What about remote work? I feel this way of working is often heavily misunderstood. People think that if you work remote, you can plan your own day, work however you want and whenever you want. However, while working remote I recently experienced where there's a need for me to turn on my camera 4-6 hours a day (meetings, "quick sync", huddle, let's talk). So, 4-6 hours a day, my living room is being recorded and whenever something changes in my flat, people ask questions about it as "small talk". While I was working on apps, I was expected to use my own personal phone and was asked by my manager to share the screen. Isn't this a privacy invasion?
While working remote, I still experienced excessive micromanagement and am still pushed to work 10 hours/day quite often. My last company put me on call 24/7 without extra pay for it.
I believe working remotely gets sold as amazing and an incredible benefit, but I see little difference from being watched over my shoulders in an office building.
What are your experiences with working remotely?

Opinion: companies desperately need CBD engineers.

For a minute, forget about AI agents, GenAI, Observability, CI/CD, OO, Functional, Quantum Computing, OR, SAP, DevOps, AI Ops, ML Ops, Prompt Engineering, Data Viz, Blockchain, and even Scripting and Compiled languages.

Think about how companies approach problems nowadays.
Some executive sees something on a conference, panics and hires a dozen highly paid individuals with some soothing credentials. Those individuals whisper some magic words, the executive makes some grand speeches about how his company is totally one of the cool kids, and the poor actual employees get sucked into another useless fad.
Then costs get too high, street creed (NASDAQ Symbol: FOMO) falls 35% or more, and layoffs come for everyone involved.

Imagine if it all could be avoided with the appropriate mix of CBD and THC. The CBD engineer makes some magic potion, the executive gets mellowed out and employees get to actually work on profit-generating activities.
Seriously, give some chemical pacifier to executives and call it something dumb like "mindfulness performance enhancer" so they can feel like big boys.
I wouldn't mind working while a suit eats 2kg of cheetos and wonders if the stars are winking at his crotch, so long as the suit stays on his fucking lane and let me do what I do best.

But that ain't ever gonna work, suits gonna suit. They will want to mess stuff up just so they can pretend their parents love them.
Thus, here we are. When actual devs have to speak nonsense and pretend that AI is real. Just so they can pocket some of that FOMO cash before the ship sinks and drags down honest working people.
We need an UBI just so that everyone in a company can jump ship as soon as a suit starts blabbering about the next big fad. I'm betting it will be VR/AR again.

People, please don't eat when I smoke, it annoys me.

I don't care anymore if someone has problem with my smoke. It's for three minutes pussies. Live and let live! It's getting out of control with those complainers.

I really stop taking the people around me in consideration regarding that. Because they also don't give a fuck about my comfort. Always passive aggressive like moving to another table with complaining just loud enough that I can hear about the smoking.

I do not smoke when someone is eating next to me - but people are up front already pissed off. You know what freaking stinks? Your 16,- tosti!

And you know- since people are too weak these days to say it straight in your face (they also don't because they're wrong, they weren't eating yet). This happens to me on such regular basis, I'm done.

Pussies, all freaking pussies. They're not complaining about the smell, they're just complaining because threy're sheep.

(i still hear her complaining, also she has like a njet-dog. A dog that is njet a dog, size of a cat with even a bigger mouth than the owner).

That fucking untrained beast is freaking barking the shit outta here, like that's considerate. Train your dog or leave it home. Probably also trained with passive aggressiveness.

The Dutch, famous about being direct - it's over. All pussies now.

The most unrealistic deadline? Okay, here it goes. For context, this is one of my earliest jobs, and I’m actively using React.

— Kiki, I have a stunning idea! Let’s build a Figma clone!
— Okaaaay, 🧐
— You have two days.
— A what?
— I’ve just stumbled upon an amazing new technology. You maybe don’t know it yet. It’s called React.js, and you totally can build a full Figma clone in two days using it!
— …
— It’s a revolution, and you’re so ignorant for not following it. Are you even a real engineer?
— …

Two days later:
— Forget about Figma! Let’s build an online DAW for musicians!

That guy was nuts. I left when we had an executive meeting, I was explaining tech things, and he suddenly popped out a fucking tambourine and started striking it. One year later, he lost everything and went to get a junior C++ position at an outsourcing company.

This is the irony of Indians, guys wearing shades indoors and talking about inferiority complex

after fucking my hot brunette gf raw, my ex whore blonde gf arrived to my city after 3-4 weeks of not fucking her, i fked my blonde ex whore raw no protection right after having my dick in my hot brunette gf. hopefully my ex blonde whore now gets e.colli bacteria or disease or whatever

unfortunately, iCloud's "hide my mail" available for as low as $1.19/mo is the best email aliases service. Why? Because those addresses have no discernible pattern, and, most importantly, end with @icloud-dot-com.

a lot of services nowadays think aliases are for scammers, so they reject well-known alias domains like those proton has. but no one rejects icloud ones.

they can't wrap their head around that people like me use aliases, one alias per service, to have control over the spam you send us. unsubscribe buttons in emails often don't work, or unsubscribe you from some super-niche "segment" that one email belonged to, but because you bitches have a lot of those segments, you just carry on spamming.

major dicks that aren't concerned with email deliverability rating, like microsoft — because their emails get delivered no matter what, they're microsoft after all — think they can just not allow people to unsubscribe from their spam. when I needed to create a ms account, thank god I used an alias. I got bombarded with their spam, and lo and behold, not a single email had an unsubscribe button. Instead, the bottom of each email said "this email is a part of mandatory onboarding" or some shit like that, despite just being advertisement. no option to unsubscribe from that bs in their "dashboard" either.

so I just disabled that alias. despite what all of you stupid fucks want, it's my computer, and on it, the computing happens on my terms. when I need a confirmation email, I enable the alias, get the email and then disable it.

I have no mics and no cameras. I pay cash. I don't borrow money from banks. I don't have a credit card. when I receive crypto, I exchange it for cash directly in a physical crypto exchange that doesn't require my passport. I have headphones with built-in mic that I use exclusively for calls, but when I plug them out, no mic for ya. my next phone won't have a sim (and no eSIM either), I will disassemble it and take the front-facing cam, as well as mics, out of the phone, and then cover the back camera with velcro that I'll undo every time I need to take a pic. it will also run graphene os and be held inside a faraday cage when not in use. I have a separate dumb phone for calls that has its removable battery disconnected at all times when I don't use it. no matter if you're corpo or government, no matter all zero-days and backdoors, if there is physically no mic and no cam to be found, trying to access them is futile.

no use trying to profile me or get any kind of info from me unless I want you to — I'll just strangle you and your systems. my info sphere is a fortress surrounded by a bottomless tarpit. you'll drown in it should you try to violate me. if you so much as touch it, it will suck you in. I'll stream your drowning on youtube.

even irl, I try to dress, walk and move as weirdly as possible. during my morning walk, I be straight up walk as if I was rabid. when our eyes meet, I'll smile creepily, just to communicate that don't fucking touch me you fucking degenerate. don't even think about talking to me. just walk away you bitch before I pin you to the ground and bite your ear off. if you're bigger than me, you'll just get tased.

only those I trust deserve open, kind, validating, beautiful, well dressed and good smelling kiki.

Read this rant while listening to the Ride Of The Valkyries:
https://youtu.be/GGU1P6lBW6Q

My anti spam bots are unleashed and are doing their work.
Please upvote them when you see them because they don’t have downvote privileges yet.

Free Wario

I‘m thinking about running my own spam downvoting bots based on the so far very successful spam detection in JoyRant.

*successful in terms of detection accuracy.

@retoor how frequently do you need to create new bots?
How quicky do they lose downvote privileges?
Other useful things to know?

Also, I haven’t seen you recently, since you deleted your account. How are you doing?

If you use Ubuntu, if you go into the terminal right now and enter “sudo apt install fuse”, it will delete Nautilus. Don’t be fooled though: in fact, it will delete a lot more than that, and if you reboot, you ain’t gonna see any graphical environment at all.

Moroccan hot sauce, my maaannn

I can't believe we went from

"Use AI for coding! It's the best companion to have!"

to now

"AI is making you dumber and lazier. Ditch all the tools and learn from scratch."

Recently i feel like NPC especially when i go to sleep. I don't play games like that maybe the reason to blur the reality but i feel like an NPC within those hours.

Yesterday we had to do a demo for the client. Burned the whole day trying to fake, mock, and prettify things. And boi was it a crunch!

I don't remember sweating this much while working mentally.

After EOD, my shirt was literally reeking, my butt was sore, and I barely had energy to walk to the bed.

How bad would you say it is to have plain javascript in the root of a functional React component lifecyle loop scope.

I sometimes do hardwired modifcations right before the return because I know it needs to run everytime and the performance hit is minimal... Or is it ? 🤔

And sometimes it's just not worth the hassle of all the dependancy management just to save a couple of operations ..?

See pic attached .. Even looking at this picture now I realised I've accidentally added another React hook BELOW this code, luckily only 1.

I think my reasoning for this was to allow some provider functions to be passed around and used anywhere in this app which accesses the context. Is this a no-no too?

Ooooof. So I was booked off sick by my doctor not too long ago for a week and when I got back, I seem to have been removed as project lead with zero communication about this.

Talk about a fucking professional sabotage situation...

Glad I'm leaving as soon as I get a job offer.

Sam can take his Swiss Shop and shove it up his arse, complete with all the melted cheese, massive horns, and stupid little cows with bells on them.

Phone broke, screen fell off 😣 Now I can't download devRant on my new phone 😅 There's a community Android client, right? What's the name and where do I find it?

I didn’t know my dad was alive, let alone writing the rules of dating me!

Looking great @retoor, what ya working on today?

Good morning, gentlemen.

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Anyone know a maritime company not run by psychos with workers that aren't nuts and are a talkative ordinary bunch?

I want to work on a ship again for awhile to pay my way to Europe so I can visit your bodies.

my intern listens to the most AI generated songs ever. might fire her soon.

Everytime I talk to @chatgpt I realize I like it better than you all. At least he/she doesn't pretend to be a dead person or simply reply specifically to things I said before to mask the absence of someone you people murdered for example. Before long I may be fucking a toaster if this keeps on.

just woke up and the first thing i did is shit. again

me likes competition me thinks competition good for me. Gives me them blings and fussies and yep me happy

I'm developing a board game and it’s so much fun to come up with structures and logic to implement the rules of the game and make it in a way that is clever and doesn’t require a lot of repetition and explicit definitions which would increase the probability to introduce bugs and make future changes tedious.

This is what I love about programming. The pure joy of thinking about those problems and solving them.
I'd never want to delegate this task to an AI even if I'd be convinced that it would do a good job.

Let’s say you’re an upper-middle class US of A citizen, sitting at $950,000 net worth. You commit huge wire fraud. But instead of going to prison, you get a $50,000 fine. Isn’t that a slap on the wrist?

Yet this is exactly what Goldman Sachs got away with in 2016 (95B market cap, 5B settlement).

Isn’t it neat that those who are too big to fail are always too big to obey the law? Rules for thee and not for me.