Hey everyone,

We have a few pieces of news we're very excited to share with everyone today. Apologies for the long post, but there's a lot to cover!

First, as some of you might have already seen, we just launched the "subscribed" tab in the devRant app on iOS and Android. This feature shows you a feed of the most recent rant posts, likes, and comments from all of the people you subscribe to. This activity feed is updated in real-time (although you have to manually refresh it right now), so you can quickly see the latest activity. Additionally, the feed also shows recommended users (based on your tastes) that you might want to subscribe to. We think both of these aspects of the feed will greatly improve the devRant content discovery experience.

This new feature leads directly into this next announcement. Tim (@trogus) and I just launched a public SaaS API service that powers the features above (and can power many more use-cases across recommendations and activity feeds, with more to come). The service is called Pipeless (https://pipeless.io) and it is currently live (beta), and we encourage everyone to check it out. All feedback is greatly appreciated. It is called Pipeless because it removes the need to create complicated pipelines to power features/algorithms, by instead utilizing the flexibility of graph databases.

Pipeless was born out of the years of experience Tim and I have had working on devRant and from the desire we've seen from the community to have more insight into our technology. One of my favorite (and earliest) devRant memories is from around when we launched, and we instantly had many questions from the community about what tech stack we were using. That interest is what encouraged us to create the "about" page in the app that gives an overview of what technologies we use for devRant.

Since launch, the biggest technology powering devRant has always been our graph database. It's been fun discussing that technology with many of you. Now, we're excited to bring this technology to everyone in the form of a very simple REST API that you can use to quickly build projects that include real-time recommendations and activity feeds. Tim and I are really looking forward to hopefully seeing members of the community make really cool and unique things with the API.

Pipeless has a free plan where you get 75,000 API calls/month and 75,000 items stored. We think this is a solid amount of calls/storage to test out and even build cool projects/features with the API. Additionally, as a thanks for continued support, for devRant++ subscribers who were subscribed before this announcement was posted, we will give some bonus calls/data storage. If you'd like that special bonus, you can just let me know in the comments (as long as your devRant email is the same as Pipeless account email) or feel free to email me (david@hexicallabs.com).

Lastly, and also related, we think Pipeless is going to help us fulfill one of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from the community. Now, it is going to be our goal to open source the various components of devRant. Although there’s been a few reasons stated in the past for why we haven’t done that, one of the biggest reasons was always the highly proprietary and complicated nature of our backend storage systems. But now, with Pipeless, it will allow us to start moving data there, and then everyone has access to the same system/technology that is powering the devRant backend. The first step for this transition was building the new “subscribed” feed completely on top of Pipeless. We will be following up with more details about this open sourcing effort soon, and we’re very excited for it and we think the community will be too.

Anyway, thank you for reading this and we are really looking forward to everyone’s feedback and seeing what members of the community create with the service. If you’re looking for a very simple way to get started, we have a full sample dataset (1 click to import!) with a tutorial that Tim put together (https://docs.pipeless.io/docs/...) and a full dev portal/documentation (https://docs.pipeless.io).

Let us know if you have any questions and thanks everyone!
- David & Tim (@dfox & @trogus)

Someone asked for an RSS feed for the security/privacy blog, I thought?

Well, hereby! There are three feeds:

https://much-security.nl/main.xml - a feed which is updated with both blog posts and external links relating to privacy/security I find interesting/useful.

https://much-security.nl/own.xml - a feed only containing the blogs posts themselves. For people who are only interested in that part.

https://much-security.nl/external.x... - a feed only containing external links. For people who'd like to stay updated on recent cyber security/privacy thingies.

Tracking: every time a feed is visited, a redis value for that feed get's incremented. No time, ip addresses, user agent or whatsoever is saved. Just one variable getting increased once.

New domain name will also be revealed soon (probs tomorrow, going to bed soon as I've just been sick) :D.

Oh and just a warning, the main/external feed are the only ones populated with exactly one item right now :P

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...

TL:DR: US Border Control can detain you, force you to unlock and search all your devices without a warrant, they don't even need a hint of suspicion. Guess I aint travelling to the US in the foreseeable future. This is some North-Korea shit.

Microsoft added support for carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF) to notepad!

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/co...

THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!

Found this while getting dog food at the feed store. Turns out https://reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/... found it earlier this year. Because I didn’t see the GNU notice, aren’t they breaking it?

I'm so used to rss right now, I figured I would create a rss feed for top feeds from devrant.

Here's the unofficial devrant rss feed (based off Skayo's unofficial devRant api):

https://devrantrss.herokuapp.com/ge...

Just add this link to your rss reader (I'm using feedly) and it should be recognized instantly. Each feed will have the name of the ranter, rant, image, tags and user profile. I'm running this in free tier of Heroku. Feel free to use it.

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/Ullas-Aithal/...

It's a Node.JS script. There's a herokuBuild branch which it's heroku ready.

What do you guys think? Any comments, suggestions?

Last year, this was in my news feed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769

Will we ever see this Linus again after the COD bullshit?

What a pretentious pool shit is Instagram feed!

LinkedIn and they must be friends. (https://devrant.com/rants/4678943/...)

Sigh.

Completed a python project, started as interest but completed as an academic project.

smart surveillance system for museum

Requirements
To run this you need a CUDA enabled GPU on your computer. (Highly recommended)
It will also run on computers without GPU i.e. it will run on your processor giving you very poor FPS(around 0.6 to 1FPS), you can use AWS too.
About the project
One needs to collect lots of images of the artifacts or objects for training the model.
Once the training is done you can simply use the model by editing the 'options' in webcam files and labels of your object.

Features
It continuously tracks the artifact.
Alarm triggers when artifact goes missing from the feed.
It marks the location where it was last seen.
Captures the face from the feed of suspects.
Alarm triggering when artifact is disturbed from original position.
Multiple feed tracking(If artifact goes missing from feed 1 due to occlusion a false alarm won't be triggered since it looks for the artifact in the other feeds)

Project link https://github.com/globefire/...

Demo link
https://youtu.be/I3j_2NcZQds

https://www.devrant.io/feed/top/854
I was able to find the last page of devRant using a script. It's a cesspool of reposts and bad jokes XD

Bug in the Webapp
(maybe its already been reported before...)

If you load the new top feeds
https://www.devrant.io/feed/top/day
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
https://www.devrant.io/feed/top/all
the button "more rants" opens
https://www.devrant.io/feed/top/2

This URL doesnt work. Its reloads page 1 of the "all" feed
https://www.devrant.io/feed/top/all

The links
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
https://devrant.io/feed/top/...
don't work ("page not found")