i shitted 3 times within 1 hour. this is fucking ridiculous. i cant work my 9-5 like this! what should i do?

Ok you guys are gonna be happy i have an actual tech rant this time

I'm planning on getting those cheap drum stick for air drumming. Can I use them to send midi? I think it's sending HID, so the same protocol as a joystick or a game controller, basically. Should be quite trivial, right?

Then if I can send cc or note infos I can do thing like setting the base line with a gesture or modulate a filter or even trigger thing in my daw

Practical question: did anyone figure out how to pay less taxes in the UK (or somewhere else in Europe)?
I can’t lie it becomes pretty unsustainable…

Wow, the new iOS design... looks like shit. It's hard to read text on top of the "liquid glass" and it's just sort of ugly looking.

Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/15770605/... .

It's fun getting to know a new city.
Also, it's fun learning where the key players are located...

High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/11BS.jp... .

...especially when they're in walking distance.

I have purchased a few games by them like 'Beat Cop', 'This War of Mine', && 'Frostpunk' but have yet to find the time && will to try them out.

My boss insists that we shouldn’t lock or password-protect a particular system because, in her words, remembering or write down a password is hard and email as a concept is confusing. I tried to explain if people who don't know what left versus right-clicking do have full admin access, it’s only a matter of time before something goes terriblely wrong. She listened but ultimately decided to keep everything open, confident that everyone would use it responsibly.
Unfortunately, that’s not what happened, it never has been and never will be. The problems started, just as I feared, and now I’m stuck cleaning up the chaos, one issue at a time. I do have a backup and automation snapshots, but things got so tangled up that it will still be a hassle.
I tried soft lock so everyone could only access the section relevant to them. The reaction was immediate—they were confused and stressed, saying they’d be unable to do anything if it stayed that way. They didn’t get the idea that keeping them from touching certain things (that they shouldn't be touching in the first place) wasn’t the same as blocking their whole work. But since they’re all my superiors, I had no choice but to remove the restrictions and leave the system wide open again.

Nothing serious came out, just really annoying because something like this happens all the time.

Stack Overflow has really gone to shit. I had a bad experience with a recent Qt6/Python question, or really two questions both of which were closed and deleted!

I was just going to ignore it, but some recent talk on the Fediverse made me write up a full post about it:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

If everything is a secret, are they still secrets?

Your tasks are going slowly, let's have a meeting about it

Finding an ML intern is so hard.

Dear employers, DO NOT FUCK WITH A PERSON'S DOCTORS. My doctors are paid to help me. If that means helping to sue your asses, they'll do it in a heart beat. Don't give them motivation.

My employer made dubious claims to my doctors in an occupational health referral. I've requested a copy of the referral. In the hopes I might not get a copy of the referral they've pushed this to my doctors as they don't want to give it to me. Because they've lied. Or they think I won't jump through the hoops to get access to MY OWN MEDICAL RECORDS.

foreskin stealer

WAV is Mr. Bloat. Extract WAV 48 KHz from an mp4 video = 6 GB .wav file output.

More efficient is to just use ffmpeg. lmao. Result: 1:1, 500 MB. Couldn't be more efficient!
ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -vn -acodec mp3 output.mp3

Opened devRant after exactly 4 years. Brings back so many memories!!
Hello again, devRant community! What's life like rn?

AI please convert simple symbolism image to SVG omg how hard could it be

10 years ago we used to joke about "Made in China" and now guess who writes some of the best ML papers.

Update or not to update? That's the question.

Recently, my private laptop has begun to yap about updating to Windows 11 because Windows 10 will no longer be supported from October.

Should I update? My major concern with Windows 11 is, will I have to log in using a Microsoft account requiring a 2FA and how is that carried out? Does it require some fucking mobile app? I don't own a smart phone and am not going to get one either (I hate touchscreens and mobile apps).

PM is on his period again

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.

— Et tu, Brute…
— Quit talking French, salad boy! *stab* *stab*