bearboiblake [he/him]

Just to clarify, I meant it’s easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. I edited my original comment to clarify that

Like her husband, she was a communist activist, which she remained after the war.

No one kills nazis quite like communists do!

This is hardly a new phenomenon at all. I used to be a teen hacker myself. Many security experts and ethical hackers start out as skript kiddies playing around with Kali Linux.

If anything, it’s easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. Used to mostly be for prestige and for that sense of testing yourself, though people still definitely got paid, perhaps not at the same scale.

I am one of the developers for Project Rubi-Ka, a server emulator/private server for the classic sci-fi MMORPG, Anarchy Online.

AO is now nearly 25 years old and no longer has any developers at the company that released it, but it is still running.

I have written over 2,000,000 lines of server emulator code for AO. I am now probably one of the world’s foremost experts in how the game works.

Dang, that sucks! Thanks for looking though, and good job finding where you originally saw it.

That’s a shame, but I totally understand, appreciate it!

I love this, do you know who the artist is?