I'm noticing a lot of sites using different captcha services, either in-house or a completely different one from Google's, and I can understand using CloudFlare's but I'm not sure what's driving the move. I'm not against it, but it felt like for ages ReCaptcha (or w/e) was king of captcha. Do they charge up a premium for some sites or something?
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#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rewriting doesn't require a new listing on really any of these platforms. They could have rewritten every single thing and still made it an update. I'm guessing there was some contractual thing (perhaps cable related) around the HBO name or else someone made a very poor choice.
Would changing developer accounts cause it? Like maybe Discovery insisted on a new ADC account?
You can transfer apps between developer accounts on both Apple and Google's platforms. It's not the easiest process in the world but far easier than inconveniencing users.
https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/transfer-...
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
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Heh, until the UK logging requirements ensure some component of the token that can be decoded later gets left in the server logs, then Oops, we know exactly who was on the porn server.
There is no way to argue against this kind of speculation. Commenter 1: System X is evil! Commenter 2: Actually, here is how system X works: (Demonstrates it does not work how Commenter 1 thinks it works) Commenter 3: Well that's fine, until they change X to be evil! I mean, sure, when X becomes evil, then we can say X is evil. But not until then. If your argument is that all systems eventually become evil, that may…
> But not until then.
This is a pretty dumb argument on the internet.
Me (1995): says something really stupid on the internet
Me (2020): shit hope on one finds that 1995 post and cancels my ass
With internet traffic and logging the default assumption should be: "All this data is logged and monitored for marketing purposes, and there is nearly a 100% chance it will be leaked by some hacker group", with the 2023 corollary of "And then used to train a LLM"
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I agree that it is "a bad thing". The current internet culture seems quite happy to slap captchas all over the place. When they first rolled out, captchas were predominantly a barrier for "write access" (e.g. make an account, complete a sale, write a comment). But companies like Cloudflare have been putting captchas everywhere for mere read access. Because Captchas are designed to be easy for ("normal")…
Because current captchas fail to stop 100% of bots and 0% of humans… it’s “not a bad thing” to move closer to captchas stopping 0% of bots and 100% of humans…? Are you imagining this would spur people to create a different, bot-free (how?) and disabled-human friendly Internet?
No idea. I'm not offering solutions, merely complaints that the current approach of "answer a question that is hard for computers and easy for humans" removes disabled people from many places on the internet.
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#325I 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 BS in Computer Science and I can't do basic math reliably... 3+4? About 10. Is that something they teach in grad school?
You don't have a BS in addition, that's the problem.
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#326This is Arkose MatchKey. Hopefully, they will one day fix the UI covering the images. https://www.arkoselabs.com/arkose-matchkey/
The entire site is an exercise in delusion and marketing bullshit. I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people. Some other choice quotes from the page: > Users have a bad association with difficult photo CAPTCHAs. > Instead of type what you hear (or alphanumerics) puzzles, we ask users simple questi…
>I am absolutely convinced that the people selling this abomination of a product have either never used it themselves or are abjectly and wilfully misleading people.
Same goes for the people who decided to put it on their websites.
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#327Some 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...
The old green-screen keyboard only interfaces took longer to learn how to use but with time you could get much faster than modern mouse-centric GUIs.
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> 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…
Fair enough, hope I didn't come off to nitpicky or pedantic! I've always viewed blockchain cryptocurrency projects as git if you had to pay for changes, guess that crept back in here and I looked right past your point.
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That's what I don't get. What value is there in such an account? The fear that random persons can watch videos without paying until the owner notices they can't stream because someone else is using the account? Are these accounts held for ransom because the owner doesn't want to lose their watchlist? Can you purchase gift subscriptions using the stored payment method perhaps? It's a nuisance obviously, but for such a…
I think they are resold on darknet or something.
Sure, but my question was to what end, what damage is actually occurring
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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
I remember seeing this a while back. I wanted to say thank you for the effort!
I am concerned though that this is just another form of inflation. If you think about it, you need to have the skillset to develop this software to your liking. That itself is a time sink but lets put that aside and assume you already have the skillset because you made the investment for other reasons. You could then argue that the investment made in learning how to make these apps is spread across this as well as anything else you use the skill for: GREAT Right?
Well, you are forgetting that you are sacrificing time to build and then maintain these applications. So in a way you are still paying for these applications.
Also one concern I have about your listing there is the same concern I have every time I force myself to use Linux as my primary system and then give up and go back to Mac: Curation.
Have you considered drawing up a list of typical workflows for a bunch of different kinds of users and then ensuring at least the common use cases are taken care of? As it stands, it seem like you have a lot of interesting apps but they are are just a hodgepodge of random things. There is no cohesive curation or (potential)quality control behind them.
This grinds my gears about Linux. You handmade apps get a pass but your typical distro? no way: They package together whatever desktop environment they like which itself consists of terrible everyday tools that have varying quality. Just open up the Calculator on a Gnome based distro. It is crummy compared to the Mac or Windows(classic) calculator. Then try out each and every other app on the menu. Seems like there was no real cohesion put into it.
Furthermore, lets just accept that you have to tailor these handmade apps to your liking and that eventually there will be a handmade app for everything a user could want. Ok fine, but I still hate the fact that in todays day and age, this idea has to be extend to EVERYTHING in your life. You gotta understand how to maintain your car because good luck finding a mechanic that wont do the bare minimum. How about the slop they serve at many food establishments? You have to "handmade" all your food/liquid intake. Ditto for everything else (maintenance or removing other ways corporations screw you).
How do you even preserve the value of the currency you try so hard to earn? You can't it is slowly going to 0.