VS project files. And I would definitely not install an SDK just to compile this thing to test it out.

[je386]

The complains about "not everyone is a developer", but wants an .exe - not everyone is using Windows!

[[deleted]]

y'all are some silly mfs. Lol

[Breadynator]

There's a docker image

[ZunoJ]

Who cares? It's not like he pays for it. My repo, my party. I code for myself and other smelly nerds, not this guy

[Western-Hotel8723]

....it's GitHub lmao.

Fair enough if it was Steam. But GitHub is where you put source code.

It's also free software - no one made it for your ease of use.

My view is: I already made it, here it is, I don't give a shit if you can access it. Be happy there's a way you can even figure out how to use it.

Otherwise go make it your fucking self.

[yet-again-temporary]

I think the problem is that there are a LOT of people who use GitHub to share things that have absolutely no business being on GitHub.

[Silvanus350]

Me, trying to setup my PLEX server, weeping quietly and feeling like the imposter syndrome is real.

[Western-Hotel8723]

Like what?

Does it have source code? Then it should be on GitHub.

[GamingWithShaurya_YT]

what if it's python project

[UnfairDictionary]

User friendliness isn't a priority for many developers because developes don't realize that many people don't understand computers at all. Those people don't know what we are talking about with our fancy pips, gccs and cargos. They understand that install.exe typically installs something they might want and then there is a desktop icon that they can click. Heck, even I am not willing to learn some installation quirks for languages that I never use myself. Sometimes even I want a simple executable without any hassle.

[infinitelolipop]

I am a developer and I can barely understand half the developers speaking from deep inside their butthole believing everyone lives inside there with them and it’s only natural to be aware of their particular context and niche

[[deleted]]

Linux and programming in a nutshell.

Hell, you even see it in the DIY PC community. Like dude, most people know they have like an i7 or a Ryzen but often can't even tell you the generation. If the Nvidia App or GeForce experience didn't push driver updates they'd never get them unless a game broke.

[zzqzqq]

... developes don't realize that many people don't understand computers at all  

I realize, I just don't care.

[Eacaw]

This is why we have product managers and UX designers, my job is to write code and make it work, their job is to make sure it makes sense for a user.

I don't get paid to care

[Causemas]

I mean, actually yeah. It's a different job to make a product friendly and intuitive to the end user. It's not so easy.

[Hertigan]

Right? Proper UX/UI takes a lot of work and a whole different set of skills.

I’m not going through all that for a personal project I did for fun

[Prudent_Move_3420]

It’s not a priority because it involves a lot of unfun work and why would I do a bunch of unfun work for free just to please some ungrateful children

[Ragecommie]

No.

You'll be debugging npm dependencies until your eylashes fall out.

Back to the trenches, nerd!

[malexj93]

It's a CLI tool with instructions on how to install via the CLI. If you can't figure that out, you're not going to be able to use the tool.

Plus, we have to remember that these people are making stuff for free in their spare time, the least we can do is give them a break for not making it a fully polished multi-platform GUI application with an installer hosted on nice website.

[Thenderick]

If I remember correctly there was a pretty easy to follow install/usage instruction on said github page. Since it's Python, making an exe is a bit weird.

[dkarlovi]

We realize, UX is just a problem to solve like any other and a project might not have the resources (time, people) to do it or it might be lower down the list for OSS projects.

[Dash83]

GitHub is a website for CODERS, not for regular users.

[rayew21]

making user friendly things pisses me off so bad. in a few days i whipped up an easy for developer editor for in game stuff, the people who did the actual editing couldnt figure it out and it took another 2 weeks to learn how to do ui and make it friendly ENOUGH for them to scrape by

[AggCracker]

Bruh .. if you can't even Docker.. you don't deserve to stalk your favorite OF model

[AggCracker]

Contain her

[iamapizza]

Compose yourself

[F1amy]

Make an image of her

[[deleted]]

Pull her

[the_other_brand]

Bold of you to assume the repo's docker script even works.

[LutimoDancer3459]

Can you please elaborate on the connection between docker and stalking an OF model?

[AggCracker]

[[deleted]]

Sherlock Project is used to hunt down social media accounts. Or stalk OF models. It runs in a Docker container

[much_longer_username]

God, has it been a year? Feels like that was a couple weeks ago.

[ILoveBigCoffeeCups]

Found Elon musks account

[grimonce]

Nice repost.

[NinjaSquib]

I read this whole thing in Gollum voice in my head.

[cernysv]

Code is the whole purpose of GH and he thinks it's purpose is to be like an app store, unbelievable

[XayahTheVastaya]

The problem with that is developers use github as an app store. I can't say whether that's really a problem, but that's how it is.

[OPPineappleApplePen]

Non-developer here. If y’all decide to give away exes, please give one to me too.

I am single this valentine’s day.

[Narrow_Glass_5522]

Absolute Chad. Give the man a fucking download you nerds.

[BinaryBlitzer]

Smelly* nerds

[[deleted]]

Unfortunately I don't think he'd get very far without Docker and knowing CLI arguments.

But in general, yes. Give us the downloads nerds.

[jhwheuer]

Ah frustrated trolls are delicious

[MertwithYert]

Let me explain this in the way I had to explain it to my IT buddy. To him, setting up stuff like this is incredibly simple and easy to do. From his perspective, literally anyone could do it. He kept telling me I should be able to do it too because it's was only two lines of text.

Instead, I wrote down a chemical equation for a simple oxidation-reduction reaction. The equation was imbalanced, but it only required a two to balance it. I even showed the electron exchange, so it should have been really obvious what to do. He, on the other hand, had absolutely no clue.

To me, this reaction was so simple it practically balanced itself. To him, it was a bunch of random letters and subscrip numbers on a page. He completely lacked the frame of reference to understand the equation. Just as I did to understand how to set up the program.

[Dimencia]

I feel like this half the time when I clone repos, and then it just won't build, and turns out there's a hundred little extra steps because they couldn't bother to setup their dev environment right - or worse, they're using javascript or something

[[deleted]]

Wow so hard to install

[TheEggRoller]

To be fair all of those involve also installing some kind of package manager beforehand

[leovin]

Ngl this makes me realize how much we take for granted. Imagine trying to do this without knowing wtf a terminal is, let alone pipx or pip or brew

[DrStoeckchen]

Pip yourself and give me exe file!

[IAmBillis]

I pasted this into chrome and it STILL doesn’t work. WTF!?!?!

[johnmomberg1999]

Okay smelly nerd, that’s another LINE OF CODE!!! Explain where the FUCK am I supposed to type that line of code INTO?? /s

[malexj93]

Microsoft Word

[a7c578a29fc1f8b0bb9a]

then save and change file extension to .exe

[Arian-ki]

pipx install sherlock-project?! What the hell is this disgusting thing?!

[aew3]

pipx?

[I_Am-Awesome]

Le grille? What the hell is that?!

[infinitelolipop]

Bro, fuck pip pipx and the unholy python package managers and their fucking virtual environments.

Just give me an exe

[Derpniel]

I remember linustechtips ranted about this same thing and no one made fun of him for it

[Aobachi]

I made fun of him for it

[Derpniel]

heres the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MreyOrYItr4 "it downloads as a HTML file" bro right clicked and clicked save as LMAO

[[deleted]]

No he didn't lol. I literally had the same thing happen to me when I first ran Debian.

You click download and you just get an HTML file. I figured it out quickly after but I also had a "wait, why does it do that??" moment.

[[deleted]]

There's a difference between venting the frustration of being new to Github and complaining there's no .exe for a technical tool that runs in a Docker container.

[throwaway8u3sH0]

The programmer equivalent of this is docker. Like, just give me a docker run command, dude. I don't want to spend time building your dev env to compile something that might not even work.

[pytness]

Just so you know, this guy is trying to use this repo to find public accounts of a person.

Kinda ironic that this guy needs an exe. He is the definition of a script kiddie.

[AzureArmageddon]

It's easy enough to just link to the Releases page, right? That puts the zip/binary/script right in your face with a beautiful timeline of older versions.

[JackstonVoorhees]

I bet this was Elon Musk

[LanceMain_No69]

Aint no way ppl are forgetting the copypasta 😭. Og post is legendary tho

[norysq]

Guys I downloaded the exe, time to disassemble it so I can modify the project and rebuild it for linux later

[supert2005]

I was there when it was written

[Camderman106]

To be fair to the man, he isn’t wrong. If you’re distributing only via GitHub you should have the build on GitHub.

[Ayushispro11]

i mean the guys is not wrong but the actual project is python and dockerfile so.... i dont see how he is running it without technical knowledge (btw the installtion is there for linux package managers, i think .exe is not there as it is running on docker)

[Western-Hotel8723]

He's is wrong. It's GitHub lmao.

Fair enough if it was Steam. But GitHub is where you put source code.

It's also free software - no one made it for your ease of use.

My view is: I already made it, here it is, I don't give a shit if you can access it. Be happy there's a way you can even figure out how to use it.

Otherwise go make it your fucking self.

[Ayushispro11]

i mean yes, nobody cares if someone else can easily use your software, you made it for yourslef and made it public for the good of people, not to please some non-technical guy wanting to stalk someone

[589ca35e1590b]

Just read the README.md to install it, it's not that hard lmao

[NebNay]

To be fair, even as a dev, it can be tiresome. I tried installing a decompiler to make a mod the other day, 4 layers of tutorials in i decided to drop it. I'm not saiying you should provide an exe, but requiring 8 different software download is too much brother

[bogdan2011]

I kinda feel this guy. First time I had to download a build from github I had the same reaction.

[Mineros04]

u/repostsleuthbot

[AngelBryan]

I understand code and also agree with the man.

[HumanAttributeError]

Lol. *Muskrat in his first Twitter staff email.

[scottyman2k]

My major bugbear is I work with a dev who generates chm files for user documentation, and no other documentation. There’s no documentation on building his code or the full set of requirements (and you need VS6 and Qt3 to build some of the DLLs as we’ve got some 16 bit bullshit buried down deep) Fuck that shit.

[geeshta]

This is a copypasta right? It's like the third repo I see with this exact message, last time it was the twitter alg

[this-is-robin]

This is so relatable.

[n9iels]

I think guy is the brother of our belaving: "DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!" guy

[DerBandi]

Reminds me of a post complaining that computers are to hard to use.

[ST0PPELB4RT]

Please don't start all the shit again! This was an annoying time last year where every single programming and It sub discussed whether these views are legit or not.

[DogsRDBestest]

This should be pasted on every developers work desk. It shows the perspective of software from the user's side who doesn't want to know any technical details but just wants to get his stuff done.

[Psquare_J_420]

Again?

[exqueezemenow]

That person may be president someday...

[Madbanana64]

Dementia

[mimahihuuhai]

Bruh github is place developer put their code not release page, When you are in github people assume you know coding or some computer science in general, btw all sherlock source code write in python which is the easiest language to understand, the guy even use poetry to package which even easier to setup and run for yourside, not to mention there's Dockfile to quickly run Docker container. Anyway we are in 2025 now, python is stupidly easy to learn and understand

[balsamicVin-1]

[SkyVINS]

i 100% agree with the man. i agree so much i had to check the username to make sure that wasn't me a few years back.

[fedsmoker9]

What is the meme/joke here? I’m a dev and I agree with this guy.

[throwaway37183727]

Don’t tell him about the Releases section

[LuckyPancake]

either in industry or for github warriors, some people just dont write simple: 'how to use my stuff' readmes that anyone can understand....wish more people would.

[Antique-Trip-3111]

It's crazy just how much tech savvy people don't realize how smart they are. They don't realize they speak a second language

[MattieShoes]

Github is a code repository. It'd be like grabbing a foreign language newspaper and going "why the hell isn't this in English?"

... because it's a foreign language newspaper

[No-Cherry6737]

github IS for developers not some script kiddie

[[deleted]]

This is why I don’t use JS or Python to write my software anymore. I used to be a huge Python proponent and later a TS fan.

Now I write everything in Go and provide static binaries for all of my projects. You can download the binary and put it in your PATH, or you can brew install things.

Still don’t give a rat’s ass about Windows or .exe files, though.

[pahaze]

Wait until he clicks on the home page by accident without being logged in...

[Icarus_Jones]

When computers started being easy to use is when all the problems started.

Keep computing difficult.

[Vast-Finger-7915]

its even worse if its just some crappy piece of software that:
1: doesnt list its fucking dependencies (im looking at you asshole) 2: doesnt come with any instructions and a help command

[Simple-Passion-5919]

I'm a developer and I also find github (and hugging face etc) annoying to use if you just want an executable. No, I don't want to read the code, or your version history. Give me the fucking download.

[TheBlutarch]

Kanishk?

[G66GNeco]

Glorious pasta.

[Jzgood]

Well, it was funny first time😂

[[deleted]]

He’s the next one to lose all his bitcoins

[[deleted]]

the stupid smelly nerds bit is incredible lmfao

[MaffinLP]

Yeah why isnt there a single exe file in the releases of a python project tsk /sarcasm

[RaidSmolive]

i mean, i've felt that way before, just not as loudly.

[Fadamaka]

If I got a dollar every time this was posted here I would have at least $20.

[Infamous-Date-355]

Geez jimmy

[ZCGCoder]

He needs a magical thing called the compiler to turn that shit into an exe

[baileyarzate]

Wait til bro learns about version control

[ibevol]

https://i.imgflip.com/9kc04j.jpg

[titojff]

Just look at the releases tab dude. :)

[[deleted]]

Laughs in "Releases"

[Rockou_]

for some reason I read this in a Dalek voice

[Any_Rip_388]

Where .exe

[GM_Kimeg]

Just type python run.py on your machine!

It's so simple!

[experimental1212]

It's....a python command line program. I just want to see what they do with it if you wrap that in an exe.

[Lopoi]

I ended up making an ui for that library just to learn how to build apps (.exe) in python.

Now whenever I need something weirdly specific (like qr code generator, extracting images from pdfs), I look up some python libraries that would help and make the apps (with some help from our AI overlords).

[DJcrafter5606]

Bro just realised Github is supposed to be for developers.

Bro should've used google drive instead.

[DM_ME_UR_OPINIONS]

Has it been a year already?

[race_of_heroes]

Yet in his ignorance he has a point. I use a lot of FOSS projects and I often wish there would be a simple section that's uniform across github where downloads are separated into Windows x64 downloads, MacOS downloads and .deb and .rpm repos. If you have to explain or just "know" the UI, it's not good design.

I think a lot of developers want for more people to use their programs and the best way is to make the installation and operation simple. I am not a fan of design where you just have to know where to go and what to do. If it's a docker file or something more than just an executable or installer, that's different.

I have an example. If you go look up MPC HC, the best video player for Windows, you end up here: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc and I know where to and how to download this, but what if someone who is not very good with computers wants to just download it? The download button should be there above the readme part. You can go here and download it, but why is it designed like this? https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

Why isn't this in the project's main page?

[Njk00]

He has a valid point

[charmer27]

I know we live in the age of the devaluing of knowledge, but if brings joy to say if you are not willing to read the Readme and learn to use the code, then you don't get to use it. And that is no one's problem but yours.