Someone had to make this. At some point some software engineer had to sit down, look at it, and say, "looks good to ship to production"
More like "It fulfills the requirements, ship and collect my compensation"
HBO Max new Captcha system
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#242I 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…
For captchas you don’t have to be right in the strict sense. You have to do as most humans would do.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm extremely hesitant to give any State the ability to track an individual user's online activity that intensely. The U.K. government developed something called GOV.UK Verify for exactly this. It’s sort of like OAuth via a stateless gateway I think. The promise is that the entity doing the auth doesn’t know what you’re using it for, and the entity receiving the auth doesn’t know how you proved auth and only gets t…
I once suggested to a PM from the GOV.UK Verify team that if the UK wants to do age verification for porn, which it has threatened many times over the last decade, that Verify would be the perfect tech for it as content sites would only find out you're over 18, and auth providers would only know they're proving basic details about you. The PM did not like the idea of the government being the porn passport for the who…
> I once suggested to a PM from the GOV.UK Verify team that if the UK wants to do age verification for porn, which it has threatened many times over the last decade, that Verify would be the perfect tech for it as content sites would only find out you're over 18, and auth providers would only know they're proving basic details about you.
To me, that's still *way too much*.
Just from that, the government now immediately knows what site you've been to (via the token that you've given to the service), and what said site has access to, as well as when you've accessed it. On a long enough timescale, the government can build a daily profile of your life, that when coupled with geo-location data, can be used to see what & where an activity's happening in real time.
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#244I 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.
It was probably because they're not doing the merger in all their markets (at least any time soon), and they need to maintain the old platform and functionality outside the US as a result.
Subsequently having two separate codebase was probably considered preferable to development on one slowing to a crawl while it chased after two diverging requirements lists.
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#245I just found out about PoW Captcha. Don’t they solve every problem?
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#246Some genius who designed the dice captcha: "You know what's easy for humans but computers suck at? Addition!"
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#247This 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.
Good, I can't wait for the CAPTCHA to go away. They're accessibility nightmares _by design_.
Uh? The outcome is not “captchas are gone and all our services remain good.”
If we don’t have some way to prevent it, services will be increasingly populated by sophisticated bots either selling stuff, attempting security breaches, or pushing political agendas.
That’s a bad thing!
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#248I 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.
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#249I 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 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 also have a PhD in Computer Science and I assure you that the degree does not give me as much blind faith in my math ability
This person has the more believable PhD.
One of the requirements to getting a PhD is the knowledge that a PhD is not the proof of intelligence you thought it would be when you started. It is better a proof of resilience, patience, and being dead inside.