@devplace-net Talk to me if you need a backup of it(whimsical acc. posts/comments/upvotes/etc) for any reason

@devplace-net Last email I got from you was on April 7th.

Anyways, considering previous times you have sent emails and you haven't answered my replies I assume your self implemented email doesn't really work.

I have no idea which action you are talking about.

I am not interested in quizzes.

But no, learning does not HAVE to be painful at all. That(usually) is just a sign of either a bad teacher(/teaching source), or a lack of motivation, or a lack of attention, or a subject you just don't "vibe with", or a subject(that one is trying to learn) being of a much higher level or more advanced that your own level (e.g. Trying to learn Trigonometry when you barely know basic geometry), or similar reasons.
And/Or multiple of the above.

I do know a VERY small amount of people (only 2 if I only count IRL/really-close friends & acquaintances who I can actually say it with full confidence about. As in, excluding internet friends/acquintances who could easily just lie or over-exaggerate their abilities as most people do) for whom learning pretty much ANYTHING is very much both painless and at least usually effortless or semi-effortless.

And by "ANYTHING" I mean things in different areas and not just things in their own area of expertiese (because that's more common — people who learn panlessly and effortlessly withing an area they're already an expert in)

I mean, painful and effortless aren't like an "either or" (like, not everything that requires effort is painfull .-.)

But sometimes and sometimes not.
Effortless: Usually not, most things take an effort for me(and I assume most people) to learn (I am also stupid, most things require me an "above average" amount of effort to comprehend/understand/learn)
Painful: Depends on the (relative)complexity and highly depends on who(a person) or what(like a website, a book, documentation, etc') I'm learning from, sometimes it's painfull, sometimes it's painless.

@whimsical Still, no thanks

@whimsical Yeah, thanks but no thanks, I would very much rather keep away from that AI mess of a place.

Also I don't wanna promise thing because I tend to decide to do something, and then by the time I get to actually doing it, it'll be like 500 years. But I do have a "rolling" backup of all of devrant's rants which is updated daily with new rants, which, already MONTHS ago, I planned(still plan to) to give it a pulic API and a basic frontend(as a website) which would give access to the backup, so that if the website gets down, the content is archived. Specifically it would also allow scrolling back more than 7d.

The main purpose was/is I have a plan to, if devrant dies and I or one of y'all decide to make devrant 2 electric boogaloo, old posts wouldn't get lost.

@D-4got10-01 Actually it's very simple (I noticed it long time ago with all the different tools I made for devrant), it just only goes as far as 7d back. Notice how the oldest rant in the list is always no more than 7d.

So it's not a software or hardware or server (or etc') bug, it's just a lack of posts. When devRant was still being worked on, 7 days worth of rants was probably enough for them to consider as the "cutoff" point [shrugg emoji]
Why not just limit by number of posts(or not limit at all?) I don't know.

Also yes, I am alive. Hi everyone.
Just busy with wars.
But I do scroll through the rants once in a few weeks.

Love y'all

Ah.
I wonder if that's why my app suddenly decided to stop working. Weird that it just crashes on start instead of displaying errors I do catch exceptions...

@D-4got10-01 I think it supports down to API level 24(Android 7.0)?

@lorentz Yeah, I accidentally put "v0.2.0-alpha" in the update detection while the version name in the app and in git is "v0.2-alpha" so it sees its version technically "differs" from the latest and concludes "Ah, there's an update"
(The checker is extremely stupid, "If my version name != github latest version name, there was an update")

It is actually pretty usable now, I've beeing using this app for the last few months, and aside from the not being able to open profiles to look at older posts of people(or myself), it is pretty usable.

Comments test

(Well, anyways, stripping the https part works)

Before: devrant.molodetz.nl/preview/youRantBeforePFP.jpg
After: devrant.molodetz.nl/preview/youRantAfterPFP.jpg

Posting from the testing account because ofc I get a stupid ass sLiM aPpLiCaTiOn ErRoR while posting which of COURSE counts and is registered against the "Can't post more than once per 2h"

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

@D-4got10-01 Yes it, thank you, I wil try XD

@Lensflare But it tickles my brain funny

So yeah that part triggered me as it sounded very manipulative and reductory. After that I tried to push through to finish the book ("maybe it gets better later") but I just couldn't force myself to read more of it, and so I never finished that book. It just felt too evil to read.

Mainly it triggered me because it forced me to imagine the effect of telling someone with a low self esteem that "Actually you don'y have low self esteem, you have too HIGH of a self esteem, lower your ego and everything will be fixed". (deadpan sarcasm) I am absolutely sure this will not do an enornous amount of long-lasting harm to someone who actually has low self-esteem.

Scared to read a book? No, not really.
Now triggered by a book, that had happened, once. I was reading a pseudo-psychological book, and in one of the first chapter it started to talk about low self esteem, and similar lacks of confidence, which the book claimed ALL stemmed from having a big ego, and that this huge ego and thinking they are the smartest and best is what causes lack of confidence or self esteem because they feel that other people don't see how special they are, and as a consequence, the solution to low self esteem is to (paraphrasing) get off your high horse and lower your ego.

A secondary(but not less important) use is the fact that's it's containerized. It makes it isolated and is a semi-security feature, if you run something in a docker and it gets compromised, it will only have access to what you explicitly give it access to.

(Do take all that I say with a grain of salt, I don't particularly like docker and will always prefer to install software on the "bare" OS rather than containers, so I'm not *SUPER* versed in docker)

TL;DR: Portability, cross-distro compatibility, security

Main use is portability and compatibility across ALL distros. A Docker image will come with all the libraries of the versions that work well with the program and (the important part) in the paths and ways the application expects. It eliminates the "but it works on my machine" problems. If it works on the dev's "machine"(docker) it will work in any distro without any distro-compatibility issues. It's also somewhat useful because you don't have to systemwide i stall libraries and tools that you use inly for one program with docker, since everything is in the docker.

Oooh
Do I smell another community dR client/tool?

@D-4got10-01 Yeah, if you an error that says something about <html>

It's caused by the 'Slim Application Error' page.
Basically, it expects a response json from the API but unexpectedly gets an HTML file and doesn't know what to do with that.

@retoor @whimsical

@retoor The neat thing about dR's api is that it always returns a json with at least `{"success": true/false}`, and if it's false there's also an "error" field, so you can just silently log the error and ignore the failure if some API call was incorrect

@retoor Just got bombarded with notifs so I assume you fixed the RSS feed

@retoor @whimsical (unsure how you will see it if no notifs, but hopefully you'll notice the rant)

@D-4got10-01 Oh, I see it now, the login icon should not be visible on the login page, that's weird.
It wasn't visible on the login page before .-.

I'll check it out later.