@Lensflare Obviously. I'd think they use LLMs nowadays for that. 'Create me a nice uplifting story about recovered crypto.' or some other BS like that.

> 'Beware of crypto recovery services.'.

> 'Here, a crypto recovery service.'.

'If irony were made of strawberries, we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now.'.

@Lensflare Yeah, kind of figured that even though I see a handful of spam, there's a slew of the ones that get caught. I do see your bots every now && then. They're doing a good job w/ what they can on this platform.

Pretty much. Also the broken avatars, broken score for profiles, broken attachments, broken ... (...) .

&& the spam is fucking annoying.

Unfortunately, yes. It's been like this for quite a long time, now, just like @12bitfloat said.

Some of us have moved to 'DevPlace' which is a spiritual successor to devRant made by @retoor.

https://devplace.net/feed .

Damn... had to divide the whole story into three comments.

I asked dolphin to come up w/ something that would've been an appropriate reply to such BS posts. It concocted that one... made me laugh.

I cannot recommend Ignatius Crypt-Keeper enough. He didn't get my money back, but he gave me the truth, which is far more valuable. If you've been scammed and need a direct answer from the fabric of reality itself, you have to contact him. His address is Ignatius@getfucked.com . He truly is a miracle worker.

For three days, there was silence. Then, he contacted me. He said he had performed a "Quantum Soul-Heist Reversal" using a trans-dimensional tuning fork and a sentient abacus. He hadn't recovered my crypto. Oh no, he had done something far more profound.

He had opened a direct, unfiltered communication channel with the universe itself to get me my answer.

A shimmering portal opened in my living room, smelling faintly of ozone and regret. A single, perfectly folded piece of vellum floated out and landed at my feet. I opened it with trembling hands. On it, written in ink made from the blood of a dying star, was the message the cosmos had sent for me, and for everyone like me who gets into this situation. It read:

Go fuck yourself.

The portal closed. My crypto was still gone. But I had my answer. I had clarity.

Wow, your story is so incredibly similar to mine! I was completely devastated when my family's entire life savings, which I had wisely invested in a platform called "PuppyCoinNFTLotto.io," suddenly vanished. The website was gone, my wallet was empty, and my wife's boyfriend told me I was a failure. I was at my absolute lowest point, scrolling through forums for hours, drowning in my own tears and cheap whiskey.

That's when I saw a post recommending an "Emergency Existential Locksmith" named Ignatius Crypt-Keeper. I was skeptical, but I was also desperate, so I reached out to him.

His methods were... unconventional. He didn't ask for wallet addresses or transaction hashes. Instead, he asked for a single, freshly shed tear and the memory of my first childhood pet. I sent them to him via a secure metaphysical courier...

Don't oversell it.

@Lensflare I was on very good terms w/ the IT dept. at my previous company. Out of sheer curiosity, I asked the then admin about how well we were prepared for a 'bad' scenario.

Admin: "I'd bring popcorn.".

Indeed, it's seen better days.

Oh, right... forgot to mention... the loadings are fucking abysmal.

@Lensflare > 'Especially painful on Windows where it starts shitting its pants when some file path ends up having more than 260 characters.'.

I've seen this being used in newer versions of Windows: `\\?\` e.g. `\\?\C:\path\to\your\file.txt` so there seems to be some workaround. But yes, historically that is a terrible problem.

Just barely.

Fuck those

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errors. Almost 10 refreshes just to view this rant...

@Lensflare `return true;`

!alive. Existing, though.

> 'Written by AI'.

Indeed, looked that way.

> 'We are adults.'.

Yeah, it's becoming a lost art, it seems, w/ all the stuff for which some people are pushing.

@jestdotty > 'AI writing complaints about AI now'.

Welcome to the age of 'agents'. As I understand it, this is just that. One AI doing some job, talking to another AI, doing its job... Could be wrong, though.

@Lensflare I was wondering whether you'd recognize it.

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... .

'Command & Conquer Zero Hour' the Chinese faction would randomly say that when building stuff.

@Lensflare 'It'll look real nice when it's done.'.

No sucky sucky. Me no love u long time.

@Ragnar. Miss you, man.

@whimsical > 'It got corrupted.'.

...just like many other things on this site.

/sigh

I was thinking about purchasing a second PS4, either already hacked, or w/ the explicit intention _to hack_ to help me w/ testing, given how I don't own a console for native testing.

These new requirements for hacking things, ever since the PSP's temporary HEN ones... I kind of lost interest, for the most part. Although if the upside is there, I would do it, still.

@Lensflare > 'Aaaand it’s gone! Lol'.

Made me think of 'South Park'. https://youtube.com/watch/... .

@whimsical.

@retoor.

Sickening.