caprine VS GTAO_Booster_PoC

If you have access to the source, package.json will have several entries for electron packages. Example.

Second was a small CSS change in a popular project, Caprine. I really had a long back and forth with the maintainer about two seemingly simple changes in a style sheet and I realized I should have been linting my code changes and I learned how to find the css elements I meant to target, it was a small step forward. https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/pull/1933 You can still see the remainder of a bunch of requested changes.

The second issue that I wanted to take on I wanted to upgrade from a markdown change like in my first PR. In this second PR I set out to find a small code change to make. After staring at the issue board for an hour or two I finally came across one that I was surprised was not taken. I found this open source Facebook messenger app called Caprine. This was and still is really cool to me, the opportunity to work on something that was so well put together and much larger than my previous project.

Caprine - Nezvanična Facebook Messenger aplikacija za Windows, macOS i Linux - Electron, TypeScript, CSS

I too have faced issues with it on Firefox in the past and moved on to an open source application called Caprine. Works pretty well on Windows/MacOS/Linux.

There in an open source program for Linux/Windows, called Caprine, it's on GitHub ( https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine ). It has also a portable version for Windows on https://portapps.io , if you are on a machine that's managed by the company you work for (it's like that for me). It's like the official Messenger app for the desktop, but Messenger came out later.

There's an alternative Messenger Client : Caprine

If you absolutely have to use Facebook Messenger, perhaps you could try a free and open-source client like Caprine, which is for desktop, but there was another one for mobile as well, I just don't remember the name of it (as I personally don't use it / have the need to use Facebook Messenger).

I never actually "solved" this, but I switched to Caprine and I'm no longer having any problems. It actually works much better than the official app (it lets you send audio files, etc).

Everyone should keep in mind that this is the same game whose client-update-handshake-dance largely consisted of an enormous JSON of all the updates that had ever been done to the gamestate, which then got parsed naively. This situation was recognized and patched [0] by an interested third party [1].

Not a slight against the code monkey that implemented it that way, because they surely didn't bother to think about complexity consequences when the gamestate was new and the JSON wasn't 10MB yet, but a slight on Rockstar, because the cash cow that GTA:O turned out to be deserves some fuckin' maintenance, doesn't it? Then again, the eye-popping prevalence of hax0rs in Rockstar games probably ought to signify priorities to even the most casual observer. As others in these comments observe, with what those hackers can achieve, it's not surprising to learn there's RCEs too.

[0] https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

The update was in line with the work of a guy named t0st, who found out why the loading times were so slow in the start and he made a [proof of concept fix](https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC) which Rockstar has awarded him $10,000 irl for.

This is an article that reports load times for GTA V PC online were reduced by at least 70% using a mod. Files and instructions to build the mod are found here.

How likely is one to get suspended if one uses the proof of concept for playing the game

The proof of concept source code is on Github.