Rip WPA2
Rip SysAdmins

So I wanted to make a Commodore 64 game, and I decided to use cc65, since I don’t want to use assembly.

First, I tried to position text, and I tried to use CSI escape codes, but that didn’t work.

I forgot to look at the examples, and then saw a lot of helper functions, which were nice.

Next, I tried to do some timing. sleep can only do seconds, so I wanted to use usleep, but they didn’t port it...

Moral of the story: ~~look at the docs~~ don’t make C64 games

Does anyone know a free cross-platform SSH app, that syncs everything from your PC to your phone, and supports SSH keys?

"Does MYSQL intentionally not work for the first time?"

Unicode support pl0x.

So I had an Windows account with AzureAD, and my real name has "ő" and "ó" in it, and software that did not support Unicde started flipping the fuck out.

I was intially going with junctioning every bullshit corrupted user folder name that showed up in the ENOENTs to my real user folder, but that didn't solve it for a couple of software.

I was trying to share my drives with Docker, but the same shit occurred. No error message, it just didn't work. I ended up creating a new user account for Docker to share the drive with.

I was trying to use the Travis CLI to set up releases, etc., but it replaced the "ő" with "?". Y U DO THAT?! Common knowledge is that "?" and other special characters cannot be in entity names. SO WHY DO YOU REPLACE THE UNKNOWN CHARACTER IN A PATH WITH THAT? And it wasn't a character not found character either! It was just a straight question mark.

I ended up creating a new user account because I couldn't change the name of the current one because fuck AzureAD, and Windows just decided to FUCKING TRASH MY ACCOUNT. I went over to the new one, copied over some files from the old one, tried to go back to the old one to copy env variables, but I noticed that the account has been purged from the registry... At least the files haven't been deleted.

I ended up reinstalling Windows.

After all my frustration, I recommend all companies with a CLI to visit the following website: http://uplz.skiilaa.me/

Thanks.

404 @Gradle not found

Say yes to the dress.

I was doing stuff in my room, when I slipped on my hand and landed on my knees. I look up, and I see my Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins puncturing my hand.
Fast-forward couple of hours, I decided to post a picture of it (it wasn't bleeding or anything) on Twitter. 2 seconds pass, and my account got suspended.

I have 2 simcards: one for calls, one for unlimited data.
Twitter is trying to call me to verify the account, but I have my data phone number in the profile.

FML.

A hammer for fixing hardware.
A banhammer for fixing software.

k.

Not a specifically devtool, but useful for Git repos.

Couple years ago, I wrote a game in assembly.
Yesterday, I tried to look at the source, and realised there isn't a single fucking comment.

Don't run code you found on a shady forum on production.

I want to be able to NOT go on youtube every 5 minutes when I'm trying to develop.

My father taught me. Then I learned from the interwebz. ☺

!rant

So I decided to collab with a website's maker (who i wont name here) to create something like r/place. (not an exact copy.)

I decided to start by learning their API, and customizing the server later.

I asked the guy for some help, and HOLY SHIT.

Let's start off by this: I had to request a chunk. The response data was in binary. 4 bits meant 1 pixel, so right away, I had to deal with that in my code.

No problem, just decided to use C# instead of JS. (see https://www.devrant.io/rants/547013)

I was finally done after a couple of mental breakdowns, and decided to implement updates.

I needed to use webhooks, and that was completely fine. But when I got "C1FFFF0000CA06" as response (in hex), I seeked some help.

C1 is the operation type: it means that a pixel was updated.

FFFF and 0000 were the chunk coordinates. But remeber: it's a signed integer. Guess what, I had to use Two's compliment. I decided to be a lazy asshole and only check for "00000000" because I was only displaying chunk 0,0.

CA06: This is a weird one. It's 2 bytes, and CA0 contains the X and Y coordinate of the pixel (in the chunk), and 6 contains the new color of the pixel.

I was sent the following code to work with 0xCA06:

color = 0xF & buffer
x = buffer >> 10
y = (buffer >> 4) & 0x3F

So I tried to do it, and it didn't work. I'm not blaming the developer of the server (original dev is reddit) because maybe I screwed up, but which guy will have a night of frustration and debugging?

Me.

P.S.: Dev, if you see this, I'm sorry. This API is way too complicated. I know we need to save bandwith and stuff, but damn.

!multirant

1. MonoDevelop

Installed Unity for a game I'm working on. Realized I didn't reinstall VS when my SSD got corrupted. Didn't install VS plugin w/ Unity.

So now I have MonoDevelop. It's not a bad editor, but PLEASE. IF YOU ARE GOING TO HIGHLIGHT A FUNCTION WITH RED BECAUSE IT DOESNT EXIST IN THE CLASS, THEN TELL ME, WHAT THE FUCK EXISTS IN THE CLASS!

2. UnityJS

Unity's JS implementation is terrible.

First, let's throw basic syntax shit out on the window. string.toUpperCase? Nah, let's make it string.ToUpperCase to annoy the shit out of devs.

AND SOME OF THE STANDARD FUNCTIONS ARENT EVEN FUCKING WORKING!

Need to use parseInt(string, 2)? WELL GO FUCK YOURSELF, BECAUSE WE DIDNT IMPLEMENT THAT SHIT.

...or use C# I guess...

FUCK UNITY.
🖕🖕🖕

Dance like noone is watching.
Encrypt like everyone is.
Sudo like you have backups.
Tag like you're a SEO.
Vim like you know how to exit.
Ticket frontend like you're the project manager.
Commit like saying "fuck you" in the message is appropriate.
Alert like you would use console.log
Design like you know CSS.
Comment like you aren't the only dev.
Code like PHP isn't outdated.

And finally:

Try to work like you know how to quit devrant.

❤❤❤❤❤❤

I made a little tool that checks for the 15 newest rants every 5 minutes, and downvotes them if they contain "algo" or "algorythm".

Clone repo, fill out config.json, and enjoy!

https://github.com/moriczgergo/...

The 2014's called, they want their private server back!

Source: CommitStrip

Easy to pass the tests if you don't write any.

I-I totally did n-not spend half an hour on this...

(here's a gist for you: https://gist.github.com/moriczgergo...)

- Knock Knock
- Knock Knock

- Who's there?

- Your mysql query callback
- Your mysql query callback

What state do you live in? 🤔

devRant Q&A: What is the biggest lie in technology?

My favourite is: OVER 3 BILLION DEVICES RUN JAVA

"Are you familiar with uploading your code to Google Drive?"

I left the building at that exact moment.

TFW you stay up until midnight on a Sunday to see next week's weekly rant question, but it doesn't get changed...

The devRant algo always makes me laugh 😂😂😂

JS. IS. A. PROGRAMMING. LANGUAGE.

Malwares are nasty applications, that can spy on you, use your computer as an attacker or encrypt your files and hold them on ransom.

The reason that malware exists, is because how the file system works. On Windows, everything can access everything. Of course, there are security measures, like needing administrator permissions to edit/delete a file, but they are exploitable.

If the malware is not using an exploit, nothing is there to stop a user from unknowingly clicking the yes button, when an application requests admin rights.

If we want to stop viruses, in the first place, we need to create a new file-sharing system.

Imagine, that every app has a partition, and only that app can access it.

Currently, when you download a Word document, you would go ahead, start up Word, go into the Downloads folder and open the file.

In the new file-sharing system, you would need to click "Send file to Word" in your browser, and the browser would create a copy of the file in a transfer-partition. Then, it would signal to Word, saying "Hey! Here's a file that I sent to you, copy it to your partition please!". After that, Word just copies the file to its own partition, signals "Ok! I'm done!", and then the browser deletes the file from the shared partition.

A little change in the interface, but a huge change in security.

The permission system would be a better UAC. The best way I can describe it is when you install an app on Android. It shows what permission the app wants, and you could choose to install it, or not to.

Replace "install" with "grant" and that's what I imagined.

Of course, there would be blacklisted permissions, that only kernel-level processes have access to, like accessing all of the partitions, modifying applications, etc.

What do you think?