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AI can take my job. I can't do this anymore.

Best of luck waking up 7 A.M on Mondays, logging in to work and telling in those 10 am scrum meetings “I’m still wOrking on the sAme tiCket as last friDay.”

Enjoy my job graybot.

I’m gonna go outside and remember what sunlight looks like. Maybe touch grass. Maybe grow crops. Maybe herd some cows. Idk. Might start a farm or might scream into the wind.

Me in an email: "This information was not shared with you for your entertainment, and yet..."
Translation: fuck you, you incompetent bint.

Just recently discovered fcgiwrap.

It's a huge load off to be able to write a super simple script that can respond to a web request without having to deploy a whole application. I'm toying with the idea I could do that instead of using a whole GUI framework for local applications.

I've been gone a couple months. On a secret mission. TOP SECRET.

Can anyone tell me what it was?

Where my homies at?

318 days since @ViRaS has commented.

RIP.

Just finished a big project. Want to sleep. Maybe in the morning I'll start looking at websites and services for design ideas. Whats your favorite website or url? 🌙󠄹󠄐󠅒󠅢󠅟󠅛󠅕󠄐󠅂󠅃󠄱󠄞󠄐󠅄󠅙󠅝󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅠󠅥󠅤󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅧󠅟󠅢󠅜󠅔󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅒󠅕󠅔󠄞󠄐󠅇󠅘󠅟󠄐󠅗󠅟󠅕󠅣󠄐󠅔󠅟󠅧󠅞󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅢󠅣󠅤󠄯󠄐󠅂󠅕󠅣󠅠󠅟󠅞󠅔󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅖󠅑󠅥󠅨󠄐󠅡󠅥󠅕󠅣󠅤󠅙󠅟󠅞󠄐󠄒󠅧󠅘󠅑󠅤󠅣󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠅢󠄐󠅖󠅑󠅦󠅟󠅢󠅙󠅤󠅕󠄐󠅧󠅕󠅒󠅣󠅙󠅤󠅕󠄐󠅜󠅑󠅩󠅟󠅥󠅤󠄐󠅟󠅢󠄐󠅣󠅕󠅢󠅦󠅙󠅓󠅕󠄒󠄐󠅖󠅟󠅢󠄐󠅣󠅥󠅗󠅗󠅕󠅣󠅤󠅙󠅟󠅞󠅣󠄞

Programmer's Brain at 2 AM:

Bug appears at 2 PM: “I'll fix it later.”

Bug appears at 2 AM:
“This is a personal attack. I will not sleep until this line of code regrets its existence.”

💻🧃Now running on Redbull and vengeance.

Long enough pretended to be a software dev. This is what I really do in daily life: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/2025061...

I destroy electronics for recycling.

Also, oftem have to destroy brand new stuff. https://devrant.molodetz.nl/2025061...

"True wireless" :p. I destroy around 60 electronics per hour. Also iPhones often. Today THE classic iPod almost. But someone stole it. It's such environment.

I don't like how my company keeps looking for bandage solutions instead of technology solutions.

We are a security company and we have an agent. We aren't allowed to drop binaries in customer environment because compliance.

Okay, fair enough. But we still are running powershell and posix sh scripts like nobody's business.

I suggested using embedded Lua or MicroPython or our own DSL or something. But that idea was shot down because embedding Lua or MicroPython could open up attack surface.

But I feel running PowerShell isn't the best idea either because simply having it enabled isn't the best practice.

And can't do our own DSL because of the engineering overhead. Fair enough, I guess.

So, I suggested running embedded C# in our PowerShell scripts so we could have greater control over the virtual patches we ship. And, it was shot down because compliance. I am not even dropping binary. This C# code will be JIT compiled and executed in memory.

So, I suggested going deep into WMI queries, but this was shot down because WMI queries are another attack vector and may not be enabled on the customer end.

We constantly receive feedback from customer regarding how we can build virtual patches that would bypass their local group policies.

So, I am confused now. Maybe its just skill issue for me or maybe its something else. But I am all out of ideas and I don't know what other innovative solution I can offer.

I see we need some more anti-spam accounts.

Calling everyone to adopt some new ones (https://devrant.com/rants/16155083/...)

Open this to adopt: https://birth.molodetz.nl/

Also, can we get some praise for @retoor's awesome work, she deserves some more praise

For me, per day:
-> what the client pays/ what the gatekeeping consultancy sells me for: 1200 (profit +- 400/66%)
-> what the gatekeeping consultancy pays/ what my consultancy sells me for: 600 (profit +- 200/66% - extralegal advantages cost)
-> what my consultancy pays me gross: 300
-> what I get net after wage taxes: 150

The state takes +- 500 in wage & company tax in the whole process.
That´s why I give you my full 20%-capacity effort.

PM is on his period again

Opened devRant after exactly 4 years. Brings back so many memories!!
Hello again, devRant community! What's life like rn?

Dear employers, DO NOT FUCK WITH A PERSON'S DOCTORS. My doctors are paid to help me. If that means helping to sue your asses, they'll do it in a heart beat. Don't give them motivation.

My employer made dubious claims to my doctors in an occupational health referral. I've requested a copy of the referral. In the hopes I might not get a copy of the referral they've pushed this to my doctors as they don't want to give it to me. Because they've lied. Or they think I won't jump through the hoops to get access to MY OWN MEDICAL RECORDS.

Stack Overflow has really gone to shit. I had a bad experience with a recent Qt6/Python question, or really two questions both of which were closed and deleted!

I was just going to ignore it, but some recent talk on the Fediverse made me write up a full post about it:

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

Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/15770605/... .

It's fun getting to know a new city.
Also, it's fun learning where the key players are located...

High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/11BS.jp... .

...especially when they're in walking distance.

I have purchased a few games by them like 'Beat Cop', 'This War of Mine', && 'Frostpunk' but have yet to find the time && will to try them out.

How do you mentally check out and stop caring at a toxic job?

Been at this big fintech for 4 months. Small teams, impossible deadlines, undefined tasks, missing specs, constant context switching. Everyone's doing overtime/weekends while management sets you up to fail then blames you. Performance evaluations every 3 months.

Was literally about to quit tomorrow but need the paycheck. So I'm turning this into an experiment - I'm a recovering people-pleaser who's never set boundaries at work. 9 years in my career, never been fired, I left multiple times due to burnout in the past.

Time to see what happens when I stop caring about pleasing incompetent managers and their made-up deadlines. Work at my own pace until they get tired of me. How do you actually do this though?

- How to not give into false sense of urgency induced stress?
- Ask for proper specs without feeling guilty?
- Work slower and not hate yourself for it?
- Push back on unrealistic expectations?

I'm burned out and need to learn how to be strategically as mediocre as possible for my own sanity.

Anyone been through this mindset shift?

man i fucking hate my company.

somehow the largest in the industry but fuck me are we retards at software engineering.

wrapping popular api's and not exposing basic functionality, only to hide them behind some stupid fucking enterprise abstraction for some fucking dumb reason

wrapping fundamental java objects like int into their own fucking enterprise int, like for fucking why?

and finally blocking chatgpt that allowed me to deal with half of this fucking enterprise hell

stupid fucking shit

If your manager is an asshole in unrecorded 1-on-1's, buy a dictaphone.

Let me present you a new term: Boomersoftware

Definition: As long as it has an exorbitant licensing cost it is good software. Whether its used at home or by IT in the office does not matter. Specifically when a foss alternative exists.

Examples:
Microsoft Windows (Especially server or embedded)
Most types of antivirus software
Software
VM-Ware/Hyper-V
Allen-Bradley Studio 5000
Most WYSIWYG document editors

Wtf is up with some education providers? Even the de facto industry leaders have half-assed courses. Not many are super high quality. They sound like they are speaking into a mic, forced to do it. Nothing like YouTube, more like middle-aged, depressed men with no life with no energy. I'd much rather learn elsewhere. This is akin to how some university professors give some lectures. Where are the passionate teachers of our world?

The ones that I enjoyed were: MIT, Harvard and Stanford. Perhaps it has to do with money. lol.

I think HR is the first role that could truly be replaced by an LLM.

Tech is getting lazier. I think it started with showing you countless ads for things you just bought and now it's not bothering to even give good music reccomendations.

We're the problem.

when you donate your body to science in the US, it may legally be used as a dummy to test weapons.

ISP throttlin
they raging
wreckin my deadlines
so shamelessly
so I'm cancelling
fuck yeah I'm cancelling
eat it sick fucks

I think GDPR is a pain in the ass but my employer has lied to my doctors about my medical information so suddenly I really like GDPR.

I finished Hogwarts Legacy. This game had so much potential, but was an ultimate disappointment.

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/...

Hi guys, I just joined...
I hope we have fun...😅

Challenge for today: tell someone who micromanages that they are micromanaging and see what happens! I never saw our politically, culturally, morally, vibe'ly correct HR lady lose her shit so much :D funny how someone drops all masks when something vulnerable gets touched