Ya I hate having to go in the wilderness in OSRS. Just feels like weird creepy predatory behavior that I don't enjoy in a game I'm paying $18CAD/month to play 🙄

Chess is lazy. When you could play a real game like go.

Terrible to read. So instead of going after the money, companies install kernel level "anti-cheats" that don't really do anything other than farming more data to sell?

Don't forget the CSGO LAN cheating scandals where players were loading cheats into their mouse RAM

Exactly this.

It's deeply ironic that replacing private server lobbies with "competitive matchmaking" is the direct cause of rampant cheating.

Back in the day, you'd find a server with a ping, map rotation, and culture you liked and add it to your favourites list. Then, you'd choose the server you wanted to play on.

I was a huge fan of the 24/7 Hunted server in Team Fortress Classic and a pair of Warcraft Mod Counter Strike 2 servers back in the day. Playing a night elf with life leech and the root special (prevent enemy movement for a few seconds) or an orc with up to 8× grenade damage? So much fun.

Nobody thinks this isn't actually cheating. He's under no illusions about what he has made.

The class of hacks that use trained object detection networks (like YOLO) can be run on lightweight(-ish) hardware. It still needs to be able to run the object recognition loop quickly, the faster your hardware the less latency you will experience but it can work on Raspberry Pi.

In order to get ESP/wallhacks, you need to be able to read the game memory on the gaming PC. While there are software ways to do this, they are all detectable (assuming they're using Secure Boot to prevent UEFI cheats). The most reliable way is to use Direct Memory Access hardware to read the system memory via hardware without going through the operating system, which means that not even the kernel anticheats can see when this is happening.

If you're going to use ESP, you also need to be able to see the information. You could run a second monitor, but the preferred way is to use a fuser which merges two video streams, one from the game from the gaming PC and another from the PC rendering the ESP data (bounding boxes).

Then you need some kind of hardware to receive the mouse input and pretend to be a mouse to the gaming PC. This can be something like a Raspberry Pi, but a product called Kmbox is purpose designed for it.

The full hardware kit is probably around $300-400 (not counting the PC/Pi) and then you have to buy/subscribe to the software that actually runs the cheats.