Project skyscraper / no man's sky arg

One of our silenced users is claiming to know what it says. I am trying to get more info but I am working and sleeping at the same time. The user claiming to know this is @ThePrisoner

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the_architect’s profile picture (4e6571ff36e0dd0c8a680f242cffdd9820b25a58_2_288x288.jpg) stands out because when you download any other user’s profile pic, it matches the name you see in your browser.This one changes to the string you see above.There is one other user in these forums with similar profile pic download/name behavior:7dcb49e6b16816474244cdd61a1455e55d78ed3f_2_288x288.jpgI’m not highlighting their name because I don’t know if this is a wild goose chase and I don’t want to create any trouble for them. But I’m not going to lie, this particular user stands out to me in a number of other ways.

Edit: I just tested it on my own profile pic and got the same result. Never mind! Seems intermittent and/or I definitely don’t understand how it works. Carry on.

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Ahh alrighty then, hope they get unsilenced soon lol.

Went and tried to remove even more of the noise from the image, hope this will help in a bit

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For all standard passes.

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Ohh wow thats way better than whatever I was doing, this will come in handy!

It ideally needs to be done with proper raw image and steg tools to avoid any data loss.

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Hello everyone!

I’ve been observing since the 20th and I’ve decided now would probably be a good time to make my first post, seeing as it’s likely some big things are happening the next few days! And I’d also rather not be silenced by the bot.. :sweat_smile:

Hope everyone is doing well!

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Welcome @Footage

Congrats surviving sniping bot!

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Again, do not use AI for image analysis. It doesn’t do what you think it does. It will introduce training data. If you want to analyse an image, let the AI write code that aggregates the data from the image that you need and then run the code on the image yourself (python is great for quick and dirty scripts like that).

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I think the text on the May 25 entry is an anagram.

I looked at four of the different versions of the first line and there were the same characters each time.

Character # of apperances
A 1
c 4
C 1
d 4
e 7
i 2
n 4
o 2
s 2
t 3
: 1

With the number of spaces ranges from 2 to 4

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Yup, my english left me sorry :rofl:

That would make @the_architect an inner-circle member of something. Either the fan-group running this ARG, or HG… Probably the former.
I also like this thinking -
THEY can see the tower… but not the one inside => i.e. exactly as @Tilve said - it is the one inside who cannot see the tower (that they are in).

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Welcome @catnip !

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Yes it is. I will try to find the message where we found it out. (And welcome!)

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Hi @catnip.
Welcome to the forum.

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Look at 1601, I had written a list of possible solutions

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That makes a lot of sense, thanks!

Welcome, the text is identical, except for the capitalisation - it’s ā€œConnection detected : Access deniedā€

It might still be an anagram, of course.

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Hokay.

The May 25th entry gives us a page showing four lines of jumbled letters.

You can visit the page here:

If you look at the code behind this page, you can clearly see that it’s just taking the words ā€œconnection detected: access deniedā€, and mixing up the letters. That’s all it does.

In your browser, you likely have a ā€œreader modeā€. I use Firefox, and in that browser it’s here:

If you open the jumbled letters page in your browser, then enter ā€œReaderā€ mode, you get this:

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