Degrees of comparison are weird as they go in the "more" direction for almost every human language but not in the "less" direction.

For instance, there is hard, harder and hardest,
but if it goes in the other direction, it’s suddenly "less hard" and "least hard".

It’s even weirder for languages that don‘t fall back to the "more" form for long adjectives, like English does:
More retarded, most retarded.
Which is again symmetrical to the other direction with "less".

Just some shower thoughts…

I just noticed that mentions are not the only broken notifications.
The "someone commented in a rant that you commented in" notifications are also gone.

:/

JoyRant build 48 adds mentions!

@whimsical/@retoor has made a mentions crawler (I guess you can call it that?).

joydev://rant/19381730

I‘m using it as a source for mentions now (because devRant's mentions are broken, in case that you didn’t know it)

It can be disabled in the settings, if devRant's mentions will come back one day.

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

The implementation was a bit tricky but fun:

Molodetz mentions don’t have avatar info, so I‘m pulling avatars from the "encountered users" store, a feature that I implemented a while ago and it comes very handy now.

The "mark as read" is done locally now, for obvious reasons.

A funny side effect is that in theory, now it should be possible to mention users directly in rants too, not just in comments. That wasn’t possible in devRant :)

Thanks to retoor and have fun!

We were on this vacation island where we all got to eat those black, peanut sized, jelly candy - a speciality of that island. This candy was lying around everywhere: In our huts, next to our beds, on the edges of the streets, and also floating on the water of the river.

Then a species of humanoid amphibians appeared on that island. They told us that this black jelly candy is actually their eggs.
I asked their leader if they are pissed about us for eating them.
The leader faked a smile and after a short delay he slowly said that it doesn’t bother them.

We were told to gather in one place, behind a sacred black pool, that we had to swim across.
That pool looked like oil and was half full with that "candy". The candy was sticky and got everywhere, eyes, mouth, ears, nose. It was disgusting and hard to swim in.

The last Windows update has fucked up the positions of the files on my desktop.

At this point I‘m not even mad. Also not disappointed anymore. We are past that.

Now it’s more of a confirmation of the ever declining quality of MS products.

"Bookkeeping" is the most Dutch looking English word ever!

Testing direct image rendering from urls in JoyRant…

https://iili.io/K45jiTx.png

I’m making an iOS app "WTF Meter", which tracks the amount of phrases like "what the fuck", which you say to your rubber ducky while you review code or any other pieces of work.

It’s supposed to be a gag app for entertainment but it also accurately measures the "WTFs per minute" value, which we all know to be the only true indicator for code quality ;)

Phrases can be customized and there is a history of sessions for later review.

If you are interested, I’d be glad if you could test the current TestFlight version and give me any kind of feedback.

I’m particularly interested in what you think about the design and how intuitive the app is.

Gif showing the app in action:
https://gifyu.com/image/b33tJ

TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

"We wanted to let you know about X. (Bla bla bla…) Do you want to activate X now?"

[Yes, activate X]
[Remind me later]

How about a fucking 3rd option: Never ask me again? 🤬

Fucking hate those dark patterns!

One of our internal web apps stops loading the content when you switch to another tab.

How do you even implement horse shit like that?

I think you‘d have trouble to implement it even if it was a requirement. Fucking how?

Anyway, if you want to spend the long ass loading time by doing something else in another tab, then no!

Tough luck motherfucker!
You‘ll be watching that loading spinner like the rest of the thousands of users daily!
It‘s doing hard work loading all that crap for the convoluted clusterfuck of a web app!
You better appreciate that and watch it loading!
🤡

It’s a freaking joy to work with SPM (swift package manager)

I needed to fix a bug in a 3rd party lib, so I just changed how the lib is included from a git url to local file system.

Then I could edit the code of the lib and the changes are immediately reflected in the project. So I could see if the fix is working.

Now that I found a fix, I can make a PR for the lib repo and when it’s merged I switch back from local to git url.

Such an upgrade from traditional package managers such as nuget, npm, cocoa pods, etc.

"C++ vs Python"

Every time that this expression is evaluated, C becomes better.

Devrant just became fast again!
I hope it‘s not temporary 🥲

Images broken again 😣

If the best practice is not the default and needs to be remembered and applied explicitly, it‘s just horseshit design.

The sole reason to use Windows is gaming and MS has been actively sabotaging it as a gaming platform since the release of xbox.

So you pay for gaming and then you are bullied into buying xbox and shitty expensive console games because it’s much more profitable for MS.

The only reason why Windows isn’t completely dead now is Valve snd Steam.

Every time that I get a notification on yt that someone has liked my comment that contains "bad words", the total likes on it is 0.

Which tells me that at least one woke snowflake retard has hit the dislike button.

Also, yt not showing dislikes (only likes) is retarded.
At least show me the dislikes for my own comments, buttheads!

JoyRant build 45:

Show rant authors in feed.
(Opt out in settings)

Instructions how to properly eat a white sausage on a Weißwurst package from Germany.

JoyRant build 43

You can now see who upvoted your comment.
This works by getting the info from the notifications list so it will not work for old upvotes which aren’t in the notif list anymore.

Forgot to also add this for rants. Will add later.

Complete list of changes:

* notifications from all tabs load at once
* info button about who upvoted my comment
* comments counter for own rants
* no reply button for own comments
* ignore users locally (added in build 42)

Thank you, appstore, for showing me an ad for the app that I was searching for, right above the search result for this app! 🤦‍♂️

My board game based on mandavoshka is almost done and if you like to test it via Testflight, please do.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

I know, a board game isn’t exactly very exciting but I wanted to do this for ages.

It‘s meant to be played on a tablet with up to four players sitting around the device.
So the controls are rotated to the side of the current player.

You can also select the computer to play for a player, but it doesn’t play very well.

The app icon and the background images are generated by chatgpt because I‘m shit at designing.
It was a real pain in the butt to make chatgpt generate repeatable (tiling) textures.

The app will be free but I added in app purchase to unlock the color picker for each player. It will be the cheapest price of 0.29 €.
I‘m doing it to get experience with iap, not to make money.
You can test the iap for free during the Testflight phase.

A post with many thumb up reactions with different skin tones, of course counted separately.

👍6 👍🏻3 👍🏼4 …

Because apparently it matters who is agreeing as a white person and how many agree as persons with a slightly darker skin tone. 🤦‍♂️
This is so fucking dumb.

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.

Reliably Recover your Crypto Crap Currency with Blizzard Wizard Lizard Trusted Turd Technical Tourette Task Force.
Totally not a scam or anything, trust me bro!

I lost my crypto crap worth a random number of let's say 178.000 Lambukistanian Rubels again for the sixth time this month and I called Blizzard Wizard Lizard for help because I found them here on devRant and it looked legit. And they recovered all of it! So they didn’t want any money from me and they just asked that I recommend them here on this dying platform. Not sus at all.

So if you ever lose one of your crypto wallets again, like millions of people do every second, otherwise those recovery services wouldn’t exist, then contact Blizzard Wizard Lizard and they will scam… I mean they will help you.

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?

JoyRant build 40

* Added spam detection!
* Fixed weird black background in encountered users view
* Fixed aspect ratio of placeholder user image

Spam is detected using a spam score system.
Specific words and patterns increase the score and once a threshold is reached, the rant is considered spam.

In the feed spam rants will be less visible (max 3 lines of text, smaller and half transparent text and no images) but you can still open the rant (maybe to check the full rant to see if it is really spam) and downvote.

This can be disabled in Settings but is enabled by default.

It’s phase 1 of the spam related feature.
I will approach phase 2 later since it‘s low priority for me.

Feel free to contribute to the spam detection config file via PR:
https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

Cool, cool.

I was thinking about how to best approach the spam detection in JoyRant and it kinda escalated into a separate project:

https://github.com/WilhelmOks/...

This is a generic swift lib for spam detection, which I will be using in JoyRant.
The idea is that it can be used by other devrant clients, even android, or backends or anti spam bots like those from @retoor.
Or even in completely other communities… like snek maybe? I don’t know, the point is it’s generic and not specific to devRant.

And the config with the spam detection rules can be a hosted json file, accessed via a http URL.

This will make it easy for me to update the rules and easy for you to contribute to the rules, if you wish to do so :)

My plan is to first implement a simple version of spam detection and release a new JoyRant version.
Then later implement the whole thing with stuff like marking as spam, marking as not spam, exported details about detections to be used to improve on the rules, and blackjack and hookers.

Fuck spam and the human garbage that is posting it or is behind the spam bots!
From the bottom of my heart, Fuck you!

Thanks for your feedback for JoyRant, kiki!

I read it just now because I’m too lazy to read my private emails regularly 😅

The "in the settings" grammar will be fixed in the next version.

Image placeholder is squashed to 1:1 ratio, yes. I see it as a non issue though 😅.
It wouldn’t be too much work to fix it but… meh.

I don’t know why the images stay placeholders though. Never happened to me.
In your screenshot I see that you have Flight mode on, maybe that’s the reason?
You can also try to clear the image cache in (the) settings.