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Time's a flat circle. We've reinvented cable and have it delivered via the internet. The quality of the content has fallen off now that folks have been roped into the platforms and everything's getting bundled back up so you have to subsidize garbage just to watch a show or two you like per platform.
You know one service which has never stopped being reliable, easily available, high quality, and free to use? Piracy.
I remember one day in class we were doing a group project and using GitHub to share our work, and a friend of mine had trouble to log into his GitHub account and got this captcha.
A team of 4 people in the class went to help him pass the (if I remember correctly) 10 tries you needed to have correct in order to log in.
And they still took about 10 minutes!
I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am failing multiple basic addition problems, I assure you that it isn't me, the answers are wrong. I had to do the same audio puzzles and got the first audio puzzle wrong too, and I even…
I am baffled as to why they had to launch an entirely new app rather than just rename the existing one. Could Apple have made them change the bundle ID? It's like they're putting in deliberate obstacles for existing subscribers.
Often new management wants to put their stamp on things. I've been in situations where we've had to do major redesigns because a new leader wanted to leave their mark. I've been in situations where each new leader wanted a new logo to mark that they made a difference - 3 logos in a decade.
Companies often squander resources in this kind of way. That's not to say that some redesigns and changes aren't warranted, but these things happen often. Why has Google launched a dozen chat apps? Why do some apps get a huge push followed by being abandoned followed by a huge rebranding/recoding push followed by being abandoned again? Many people on here have speculated it's because people get promoted for launching big new things and not for things that seem "easy" like maintenance.
You're rightly baffled from a logical standpoint. When you start thinking about the humans involved in the situation, their egos, their priorities for themselves which might not align with the company's, etc., then it potentially starts to make more sense.
This is going to be one of the best parts of the new AI-ridden world: humans gradually getting locked out of and giving up on online services because the bots are more patient and more skilled at proving their humanness than humans are. Twitter’s new captchas are also pretty insane, though not quite this bad last I ran into them.
Serious question: who has a decent plan to create proof-of-human systems that are not only CAPTCHA based? We will soon need this, and I feel government will gladly present a solution: provide your ID when you connect to the Internet, and we will guarantee you are a human. Who's actually working on this and has released papers I can study? Because all this AI nonsense will only accelerate us towards this total control…
I guess spam is an issue currently, but if bots become advanced enough to avoid heuristics, by making insightful and useful comments, they are probably better than most human users.
Proof of work captchas like mcaptcha can stop, or at least make very expensive, (d)dos attacks.
I experienced the HBO Max captchas just a few days ago. Everyone did since they launched a new app and made everyone switch to that and re-login. Some of the solutions are clearly just wrong. I have a PhD in Computer Science and if I am failing multiple basic addition problems, I assure you that it isn't me, the answers are wrong. I had to do the same audio puzzles and got the first audio puzzle wrong too, and I even…
Some people miss the old user interfaces. Windows 95, XP, 2000 etc. What is the reason? We had some programs with a horrible interface (Real Player, for example), but never with this level of stupidity. It's more of a joke than an interface, like reddit's competition for the worst volume control: https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world...
Now you can argue that anything that has hitched a ride on moore's law has improved exponentially. In fact this is what several groups point to: Elon Musk stans love to argue how the world has gotten better not worse thanks to exponential growth and the government loves to point to the declining costs of things like TVs as an indication that inflation is not so bad. Its a red herring though. That new computer is so much better but now has layers of privacy invading/security compromising fat that ye old Windows 95 PC didn't have. That TV might cost a nickel but is more locked down and made out of more of the cheapest throw away components than your old Tube ever had. In a way its an insult to how decent your old TV was.
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I am baffled as to why they had to launch an entirely new app rather than just rename the existing one. Could Apple have made them change the bundle ID? It's like they're putting in deliberate obstacles for existing subscribers.
Elon Musk originally said this in an interview somewhere but it stuck with me: "The organizational inefficiencies and structure will manifest themselves in the end product." We can probably gleam many insights about the people who made the app (how it works, how big the bundle is, how fast/slow etc.). I haven't used the app so I can't make any judgements about the organization behind it.