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/...

"Bitcrack Recovery Experts"
How I imagine their logo to look:

Corporates want us to work 10 hours, why not 20 or 24 hours, evolved monkeys on a tiny dot thinking about profits

I should really close snek.molodetz.nl tab when I'm on call with a client.

This codebase had 50+ main() functions and 80+ Material App. 5 of them are nested MaterialApp

Redundant widgets, security leaks, and print Sensitive information from the server to console without using (kDebugMode), therefore in prod, the data are leaked.

I refactored until I screamed.

So I left a gift inside.

I didn’t know my dad was alive, let alone writing the rules of dating me!

There was one more plane in WTC attacks that struck a skyscraper in Newark. It didn't collapse all the way, but instead collapsed halfway while tilting sideways. It stood like this with power still on when Kim Dotcom bought it. He named it The Darthmaker. Because it was winter, he made it an extreme snowboarding course.

Many people perished there, losing their balance and falling into the rebar pit. Also, still working Commodore terminals were littered around, with their tape data storage cabinets transformed into washing machines that washed corpses.

Experiencing The Darthmaker made most of its visitors insane. This is why in 2006 it was leveled for good. A dilapidated yellow Commodore chiclet keyboard from one of the terminals is still on display in the museum in the United Paper Island.

The MDN docs for gradients in SVG include the word "hideous".

Cool, cool.

I wish dev work was about the tech, the logic, the architecture

but annoyingly it's always about people

Every damn time I visit the server rooms for tunnel infra, I feel like I just entered the backrooms. Endless winding stairs, rooms that appear out of nowhere, doors galore, labels in ancient hiroglyphs and time travel are very common.

Mhmmmm nothing better than a döner with extra sauce

actual gift from god😋

💩 Behold the true power of AI! 💩
💩💩 ChatGPT is just a shitpost enabler. 💩💩

mandatory cashier competitions organized by walmart where cashiers can win unpaid time off

Bad UI on purpose = makes people try harder = increase engagement and brand loyalty ... until eventually a disruptive competitor will offer a smoother user experience and suddenly you'll lose them all.

Can't wait for the time when Instagram, the undead dinosaur of antisocial media, will be history at last.

Dotty, I’m sorry. Will never say a single bad thing to you.

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roguelike counter strike

Hello everyone, I was last on devRant in 2017 and I'm pleasantly surprised to find it still alive and kicking.

I'd like to know how those of you with families, hobbies and busy lives get the chance to work on personal projects or just sit down and learn a new technology?

It's great to be back and I hope that you're all well.

debugging a colleague's bash script written by copilot.

fun
/s

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.

Piratesoftware's "2D Raytracing" code is just shitty radial light diffusion with collision checks. The worst part is he's individually checking each pixel and manually adjusting the lighting pixel by pixel😭 🙏

Does anyone else feel like Piratesoftware's content is just dedicated to people starting out with coding and game dev? Should this piece of shit be the person these newbie devs look up to? What a fucktard. This is the dude who has "DECADES OF INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE" hacking windmills and sending emails like "please let me hack you" in blizzard

Here’s why I pirate music:
1. 90% of my playlist is made by dead people. I’ll never pay for anything whose creator is dead.
2. 9% of the music I listen to is very obscure — it’s not on streaming services. There is no way to contact creators, let alone pay them.
3. The remaining 1% I bought directly from creators on Bandcamp or elsewhere.

Also, when I used Apple Music, at all times many of the songs in my library were unavailable in my region. Songs pop in and out of this state based on some ongoing, never ending legal BS perpetrated by those who had no hand in creating the music itself. Miss me with that shit. I want my entire library available to me at all times.

I used inline C in perl to write inline assembly.

I deserve death.

If you're adding a few bullet points to your CV, copilot offers to generate whole paragraphs of brazenly made-up shit.

And everyone seems to be fine with that.

Job hunting and interviewing disgusts me.

I feel like I am in some kind of dating nightmare (and I hate dating). It's really weird trying to sell yourself to some company and they judge you based on how you think, how you talk, how your professional life has been up until now. I also judge them based on my professional values.

It makes me feel really awkward to talk to people trying to sound all calm and professional when I am kind of dying of nihilism inside. Tired of having to get to the stages of interviews where I need to do some idiotic tech assessments that are irrelevant to the job spec. Some were fun though.

Thankfully no AI interviewer fuckery yet, but if I do run into such a thing, I'm gonna pull out and expose the company that does this.

Getting close to final stages with some places which seem decent enough to sell my time to, and salaries are so much higher than what I currently get paid (fuckin peanuts).

I just want to become a mushroom at this point.

A.I. will forever be flawed as it learned everything from humans.

This is so true. A month or two goes by and it is like learning certain pieces of code over again.

I'm a slow developer because i try to think things through before i start coding and end up not doing anything or taking a long time to do simple things.

I dislike just jumping in and writing code because I end up not understanding why things work

Crocheted a hand puppet. Just because.