Oh hey it’s that redpill content they were warning me about!

The truth is not a weird hill.

It’s more obvious when it’s someone with emoji as their name (you know who you are :p )

Monsoon difficulty

Seems a little extreme for a browser switch

Heads up to anyone using this, the $5 coupon they offer for an in app purchase didn’t work for me. Don’t make any purchases that depend on it.

We have the technology!

When it comes to browsing the web and showing content and having good add-ons, edge does a good job.

But why does it need to constantly advertise itself and other microsoft things to me? It’s annoying when Firefox does this, but it feels like edge does it almost every time I open it.

This comic is old, Mac major OS updates used to cost money.

pihole and an always-on syncthing node.

If you have a known algorithm for generating those hard-to-read images, then it really wouldn’t be that difficult to generate a large enough set yourself to train a custom ML model to solve them. The same would apply to audio challenges.

Only one person would need to do it then they could share the process, potentially automating others being able to bypass as well.

I like the idea of captcha being open, but unlike encryption as far as I know we don’t have a starting point on something that is actually easier for humans when all information is available. Until something like that exists, open sourcing to implement and improve it doesn’t make sense if you want an effective product.

Explain

This isn’t a problem of security, this is a problem of deciphering between human and non human users.

It doesn’t seem to me like encryption is comparable here. With encryption we have known algorithms that are harder to reverse than initially run. This is a completely different problem, where many inputs are taken and some algorithm has to decide if they are human or not. What digital task can a human do that a robot can’t in the same way, especially if the robot knows exactly the measures it should aim for?

Wouldn’t it be significantly easier to bypass if it were open source?

You know how convenient it is to just have some wired headphones lying around in the car in case I need them for some reason? (Like if I forgot my wireless ones for the gym).

I can’t do that with wireless headphones, the battery will passively run dry.

I read somewhere about someone who took a zip file, copied it and zipped it with the copy over and over again until the file size ballooned to petabytes. I would consider that sort of pointless use of storage to be abuse.

There was so much of this around the “weather balloons” as well.

The comment you are replying to linked AI and automation. It makes total sense in this context.

They made a flag specifically for their crawler, so they can say that they do but in the most annoying way possible.