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There's a captcha for fire hydrants which we don't have in the UK either
We do. They're the graves for H from Steps.
Tiny helipads
CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#362To add some balance, they should include "identify all the roundabouts" so that folk from the USA are equally disadvantaged.
They could just ask to decypher one of those parking signs as well: http://www.polisassist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/confus...
What the hell is that thing?! Is that normal in the US?
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#363Don'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…
I'm pretty sure recatcha has a punitive/tarpit mode where it had already decided to reject you but just gives a series of slow tests which it will never pass you on anyway.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#364Here'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.
That sounds close enough that it would probably work just fine. I used my laptops on my terrace in winter, but as i never had any of them 'overcool' i never took note of the temperatire.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#365Don'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…
It's just that the classification gap between human and computer is closing, so now computers are better than a good percentage of humans, which means that there's a chunk of humans that now cannot conclusively prove they aren't bots.
I suspect there's no way to pass some of recaptcha's challenges, they appear to work like a tarpit.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my country, the Ford F150 truck would be referred to as a car or a "half-truck", while a semi-truck is what would be referred to as a truck. That's a piece of cultural difference that will dirty your training.
It might be called a car or a pickup truck but never just a truck by someone here. While "pickup truck" is an American inherited phrase which has truck in it, they're considered trucks about as much as a catfish is considered a cat.
> they're considered trucks about as much as a catfish is considered a cat
Well yes, but someone without this knowledge will get confused.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#367Don'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…
ReCaptcha v3 is basically a means for Google to let the site owner take the blame for bad UX patterns while still getting browsing data from much of the web.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Doesn't sound like IQ tests at all.
That's the point. They were never intended to objectively assess intelligence. They were designed to reinforce the dominant culture. Just like Google's tests do now.
I don’t think reCAPTCHA was designed to reinforce American culture. I think it was simply designed to make ML training sets for their other projects, and they neglected to make it accessible.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#369If someone from HCaptcha is reading this, can you please increase the size/highlight the words that we need to see.
For example, make the word(s) 'Car', 'Fire Hydrant' bigger in the sentence
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
My X1 Carbon 3rd gen got quite some use in the last 5 years, some of it also in ~ 0 °C weather (for at least half an hour), worked fine. That is naturally just one personal experience, so I do not want to assert that all X1s or even ThinkPads fare better in colder weather. Just that at least some do.
There may be a difference if you’re actively working in cold weather, where the CPU is generating heat that keep the internal battery temperatures up.
My hands have historically never been happy doing fine motor work at those temperatures.
Even though I’ve acclimated to doing outdoor work in colder and wetter conditions, I’m having trouble believing people are actually working on their laptop while most of us would be wearing gloves.