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.

hello world

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.

@lensflare I'm doing AOC with swift so far I like it, it's unfortunate they do the retarded "modern" `let name: <type>` thing and strings can be annoying to substring, otherwise it's good

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.

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

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

Finally learning docker. I feel like it's too good to be true.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Okay, I get so annoyed by all these comments I read everywhere akin to "just because it is legal doesn't mean it is moral."

Legality is morality. Claiming that it isn't, is amoral.

The problem with morality, I can easily decide on two completely contrary points of view. Can I take your stuff if you have more than I do? Morally? Sure, it is unfair that you have more. No, you earned it, you have a right to possessions.

Laws, at least some of them, are morality put into writing. A little more stiff, but still morals. Some laws just help us not bump into each other by telling us we have to drive on the left side of the road. But many of them are negotiations of a common morality.

If your personal morality doesn't align with that, you're free to take it and to start the negotiation process anew. Get support, change the law. It's arduous and annoying and work intensive, but possible.

But just fucking declaring that what was done is amoral despite being legal, not planning to do anything, just declare the other person amoral is fucking intolerant bullshit and if you do that, you're an asshole.

I leave another one of my opinions here and go to bed to wake up to an onslaught of hate...

But, salting passwords is problematic.
I'll do it, I am a hypocrite. I don't want to explain to my customers why I haven't done it.

But the issue with a salted passwords is that we defend our users' data against a possible leak. Plus a tiny bonus against timing attacks. It is not defended against us. We can just log the password in clear text or refuse to hash it or hook inbetween reverse proxy and application.

1. When they are salted, we make rainbow table attacks harder. More compute intensive.
2. When they are salted, we cannot quickly identify people with the same password. Therefore not quickly isolating people with a simple password.

And that's bad.

Let me first start to explain one thing. Imagine you have a generated password. Random characters. Like 50 of them. And you used that password on one website. Not on any more. With a password manager. And now you hear that this website leaked their database. Do you worry? Well, no... If that website itself was not embarrassing. You just log in, set a new one, done. You don't care about it.

We only care about salting because upstream users have not used good passwords. Salting is only there to mitigate password reuse. And because it is good at doing that, people keep reusing passwords.

If we didn't mitigate it, the dangers of reusing passwords would be so widely known. Everyone and their grandmothers knew how to keep good passwords. But sadly, we mitigate and most of us are trust worthy.

Users don't meet us. They don't know who we are, they shouldn't give us their everywhere password. But they do. Because we are too trustworthy, we take good care of it and we mitigate the bad outcomes. If a user leaked their password to us, it is too late. They gave it to a party they shouldn't have trusted. Sadly, we turn out to be trustworthy too often.

And if I wanted to steal a huge amount of passwords, I just create a quick website that turns images into gifs or something stupid. Converts webp into png. For free. Just sign up. We conditioned them to trust website services.

Yea, so, basically, my daily PSA, we have done our users a disservice by mitigating damage at a point after the mistake has already happened.

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

Ugh the AOC is a bit of a wanker for putting an answer timer (sometimes I accidentally submit the example answer, and it takes 0.1s to fix but nooo you have to wait because the guy is retarded)

BTW I had to implement the parsing completely custom because of dynamically sized blocks, what did you guys do?

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?