I had someone come ask me what language I was programming in.

I responded with "dart"

They then said "no. What PROGRAMMING language?"

I said "ya. That's what dart is."

They said "no. Programming languages are HTML, JavaScript, and CSS"

I was too tired to explain...

The war has begun..

Teachers!

Why can't they just leave me alone!?

I was using my laptop. (Linux) and I have it set up so that I do basically everything from command line.

My teacher then walks by (he was checking on people) then he sees me.

I was using a split terminal setup with a client web browser and nano open. (I was taking notes)

He sees this and like all teachers, he immediately decides that I am hacking.

So.. I saw him and was like "fuck.. this will be interesting"...

To keep this short,

I got in trouble then he spent for ever telling me about how much trouble I could get in for using "that thing" (a terminal)..

I have lost hope in all teachers..

This isn't the first time too..

We should make a website called something like:

"ihavenothingtohide.com"

It's just a web crawler that shows you everything you have ever posted on all your accounts and hopefully shows embarrassing posts first.

"Learn Linux in under 15 minutes!"

"Learn python in an hour!"

"Become a pro hacker with these simple steps!"

Dear teacher,

Megabytes != Megapixels

Ok..

Why do teachers tell students that HTML and CSS are outdated "programming languages" that nobody uses and that big companies (like Google and Twitter) use stuff like Google sites or WordPress or wix??? Do they want kids to fail?

Someone just came in to the store and asked for new mouse batteries because the cursor on their screen was too small..

Because those things are somehow related....

Old people confuse me.

I have discovered how to make cool ide images. I don't remember the website rn.. will post the link in a bit.

No, Arduino.

I'm not moving at 50km/h. Not even close. I'm sitting in my chair.

Just because I plugged a wire in backwards doesn't mean you are right.

Wow! Apparently DevRant saves custom images for every rant!

As far as I can tell, these can be accessed by adding "/image.png" to the end of your rant link!

On my old computer, my parents had the admin account, and I had a restricted account (because they didn't trust me yet). I really wanted an admin account so that I could install virtual box and some other stuff. So... My solution, I made my own uac prompt that would email me the password, then launch a random program. Then I used the password to log in to the admin account and give myself access. #HACKERKID!

.. also, sorry Mom.

I just found out that my dad wrote the http library (that is still used today) for Comcast... And not just that. He wrote it in notepad on an old ass Windows machine without a compiler on a vacation. (It apparently worked first try)

My school has every port except 80 and sometimes 443 blocked.

But their webfilter allows you to click "close this message" and continue to the blocked site.

I don't understand their priorities..

This is probably the most useless and self descriptive post you have seen on devrant today.

I just finally finished (almost) setting up my new arch install!

Here is some info:

Os: Linux
Distro: arch
Desktop environment: Budgie
Terminal: hyper
Icon pack: numix square
Hyper theme: Nord
Brackets theme: Nord

I am missing other stuff.. but whatever.

I got the background off some random redit post.

I did it.

Yay!

I got my GitHub student pack!

Now what should I use it for..

I know this kid who says he hates mark Zuckerberg and Facebook did bad things.

Then I see him using messenger and asked him why he used it when he knows about what they are doing with his data.

He said "they aren't going to do any thing with my info. They only look at important people's info"

I don't know what to say...

My parents both have cs degrees

So they don't think I am that special.

But my mom is also one of those people who ask me to help them with googleable questions.

Teacher can't figure out how to use Ms word.

Says: "sorry. I use a different version of Microsoft than this."

What does that mean???

For anyone that goes to a TVDSB school in Canada, you can gain access to admin account by following the steps:

1. Enter your username

2. Put your hand on the Ethernet cable (do not pull yet)

3. Enter your password

4. Press enter

5. Wait 1.5-3 seconds

6.unplug the Ethernet cable

7. Wait

8. Plug in the Ethernet cable when you are at the desktop screen and all app icons have loaded.

9.enjoy full admin access!!

The quantum mechanics of math class:

Your awnsers are both correct and incorrect until the teacher marks them.

......

I guess it's my turn to post this..

How to make ai in python:

import ai
ai.doStuff()
exit()

How can people be so dumb??

So I am sitting in a class taught by the teacher from one of my previous rants (the one that got mad at me for using a terminal).

I was working on a new project and I had to look something up. I opened up my browser (chrome incognito)

I was searching in ddg with a dark theme and chrome had a dark theme. Another student beside me asks if I am on the "dark web" ( stuped comment #1.. )

My teacher then starts freaking out that I am doing "illeagal things " and tells me that I will be arrested...

What
The
Fuck????

There should be a "don't be dumb in tech" class for teachers.

sudo upvote --user ewpratten

I have learned that Android autocorrect changed "vim" to "cum"

What message are you trying to get across Google?

Mosquito bites
Mosquito bites
Mosquito bites
Mosquito bites
Mosquito bites

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Mr. hacker kid from one of my classes has just upgraded his 1337-ness

(I'm pretty sure this is illegal in Canada)

I accidentally pressed CTRL+S in vim. Then I was really confused why everything just stopped working..

I should remember how Linux works sometimes.

Help!!

So.. I am currently stuck beside this really annoying kid. He is constantly calling me a hacker. And he is trying to force me to teach him how to "jam a raspberry pi" ... So I tried to explain that it would be illegal to do that (I was assuming that he meant jam wifi or something) he wouldn't listen to make and started yelling at me and (uncomfortably) touching me. Then he calmed down and went to hacker typer and started trying to 1up me /my skills. Then he started telling the entire class that I "suck at computers" and don't know anything just because I started ignoring him.

This continued for an hour.

Now we are supposed to be working on a project together over Google drive. I only gave him suggesting permission so that he couldn't mess stuff up. He then noticed this and he is yelling at me and trying to grab my laptop and press random buttons.

The laptop is a Chromebook with developer mode enabled.. so pressing random buttons could wipe my drive if he presses the right stuff.

So you should understand y I am so protective of it.

The teachers don't care.. at all.

What the fuck can I do to get back at him???

I just pressed the wrong button and took down my whole network + VPN + website. Oops.

Just finished my new desk setup!

Stuff:
Acer r11 Chromebook
Custom built laptop
Novation launchkey mini
Novation launchpad mini
GoPro hero 5
Steam controller
Hp 27" monitor
Ender's game (xenocide)
Letter from @dfox as mousepad

I have a whole new version of "works on my machine"

I keep saying "it worked on this robot" we have two robots and one of them is wired differently. It really messed with the code...

It's time for school again.

Yes, this is a rant.

I'm currently in the process of porting a pretty big c++ codebase over to python.

This is quite an interesting experience.

Story time!!!

(Disclaimer: I did not actually make a bomb)

So I had this amazing teacher in grade 7 (he gave me an Arduino for free) and he also let me and the annoying kid from one of my other rants use his storage room as a makeshift makerspace.. we had a raspberry pi cluster and more Arduino and that we could dream of having.. also cool stuff like leap motion controllers...

One day he was out sick and had this strict supply teacher in. The two of us went in to the storage room at lunch break and started working on a doorbell for the room.. I was doing some circuitry..

The bell rang and we left..

The next class, the supply teacher and the principal walk in and ask me to come out into the Hall.. I am like "fuck" ..

She and the principal start yelling at me about making a bomb and burning down the school and other outrageous things.. she started telling me about kids that got swatted at school for making bombs and that I was in big trouble..

The whole time I am like.... Wtf are these people talking about???

Then eventually they start asking me questions that I didn't understand.. and they ask if Dan (other kid) was doing it too.. I said yes because I was hoping that they would bring him out.. he might know what they are talking abt..

He then comes out into the hallway and they start yelling at him..

Then I realize..

I think that I left our makeshift battery pack on..

So I go and check.. sure enough, the battery had just shorted out and melted the plastic (which was giving off the smell that she was talking abt) so I unplugged everything (and electrocuted myself)

So ya.... I made a mistake and I got a unfairly harsh lecture about it..

Lesson learned.. don't let stupid people see you do anything computer or circuitry related....

No, I can't fix your typewriter here.

This is a computer store, and I am a computer technician. Despite what you think, there is a bit of a difference between a computer and a typewriter..

And no, we don't sell abacuses either..

Windows? U ok?

I also can't open any apps. This is why I hate school computers. They are so buggy.

For anyone that was too lazy to read all of @linuxxx's post. Here is a short summary. we are working together to create an informational website about online (and possibly offline) privacy. If this interests you, keep an eye out for updates from either me or @linuxxx

I just got to level 3 of Google foobar. This is so much fun!

My dad got a job at TD (bank)

We where talking about their computers and stuff. Then we started talking about passwords.

Keeping in mind that this is a bank....
Here is their password rule:

6-12 char long
All lower case
Only letters and numbers

(Passwords are stored on a legacy system)

Why?

Why should I trust that bank??
And also.. how do they expect to be extremely secure??

devCredits - a simple way to make a credits page for your devrant community project

Someone should make a messaging app called the "insecure messenger"

It's main purpose would be, to be that opposite of something like signal or riot.im

The app would let you message your friends. But it would transmit messages over plaintext using http.

Then there would be a second screen that shows a basic Wireshark (or tshark) output so that you can see your plaintext messages being sent and received.

But of course.. someone would download the app without understanding what they are doing and get their shit hacked..

Dartlang has now tied with lua for my favorite programming Language.

And the flutter sdk is my favorite tool / library

Good job Google .

Also.. My first app is in the google play store. I will make a post abt it soon.

You know your robot "works" when the motor controllers are reporting a hardware error and the wifi doesn't work.

Time for some lunch-time programming with my friend.

So there is this new rule in my class...

"No cellphones in the classroom.. they stay in your locker"

Everyone in the class starts trying to negotiate so that they can still text...

I am like sitting at my desk thinking:

How am I supposed to use 2fa??

So.. ya that proves that I have different priorities than everyone else..

Anyways.. how am I supposed to use 2 factor authentication????

Any suggestions?

Is there an Android Wear app or something?

Kill me...

At school @desjna and I are working on a project where we have to make a website.

In wix.

I just said "fuck that, I'm doing it in HTML / css "

Also.. this is in the class with the teacher that thinks I'm hacking... My go-to web-dev environment is tmux with green text and black background... This is going to be "fun"

Predictions on how long I can make it without him flipping at me?

My teacher says that the only types of image that exist are bitmap and vector.

He taught us abt bitmap (badly)

Then he skipped vector and said "just google it"

DEVDUCK ADVENTURES 0x00

Sir duck the first has ventured outside of the box...

Anyways.. merry Xmas from me and the duck!

Idea.

What if we had an extension to the collabs section where app devs could share betas of their apps and other ranters could test them and give feedback.

Sort of like a closed beta for the whole community.

Opinion:

I feel like the word "code" is way too overused and more of a buzzword. There are all these sites that say "learn to code using HTML in 2 hours!" Those titles are great for getting people interested but I feel like they hurt the "reputation" of the word.

There are so many people that come to me and say they are HTML coders and know the entire language. But then they can only make a site that says "hello world" with maybe a link and a colored background.

Also. Can these sites please explain that html isn't really programming and is more like fancy documentation? Html + CSS may be Turing complete, but they aren't programming languages and in my opinion, shouldn't be treated or referd to as such.

If the message you got from this is "ewpratten doesn't like front end web development" , you are wrong. I think it's great.

Anyways.. what are you guys' opinions on this?

Want to be a pro Linux hacker? Just type this one simple command!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/

It will solve all of your problem! It automatically installs the best Linux hacker distro!

My favorite possession has gotten an upgrade. Stickers!

DEVDUCK ADVENTURES 0x03

Sir duck the first is hanging out with me and @hyperlisk at the FRC 2018 kickoff event.

Just discovered that all FRC robots have open ftp and ssh ports..

For future reference:

When ssh-ing into the robot, use username "admin" and pressing enter three times in a row at the password prompt will skip login and you will be root. The entire device is Linux / BusyBox based.

So.. the question is, why? Why would they open up root ssh on a robot?

So I got sick and missed it.... But the 6th marked my first entire year on devrant!

It's crazy to see how much the community has grown since I have first joined.

I remember constantly refreshing the 'recent' page and reading every single rant and comment that had been posted. Oh, the good old times, back when the memes where actually funny and there weren't any spammers..

I also "met" some really cool people ( @linuxxx and the rest of the people in the signal group) and tried Arch Linux for the first time (worth it!!)

And somehow after a year, I have became the 24th top ranter by ++ count (thanks to the devrant-stats people for that info) and one of the most searched users on the platform. I didn't expect anyone to care about my posts at all but I guess I was wrong..

So anyways... Thanks to @dfox and @trogus for this awesome community / app

Let's see how many more years I stay here....

I didn't realize how many comments / rants I have made.. wow.

(DevCards. Made by @halex and me)

I am being absorbed by the wonderful world of Tic80.

I am currently making a maze game. I will post the game cartridge binary when I am finished.

I have this teacher that makes us do really simple things all the time like "copy and past this into another program" or "change this setting"

The problem is (aside from it being really boring) he doesn't understand how to do most of the things he tells us to do.

If we have a question, he goes and Google's it..

Me:
*Installs rust*
*Configures permissions*
*Installs cargo*
*Downloads 1 crate using cargo*
*Cargo run*

Laptop:
You are out of storage, please delete some files otherwise your computer might crash.

Me:
Ofuck
*Removes rust and cargo*

Laptop:
48% storage remaining

Me:
WHAT. THE. FU**??

Good job Google...

One of out school TV's....

A question for @dfox (and anyone else who feels like awnsering)

How many of us do you recognize by our username?? Or how what usernames do you see enough that you could list them without checking devrant?

You obviously know @linuxxx and other people with that many ++

But do you know smaller people like me

Or even smaller people like @hyperlisk

I think I did a good-ish job.

A continuation to @n3xus's post.

My only Chinese reseller / eBay experience is getting these two arduinos for about $3.50 CAD . Worth it. And only slightly scared of them catching on fire.

So someone gave me an idea today.

I am about go start going to school again soon and someone suggested having a locker competition.

My idea is this:

Have an lcd screen mounted to the outside. It will display a link. The link will be to a Twitter page specifically for the locker.

When I open the door it will tweet that the door was opened using a different message every time.

When I haven't opened it for a few minutes it will start tweeting about how it is getting bored and start tweeting jokes or something.

Also LED strips..

Does anyone have an idea how to power this? Also I know that it is dumb. Too bad, I am doing it anyways.

I have a question for dfox and trogus.

I have noticed that the devrant API takes an app id. And everyone that I have seen is using the Id #3 in their projects.

What was the purpose of that?

And is there a way that you guys could add like a "devrant developers" page where we could register our own personal app ids and see analytics?

Ever so slowly, the inhabitants of devrant are starting to accept each other's coding styles..

Off to a week 4 competition with the infamous @hyperlisk

How to web design. Part 2.

How does this even happen?

"or you could be a real hacker with custom vpn designs and shit. But that's only for real hackers"

Do I need to say more about this class?

No IE - a simple way to tell people with outdated browsers that they need an upgrade

Internet privacy isn't actually about privacy. It's about choosing which company/person you are going to give all your data too..

It's almost time!

I am almost ready to release new devRant client and the full version of the api wrapper that powers it.
While I finish up a few things, here is a quick explination of what / why the client is:

The devRant client is called:
dr

The reason I made yet another new client is:
I wanted to have a CLI client that could run on a chromebook and I also discovered the cool text editor called ed. I really like the command-based interface of ed, so I made a devRant client in that style!

dr is a simple and (mostly) no BS devrant client built for us cool cli-only people.

(yes, this was written in dr)

More info will come soon!

Alright everyone!

It is time for me to run an experiment with the people of devRant. There are just a few simple rules for this experiment.

They are:
1. Do not change the username
2. Do not change the password
2.5. Do not delete the account
3. Respect others
4. Don't get banned
5. I am watching

So.. Time for the experiment.

Username:
muchUsername

Email:
yemipiyiba@hubii-network.com

Password:
suchPassword

Have Fun!

A quick non-dev rant..

So. A few of you may have noticed this in my devrant "about" section.

But for those who don't know, I have this disorder called "CAPD" or Central Auditory Processing Disorder. Well actually, I have something called "SPD" or Sensory Processing Disorder but the capd is the worst part.

Basically what it does is, I have a very hard time properly reacting and comprehending various sensory inputs including hearing.

Anyways.. enough about what it is. Let's get to the ranting!

I am so fucking done with capd! It is so annoying. I will be working on a project by myself or something and someone will start talking to me. But I can't fucking understand them!

My right ear has the most problems so if my left ear happens to be blocked, like wearing headphones, it's like everyone is speaking a different language. I can't figure out anything that people say.

This gets really fucking frustrating because I don't usually tell people about this. (Because going up to someone and saying "hi my name is ____ and I have this Disorder" is really weird). So since I at a new school where only like two people know this, I get yelled at for not paying attention and other random reasons. Nobody actually wants to hear my explanation. Also I usually resort to texting people (even when they are sitting beside me) because then I can actually understand the conversation on the first try.

Yes.. this makes my social life very awkward.

Anyways.. I am mostly annoyed right now because it has been getting really bad recently.

Help me plz..

Seriously.. any suggestions on ways to make my life easier?

If you are wondering what having capd is like, I'm going to put a link to a great YouTube video about it in the comments.

Im currently on my way to a week 1 robotics competition with FRC team 5024.

Sir duck the first and I say:

Good luck to everyone that's competing in the robotics competitions!

I just set up pihole again.

So many things being blocked. Byebye Facebook!

Everything is so fast. I love it.

1.3M domains blocked 😍

I just noticed, my rants get way more upvotes and comments of I post in the morning. There must be a lot of ranters that are on in the morning...

It turns out that autohotkey is really useful for making a keylogger..

It's time for attempt 2 at switching my phone's keyboard over to Dvorak...

That took a really long time to type....

I finally got an acceptable version of my assembler done. Just a pic of my terrible code for now, I will share the links to it, my Virtual cpu emulator and my graphics emulator / driver once I am done writing readme files for them.

I'm going to try Ubuntu 18.04

Let's see if I can use it as my main os...

Also.. I hate windows!
(Now I can get away with tagging this as a rant)

DearDiary.json

Not using arch Linux earlier

I haven't seen this before...

I just finally finished beta 2 of my new android game. I finally accomplished something !

I just installed a firewall on my phone and immeasurable Facebook asked to Access the internet.

The thing is, Facebook is disabled through my apps settings anyways.

No!

I won't fix your printer, and me working on your computer has nothing to do with the fact that you lost all your Facebook friends!

Oh. And while we are at it, your new TV has nothing to do with Gmail looking different!

My introduction to computers was sitting in the family room on the floor with my dad, we had an old Dell laptop running Windows 94.

I remember him taking this weird square thing (floppy drive) and putting it in to the computer. He then said something along the lines of "you might like this" then he started up a game.

It was my favorite game (until club penguin came along)

It is now my second favorite game (Minecraft wins)

An image with weird pixelated graphics popped up on the screen.. it said "Commander keen". He started a new game, and I was instantly hooked.

After a while, I found this blog that had a list of cheat codes and I began to stack codes in various ways to find glitches and stuff.

It was very fun.

After that, I started learning how to use dos and then I used virtual box to run Linux. And eventually, I started learning python.

So... We lost power here.

Why now?? I have work to do!!

I guess I get a free pass to scroll through Devrant for the next few hours.

I have noticed that the average amount of ++ given on rants is now much higher than it used to be.

I remember when it was very uncommon to get 20++ on a rant. But now, everything seems to be getting 40-60 ++

It's nice to see the community grow.

(And maybe the ++ required for stickers should be raised)

It seems that the only thing people care about after the Facebook stuff is Zuckerberg memes...

That perfectly explains the internet.

!dev

So I am really light sensitive.

I woke up and went downstairs to go eat some food. But somebody left some lights on.
So.. I walk into this room, not realizing how bright it was. Then within a few seconds, I was uncontrollably crying and on the floor because of the pain. Then I managed to crawl over to my desk, grab my phone, and crawl into a dark room (with my eyes closed). Then I just sat there staring at the wall. Eventually I turned my flashlight on and covered it with my hand, then increased the brightness until my eyes adjusted.

It sucks. This happens almost every morning. And also when I step outside.

Any suggestions to help make the effects worse?

Idea:

What if there was a service where you press a button and it tells you a random Linux distro to install along with giving a list of good things about the distro and some download links?

I was looking through some old robotics code from the team I am on and I found this:

Void ArcadeDrive(xspeed, zrotation){
Drive::ArcadeDrive(zrotation, xspeed);
}

Why?
Why not just pass in variables in the opposite order?

Use git
Or gitkracken when you get lazy

Also Linux is your friend

I think it's time to start learning rustlang...

Fuck chrome os!!

I was just trying to install arch Linux in chrome os using a crouton patch that someone made like 4 years ago... That was a bad idea.. so I have spent the past 30 mins creating a sketchy patch to the patch just so I can get a fucking arch install...

I deserve some pizza

The bot is in the bag!

Good luck to everyone that is competing this season!

20/10 web design.

Everyone is sharing their desks.

So here is mine, through my GoPro camera

I FINALLY GOT STICKERS!!!!

Thank you to @dfox and @trogus for the stickers and an awesome community that has mostly taken over my social life.

Is having friends something that I am actually supposed to do?

It just occurred to me that I don't have anyone that I would call a good friend.

I just went to root my phone. Then Odin crashed and wiped all my data..

Fresh install time I guess....

Fuck this!

I am working on this project for school where I am building a simple 8-bit keyboard thing.

It works for about a day. Perfect.

I was about to put it all away and leave for the day. Then it starts playing random notes and doing random things on it's own.. I was like WTF!??!!

I just unplugged it and put is away (I was too lazy to fix it)

Now I am back at it again and have taken the entire thing apart and rebuild it 2 times.

Then I find the problem...

I forgot to ground a button.

Fuck.

So now I am just sitting here staring at a wall and have completely given up on it.

Btw.. you can check out my mess of undocumented code on GitHub

Ewpratten/ArduinoKeyboard

I know this kid who goes around bragging about the fact that he leaches torrents (I think that's the right term) and he puts his "botnet " in the torrent so he can infect other computers.

Considering his computer skills look like he watches "how to hack a website with cmd" videos, I doubt he actually does this. In reality he probably watched a video about it once and thinks he is a pro.

Or maybe I completely underestimated this kid and he has a really powerful botnet that can take down Google.

(Ha also says that he runs a "dark web forum " and he doesn't use tor to connect to .onion sites)

</ random story>

DEVDUCK ADVENTURES 0x02

Sir duck the first has equipped his trusty php cape and is helping me work on devCredits.

(I think I need more caffeine)

While everyone here is talking about ads on devrant, I actually really like it.

I have never seen an ad that looks as nice as this. It fits the site theme!

I think that as long as they remain unintrusive, ads here are totally fine.

Android? You drunk?

So... i have almost finished training my script on linuxxx. It likes saying some very linuxxxy things (and occasionally just copyu-paseting from one of his rants) Here are some things it has said to me:

How motherfucking difficult can it be to port forward something internally?!

"linuxxx seems to know a lot more about privacy than the terminal"

As for github selling itself to Microsoft, this most likely nearly working

Does anyone know a way of to do a video chat through node js? NOT through webrtc.

Me: *turns laptop on and indeed, it takes a fuckton of time*

fuck google

----
Next up, alexdelarge!!

Machine learning with punch cards..

What would that be like?

22 hrs until I get on the bus.

Robotics competitions are fun!

After this, I absolutely hate Google.. They sent me an email telling me reasons why I should be using Gmail.

I got myself a new toy!

I wonder..

Do the new devduck capes say "devrant.com" on the back? Or do they still say "devrant.io"

Sudo pacman -Sy girlfriend

???

@hyperlisk photobomb and vscode is now running on my chrome os install.

Update on my quest for encryption!

For the (large number) people that don't know, I want to use encryption for (almost) everything / actually give a shit about internet privacy... And I want it done by 2018.

So.. here is my progress so far:

I have signal
I now have an @tuta.io email.
I have a complex, long password.
I am using blankslate.io instead of Google docs (except for school)
I run important stuff through Tor or a VPN or both
I have a firewall running on Android.

Any more suggestions on what to do or things to change??

(@linuxxx)

Having a bad day...

Also. My teacher said to press "the button above the 8 " so I pressed f7. But he got mad because I pressed the wrong button. He meant the " * " key. Apperently it is it's own button??

I found a @hyperlisk in the wild.

Everyone has been doing various " DevRant * reveals "

I wonder if anyone will start doing a name reveal.

I am now accept requests for people to feed into my rant generator.

For your info:
I have already made a hdf5 file for linuxxx and am finishing one for alexdelarge. I will share them soon for anyone that wants to mess around with making rants.

OpenCV is so cool!!!

I am working on a project where I get a servo (with Lazer) to follow an object.

It's so easy to do!

I was expecting a lot more work, but I was wrong!

Feature request:

Can we have polls? For example:

What type of music do you listen to while programming?

EDM
Rock
Classical
Jazz
Soundtracks
Orchestra
Other

Then maybe have an interface like how Twitter handles polls?

(I am curious abt what music people like. Comment your fav)

So... The school blocked ssh. And now I can't access my home computer. What do I do now?

I have a tendency to be on devrant, then close the app, then immediately open it again for no reason, then repeat.

Is this a bad thing?

Is it possible to use the API to make a thing that tells you who your #1 fan is based on ++?

I have been having bad luck...

First, windows kept wiping my arch drive.
Then my phone got fucked up in the middle of rooting so I had to reflash Android.
Then after I successfully rooted, I accidentally turned on bootloader lock which dissabled booting in to any mode (because I modified system files).
So then I had to reflash again.
Then I had problems because Knox is a bitch.
So I reflashed again. (It finally worked).
Then I tried installing arch again and fucked up my graphics drivers.
Then I installed Arch again and it finally worked!
But then I was modifying settings on chrome os and fucked up my Chromebook's graphics driver.
Then I had to reflash my Chromebook and put it back in to developer mode.
Then my phone started having permissions problems so I had to reflash it again.

So I have concluded:

Technology doesn't like me.

At least my arch install looks cool and my Android launcher looks like this:

Here is my collection of microcomputers and stuff... I have quite a few and don't know what to do with them...

List:

Arduino uno
Arduino pro mini
2x Arduino pro micro
Raspberry pi B+
USB to serial interface
Some random Arduino interface

What should I do with them?

Since when was efficiency not important when working on a robot?!

-- background info --
I was working on another robot and was going to write a function in assembly because it needed to be as small and fast as possible. But I wasn't allowed to because "it's a waste of time" and "efficiency doesn't matter anyways" and at the same time, we are getting told it's not responsive enough due to this crazy inefficient function that I was trying to rewrite.

Two questions:

Is over engineering code a good thing or a bad thing?

Is writing verbose code a good thing or a bad thing?

Why would anyone think iPhone is better than Android?

A single frontend for a bunch of community projects and apis.

April fool's idea for next year.

When you ++ a rant, a random user gets 100++ as well.

I had someone delete almost all of the videos (YouTube) that I had made and i freaked out because the next day was when I was going to back them all up. So... I lost all my stuff. And was quite dissapointed.

Until 4 months later.

I was scrolling through my twitch channel and found out that at some point I had set up a service to copy all my YouTube vids to twitch (for the people that don't like YouTube or Google) and all my deleted vids where there.

So I guess it isn't a bad data loss story but I did temporarily loose some stuff.

I finally did it!
A full rewrite of dr has happened and it is now more efficent!
If you are a dr user, make sure to re-clone the repo and run the build script again!

Next up:
- speed improvements
- dr update command
- MOTD support

Yay! I finally have a tiger!

Dear anyone who has never tried writing a batch script in Ms paint,

Try it.

It's really fun to do (especially when other people are watching and they are like "wtf? How did you write a program with paint??)

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So... The kid from yesterday's rant....

Keep in mind that I have been in classes with him for 5 years.. and he has been annoying me the whole time

I will post a link to yesterday's rant that I am referring to in the comments.

So.. today
He has spent the whole day annoying everyone in the class and he has spent the last 2 hours stealing our computers and making himself the owner of all of our files then sharing them to him.

What should I do???

I am excited about dartlang.

It's so cool to see a language that can be used to make apps for Android + iOS and websites and webapps and servers and automation / scripting.

(There are probably other languages that do this, but I like dart)

Webcam -> raspberry Pi -> Arduino -> i2c -> roborio -> talon SRX

Save me from this madness!!!

Hello DevRant!

so... I have this project for school... we have to choose something that we are interested in and learn about it. then we have to make something for our "end result".

so the topic i chose is looking at how computers actually work (basically learning x86 assembly) then making a huge readme document on github that shows how to do things in python and assembly (to show the difference between an interpreted lang and machine code)

i also need to talk to or work with someone that knows something in my chosen field. so if any of you want to, i will have a link to the github repo in the comments. it would be greatly appreciated if you could add some of your own examples / tutorials and knowledge. also having someone read over this and correct things would be nice. if you do contribute, i have a contributors file in the repo. feel free to add your name to the file. i will give you credit in the end project.

so.. ya. it would be greatly appreciated if you could help out or give me some suggestions.

GitHub vs. gitlab...
Please debate.

I don't know which one to use.

At some point, I joined the 4000++ club.. I should pay more attention. Anyways.. thanks to whoever pushed me over.

dr just got a complete rewrite to make better use of resources and the API.

I am going to do some testing, then push it + some other stuff to GitHub for you guys to break (I mean try).

Hey, people's of devrant!

You guys seem to know a lot about this, so I'm going to ask this question here..

Can i have some recommendations for apps to use (Android) that respect privacy and are preferably enctypted?

Things I would like:

Google drive / Dropbox alternative

Image upload

A nice looking image viewer / gallery (I don't like the Samsung one)

An RSS feed reader.

Google docs alternative

Maybe a calendar / reminder app

I think that's it. Also feel free to mention other apps that you guys use on a regular basis

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For anyone that wants to install Debian on a Chromebook:

The way I did it is I downloaded the crouton binary (this can be found online) then I used the command:

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton/ -r Debian -t xfce, cli-extra, core,

Then I looked up how to move it to an external hard drive. Next I just symlinked the files to the normal crouton install path.

Then to start Debian, just type:

Sudo startxfce4

Or for command line only:

Sudo enter-chroot

I hope that was helpful.

I have invited a new person to devrant! He is in the programming sub-team on my school's robotics team.

He uses Linux mint.. and I hate him for it. But aside from that, he seems like a cool guy.

As always, feel free to downvote the crap out of him if he starts messing around here.

Anyways, everyone welcome @hyperlisk !

I just learned that chrome os now uses Wayland instead of the old x server.

Cool!

A question for the peoples..

Is compact, efficient code better?

Or is having a lot of small files with easily readable code better?

(I'm writing c++ for a robot)