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I hate the idea of dog whistles.
For those who do not know what I am talking about: A dog whistle, next to being a physical object you blow in that makes a sound dogs can hear, but is too high in frequency for most humans to hear, can also refer to a hidden sign for a group or ideology that is supposed to be only known by its members.
Here, in Germany, we usually use it for Nazi groups. Hey, 88 is a dog whistle for Nazis, because, the 8th letter in the alphabet is the 'H', and 'HH' stands for Heil Hitler. Alright, got it.
But how the fuck am I supposed to know it? I am not a member of those groups. Well, other people, who look at them tell closely, told me. In a way, you want me to keep up with them, so I can know the newest dog whistles to avoid them?
Another famous one is the attempt to claim the okay sign is a symbol for white power. But here I stand and say, no. I was making this sign all along. I did not signal white power. I was signalling that everything is okay.
And isn't that racist in the first place. Black people cannot swim stereotype. And then they choose the white power signal from diver's sign language? Because they knew, no black person was a diver? Don't mind me, I am just taking the piss.
Then there was Elon Musk. I don't like Elon, I think he's an idiot. I also think that he made it possible for lots of tax money to flow into SpaceX and pay really smart people to work on rockets, which I like. Somehow, in a modern world, we have to do that instead of just funding NASA. Anyway, he is accused of doing a Nazi salute.
But if that was a Nazi salute, that was the sloppiest Nazi salute ever. It was akin to a dog whistle to a Nazi salute. Every proper Nazi should tell him how embarrassing his salute was. But instead, the Overton window on a Nazi salute widens.
We should make fun of him not being capable of doing it right. He would then obviously publicly state he is no Nazi. And some Nazis will believe them.
Ever wondered why in war some national leaders will tout obvious lies? That's because, often due to an information bubble, sometimes because of confirmation bias, many will believe them. If they said the truth, every single one listening would know the truth. If they lied, there is a substantial part of the population ill-informed or invested enough who wants to believe them. And if that's a preferable state, a leader will lie.
Why do we assume that dog whistles are just something we don't understand, but somehow, without writing publicly available guides or news broadcast spelling it out, the subgroup that uses that dog whistle, perfectly understands its meaning.
Recently AfD, German right wing party, had a party conference, and the number and position of the flags on stage was somehow aligned with the number of... what was it... SS branches or something in the third reich? Come one, you're reaching now. You tell me that right wingers are so well informed history buffs that they would ace any history exam about it and equate every subliminal message?
I probably had a dozen dog whistles in this text that I don't know of. Do you know how those groups actually learn about their own dog whistles? Standard media tells them that is their groups dog whistle and they copy it. Copy cat. Funny side note, that's how satanism actually started. Copy cats from stories from the church. They tried to scare people about those evildoers. At least that's one popular hypothesis. Aleister Crowley, not Church of Satan satanism.
Anyway, I hate dog whistles. We commit them constantly, we cannot avoid it and it incriminates everyone. It keeps broadening the definition of every forbidden/frowned upon action. It's shit. If you argue dog whistle, I think you're a moron.28 -
WHO TF STILL USES SVN!!!!!
The current client I am working for has an insufferable CTO who doesn't want to use git, because of some github new privacy terms... We have tried to explain git is not github and that we can host our own git server... He is a knows it all and doesn't want to use git in 2025... although I understand there's different preferences out there... No one in the development team wants to use SVN! ... The CTO doesn't even write code.6 -
Been playing with Windows 11 for about 2 hours. I already hate it. Got a new computer and I can't downgrade to Windows 10 that I know of. The reason is all the drivers say Windows 11 on support site. No idea if they would work on Windows 10. Whatever, fuck.
First is some stupid widget thing (reminds me of security risk that was in Windows 7 desktop thingies) which don't work unless you have a fucking microsoft account. Fine, disabled that shit. I don't want a fucking microsoft account.
Next the menu is in the middle. Will try to figure out how to move that I guess.
Here is the first big fuck you by Microsoft. By default Device Encryption is turned on. But its not Bitlocker, that is somehow different. But I could turn on bitlocker too. Talk about a support nightmare. Bitlocker is some TPM supported encryption light? I read a Microsoft page describing the differences and I still don't understand it. So I turned that shit off. Supposedly it won't come back on by itself.
I also went in and did the standard disable auto updates via policy. Also turned off driver updates as part of auto updates.
Turned off a bunch of privacy shit too.
I don't know. Is having encryption worth it even for a laptop? I don't want to not be able to see my files if the OS goes to shit.
I hate setting up new computers because of all the bullshit you have to do. My older computer was fine until it started thermal shutdown shit for games I could play for years. So I have been dreading even using a new computer. I waited a full day before I even unboxed this thing. I am going to get the old computer serviced to fix the thermal shit. Then let kids use it for games and stuff.
I guess I am just tired of tech shit. It seems to get worse no matter what. I cannot imagine running as a Windows Home user. The shit I read about the fuckery going on there seems criminal. Like I heard of people getting their drives encrypted with ZERO ways to turn it off. Who thought that was a fucking good idea?
To be fair I feel like the default desktop styling is pleasant. The windows have a nice look and feel. The icons look nice. It will still open legacy setup dialogs. Not sure we will ever escape that. I am running Pro so I have a lot more options to unfuck things. I started with 64GB ram so I shouldn't have mem issues. I also had zero issues setting up with local account. Mostly because it autologged into machine with an account called User. This was the user they used to do the burn in. I created new account and changed password to User account. Didn't have to fuck around with install program trying to force Micro Account.
My first goal is to get my skyrim on there. See how it performs with a modded setup I have been running.5 -
Last September my company did introduce mandatory office days again (company of 35-ish employees). One employee was fired for having problems with it because she could not commit on it because she has a small kid. She did not enough time to organise daycare due the extremely long queues for daycare.
And now my project manager did not show up to roughly 50% of the mandatory office days and it's just not being enforced for him.8 -
A backend dev just told A frontend dev via slack that documentation is not necessary for backend and provided a backend PR for backend feature the frontend dev needed, he said the implementation is easy, am I dreaming or what the he'll is going on here 😩😩
Guess what ? the entire backend has no documentation 🤣🤣🤣🤣, just search the PRs you frontend freaks 😜, I feel sorry for my friend 🤣🤣🤣6 -
AI is dumb and is not going to rob your work as a programmer.
Expanding on this:
https://devrant.com/rants/12459112/...
Don't know about the others, but programming and IT is mostly safe unless you're a secretary answering to mails pressing 1 keystroke at time with index finger.
Bullshit.
I’ve tried EVERYTHING. As a developer, I know exactly what instructions to give and how to explain them. I tried this stuff for years.
I abandoned the idea to give Ai a full blown workspace to vscode with copilot, even with experimental LLMS (Claude 3.5, Gpt4o, o1, as per my linked post, copilot is dumb as a rock), because it fucks up every fucking time so bad.
I tried getting an AI to build a simple project, something that has plenty of samples of code around, something that I was sure it could have been in its training dataset. A copy of Arkanoid, in HTML/CSS/JS, even reformulating the prompts over and over with different LLMs that claim to have reasoning abilities. I provided detailed feedback step by step, pointed out the errors, improvements, and problems in-depth to: o3, o1, 4o, deepseekv3+R1, and Qwen 2.5 Ultra. I even activated web search and suggested scanning GitHub repos when necessary. I gave examples of code after several failed attempts.
And guess what? Nothing. A total mess. Half the time, the game didn’t even run, and when it did, everything was wrong—bricks overlapping, barely anything working the way I asked. Even though the internet is full of similar code, and I gave it part of the solution myself when it couldn’t figure it out.
Don’t worry, AI isn’t going to steal your job—it’s just a broken toy. Fine for repetitive, simple tasks, but nothing more.
It's years that they make hyped up bold statements that the next model will revolutionize everything and it's years that I get delusional results.
It's just good at replacing some junior bovine work like mapping some classes or writing some loops with not too much variables and logics involved.
Sigh. My error was getting too comfortable using it and trusting/hoping that this ramp up in AI developement would have brought an easier life to dev.
Silly mistake.7 -
Heads-up, ChatGPT is leaking through cracks. Each chat is NOT carried out in an isolated, pristine context. It can refer to your previous conversations in a new context.
e.g.: https://chatgpt.com/share/e/...
I did NOT mention anything about any project/client or any fintech or any certification in this conversation. However, I mentioned all of those things in a previous conversation.
Contexts leaked into each other. IDK if my newer conversation will have any effect on answers to follow-up questions in older conversations, though.
No, learning from my conversations is NOT enabled.
But if chatgpt still remembers our conversations, regardless my explicit preference NOT to do that, makes me wonder what else they are collecting/doing behind the scenes..10 -
Oh for fuck's sake.
delete from FooTable where FooID in (select FooID from OtherTable)
If there is no field called FooID in OtherTable, then the bracketed select is just the FooID of the current record in FooTable, repeated n times where there are n rows in OtherTable. So it matches every record.
Which makes perfect sense, but for fuck's sake.
Obviously if this was prod I would have been using fully-qualified column names.
But nevertheless, for fuck's sake.1 -
At 14, my grandpa had a boyscout trip to Britany, france. He met my grandma near a fountain, they exchanged their address and started communicating.
They exchanged letter for ten years. In the meanwhile, she had married a man and had a child. But the husband unfortunately died of tuberculosis.
So they met 10 years later, at the same fountain, and he brought her to belgium to spend their life together.
RIP bonne maman you were the best1 -
What do you do when you need good solder, but you can’t get EU/US/Japanese stuff where you live? No, you don’t buy Chinese. You buy ПОС-61, together with 500g of pure rosin, made in Smolensk, Russia.
The recipe and the supply chain didn’t change since the Soviet Union. They arrived today with the order number of, I kid you not, 666, and the set costed me $9 for 100g of solder and 500g of rosin. That rosin combined with ethanol gets you ФСКп flux that will last a lifetime. It does the job and doesn’t require cleaning.
Yes, some Chinese solder and flux are better, but I didn’t find a single AliExpress shop without at least one review telling that the thing they’re selling was fake. And you can be damn sure that if a Chinese listing says that there is 100g of solder, it will be 98 grams together with the spool and paper.
Soviet stuff is predictable. It says 100g, but weights 119g with the spool. If it says Sn61Pb39 that melts at 190℃, it will be exactly that, every time. And if it was good enough for Soviet tech, it’s good enough for my DIY endeavors.
And yes, it flows like syrup, and after it cools down, it shines like jewelry.
(can't upload pics bc pics are dead again!)3 -
For small explosives, you wear an explosives suit — it can absorb the impact of a standard hand grenade.
For big explosives, you wear a T-shirt: with that big of a destructive force, explosives suits are gonna protect you as good as a sheet of 2 ply toilet paper. But not wearing a heavy and bulky suit gives you that much more visibility and dexterity you do need in your situation.6 -
Same phone, same pocket. If 5G is enabled it causes me pain in my leg. If I have it set to 4G it doesn't. I bought this phone because I wanted 5G speeds and my old phone was doing stupid shit. Now I have a newer phone I can only run in 4G.
I hate technology. I hate big tech companies. They can all eat shit. I think they do this on purpose.
No, I don't need your alternative theories or fucking gaslighting. Its not some bullshit cumulative trauma. I have been running it in my pocket for 2 months with zero pain. Fuck off. I am done placating people who know better than me. You fucking don't.
Woke up at 3am this morning and couldn't sleep. I am feeling very testy today. Not sure if I am going to need to puke later. My stomach is doing the "I might be sick" thing when flu is coming on. I hate that shit.
Oh, and Android keeps popping up random shit for features I don't use. I don't use Digital Assistant. I have that as turned off as I can. But today it popped up asking me if I want to use Gemini. No, I fucking don't you incompetent assholes. The only advice I can find is enable and then disable Gemini. But that causes you to agree to some bullshit AI terms. Just leave me the fuck alone assholes!15 -
Addendum to prev. rant:
And now my boss can't cope with the fact that I need to attend job college twice a week for two days, LIKE EVERY OTHER APPRENTICE HE EVER HAD, and decided to scrap my colleague's and my downtime project under the pretense: "There is no downtime" and "If you're only here three days a week, we gotta scrap it for time reasons".
Piece of horseshit.
How can you be so stupid and not know that in beforehand?! Every other apprentice you ever had, had the same job college plan.
If this behaviour isn't getting better, I'm out after my apprenticeship ends.1 -
Why does Windows for 30 years always start copying the files at the 40% mark of the list?
Say you have 100 files. Supposedly Windows will copy starting at 40 in the list and do 1 to 39 last. I didn't notice this. I talked to a guy online who said he has observed this from like Windows 95 to Windows 10. He is a programmer himself and has even asked Microsoft devs at conferences. Nobody had an answer.
If I had to guess it was some way to make copying appear faster when people could actually see files being copied one by one. Now, file copying is so fast you probably would not notice. So the same code has been used to copy files since the 90s if this is true.
I did find NTFS internally sorts by file name. While FAT does not. So my guess is the internal file system nodes are not the cause.
I have to wonder if gnu tools in Linux has similar quirks.3 -
How the fuck is that a thing.
I understand when you're application requires a lock file. But put it in temp. I get it, you want it user specific. You can put it still in temp. Just add the user to the lockfile's name.
Don't put it in the config. Yea, had to reboot without letting my applications close properly. After a reboot, a lockfile should be automatically removed.
Here's an idea, if you're really that terrified of leaking the information, that the application is in use, to other users of the computer, which could probably just look at the processes to figure that one out, check the lock file's last modified timestamp and compare it with the uptime.
Because, it is just annoying when I reboot the computer and I cannot start the application because the fucking lockfile is still there.
Looking at you, datagrip. I really need to find a good open source alternative for my databases.2 -
Needed to show dad something on my PC, realized I needed to install something, was about to.
Dad: "Which Linux are you even using?"
Me: (Oh boy) "Ummm, currently I'm on Slackware... 😬 😅"
I can literally see the intense pain forming on his face as he copes with it, takes like a minute to recover from the mental damage I just inflicted on him and fucking yells (paraphrasing)"Slackware?!?! Really?? That is literally the first Linux I used back in *1993*" in a semi-desperate tone of surprise.
So yeah, that was funny. Gave my poor dad emotional damage today.
I am, SO sorry, dad xD3 -
Roughly one year ago we'd been setting up our network to have our IP whitelisted.
The process took way more than it should've. Here's why:
* Back story: *
Coworker had been talking to IT because he wanted his PC && a devkit to have static IPs.
IT did that && set up the network so that in the future they wouldn't have to be bothered about it.
They set aside a pool of IPs 10.0.2.50-10.0.2.100.
/* You _know_ where this is going, right? */
Coworker: We have our static IPs. This is our range: 10.0.2.50-10.0.2.100. Could you pass it over to $company_name so that we have our IPs whitelisted?
Boss: Finally! Yes, will do.
* Passes the info over. *
* Week passes. *
C: Do we have our IPs whitelisted?
B: Got the info that they should be.
C: Damn, it doesn't work!
* B starts blaming $company_name 's support. *
* Another week passes. *
C: Any word on the whitelisted IPs?
B: They tell me it's set up. Can you try now?
C: Nope, still doesn't work.
* B starts bitching about IT how they're incompetent. How they were supposed to be pros && all that. *
/* I got wind of the whole situation. */
Me: Hold on. Those aren't the IP we need to pass to the $company_name.
* Provide the _correct_ Internet-facing IP. *
* Gets whitelisted within 1-2 days. *
These are the people I'm dealing w/ right now. They'll bitch about everyone being incompetent, but when it turns out _they_ have been at fault I hear no responsibility being taken.
/* I'm also reminded of this adage: Garbage In, Garbage Out. So true. */3 -
Explaining docker in 5 simple steps:
1. We need to be OS agnostic so we we use docker containers
2. We remove 3 lines of code to run migrations on host computer because they are OS specific
3. We add one container for DB and another one to apply Flyway migrations
4. We write 15+ lines of .SH OS SPECIFIC GLUE CODE TO MAKE THAT CONTENIRIZED SHIT WORK
5. Now we are OS agnostic because we use containers
Stupid fucking monkeys5 -
Our company HR person is really fucking incompetent. Like, their whole job is to prevent the company from being sued. I've come close to suing because of their actions once. A few other things are badly handled. they'll be fired only when we get sued...
I did a thing they're not happy with and they've genuinely sent a letter saying "there are several things you could have done instead" LIKE FUCKING WHAT?1 -
Woke up feeling like shit. 2 of my kids were puking their guts out. I had stuffy nose and didn't want to exist. So I slept until 1:30pm. Woke up to work on setting up my new computer. I have been working on it since Sunday.
I finally got my old computer backed up to an external 8GB drive. I use Aomei and I like it. I needed backup software for the new computer. I thought about getting Aomei pro again. I went looking through my emails from them and saw I can buy a license for 5 computers forever for like $50 or something. The retail is about $300 or something. The cost of 1 license on page with deals was like $70 forever. I say forever as they have yearly fee model I don't want. The others are a single price once forever. Free updates too. So anyway I get the 5 license thing. Now I have 2 licenses so I can outfit 6 computers. Nice deal. The $50 was better than their general sale price of like $90.
Anyway so I am working on the new computer finding all the shit I hate about Windows 11. I am confronted with a fucking default setting for every folder to sort by date grouping on the files. This is the single worse default I have ever seen in a file manager. So I figured out how to apply a default to all folders to turn grouping to None. Yeah. Then I go download stuff using Firefox and it is fucking grouping things by date in the Save dialogs! WTF is this shit?!
I search about Firefox and they said its a Windows default setting. I find I can right click in dialog to set grouping to None again. But I have to do this on every fucking directory! Fuck you windows. I finally break down I use this third party tool called WinSetView. I am kind of not wanting to have to use third party shit. But I have been staring at this POS problem for like 2 hours. Oh, yeah, even as admin I cannot change the registry key that would set the default to None. Fuck you windows.
So I use WinSetView and it works very fast. I check and it seems to have done the job. Time will tell on this. I cannot tell 100% because all my folders were tweaked every time I right clicked in the save dialog. I also learned these tweaks might be limited to 5000 total in the registry. What a shit show. At some point during this I submitted feedback to Microfsoft to fix this. We shouldn't be editing the registry to fix preferences.
Another issue I had was right clicking a file brings some shitty ass new dialog. It requires another click to be able to do thing like create a shortcut or scan a file with av. It also makes it so I have to either click again or hold down shift to unzip with 7z. I was already tired of this shit. I was going to try tweaking it with registry, but figured I would learn how to shift click. Best of both world? However WinSetView after I ran it fixed this shit show too! Happy surprise!
Friends don't let friends run Windows. But if you have to friends don't let friends run Windows 11 without WinSetView.
I am sure I will have things to complain about. Like firefox having a skinny scrollbar by default. Fuck you Firefox!1 -