A "Blue Collar" guy with a lifelong fascination with computers, programming, networking, and all things technology. Studying to trade out my blue collar for a white hat. Or red. ;)
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/peacefulz; my proof: https://keybase.io/peacefulz/sigs/0_f5IW_bZSw7eV1Iy7tJjgsIZh9aVNQ30Kx8WbfyZl0 ]
“There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival ‘knowing’; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our ‘concept’ of this thing, our ‘objectivity,’ be.”
— Nietzsche:On the Genealogy of Morals III
It's a target. Objectivity does not appear in nature in a stable form. Nothing is fixed and certain. Some things just appear that way from our point of view.
I started rebuilding my phone from factory tonight, and I opted for the private profile partition inside of the main profile for my play store apps. It's accomplishing everything I wanted a fully separate profile to do without the hard switch.
At a growing LargeCo now, and have been entrusted to some internal flows as an associate. I honestly don't know how Ops Managers get through the day. So many pipelines with basically non-existent audit trails. So much money leaking from the cracks in these places that it's criminal. I wouldn't trust these people to hold my beer, let alone sensitive data.
If I planned on vibecoding a project, and during preparation I found a project that loosely fit my model, I may grab it and try to retrofit it to save on token consumption. If that had too many kinks, I'd probably start fresh, but it would be worth the initial attempt IMHO.
I totally agree with the sentiment that interested parties are few and far between, but they exist. I have several disparate layers of obfuscation on the data I generate that I have control over. I understand that that is a signal in itself, but I'd rather my signal be a fog than rich data points.
I'm not the best friend. I often don't do my part to hold up my end of social contracts. That said, I'm a fairly decent low-commitment penpal. The internet is the place where I vent as well, and it often feels like a void. It doesn't scratch that therapuetic itch and therapy proper doesn't appeal to me.
What I'm getting at is if you'd like to find a stable place to vent about some shit without worrying about some assholes scraping it, I'd gladly share an email and a PGP key with you. If there's one thing I'm quite good at, it is minding my own business. That extends to the handling of other's business.
Always down for a new target to aim my discontent at. Thanks for sharing this piece of generative garbage. Time to write some protest requests and fill their logs with trash.
20-year vet. I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment. Runelite has greatly lowered the bar for bot makers. Client injection and computer vision would've only taken them so far. I personally don't see a way out for Jagex. They could take back the reins, but at this point, the carriage is irreparably damaged. How do you combat a botting community that grew with your product? How do you combat literal decades of suicide account creation? I've known botters who said their accounts average less than an hour of play outside of tutorial island. They just maintain a list of thousands of accounts. Multiboxing bots that complete the stronghold of security and suicide in the wildy with eachother.
I know this is a little rambly, but obviously RS is a big part of my life. No matter what jagex does at this point, botters will have an answer. Not to say jagex shouldnt try. It just feels like a lost battle at this point. To a degree, I think bots in a declining community provide some value. RS3 inflation of the raw material space makes this self evident. Normal Logs passed 1k ea. Obscene and inexcusable.
This is a project that's always on my mind that I never take the time to flesh out. I can't put my finger on the scope. I don't know if I want a full, Johnny Decimaled PKM platform for my entire life, or topical, dense information about things that interest me.
I wish I could convince my friends online to fall back on email. So many times the "watering holes" have changed, and I've lost some valuable contacts in the shuffle.
The writing has been on the wall for a while. I moved off of Discord about a year and a half ago, after they started gating long-time free features behind Nitro. Then later, I find out that nothing is encrypted in transit on their application. I haven't had much luck moving friends off of the platform and on to things like Matrix, or Signal yet... but I'm trying all the time.
I know it's mostly nostalgia, but this was the best time online for me. I was just a teen exploring GeoCities, tripod, and dot.tk directories. I found a lot of good friends in that time.
I miss the Glitch/GameShark crews that were around. =Bi0= was one of the best ones around.
Thanks for the insightful comment. And thanks for taking a minute to read my words. I agree with you. I can be my own harshest critic sometimes. I'll do some reflecting on this over the long holiday weekend. Happy new year!
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/peacefulz; my proof: https://keybase.io/peacefulz/sigs/0_f5IW_bZSw7eV1Iy7tJjgsIZh9aVNQ30Kx8WbfyZl0 ]