Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.

WTF people! You are not providing the entertainment my trolling is intended to provide.

You, yeah you! Seriously, get bent out of shape when people post inflammatory shit...

Why do I even bother?

...sigh...

How are we doing today? deadRanters?

Started New job. Can't trust coworkers yet to rant with them. LinkedIn is too public. Too old for FB, X and Insta.

Came to devRant. They think I'm a spam bot 😒

anyone else ever finf it odd that ostream ( aks <alias-array>) is so against 'Germans' butbreally the main german he goes adfer is @Lensflare and hes also an apple admirer/dev/lover ...

like maybe ostream is just threatened by lensii? . ubknow cuz people actually likebhim, hes a good dev and ostream has the time and immaturity to keep up this crap endlessly for years? ibmean hes not even good at gaslighting.... despitre his best, constant efforts

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.

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

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"!!!

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.

It looks like your SSL cert needs renewing. I use certbot to auto-renew every 3 months or so.

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

I had yesterday a meeting with the backend-dev/manager. He at least mentioned that GraphQL was not the way to go and that he has no idea how to tackle certain requirements. He is planning to sit together with the internal future users to check what data is truely needed (fyi, he started the project 11 months ago).

So yeah, the project is now on hold and he assigned me a 2h task for the rest of this week; fun.

hello thx for applying to our startup :) we are looking to hire an engineer asap so let's get things in motion. We will only interview candidates that pass our custom take home challenge, which is designed to test your ability to solve real problems.

Anyone who passes our take home challenge immediately gets an interview with our CTO and thus has a high likelihood of being hired.

Vibe coding warning:
If you cannot write code without AI assistance, you will not pass our live technical interview so please do not waste your time now attempting this challenge; we won't hire you.

Here is the take home challenge:
Figure out how to programmatically send disappearing photos on Telegram web using a chrome extension.

What we measure with this take home challenge:
This challenge is designed to measure your resourcefulness and ability to quickly learn new things. Being an expert on chrome extensions or javascript won't help much.

More details:
Telegram on mobile allows you to send disappearing photos, but Telegram Web doesn't expose sending disappearing photos in the UI. You'll have to dig deeper.

Rules (!important):
Your submission will not count if it breaks any of these rules.
1) Your solution must be fully contained in a chrome extension. This means no other code (ie. localhost server) outside of the extension is allowed.
2) You are not allowed to bundle outside libraries (ie. gramjs, mtproto, mqtt, etc)
3) You must be on web.telegram .org/a which is version A of Telegram web, not web.telegram .org/k which is version K or others.
4) Your solution must be able to send photos programmatically and not require manually sending photos in the UI

Expectations:
Although a solution that just follows the rules will get you an interview, the quality of your submission will be a key factor in our hiring decision. We expect your code to be clean, production ready, and easy to review. This means removing all unused code and files you may have added during experimentation/testing.

Video guide:
Don't let the high view count on the video scare you, if you are seeing this we are still accepting submissions.
Please watch the video I made describing the challenge and showcasing the solution

Here is the job posting in case you lost it:

Here is the code for the challenge:
You are given a simple boilerplate chrome extension, feel free to change any file or add new files as needed

Submission:
Do NOT upload your submission to GitHub, you wouldn't want others stealing your work and submitting it. Please reply to this only with a public **Google Drive** link containing:
-Your chrome extension code as a **folder** (not as a zip or rar file), this makes it easier for us to review
-A short screen recording showing your solution works

Deadline:
Please try to finish by the end of day Friday (December 5); speed is one of the things we are measuring here too. We will not make hiring decisions before this date so please attempt the challenge if you are seeing this before the deadline.

Communication:
Please only reply to this message with your Google Drive link submission, otherwise I will ignore and assume you are an AI. If you have questions, please figure them out on your own as that is part of the challenge.

Good luck, and I hope to hear from you soon :)

Just got a new smartwatch and the first thing i did was using it to measure my heart BPM before, during and after taking a shit?

Je fais un post en français parce que je m'ennuie et la certification https de devant viens d'expirer.

Updated JoyRant and anti spam bots to ignore the expired certificate.

We believe it takes great input to build a great product, faster than our competition. Are you willing to work hard and work (most) weekends? We understand this is not for everyone / every stage of career, and want to be transparent upfront. *

Imagine being a submissive dicksucka

Week: 116 (Year 3)

Plans for the weekend?

Question: How are you gonna enjoy the upcoming vacation? Assuming December is a chilling month for most of you

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19386937

Oh no, devrant cert just expired...

I wonder if technical knowledge truly matters outside of those companies that try to filter people based on tests...

And if not... then I'm just studying for myself. lol

God i hate this country. Every job requires dutch and french (who tf speaks both), and when they don't they want driving license for no reason. I can't do psychology because I don't have the right master, I can't even get a bullshit job to pay for food because they all require some bullshit gouvernement program so that the employer can not pay taxes. I have no right to unemployment, and CPAS are gonna be overflooded.

I hate right wingers I swear they're ruining the fucking world with their bellybuttonism

Code tells a story.

It is usually not especially interesting. It is not captivating. But it is a story.

The story often goes like this: Instead of using the class directly, an interface was used. Someone expects this implementation to change a lot. Or they want to break the logic of the code apart. Speed up compilation times. Maybe they plan on having multiple different implementations.

That's, well... no, it is not exciting. But sometimes you look at it and wonder why. And you muse to yourself, what could be the reason for this curious choice. Is the whole project written like that? Maybe two developer developed the feature together and they agreed at the very beginning to write the interface in order to be able to cleanly work in parallel. I did this with a colleague. We worked on a common feature. We decided to write an interface first, then we worked separately and in parallel on the two sides of the interface. In the end we left it in and we were asked why we decided to use an interface.

Code tells a story. But so very often now, the story I hear when I ask why is "copilot did it." Fuck you. And fuck your "hey, copilot says you could do something better" in merge reviews.

I don't care if you want to use AI. I don't think it is good. You dull your skills. But hey, I don't really care about it. I don't care if you decide to use a plastic fork to remove your left eye. I mean, I would have recommended a sharper instrument, but fuck, if you want to mutilate yourself. Go for it. But when git blame tells me it was you who wrote the code, then don't fucking excuse any decision with "copilot did it." And when copilot tells you there is an improvement in my merge request, you don't need to tell me that it came from copilot. That is no authority. If you think copilot is right, you argue for it, and you give me arguments and reasons. But if you don't even understand yourself why it is supposedly better, just fuck off.

Software keeps getting worse, users just have to use AI out of desperation. Is it because of layoffs, churn and missing documentation or on purpose? Google Analytics and Google Search results are only two examples. Now users already claim that AI is getting worse after a temporary climax of usability on top of the genAI hype

Ohhh, it's Black Fridaaaaay.

IT'S A STAMPEDE!!!

I'm finetuning llama 3.1 8b locally on a 32gb 5090. It took weeks to learn enough to know where to start, hours to get my environment sane, and it's going to take 5.5 hours to finish training.

I started on my own model but the lack of data and acres of server farms led me down the finetuning path.

I honestly don't have any idea if any of it's going to be worth the time or CONSIDERABLE financial investment I made building my computer, but I refuse to stay ignorant.

guess who's back?!

soooo... long story short... i got super ill... like so ill i dont wanna give many details cuz
1. rather not bum you entertaining weirdos out... that'd make this bittersweet.
2. i dont wanna get a bunch of emo comments of best wishes etc

it's fixed, enough, now.

just to be clear, "ill" is not some paraphrasing for mentally ill/unstable/depressed/whatever else may pop into your heads... nor is it code for something like substance abuse/rehab or incarceration, etc... there was definitely entropy at play so it doesnt need more =P

So I started typing "// putain de bor..." in a comment because it's one of those sort of mornings.

The autocomplete suggested "putain de bordel de merde ce que c'est con javascript a la con".

I don't know much French but on the face of it that sounds like a reasonable assessment.

Oh dang you guys have been busy enough that there are new rants all the way at the end of the recents list

> Socrates adopted a quite radical form of eudaimonism (see above): he seems to have thought that virtue is both necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia. Socrates is convinced that virtues such as self-control, courage, justice, piety, wisdom and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy (eudaimon) life. Virtues guarantee a happy life eudaimonia.

little did Socrates know he was gonna be put to death by his society telling him to drink poison