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Someone recorded a computer screen with their phone. But that's not enough, it's recorded in vertical…
I'm really speechless seeing this level of IT illiteracy.
The completely messed up "captcha" fades away given that video…
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaN2Y8GjIqA
Some genius who designed the dice captcha: "You know what's easy for humans but computers suck at? Addition!"
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.
I can see there's no improvement.
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The entire thing reeks of bad decisions. The new CEO from the Discovery side of the merger cancelled a bunch of HBO Max programming that was doing well, because their background is in cheaper to produce reality content. It seems fated to join the very long list of bad media mergers.
What I do not understand about business is basically everything, but I still don't really understand why they felt the need to remove existing programs. I can understand canceling Close Enough and Infinity Train because they're too expensive, but I don't really understand what it's hurting for them to just say on the servers and continue to be streamable. Hard drive space is pretty cheap, especially at HBO's scale. I…
Terrible UX aside, aren't these really... REALLY easy to solve for a bot? Sum the digits on the dies? 5 lines of openCV should do the trick Find which of 3 (three!) extracts is a repeating pattern?? Could this be any easier? This sounds actually easier for a machine than for a human being!
Not so fast: First the images show dices with a mixture of dots and numbers. Second the images are not from the top, but at 45 degree angle. By that one can also see the numbers/dots on the side of the dices. Distinguishing numbers/dots which are on the side from ones on the top is pretty hard. The algorithm needs to have an understanding of the 3d structure of the dices in the image.
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.
A new app gives you a blank slate, which is easier than reverting old ratings.
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Didn't they already do that? They used to have HBO Go and HBO Now and I believe one of those became HBO Max and they sunset the other one.
I still have the HBO Max app installed on my phone. It only displays a page that says "HBO Max is now Max" some other text and then a download button that redirects you to the app store page for the new app.
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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.
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.
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…
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If attackers get around reCAPTCHA, you are screwed, but so is half the Internet, including Google themselves. Do you think Google would not care about an increase in spam and would not try to fix reCAPTCHA?
You will not get the same level of support from Google as you will from a vendor dedicated to this. Ironically, HBO Max is the main case study on reCAPTCHA Enterprise's landing page, which I guess did not work out for exactly this reason: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how...