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Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by megablast »

mdasen wrote: post #55
wrs wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some it was probably "this gives us an excuse to rewrite the system, but better this time!" Rebranding often gives a certain amount of cover to do things you want to do even if you don't have to do it. 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 want…

You can rewrite it every day from scratch, and still replace the old app on the app stores. Duh.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by dreamcompiler »

mdasen wrote: post #55
wrs wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Some it was probably "this gives us an excuse to rewrite the system, but better this time!" Rebranding often gives a certain amount of cover to do things you want to do even if you don't have to do it. 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 want…

> 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 call this "New Vice President Urination Syndrome." The stank gets on everything until they learn to use the bathroom.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by abnercoimbre »

nebula8804 wrote: post #59
zac23or wrote: post #25

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...

Continued "enshittification" of all aspects of life. Your OS gets worse but everything else has gotten worse as well: your food gets smaller/worse quality due to the dollar continuing to lose its value, getting harder and harder to live the lifestyle your parents had (house prices, costs of college etc.) Now you can argue that anything that has hitched a ride on moore's law has improved exponentially. In fact this is…

And then you have people like me, making a living by inviting anyone who listens to events that preach the following: software quality has gone off a cliff [0] and we must do something pronto.

Never imagined this would be a career worth pursuing; it's grim when you think about it.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/about

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by flagrant_taco »

theaiquestion wrote: post #109
sph wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm not saying PGP or cryptocurrency because both of those have issues and the moment money is involved everything is foobar'd But essentially allowing people to make "identities" via cryptography and then use a reputation system. Preferably by allowing people to follow/whitelist/favorite people across websites. I like hacker new's method of making new people green. And I wish I could make it highlight the big names…

> IMO block gains are the closest but it's so difficult to mention them because 98% of them are money-grabs

git is a really popular blockchain, though I guess GitHub seeking to Microsoft may further the money-grab argument

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by Zanni »

sph wrote: post #44
ethanbond wrote: post #2

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…

The IRS is already doing this. They used to have a password-based login system, but they're switching over to ID.me, which requires a scan of your ID and a matching selfie.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by theaiquestion »

flagrant_taco wrote: post #144
theaiquestion wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying PGP or cryptocurrency because both of those have issues and the moment money is involved everything is foobar'd But essentially allowing people to make "identities" via cryptography and then use a reputation system. Preferably by allowing people to follow/whitelist/favorite people across websites. I like hacker new's method of making new people green. And I wish I could make it highlight the big names…

> IMO block gains are the closest but it's so difficult to mention them because 98% of them are money-grabs git is a really popular blockchain, though I guess GitHub seeking to Microsoft may further the money-grab argument

Sorry I should clarify, I don't mean append-only graphs,

I mean what people call "blockchain" in the cryptocurrency sense as actual projects - there's so much stigma largely because the motivation of most of the projects appears to be "making money/investing" and not actually solving a technical problem appropriately.

If github was like this there would be a "fee" for making making commits, this fee would be paid in some proprietary coin, initially created with an ICO/airdrop. Suddenly the motivation is holding these coins because developers will need to make commits right? And the more developers that make commits the more the coin is worth, so surely you should buy and hold them right? This will be a feedback loop of endless money! Oh and it'll be a DAO so the more coins the more voting power you get too!

^ This is what I mean, where the focus is on collecting some "coin/token" - this leads to both a lack of focus on the actual problem being solved, and the problem of people associating it with a ponzi scheme.

I'm not picking a fight with distributed graphs themselves, I don't like it when they're tightly coupled with "value" that can be traded as a fiat.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by initplus »

ethanbond wrote: post #2

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.

The end result of this is going to be human identity verification provided by a centralized party. Either the government or a big private corp, not sure which is worse.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by boomboomsubban »

Not saying these are good, but it's been ~10 years and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to click when Google says "click the traffic lights." Just the light sections? What about the edge that takes up 10% of the adjoining box? What about the back or side of a different traffic light?

I've tried them all, and my success rate doesn't noticeably change.

Re: HBO Max new Captcha system

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Post by quickthrower2 »

wackget wrote: post #42
cdme wrote: post #39

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.

After 6gb download:

loLz666.txt:

For the unlock password visit (somesite.ru/blah) and fill in 3 surveys.

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