I've heard people call it a heisenbug

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

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

@afaIk Norwegian (Bokmål, not nynorsk)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But those are either youtube shorts or youtube ads.

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

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

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

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

@Lensflare Thanks for your service o7

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

No idea why we need that many

@TerriToniAX

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

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

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

It can be changed in the settings of notepad

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

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

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

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

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

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

Status update; still no backend that is hosted or added to git repo ))))

He did show some of it working on his local computer a few weeks ago but I have no access to it

@cafecortado I'm also from Belgium but waffles ain't a meal :D

They are perfect for a afternoon snack on sunday after a long walk

@antigermanist A lot of companies use an automated system to scan their CV. You often have to make sure that some key words in their job description matches in ur CV. If they say, "you are a teamplayer". You have to mention "team" at least, if you say "I work excellent in a group". That is a missed mark by the automated system and a bigger chance your CV will not be seen by a human.

Yes, it's stupid. Try literally copying some words from their job ad into your CV and you might get a reaction. At this point, you have nothing to lose

So try to do some research before applying, you'll get less CVs out but maybe more humans will see it. It's worth trying (or apply for smaller companies without a dedicated HR team).

Sure, the job market is not great and getting a new job is hard.

But if the approach of sending 250 cvs is not working. Either your CVs are getting filtered out before it reaches a human or it has red flags (typos, negative talk about past employers or not fitting job criteria).

At this point, it might be better to write a targetted CV for 10 companies and see if that brings more result. I hope you find something great

@lorentz We did had a scary period last month but that seems to be resolved. Hopefully it will stay that way :p

@BordedDev I know. I checked it out earlier when I did have more proof & access to it. But it was not worth my time & stress especially to have my name out there. An official complaint would have my name on it and it might impact my job prospects later.

Nowadays, I have very limited screenshots but still quite a bit timestamped rants & screenshots. Just not enough proof. A lot of proof is also not officially documented

Thank god no, It is not in the B2C market, only B2B so I hope you will never be a customer. There might be enough data on this DR profile to figure out what company it is.

@Lensflare In less than 4 years! To make it worse, the company exists between 25-40 employees depending on the week :p (usually around 33-35)

Oh right, it took me also a long time checking job boards to find my current job; also in Belgium.

Good luck with the hunt. I don't think my current job nor my previous one is hiring. But I definitely do not recommend my previous job (check my last rant)

My codebase at my old job had:

- a link to a hosted book of sherlock holmes

- a rickroll youtube link

- a list of quotes that the CEO said

- a buggy function called "DisturbanceInTheForce()"

- comments about wanting to die and pure hatred about css or a comment about "God help me" and then an ugly piece of code

I tried to leave as many unchanged during my time at the company :D