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Buzzword dictionary to deal with annoying clients:
AI—regression
Big data—data
Blockchain—database
Algorithm—automated decision-making
Cloud—Internet
Crypto—cryptocurrency
Dark web—Onion service
Data science—statistics done by nonstatisticians
Disruption—competition
Viral—popular
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How do I un-idiot my users when it comes to clicking on dodgy email-links??
Got a forwarded email just there from a user who said;
Good afternoon,
Is the below ok to open?
I just tried but got a popup saying I've been blocked from opening it.
I'm not sure who it is coming from and I am not waiting on anything but as it says its from dropbox and is important, i know it's okay.
Can you unblock the link ASAP please?
This is really impeding my work-day as I need to know what it is and act accordingly.
Regards... user.
The Original email came from a random jumble of letters with a subject line of 'important dropbox program' - not only does it look dodgy but its english is horrible! It said;
"Hi tu my freind,
You tu still read a pending verrry important document sent by one of your own contact to be vieweddd.
Install "Highly Confidential english.pdf" by clickinggg here
*insert link leading to something called 'viral-update-trojan.exe'*"
I mean, seriously... help!!! 😢
We have sent emails explaining how to hover over links and to not to click them if it looks wrong.
No one does it.
We hired a company to send fake phishing emails to train users in what to do.
It made no difference!
We now make people 'verify' their email addresses when opening any sort of link to try get them to actually look at what they're opening.
We also strip emails of original attachments and create 'safe' html copies as we can't trust them to look at what they're opening.
Everyone complains about it but Jesus Christ, this is why!!!
Its so exhausting!! What is wrong with people!!! Argh!!! 😤12 -
!rant
That feeling when your post went viral and have 500+ concurrent users and still your server works fine.
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How to reproduce:
human - F**k
process - Fork
Is that skeumorphism of words/sound by Unix developers ?5 -
Like the new feature on Google Play Store where the changelog can be directly seen in a dropdown on the updates page.
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WARNING: Cringe stuff ahead
And now this happens
A dude who posts spams on LinkedIn and shits on people publicly, made yet another garbage post (which was copied too).
Ref. picture attached in the post.
That went viral on Reddit and I made a comment that I know this guy, have spoken to him, and he made me go bonkers.
Now, he runs a community on Slack that I am part of. I open Slack today and see a message from him where is being sarcastic on how hateful I was.
Ref. picture in comments.
What kind of hypocrite someone could be when they shit on others but when called out, get hurt.
No one says anything to my dev friends.
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I'm experiencing a bit of what a viral content might feel like on Twitter, thanks to this masterpiece someone left in our lab 😂
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So I heard about this new Git ransomware that is demanding Bitcoin if not fulfilled removing commits and projects...
And then I thought to myself...
What will they get my deleting all my repos of projects that I told myself that I will finish one day.
I guess they will be doing me a favor. Doing something that I have been putting off for ages.2 -
The entire reason I became a developer was so that I could one day build something that I can say has/had a handful of users, that I could build something that helped save someone's life, that helped someone in their time of need.
That reason was fulfilled when I built my only successful and proudest project during a cold night in 2011. I was 16 at the time, and here in South India, there was a major cyclone affecting a portion of our country (Chennai/Tamil Nadu). A lot of my family were in affected areas, and I didn't know what I could do being so far away (around 400kms/250mi away, in Bangalore).
I stayed up all night to build what was then known as ChennaiRains.org. It was a simple website, a directory and a safe house for everyone's information. Whoever needed help, whoever was ready to give help, whoever was volunteering their travel, their time. I didn't think it would help much. I just wanted to make a small difference.
Next morning, after the hangover of the all-nighter I pulled faded away, I see that the website went viral after a few shares on Twitter. The community was so supportive of my little project to help my family and friends. It caught a peak traffic of a million users overnight, no ads, no money made from this, I just earned the experience of a lifetime. It eventually helped a lot of people in need, connected a lot of volunteers and victims.
It has been the epitome of my life. It's the reason I still develop applications to-date, even if they are simple. Somewhere out there, someone needs it, and I want to be able to help to them :)4 -
Reasons 1 and 2 arent that important to me. The main reason I code is #3.
1) Brain exercise. I always feel sharp after a coding session, even if it ended in disaster.
2) Lots to do! There's never a full day in code. Make your own universe, if you so desire.
3) Pride. I have a pride problem. I never felt proud of myself no matter what I do. I graduated with a melancholy feeling, same deal when getting my license, same deal when passing a test (God, glad that's over!)... But code makes me proud. I love what I make. I want to show everyone. I want to show it to everyone before it's even finished because I just can't wait. I want everyone to use it and to love it. Because I sure do, and it's the best thing ever.
I could make a viral video, produce a triple platinum record, or build a billion dollar business and still not feel the same level of genuine satisfaction and happiness that I may get from writing good code.
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In my opinion during the past 18 hours devRant has gone from a great resource - to a must have indispensable developer community. It shows the power of Internet communication.
So many new developers arriving are making it so much more fun and valuable. I enjoyed devRant before but now it is amazing.
I am having a tough time keeping up - which is great.4 -
Not asking students to learn the code. Seriously stop doing that.
Instead motivate them to understand the logic and then build it when required.2 -
It was Adblock Plus that was making my Firefox Android terribly slow.
Just realized it after cursing 🔥Firefox for months.3 -
I can't stop myself from thinking like a computer when I'm sick.
The OS that runs my body is kinda fucked up right now. It was very vulnerable and now it got infected by viral executables sent out by an agent which happens to be on same work network that I'm connected to. Well, it executed and populated feelings of infatuation and crush in my heart drive. ( pun intended )
As a precaution, I patched the vulnerabilities by masking response of my Emotions API.
To further secure my system, I'll be executing memory intensive tasks that will also put my hardware to it's limits. According to my estimates, this will stall further execution of this infection and eventually kill them while rewarding me with upgraded hardware.4 -
This weekly is getting really popular with so many rants coming in.
Shows the extent to which real coders/programmers/developers are tormented by the incompetent education system.
Here is my two cents:
Students should be taught to build their logic on paper before jumping on to their keyboards.2 -
I just saw an ad by a viral marketing agency thisventviral.net that sell a 16GB USB stick with an os image they call Xtra-PC for 29,60.
I immediately noticed that it seemes to be a simple USB boot stick with a Linux distro with a Windows like ui and OpenOffice and other software pre installed.
They guy took out his CD drive bay an claimed that he removed the hard disk. While odd his clames about faster speeds are obviously true because microshaft windows and office are bloated pieces of shit.
So this leaves me in the odd position that a viral marketing scam selling you over priced USB sticks and an image you probably could find for free, also makes people adopt Linux instead of the bloated shit. And that with people that won't notice any of the downsides of using Linux.
Wired position, should I hate them or should I commend them for theire unintended efforts spreading Linux desktops?5 -
People calling themselves "Thought Leaders" on LinkedIn.
Torn between wanting to know what the fuck this means and knowing that the answer will doubtless make me lose even more faith in humanity.
The one I just saw referred to as such (probably by himself) is that Simon Sinek goof who went viral a while back for saying that all millennials are useless lazy dopamine junkies because their parents spoiled them beyond repair. He looks like the kind of gold-plated twat who would definitely consider himself a Thought Leader, even though 'millennials are a bit lazy' is the kind of insight you can get down your local pub from the guy who'd otherwise be trying to sell you tickets to a dog fight.
How do you qualify as a Thought Leader? Do you just need to dress like salesman of the month, or do you actually need to be good at anything?
I love LinkedIn.11 -
That moment when your rant has gone so viral that you have to force close devRant app. Coz your phone is buzzing every half an hour....10
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I was so fed up with being spammed with generic messages from recruiters on Linkedin I decided to create a parody generator - Linked xD (http://devpurge.com/linkedxd/en). It was first launched in Polish and went viral; a few months later I heard even recruiters started to use it on a daily basis as an anti-pattern.8
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Apparently someone posted on Apple's developer forum 2 weeks ago about this root privilege escalation vulenerability in macOS but it took a viral tweet to get any action. 😐1
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what a gem i found on the side of screen while viewing stack overflow :https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ques...
Long story short, a teacher gave a sassy reply to his student's question , the answer got viral on reddit and SO admins are going bonkers 😂😂4 -
guy creates very cool looking, advanced css effects library that went viral
guy puts it up on GitHub
guy writes a ranty post and pins it to top the of issues with stuff like "i'm not going to make this a module or library that can be installed, and also don't try because i've already created a seperate repo for that" ON AN OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY
dude, you already open-sourced it, people are going to use it however they want
idk, just found this to be a very weird vibe, thought i'd share. thoughts?12 -
Anyone here tried the bluewhale game?
Apparently, government banned it and local tv channel is running news about it ( around 2 months after it became viral globally ). Many overnight "experts" think it is an actual mobile application game uploaded on all stores. What a joke!
I don't understand how anyone can be stupid enough to fall for such things..3 -
I like Scala, but the docs suck.
The FAQ literally uses StackOverflow links as answers.
Not as references, where they write the complete answer and provide the link for reference or credits.
They actually just throw in the links.
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It would be very cool to have a wrong random username showing. But yeah a lot of extra work for an April fool's prank 😁
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Just imagine sicknesses spreading through internet.
I mean real human sicknesses. Of course your laptop can’t generate aids, but hey, did you ever have a song stuck in your head, repeated infinitely? Memes, viral videos, modern pop music, it looks just like perfect delivery mechanisms.
Human brain is flawed and buggy, vulnerable to countless things like optical illusions, uncanny valley, nlp and others. It’s obvious that there is some audiovisual input sequence that may have arbitrary side effects.
We are towards invention of some precisely formed pieces of information that’ll damage your brain forever, maybe drive you insane so there’ll be no way back. Delivered via viral media straight to your brain, destroying it irreversibly.
Be ready to face the future.2 -
Working with machine learning gets very tiring sometimes.
Waiting for the results, tuning the parameters...
Arghhh....why does it keep getting stuck...1 -
Am I only the one who finds the pen pineapple apple pen video lame and boring?
Don't get people who finds it catchy and viral. -
*after getting to know about Pokemon go from here I downloaded it from the net.(not yet released in India) and I'm so addicted to it. I have already caught 3 Pokémon.
got it installed on my colleagues phone and we both are now roaming near by our office to find some more. absolutely loving it.2 -
In the mid-2010s, we barely had any apps in our native language and popular coupon and review sites were lackluster in our neck of the woods.
So me and some old uni colleagues got together to make a WhatsApp based "wtf is going on right now and right around here"
think Groupon meets yelp meets Google maps meet trending topics. The idea was that local business would post deals and events and people would comment on it giving stars on real time, with geolocation. So you could see what was going on right next to you, and business owners only needed WhatsApp installed to post new topics.
We... failed to go viral. That simple. Things get frustrating when infinite no-questions-asked venture capital is not available.
Then me and the other founders got very lucrative jobs in former British colonies and that was it.
This idea might still work nowadays, but it would be reeeealy hard to navigate around Whatsapp's terms of service.
Good luck to anyone who might want to try.3 -
I had learnt my lesson about the reality of group projects in the very first semester of graduation.
And from then on till the final project in my postgraduation, I refused to have a team and worked on every project alone (except for a few times when I couldn't convince the professor and even then made sure to not depend on anyone else).1 -
I didn't know I wanted the breadcrumbs so badly in the new VSCode 1.26.
It's a relief from continually hopping to the explorer and code-outline activity bar. -
Delays. Delays in payment, delays in scope and spec delivery, delays from the graphics guys, delays from the X guy, the Y guy, this company, that company. No matter what the reason, delays leave that leave the Dev waiting and sitting around despondent and losing interest faster than the second to latest viral video.
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Is there any rant/post that is atleast a week old but still got 0 ++ ?
That is neither any upvote nor any downvote.
P.S. Don't take it up as a challenge for this one.2 -
Finally I finished the exams, now I have to write my thesis. An agency who wants remain anonymous at the moment told my supervisor to choose a student who will works out on the ransomware argument. The relator was a little bit scared about consequences but I'm pressing to write a controlled ransomware in a closed network brtween virtual machines. What qualities a good ransomware should has?
Mutable structure to avoid antivirus detection? Good exploits and vulnerability scanners to make itself viral? The payload should stay in the code or should be downloaded from a server? I need some reference on analysis of vx codes, any help? -
The History of The Scriping Lanuages (JavaScript, Python, and especially PHP):
Once upon a time someone found themselves stranded in the middle of the wilderness without nothing to eat or drink. Having watched Bear Grills as a kid, they grabbed a chunk of elephant excrement and started drinking from it, and the poop saved their life. In that moment, under those very specific and dire circumstances, in that very small scale, excrement was an appropriate solution; but that person did not ever drink from poop again.
Alas, upon hearing this tale, people from around the continent got fascinated with this new extraordinary recipe that had the capacity of saving lives! This new treat became viral. Shit juice, shit pie, and even a shitmulated Microsoft 98! Businesses built their foundations with shit, shit factories, individual shit brokers and recruiters! Everyone wanted a piece of this convenient and disruptive delicacy!
But, alas! as that first person knew, these implementations were not much more than mere shit1 -
Recently many of us may have seen that viral image of a BSOD in a Ford car, saying the vehicle cannot be driven due to an update failure.
I haven't been able to verify the story in established news sources, so I won't be further commenting on it, specifically.
But the prospects of the very concept are quite... concerning.
Deploying updates and patches to software can be reasonably called *the software industry*. We almost have no V0 software in production nowadays, anywhere (except for some types of firmware).
Thus, as car and other devices become more and more reliant on larger software rather than much shorter onboard firmware, infrastructure for online updates becomes mandatory.
And large scale, major updates for deployed software on many different runtime environments can be messy even on the most stable situations and connections (even k8s makes available rolling updates with tests on cloud infrastructure, so the whole thing won't come crashing down).
Thereby, an update mess on automotive-OS software is a given, we just have to wait for it.
When it comes... it will be a mess. Auto manufacturers will adopt a "move fast and break things" approach, because those who don't will appear to be outcompeted by those who deploy lots of shiny things, very often.
It will lead to mass outages on otherwise dependable transportation - private transportation.
Car owners, the demographic that most strongly overlaps with every other powerful demographic, will put significant pressure on governments to do something about it.
Governments (and I might be wrong here) will likely adapt existing recall implementation laws to apply to automotive OS software updates.
That means having to go to the auto shop every time there is a software update.
If Windows may be used as a reference for update frequency, that means several times per day.
A more reasonable expectation would be once per month.
Still completely impossible for large groups of rural car owners.
That means industry instability due to regulation and shifting demographics, and that could as well affect the rest of the software industry (because laws are pesky like that, rules that apply to cars could easily be used to reign in cloud computing software).
Thus... Please, someone tells me I overlooked something or that I am underestimating the adaptability of the powers at play, because it seems like a storm is on the horizon, straight ahead.5 -
Learning to use logging in Python for an existing application.
🙇Feeling enlightened looking at the first log file output.3 -
What's the difference between data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence?
http://varianceexplained.org/r/... -
"Google Search Fixer" is a must on Firefox Android iff you use Google search.
Now I can finally start using Firefox again..
PS: I was using Edge till now
https://devrant.com/rants/1248199/...4 -
Microsoft Python Language Server SUCKS in both Visual Studio and VSCode. 😵😩😠
Doesn't provide suggestions for relative imports like "from ..".
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Hey Guys !
How much backup does your UPS provide and what kind of battery setup are you using for it ?8 -
"Jose Simms cut a deal with police in Torrington, Connecticut, to turn himself in if the post went viral. It did and he didn’t."
- who would have ever guessed that would happen...
https://huffpost.com/entry/...2 -
Before now, Twitter was under a bitcoin twister verified attack ( that is my name for it ), now Snapchat is on a photo exposing viral attack.
is this World War including hackers, messing with social media handles.
World War 3 will be fought online, i know yeah.1 -
I hate when studying computer engineering but university want us to learn non technical subjects or outdated topics such as applet in java, who the fuck is using applets now days,
Or no single word about react, flutter,or recent framework and teaching php and JSP,and vb.net11 -
Right now, most of my friends in whatsapp are doing one of those stupid viral message challenge that is designed to "testify friendships".
This latest one that i got goes something like this: they ask to send one of your pic to them and they will add it to their status. Then you have to also add their pic they send you as your status. Also you have to forward the challenge to your friends.
I don't know who comes up with such crazy stupid messages that is designed to force people change their perception of friendship. It's amazing how simple and gullible people are to such messages.
Spoiler Alert: yep, i also send it to few of my friends just for the heck of it.3 -
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Viral House: Ihre Experten für TikTok-Marketing
In der heutigen digitalen Welt hat TikTok eine der größten und einflussreichsten Social-Media-Plattformen erlangt. Mit über einer Milliarde aktiver Nutzer weltweit bietet TikTok Unternehmen und Marken eine einmalige Gelegenheit, ihre Zielgruppe auf kreative und unterhaltsame Weise zu erreichen. Bei Viral House, Ihrer Marketingagentur in Bramfelder Dorfpl. 15, 22179 Hamburg, helfen wir Ihnen dabei, das Potenzial von TikTok zu nutzen, um Ihre Marke zu stärken, die Sichtbarkeit zu erhöhen und mit Ihrer Zielgruppe zu interagieren.
Warum TikTok Marketing wichtig für Ihr Unternehmen ist
TikTok ist eine Plattform, die sich durch ihren schnellen, kreativen und oft humorvollen Inhalt auszeichnet. Nutzer verbringen täglich Stunden mit dem Scrollen durch kurze, ansprechende Videos. Für Marken bietet dies die Chance, in einer unterhaltsamen und authentischen Weise mit einer breiten Zielgruppe zu kommunizieren.
Große Reichweite: TikTok hat eine der höchsten Engagement-Raten unter den Social-Media-Plattformen. Videos können viral gehen, was bedeutet, dass Ihre Inhalte eine enorme Reichweite erzielen können – selbst ohne eine große Followerzahl.
Jüngere Zielgruppen: TikTok ist besonders bei jungen Menschen sehr beliebt. Wenn Sie Ihre Zielgruppe in der Altersgruppe der 16- bis 34-Jährigen ansprechen wollen, ist TikTok die perfekte Plattform.
Kreativer Content: TikTok ist bekannt für seine kreativen und oft humorvollen Inhalte. Hier können Marken auf innovative Weise mit ihren Kunden in Kontakt treten und die Marke authentisch und sympathisch präsentieren.
Unsere Dienstleistungen im Bereich TikTok-Marketing
Viral House bietet Ihnen eine breite Palette von Dienstleistungen an, um Ihre TikTok-Strategie zu entwickeln und Ihre Marke auf der Plattform erfolgreich zu positionieren. Wir bieten maßgeschneiderte Lösungen, die Ihre Marketingziele erfüllen und Ihre Zielgruppe effektiv ansprechen.
1. TikTok-Werbung
Mit TikTok Ads können Sie gezielte Werbung schalten, die Ihre Zielgruppe direkt anspricht. Wir erstellen kreative, aufmerksamkeitsstarke TikTok Ads, die sowohl unterhaltsam als auch informativ sind.
In-Feed Ads: Diese Werbung erscheint im Feed der Nutzer und ähnelt den regulären TikTok-Videos. Wir sorgen dafür, dass Ihre Anzeige so gestaltet ist, dass sie sich nahtlos in den Feed einfügt und die Nutzer zum Interagieren anregt.
Branded Hashtag Challenges: Eine der besten Möglichkeiten, auf TikTok viral zu gehen, ist die Durchführung einer Branded Hashtag Challenge. Wir entwickeln und starten eine Challenge, die Ihre Marke in den Mittelpunkt stellt und Nutzer dazu ermutigt, mitzumachen.
TopView Ads: Diese Anzeige erscheint direkt, wenn der Nutzer die App öffnet. Wir gestalten diese Anzeigen so, dass sie sofort die Aufmerksamkeit Ihrer Zielgruppe fesseln und Ihr Branding im Vordergrund steht.
2. TikTok Content Creation
Die Erstellung kreativer Inhalte ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg auf TikTok. Wir unterstützen Sie bei der Entwicklung von ansprechendem Content, der Ihre Marke authentisch und interessant präsentiert.
Video-Produktion: Wir helfen Ihnen bei der Erstellung von ansprechenden Videos, die Ihre Produkte oder Dienstleistungen in einer unterhaltsamen und kreativen Weise vorstellen.
Storytelling: Storytelling ist eine der effektivsten Methoden, um auf TikTok eine emotionale Verbindung zu Ihrer Zielgruppe aufzubauen. Wir entwickeln eine Geschichte rund um Ihre Marke, die die Nutzer fesselt und zu Interaktionen anregt.
Influencer Marketing: Wir arbeiten mit Influencern zusammen, die Ihre Marke auf TikTok bewerben können. Influencer haben eine starke Anhängerschaft und können Ihre Marke einer breiten Zielgruppe vorstellen.
3. TikTok Community Management
TikTok lebt von der Interaktion. Wir kümmern uns darum, dass Ihre Community aktiv bleibt und mit Ihrer Marke in Kontakt tritt.
Engagement und Interaktionen: Wir beantworten Kommentare, reagieren auf Nachrichten und sorgen dafür, dass Ihre Follower immer wieder in den Dialog mit Ihrer Marke treten.
Content-Planung: Wir erstellen für Sie einen durchdachten Content-Kalender, der sicherstellt, dass regelmäßig frische Inhalte gepostet werden, um das Engagement zu steigern und Ihre Zielgruppe zu halten.
4. TikTok-Analyse und Performance-Tracking
Der Erfolg Ihrer TikTok-Marketing-Kampagnen lässt sich durch kontinuierliche Analyse und Optimierung messen. Wir überwachen Ihre Kampagnen und stellen sicher, dass Ihre Inhalte die gewünschte Wirkung erzielen.
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