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CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by fctorial »

lurtbancaster wrote: post #130

Don't get me started on how infuriating Google's ReCaptchas are on Tor Browser. Buster captcha solver fails immediately. And when you do actually manually solve the captcha correctly, sometimes Google still thinks you're a robot. And sometimes it asks me to select all "bicycles" in the images and there are NO GODDAMN BICYCLES in any of the images whatsover. So I hit Skip and eventually google thinks I'm a robot. Ever…

So they fingerprint you based on your interaction with captcha if you're using tor.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by Normille »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #177
aloisdg wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So we have "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans", "uBlock Origin" and what is the last one?

That is some ingenious bait for HN readers! Of course everyone is going to passionately defend their favourite. (Mine is, of course, tree style tabs - I could never manage without it.)

Go on then. I'll play. My 'must have' half dozen which get installed first, on every browser on every device I use:

* Bitwarden

* HTTPS everywhere

* Privacy Badger/Possum/Other Furry Animal

* uBlock Origin

* uMatrix

* Windscribe

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by Number157 »

dayve wrote: post #247

Being an African born & bred in Nigeria, I particularly find this appalling. Captcha usually asks users to identify fire hydrants, crosswalks & other objects with design patterns that are not common here, in everyday living. There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet, especially since the demographics are much different from existing internet use…

But you can answer the questions, I assume?

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by soneil »

zbuf wrote: post #57

Captchas have gone mad. The other day a major service gave me less than 10 seconds to solve a puzzle with a mouse in a maze and some cheese, and subsequently locked out of my account. Actually before I got locked out, I thought I would stand more chance with the alternative for the visually impaired. It jumped straight in to a fuzzy voice reading 20+ numbers at a rate of more than 1 per second. I was already behind o…

The second part of that actually seems to be more valid than you'd expect. Most users I've seen who actually use voiceover et al have TTS at a frankly astonishing rate.

Although I agree in general. Plenty of capatchas have failed me. I refuse to say I've failed the capatcha. Given I'm human, and its role is to detect humans; I can't fail to be human - it can only fail to detect it.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by nottorp »

2rsf wrote: post #269
Number157 wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like an issue with the technology itself more than Apple. Snow mobiles and winter jackets are expected to stand cold weather. Electronics not so much.

It's the batteries more than anything else, most phones will loose their battery capacity in cold weather.

Wil lose. One O.

Losing capacity is one thing, shutting down and refusing to start after 10 min outside is another. What use is a phone if i can't call 112 because it's cold?

Edit: Also remember that I've had Apple laptops before, and only this newer model deems it necessary to shut down.

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Post by cj »

OJFord wrote: post #221
StavrosK wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't that what everybody else is talking about too?

I don't think 'crosswalks' require road traffic give way to pedestrians? Don't they just mark where crossing the road is not 'jaywalking'?

> I don't think 'crosswalks' require road traffic give way to pedestrians

Traffic laws can vary by state, but in general pedestrians always have the right-of-way on a crosswalk (except when there's a traffic light).

Whether or not cars will actually stop for you is a different story.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by Number157 »

gostsamo wrote: post #12

As a blind person with english as not native language, the audio captchas are pure hell. I can't imagine other visually impaired people who don't know english at all and have to deal with a lazy website which dumps them the default english audio captcha if there is audio at all.

All communication requires some agreed upon protocol. Whatever they use, people would have to understand it.

Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)

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Post by arp242 »

nottorp wrote: post #195

Here's a different but similar whine. Probably worth its own blog post except I don't blog. Dear Apple, can you test your products outside California? I just left my laptop for 10 minutes on the balcony because I had to get a delivery. Because I'm not in California, the temperature on said balcony is 3 Celsius. Yes, I'm not american and I don't understand Fahrenheit. Guess what, when I came back the laptop was shutdo…

How do other laptop manufacturers fare in this regard? For ThinkPads (T490) the environmental temperature is listed as "5°C to 43°C", and your 3°C would be too cold.

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Post by sriku »

We know (pretty surely) that no company's autonomous vehicle of any claimed level is going to survive for 30 mins on Indian urban roads and traffic conditions. Afaik, none of these companies are even trying to get a vehicle to work in such conditions. This gives me confidence that the AI apocalypse is nowhere near.
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