Merry Christmas, everyone!

I would send you all Hawk Tuah coin, but I just spent my bonus shopping for ungrateful people. Okay, they aren't ungrateful, just unappreciative.

Anyway, gonna try and avoid devrant for probably a week.

And for you other assholes: Happy Festivus!

Another weird property of the devRant API:

For every POST request the url parameters need to be passed in the http body instead of in the URL, like this:
app=3&user_id=42

Wtf why?

Communism: you have two cows. The state takes both and gives you milk for free. Then, the state sells one cow overseas for a bull, breed cows and get everyone unconditional free milk.

Capitalism: you have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You start breeding cows and selling milk. Then, Nestle comes and makes you go out of business.

What color are things that are smaller than 200 nm? You can't see them in an optical microscope anymore, so they're… they have no color at all. Yet, they exist and are perfectly visible to a scanning electron microscope.
The visible light itself has just too long of a wavelength to bounce off of an object this small.
So yeah, there are truly colorless things that aren't void.

Merry chrysler...

To all of you… PLEASE get into the DIY electronics hobby. Learn how to solder. Learn how to 3D-print. Learn basic circuit design.
The monopoly on electronics production know-how can and will be used as a mechanism of oppression. We the people should be able to rebuild the modern world from scratch out of salvaged components if need be, independent of centralized institutions.

*Reading a bug report's summary*
'Object x is displayed incorrectly when playing on PC in resolution 1024x768 or Android tablets w/ 4:3 Aspect Ratio'

*facepalms*

You, sir, are failing at basic math && basic logic, among other things.

1024x768 _has_ an Aspect Ratio of 4:3.
If only you had bothered checking, you would've know that the issue is purely related to the Aspect Ratio && !just that one resolution.

Merry x-mas.

May your uptime be long, oncall phones turned off and alerting systems quietly down for the upcoming week.

Suddenly remembered that, at one point in time, every few rants here I would read something about wordpress, and how nightmarish working on this or that blazing dumpster funeral pyre was.

So, hot take: you deserve it.

I'm sorry wordpress devs, but you do. If the whole point is getting a site up and running "without extensive coding knowledge", then the whole point is not needing to hire a developer. You get that, right? These folks straight up tried to take your job, realized they couldn't, then came back crawling, and you accepted the offer right after getting spat in the face.

Mother fucker, have some self-respect. On both sides of the equation.

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What's with the fucking dogshit companies requiring me to pay to unlock content inside and requiring subscription AFTER ME BUYING THE GAME.

Now, this is happening the second time.

I refunded GTA 5 after this shit happened but then THEY BANNED MY ACCOUNT FOR REFUNDING IT.

Microsoft is a greedy piece of shit company. I hate them. They continuously make my life harder. I'm an arch user, but I had to install Windows on another laptop. Guess what? They literally to throttle the downloads for the ISO itself unless you use their ass Media Creation Tool. Recently, they also removed some drivers from the said ISO, which literally can't be found anywhere, so they pretty much force you to use their shitty media tool from another Windows machine to get a working installation.

Facepunch is a fucking joke. They're not enabling the game run on Linux because of what? You can already cheat the fucking shit out of Rust on Windows since EAC doesn't give a shit if only 3-5 people use your cheat so you're free to cheat as long as you're not sharing it to lots of people. So why do they care so much about linux?????

can my code be less ugly pls

The 2025 IT codeword is "flanagan".

This word can be provided to other IT support teams to let them know you are also a competent IT person.

Did I restart my router? Check DNS? NTP config? Traceroute? Yep all that. Just give the proper codeword and you can get sent straight to L3 support.

Week : 69 ( Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

As we approach the final weekend of the year, let's make it count! How do you plan to spend it?

Resolutions for next week maybe?

Previous Week : https://devrant.com/rants/11708341

Previous Year - last weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/10065108

Oh man, you guys get two rants for the price of one tonight.

DEVRANT IS RUNNING REALLY FUCKING SLOW. I know the platform has been 5.999999 feet under for about 4 years now, but it's starting to get reallllly grim.

Also: single wick candles always fucking tunnel. My girlfriend is trying to say I use them wrong. I do not. I burn them for long periods of time and they still have a huge fucking coating of wax on the outside. My triple wick candle is perfect. Burns to a nice puddle of liquid wax on the top every single time. Can we get SOMEONE working on fixing this?????

I've been using Void Linux on servers for years. I decided to finally contribute some packages, and wrote a tool to make it easier to build packages outside of the standard repository. This post covers some useful tools in Void, my voidup package building tool, and many of the issues I encountered which make me wonder if I should keep support Void Linux.

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

the opposite to border collie is padding poodle or margin malamute

AI hacking attempts being spotted in the wild because they're too polite

https://someone.elses.computer/@mik...

there's actually a similar vetting process in the crypto industry where you have to swear or you won't get hired. forget why now

this seems optimistic to me because companies generally don't do security. a hacker desperate for money has less money to blow on AI hacking than someone invested in protecting their company would on AI pentesting. poor low level pentesters I guess though

Mice are so cute even when they scare me to death when scurrying from random places lol