So todays my bday, devrant still has no https cert,
i started playing Ultrakill (got it off from steamrip.com)

I continued to code a bit, ill make my engine good enough to have the speed of Quake and Ultrakill.

This week, I got an email from my local college advertising some education possibilities that would take 75-150 hours depending on the course. One of them does interest me a lot but now I am wondering what it is better (offensive cybersecurity).

A) follow that course at that college (still WFH)
B) follow similar courses online, possibly cheaper but maybe less credentials on my CV/resume.

Judging by the duration, it's certainly not enough to do it professionally. But it will certainly make my resume stand out a bit more.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

Picture of an EXTREMELY early stage of an android devRant client (since the official one no longer works due to the certificate expiration).
Threw this in just a few hours so it's super bare bones and just a proof of concept for myself currently, there is no APK, this isn't even an alpha.
I absolutely do not have time for fun projects so I can't promise anything time wise, if I'll have time I'll try to make it at least usable enough for an alpha build to send here on the next weekend.
(Perhaps will even find an hour or two here or there in the middle of the week)

I sincerely appologize for my lack of time, I would've absolutely loved to start this earlier, and to finish a MVP for y'all (and myself) to use as soon as possible.

Currently it uses 'dr.molodetz.nl' as a "quick and easy" solution for the certificate thingy (so know that data and credentials move through a "thrid-party"), but once I'm having an app that is usable (minimally) I'm planning to switch back to devrant.com but with certificate pinning.

P.S. If anybody has got any tips or advice for android development, write in the comments, I would appreciate anything because I fucking HATE android development and it makes me feel like a monkey smashing a computer with a wrench hoping shit will work. Not my first android app, but even though I've made a few android apps in the past(real apps for actual use, not "template" apps for portfolio or for learning) I still feel like every tiny step is fighting against the framework instead of with it.

What do we think about the fight between UK and 4chan?

While is find 4chan a terrible site, I vouch for them. Fuck off with your stupid rules.

But it's simple right, if they don't comply just block the site?

They can't force 4chan for sure, but then they have to block them.

So, I do not agree that UK is attacking the freedom of speech in America like Lunduke says; in America they can still do what they want.

If you want to drive on the roads there, you need to comply with the rules there.

But fuck UK for wanting it in general.

Funny that Americans think there's more freedom of speech there than here. But maybe not so funny in the future. We're under attack.

I'm bored of everything :
- Minecraft? played it and no more things to do.
- Coding? I'm waiting to buy my new linux desktop.
- Taking a shit? That's a good idea

Jokes aside, im bored and got major, major exams next week.

Maybe ima do a Quake mod (too complicated for my ape brain)
Maybe a Doom mod? Idek what to do.
Maybe... idek

Congrats to everyone on devrant!!!
YOU WON "THE GAME"!!!

The amount of times that I accidentally open the original devRant app and thus get an error is too damn high.

I'm eating my own dogfood and I'm quite happy with rantii, it has a low amount of bugs. It forgets what you've upvoted, the notifications show [object, object] instead of ranter name. It has only one message type (rant) while posting. It misses reply feature. It doesn't do mentions. The urls are incomplete for the website preview, long urls fail.

So few bugs, few missing features. Working on something else in between and need a milestone there before going back working on this. Anyone else using it btw? I see skyrant down too. I guess that rantii is the best option for android now then. Development time was only two hours, not bad. If anyone has some request to add or change, let me know, I'll add it to to do list. Like always open source.

Eurovision is the worst cringefest and its made by people who do nothing but cocain and underage girls

So I decided to try a vpn. I got the protonvpn free service. I can see that it changed my ip address. But can I tell if it is encrypting traffic? All the websites I accessed didn't seem to care my location went from the USA to some place in Asia. I would have thought it would force a relogin or look suspicious.

It is wild. reddit rejects tor, but is okay with vpn?

Week: 117 (Year 3)

The first weekend of the very last month of the year. How are you going to spend it?

Question: I watched Conjuring: Last Rites yesterday. Which is your favorite or the scariest scary/horror movie ever?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19389167

So, talking about people on Reddit not having humor; i got banned by my bank (bunq) forever. I complained about my always unasked for planted tree after every expensive I do of x euro's. I've planted 33 or something. So, at least I posted that I want to have a picture of my tree. Many others wanted pictures of their trees too and some actually had whole woods of trees actually :P

So, nobody got a picture of their tree and I got banned.

But now I think about it, if I alone are already responsible for 33 trees and some people own complete woods appearantly. Is it actually possible that they're really planting all those trees? They're a bank, they're massive, it must be the biggest tree planting operation ever. Gonna research this.

SInce this app has no selection regarding rant type, let's see what it will become.

LinkedIn:

you must have a portefolio to show your skill

Me:

maybe that's true for junior but I don't have a strong portefolio because i have a job

LinkedIn:

I do my portefolio after my working hour. It's about dedication and passion

Me:

When you're dedicated every hour is working hour. If you have time for side projects you're a bad employee.

Outlinkedined

AI flagged the Declaration of Independence as being 99.9% AI generated.

Well, the crown considers the writers to be Actual Insurrectionists. So technically correct.

Also noticed people on linkedin have less humor than on reddit, if at all possible.

So I saw a new fucked up trick a job offering company did. If you view their job offers and want to click on one of them it forces you to sign up to their newsletter. No opt out in small lettering.

What kind of fucked up place forces opting into a news letter to view a job offer?

Job searching in 2018. Not great options, but job providers and sites are still human.

Job searching in 2025. Process is completely devoid of human decency, filled with cunts, and makes you want to die early. Plus there are NO FUCKING JOBS.

"To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion".

I apparently applied to a job at a company that sells "AI employees". They are fully AI, use AI for everything, cursor is mandatory (like no bitch I use vim).

Like why do you need me? Just hire one of your AI employee, idiot

For the poor devRant android app users that can't visit devRant anymore (like myself): https://rantii.molodetz.nl

It's a simple devRant frontend and it has a few features:
- markdown (# Titles and ``` for code ssupported!)
- syntax highlighting
- youtube / image embedding / url preview
- install (in that case it's a nice full screen app), you can find this under settings.
- click on notification and it will bring you to the exact correct message
- missing rant type select box. Exclusive!

Like always, open source: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

It's mainly for myself actually but let me know if you use it as well, then I will take that into account when making changes / ensure uptime.

My manager uses Claude chatbot for writing all our user stories while we're on the call with him. It spits out so much shit! He'll say, "let's make sure it hasn't hallucinated anything .. nope"

There's no way he can be reading all that. I'll call out stuff early on, and he'll say "that's wrong, it hallucinated," and fix stuff and remove half of it, but 45 minutes into the story session, I think everyone tunes out.

Implementing this is going to be fucking hell.

Anyone else doing Advent of Code 2025?

I am so assertive, that if you find yourself intimidated by everything i say, you're a pussy. Just a fact. Anyway, nice day for fishing.

Talking about fishes, is there some @blindxfish in them house? I really love my.devplace.net.

It's really great, i hope that we all will share our development experiences there one day.

But still, for chat there's still nothing available like Snek. When you go Snek, you never go Beck!
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Hihi.

I'm a bit drunk and the rest. I prefer the rest and then to rest.

Dobranich.

Tell me the truth.

Do the curtains match the carpet?

It's so funny how customers like the small and unimportant things. They are impressed by a display of skill rather than skill.

For instance, I needed to quickly create a password. So, I opened my terminal, typed in as always

dd if=/dev/urandom count=500 | base64 -w 0

Then I copied a random chunk of some 200 to 500 chars and copied it as the temporary password and sent it around.

I was told later on that I impressed with my technical know-how and skills...

But I guess, now that I impressed, I can profit of the halo effect.

Guess, take this as PSA. Sound confident. That's more important than being confident. They have no idea what's going on.

@12bitfloat

feat: upgrade to python 3.13 compatibility feat: implement enterprise-grade pipx installation feat: add installation verification script feat: provide detailed troubleshooting documentation fix: replace deprecated imghdr module with custom image_validator fix: resolve module not found error on python 3.13+ docs: add install.md with detailed installation instructions docs: add troubleshooting.md with comprehensive troubleshooting guide docs: add verify_installation.py script for installation validation docs: add manifest.in for proper package distribution refactor: create rp.utils.image_validator module for image type detection refactor: update web.py to use new image validation refactor: enhance pyproject.toml with complete metadata refactor: regenerate rp_compiled.py with new dependencies maintenance: update changelog with version 1.65.1 details

It seemed that it was the only issue. So please try `rp` again. If it gives bugs, please escallate directly and don't spend time on it. My fault .

Chat GPT is now responding like a stackoverflow user. Great.

Role: Senior Angular developer
Tech required: Java

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@retoor mentions don’t work anymore here in JoyRant. I haven‘t looked into the details yet but I suspect it’s because your mentions service is also affected by the expired certificate?

Anyone playing Gemini Runner?

Did you know that if you boil a funny bone, it becomes a laughing stock?

There is a dead bird in our yard. My wife asked me to clean it up by texting me.

wife: Can you pick up the dead bird in the backyard?
me: Its just resting.
wife: With no head
me: Its a headless swoon
wife: Its dead and needs a new resting place.
me: beautiful plumage

My wife cooked food again. My anus is gonna bleed tomorrow