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The joke is about calling `localhost` a “free hosting service.” Technically it runs your app for free on your own machine, but it is not real hosting because nobody else can reliably access it, it disappears when your machine is off, and it is useless for production.

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A meme featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a woman holding a beige telephone, and two boys. The top panels show the man asking 'Your mom is a backend developer?', then saying 'Javascript is the best language for backend'. The middle panel shows the woman responding 'Sure it is!' with a smile. The bottom panel has the man stating 'Your foster parents are dead'.
A man in a religious vestment and red hat holds a broom over server racks, with people filming him, text overlay shows '/etc/init.d/daemon stop'.
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