Those website that hijack your scrollbar and has some custom scroll animations are even worse. They do look nice but i hate them so much

@whimsical Yea, it's a stupid system and our structure has so many loopholes. A typical IT package includes company car, fuel/charging card, eco voucher, insurance, smartphone, phone subscription, sport voucher

Heck, my previous company even gave us a monthly budget to buy literature related to our job... But you guessed it, nobody used it for that and just pocketed the €5 (which was taxed less compared to adding that €5 to the salary after taxes). Same for money for your car wash etc.

Those stuff are not added to your salary before taxes but only after taxes

But I did expect the pay raise to be max 33% but only seeing a difference of 4.2% stings. (To be fair, my salary uses less loopholes is less optimized but still).

@AlgoRythm I still don't understand how one of the riches countries never made it mandatory for workers to take x days of holiday. Apparently companies in the US are not even forced to give PTO. In most of EU countries, it is at least 20 days by law excluding the holidays like xmas.

For the remaining 12 days, our work week by law is 38 hours but a lot of companies employ their workers for 40 hours and give them then 1 day holiday per month when employed at that company. If you start in begin of November, that would only be 2 days. So this way, you have 32 days of holiday (but more like 20 days of holiday and 12 days of overtime that you can take whenever).

Even companies are forced for their employees to take the 20 mandatory holidays off, they can get fined if there is proof that they try to stop the workers from taking it. (and employees are taxed a lot if they do not take those days).

Heck, we even have the right to take 2 consecutive weeks off in the summer.

@freshlyfe Thanks, I'm located in West-Europe

@wojtek322 It's the end of the work day and he still has delivered : ) :) :) :) :)

@D-4got10-01 Oh wow, it's also posted here. I saw it on a linkedin post lol

It's still funny to me that some "dangerous knowledge" that you want can be just be bypassed by saying, I'm writing a book and in my world xyz and how would this affect <something>

Maybe he tried and failed and needed help with it. We probably all needed help with a very basic problem that is too obvious for some people.

Heck, my ex-boss admitted he recently learned how to peel potatoes and he is nearly 50.

@D-4got10-01 I did ask it on multiple occasions and i got the backend promised multiple times either in 1 or 2 days. I had a 1-on-1 meeting with that backend guy (my manager) yesterday where i did mention it multiple times. He promised, again, that I'll receive it today

What's going on lol

I've heard people call it a heisenbug

A computer bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-p...

@afaIk Norwegian (Bokmål, not nynorsk)

Chatgpt does mix them up from what I've noticed and I have barely any experience in the language :D

@CaptainRant Yeah, pinging @dfox for this urgent css fix :)

@c3r38r170 Oh yeah, those channels were fun for some time. Rslash is still doing a good job at it.

I do wonder if those youtubers can be linked to a decrease in literacy amongst younger people

Even one of the biggest WW2 youtubers made a video that is anti-AI https://youtube.com/watch/...

I can understand that you write a text yourself and then validates it with an AI. You surely can learn something this way, no doubt (but if it is humanlike or correctly done for niche languages is an other question).

But actually just vibe prompting your task? I do not believe she learned something from it.

@whimsical But is it a bad thing if the internet dies? If their interaction in reddit, facebook, instagram, ... is not longer human-to-human or human-to-business. Then there might not be a use anymore and smaller niche communities might start to thrive again. Maybe we will see local forums again, hopefully.

You can say what you want but at least devRant feels like a more human-to-human experience than reddit at this point. Even if the users of devRant is a bit weird.

But at least this time it is not AI ad spam, so improvements?

@retoor For a few months, I got a lot of AI slop about historical events with generic war footage. I do also get quite a bit of AI slop about financial stuff or AI background footage.

But those are either youtube shorts or youtube ads.

It's been some time since I got AI slop about historical events but now only AI slop about financian investments or AI crypto ads. My videos I watch have nothing to do with investments and they nearly all have sub 25 likes

@jestdotty I know the pain, I usually immediately check if that if that artist/band has a wiki or a website with touring dates or an metal-archives.com or an instagram/facebook with actual pictures of them playing. It also feels that Spotify is really pushing a lot of 'unknown' bands.

I do feel bad for the newer bands and it does suck to find a great sounding band that seems to not exist

Recently a friend encountered that her book was going being shipped the next day. The next day, it got pushed back to march 2026 somehow lol

@Lensflare Thanks for your service o7

@Lensflare Unsure, css units are a mess; cm, mm, in, px, pt, pc, em, ex, ch, rem, vw, vh, vmin, vmax, percentages.

No idea why we need that many

@TerriToniAX

I assume it is the following, haven't tried it yet. I do kinda like it

Notepad -> Settings -> (opening Notepad subtitle) -> When Notepad starts -> Start new session and discard unsaved changes

@CaptainRant em is relative to the parent font size. Also pixels in css has problems with accessibility webbrowser tools from what I have heard (did not doublecheck). Em or rem or vw/vh should be the way to go

It can be changed in the settings of notepad

@antigermanist I see. I guess this is just being at the wrong moment at the wrong time. :(

My previous work did this; The first week it was 50% of the people that responded. 2 weeks later only 25% and when I left, it was down to 4 people (including the 2 founders)

@D-4got10-01 I assume it might be related to this but this is just speculation. https://vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/...

Since he is also from Belgium, our government is trying to make aggressive cuts because the inaction of our previous ones. So people are unhappy but they refuse to tax the rich lol

@antigermanist The typical city where people are vomitting at 20:00 on a Thursday at the Overpoort

@whimsical That youtuber is great. Only watched 2 videos of her is she doing a very good job imo