May I ask your rough age when you started?

Congrats on your journey so far!!

Oh my god, it makes so much sense now...

I know that nonce has another meaning, but now I'm picturing uniformed police tracking down criminals who used numbers more than once.

They can, but it forces their computer to waste time solving math problems. If you're familiar with Proof-of-Work from blockchain, it's basically that.

The idea, essentially, is that it makes it painful for bots doing internet-wide scraping but is only kinda annoying for actual humans.

Yeah, exactly! My point was that running before the shuffle was introduced was at a local maximum.

That's not exactly how that works. Often you get stuck at a local maximum. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)#%22Young_Shuffle%22

Been there, seen that.

Thankfully it didn't go off before someone mentioned it to them.

Would https://isaskar.github.io/Pelagiad/ work?

Close seat and lid. It's cleaner and equally annoying to everyone.

Start getting people on fully decentralized p2p chats like briar or deltachat I guess!

Happy to be employed, though the time off has mostly been nice! How's everything on that front for you?