JoyRant build 40

* Added spam detection!
* Fixed weird black background in encountered users view
* Fixed aspect ratio of placeholder user image

Spam is detected using a spam score system.
Specific words and patterns increase the score and once a threshold is reached, the rant is considered spam.

In the feed spam rants will be less visible (max 3 lines of text, smaller and half transparent text and no images) but you can still open the rant (maybe to check the full rant to see if it is really spam) and downvote.

This can be disabled in Settings but is enabled by default.

It’s phase 1 of the spam related feature.
I will approach phase 2 later since it‘s low priority for me.

Feel free to contribute to the spam detection config file via PR:
https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

Cool, cool.

I was thinking about how to best approach the spam detection in JoyRant and it kinda escalated into a separate project:

https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

This is a generic swift lib for spam detection, which I will be using in JoyRant.
The idea is that it can be used by other devrant clients, even android, or backends or anti spam bots like those from @retoor.
Or even in completely other communities… like snek maybe? I don’t know, the point is it’s generic and not specific to devRant.

And the config with the spam detection rules can be a hosted json file, accessed via a http URL.

This will make it easy for me to update the rules and easy for you to contribute to the rules, if you wish to do so :)

My plan is to first implement a simple version of spam detection and release a new JoyRant version.
Then later implement the whole thing with stuff like marking as spam, marking as not spam, exported details about detections to be used to improve on the rules, and blackjack and hookers.

Fuck spam and the human garbage that is posting it or is behind the spam bots!
From the bottom of my heart, Fuck you!

Thanks for your feedback for JoyRant, kiki!

I read it just now because I’m too lazy to read my private emails regularly 😅

The "in the settings" grammar will be fixed in the next version.

Image placeholder is squashed to 1:1 ratio, yes. I see it as a non issue though 😅.
It wouldn’t be too much work to fix it but… meh.

I don’t know why the images stay placeholders though. Never happened to me.
In your screenshot I see that you have Flight mode on, maybe that’s the reason?
You can also try to clear the image cache in (the) settings.

When you import an image into an Xcode project with the extension png, everything is fine. When you do it with PNG, it will show a warning saying that the extension is invalid. 🤦‍♂️

It really shouldn’t trigger me that much, but it does.
I fucking hate those spamming assholes. Especially those about crypto recovery.
They make my blood boil.
I start to imagine horrible things happening to them.
Human scum.

It’s tragically funny how we can’t even mention @dfox because mentions only work in comments 😂

@dfox if you see this, can't post comments, can't vote.

Can't post comments anymore, only rants. Upvoting and downvoting also not working.
Tested on iOS and web.
Is this the end of devrant?

A question to those from Slavic countries like Russia:
Do you know this version of the board game Ludo (German: Mensch ärgere dich nicht)?

I did some research and apparently in Russian it’s called Mandavoshka. But I couldn’t find this particular design and the rules seem to be documented nowhere.

Anyway I’m implementing this game for tablets and I'd like to know if this is something that officially exists as a board game or not.

Reading many of rants and comments from the last 10 hours or so, it’s pretty clear that retoor content is AI generated and @princess is a bot.

retoor, why are doing that?

Do you want to accelerate the downfall of devrant to make the people switch to snek?

I'm developing a board game and it’s so much fun to come up with structures and logic to implement the rules of the game and make it in a way that is clever and doesn’t require a lot of repetition and explicit definitions which would increase the probability to introduce bugs and make future changes tedious.

This is what I love about programming. The pure joy of thinking about those problems and solving them.
I'd never want to delegate this task to an AI even if I'd be convinced that it would do a good job.

The German word for methods in OOP is Methoden, which is literally mead testicles.

Wow, compared to youtube, people on devRant are actually a sane and friendly bunch.
Shoutout to the crazy idiots here, I love you all! 😄

We just hit the 1 million mark on the Stop Killing Games EU initiative! 🥳

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

What‘s the purpose of separating your code into "independent" modules if each module contains everything anyways?

Do you believe in Spanky? I hope so, because Spanky is the one and only true being that made the universe and all of us.

If you don‘t believe in Spanky you will go to hell and will be tortured for all eternity.

Spanky loves you and has a personal relationship with every one of you.

The evidence for the existence of Spanky is everywhere and completely undeniable.
Just look at the trees. Aren’t they great?

Also We have the Spanky Bible, written by Spanky himself which says that Spanky exists. That is historical evidence right there.

Spanky is completely invisible and can’t be heard or touched, but you need to believe anyways.
Spanky chose to be hidden, even though he has made himself apparent to his people in the past, as it says in the Spanky Bible, which is true. Spanky wants to test your faith, so that you believe in him without evidence. Believing without evidence is a virtue and the requirement for being a good person.

Speaking of good person, if you don’t believe in Spanky, you not only go to hell for your sins, you also are a very evil person without morality. Because morality can only come from Spanky.

So, please, for the sake of your eternal soul, believe in Spanky.

I noticed an increased usage of the word unalive, such as in "to un-alive someone" on youtube, spoken in the videos and written in the comments.

I suppose this is to avoid the word kill?

So we are at the stage of changing the language just to avoid using a bad word on a platform of hypersensitive woke snowflakes who will cancel you for saying a specific word regardless of the context it’s been used in?

Please tell me I‘m wrong. 😒

I’ve typed a question into google and the AI generated response was directly contradicting every web search result on the first page.

So, you can’t even rely on it to pull out the correct info, on top of the fact that it might have hallucinated.

Completely useless and deceptive.

It’s depressing to think about how many people blindly rely on this crap not realizing how bad it is.

In my company I now have 3 browsers.

Chrome for company stuff that only works in Chrome.

Safari for company stuff that only works in Edge or Safari.

And Firefox for actual work.

🤡

New JoyRant build (38) with a new feature:

Every user that you see in a rant will be stored in a list which can be used for @mentioning and viewing the profile.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/IMG_529...
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/IMG_529...
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/IMG_529...
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/IMG_529...

Sometimes you just don‘t remember the exact name of a user and hopefully this feature will help.

It might also be a nice summary of how many users are active.

Just had an idea for a feature in JoyRant.

Collect all usernames encountered in rants and comments and store them.

Make a button to present a list of all of the users so that a @mention can be added in the text.

Sometimes I forget the exact names of users and I think this would help finding them.

What do you think?

Youtube is disgusting.

They deliberately implement some crap that tries to circumvent ad blockers, fail at that, that causes videos to have a delay before loading.
Then they implement a fucking popup during this delay, telling you to klick there for more information why there is a delay.
And when you klick on that, they essentially tell you that your ad blocker is probably why there is a delay.

No, assholes, the ads is why there is a delay.

Dishonest, manipulative pieces of shit.

Cotton in German is Baumwolle, which is literally "tree wool".

At this point I think we can reject the theory that image upload somehow fixes itself.

Fucking hell, Microsoft Store is the most useless abomination that MS has ever produced and instead of killing it, like they do with their other failed products, they somehow, for some reason, still keep this lobotomized pile of crap alive.

After mass downvoting a serial ad spammer, apparently I've lost my downvote privileges and all of my downvotes are removed. Fucking great.

Meanwhile devrant is flooded with 99% spam, nazi trolling, pseudo intellectual conspiracy nonsense and politics.

I‘m tired of this shit.

Image upload is broken again.

Just a notification for @dfox

How is platonism still so prevalent among mathematicians?

We know by now that there are different mathematical models depending on different axioms, like the axiom of choice. You can include or omit it from the model and you get consistent and useful but different mathematics in either case.
And there are other examples.

How does this not make it obvious that formalism, rather than platonism, is true?

Inspired by jestdotty's comment:

> *makes spooky JavaScript noises*

What would be a noise or sound that most accurately represents JS?

I‘ll start with two suggestions and we can vote for the most fitting one.

Have you tried chatgpt's text-to-speech feature?
It’s so much better than anything that I tried before. You can even choose different "personalities" or tones or whatever.

I‘d even say that it‘s perfect. I can’t think of anything that could be improved in terms of how well it pronounces words and puts emphasis on specific words. It’s 100% natural sounding.