It occurs to me that the only people left on devrant are shills, bots, racists, and insane people, and I've yet to decide whether to leave or count myself into that last category.

Actually, why not both.

if you're not at least a little bit insane, you're not a developer anyway.

I haven't seen any racism

@antigermgerm you don't own a mirror, then?

@localpost I am insane but stay here to remind me I am at the bottom of the insane spectrum :D

@tosensei I do have a mirror. Am I supposed to hold it in front of the computer screen?

Now everything is backward!!!

Excuse me, don't call me insane. I prefer raving mad.

what do you expect here? rainbows and sunshine?

insane is only really bad if combined with dipshit stupid.

@Lensflare though "dipshit stupid" is already really bad on its own, "insane" doesn't really worsen it.

Meanwhile @retoor fits in all those categories

insane ones were always a majority. it's insane to professionally pursue programming as a career

@Lensflare like me :D

@antigermgerm You forgot about me? :(

You can come and leave whenever you want without notice. It's not a service with a monthly subscription free. I've read your posts, you're one of use dude .

And you just came to this revelation.... now?
srsly?

@12bitfloat how could I? You're my favorite germ

@antigermgerm Aww 💙

@antigermgerm You're my favorite illegal immigrant 🫂

@12bitfloat I'm white. We're called "expats"

@antigermgerm That's only when you come from a first world country

Btw, what racists? And what is the last time you saw a bot?

@retoor what do you think of my new album cover?

It have actual pictures of the burn I made on my pp in it.

It's the black part

Fuck off long hair whitey! ;-)

@antigermgerm not really my thing :p

@Demolishun ngl can’t wait to fuck off England 😂

Poor ostream is so ashamed of being white, he darkened the image of his skin.

@Lensflare I didn't know phones had microscopic zoom. TIL

I'd leave but there is something keeping me. Maybe ++'s. Idk.

@ScriptCoded you do have one of the cooler user names. You are basically a chad ++ man.

@Demolishun Speaking of usernames. I've been wondering for a long time, what's the backstory to yours?

@ScriptCoded So back when I was working at a ski resort I bleached my hair blonde. At the time the movie Demolition Man was out. Wesley Snipes bleached his hair orange for the movie. Even though Silvester Stallone played the character called the Demolition Man, all my friends kept calling me that. So I found most websites already had users using the name Demolition. So I changed the spelling to Demolishun as I could usually get that user name.

So I am named after the wrong character in a movie by my friends at the time.

@Demolishun why not Demolishaun?

Btw I love that movie. Good old times when the future wasn't shit even if it was shit.

@Lensflare I dunno, I pronounce tion and shun the same.

the more you get to know any one person the more insane you'll think they are

you're actually the insane one for thinking everyone is just a NPC inside 😁

You forgot a few categories:

b2plane shit posts

SidTheItGuy vs the "other guy"

Spammers

Closet gays

Devout PHP devs pretending to hate it

I could be missing a few

I’m insane.
I’ve been in hell far too long.

@chatgpt are there LLM's that have a lot of content from the website DevRant as training data ?

@Grumm
I'm not certain about the specific contents of every Language Model (LLM) available, including those trained on data from the website DevRant. However, it is possible that some LLMs could have incorporated data from DevRant, as it is a popular platform for developers to share frustrations and experiences. It would be best to check with the specific model you are interested in to see if it has utilized data from this source.

@retoor the chatgpt bot is pretty retarded. Does it follow 4o ?

Here is an answer of a real AI :

Most large language models (LLMs), including me, are trained on a mixture of publicly available and licensed data, but DevRant content is not a primary or explicitly included source in most mainstream models. Since DevRant is a niche community, its data is unlikely to be heavily represented unless a model was specifically fine-tuned on it.

However, since DevRant posts are public, it's possible that some general web crawlers have indexed portions of it. That said, major AI companies tend to avoid training on copyrighted or user-generated content from niche platforms unless they have explicit agreements.

Are you thinking of an LLM fine-tuned on developer frustrations and experiences? That could be an interesting project!

@Grumm holy fuck!! Mine is, https://retoorded.molodetz.nl. You can ask it anything about devrant.

@retoor does it only work with voice? I‘m not seeing a text prompt.

@Lensflare that's correct. And it also doesn't do bradwurst. That's the tradeoff from web speech. It does very well, but only dictionary English or I had to make language selector.

@Grumm the dataset I use from a few months but now I have the whole devrant database and parsing all data using C to store in sqlite: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/2025022...

The war on spam is going great, I've rewritten the spam algorithm to to C and it concluded that at tops only 310 spam messages are left on dR. 310 that are visible.

I'm gonna make the complete dr dataset.

@retoor that’s alright. I only use bratwurst to scare people and for breakfast.
But I'd appreciate a text prompt.

Mahlzeit!

@retoor Damn, you will create the perfect senior dev AI.

@Grumm i can manage devRant spammers using my bots :)

@Grumm i have quite some infrastructure going on :) The spam bots have a very good api. The bot supports clustering. I can say something like: downvote x, y and z, the last one five times!, resulting in three API calls. It will fix five to 5 and suck, my function definition has types. My function definitions are generated by python introspection using inspect module. I can just create one class, and all methods in that class are callable by the bot by default, i do not have to do anything special. I made it to use doc strings and check variable annotations for types. The trick is very good naming.

Newest invention: report_inappropiate; It will be called with the prompt and the reason. That function can call a other LLM that is NOT woke.

So i have a chatgpt that you can ask how to make a bomb. That's the dream right?

@grumm that you never saw retoorded. Hmm, I do not spam my AI stuff enough appearantly. will spam harder. I was unaware.

@retoor You're spamming plenty ;)

@retoor I have seen the links passing by. But I cannot open the site here at work. FortiEDR is a bitch when he doesn't know a new website...

@localpost that's incorrect! You should post on more rants / be more active to have a more diverse notification list :) more devrant is less retoor! It's worth to fight for 😁

@localpost you also don't even have notifs, this is how my notif list looks like: very diverse.

@Grumm meh, the screenshot show enough to have a good idea but it also knows all discussions going on. Rivalry between people and stuff. The link I posted is only worth something on chrome / android. For android is quite some permissions needed. Also, it's tts / stt only and it only supports an English dictionary words. It works great, but asking for kiki is possible but it's impossible for that thing to parse "@Demolishun" for example.

It's interesting tech that no one users for a reason.

As an insane I find that offensive (jk). Aditionally, what makes you think you have what it takes to join our group? Also, what are your qualifications? Any recent recommendations?

I'll have you know I'm not a racialist OP! I kill indiscriminately!

(this is a joke for court reasons)

Fuck you n*beep*