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I tried to do it the intended way, but found it too difficult. I was able to cheese it by staying in the starting area and killing the enemies that spawned to the right.

you run straight and to the right, and there is a group of 3 enemies that you can kill in less then 10 seconds and win

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#222

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Well, this is not the first level, but this is the level entry weapon. Plus, left and right arrows rotate the characters since it's keyboard only, but in modern FPS you are used to having them laterally move you and you rotate with the mouse, so your reflexes are off.

As in the original, you can use alt + left/right arrow keys to strafe.

thanks, without strafing it's almost impossible

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post #50

I tried to do it the intended way, but found it too difficult. I was able to cheese it by staying in the starting area and killing the enemies that spawned to the right.

Hah, same here. 1. press the back arrow to move back 2. press spacebar every second and that's it, 30 or so seconds later the captcha is solved :-)

The first time I didn't move at all (except for targeting), and before I knew it it was "solved". Just a few seconds.

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#226
This is really cool, I even tried to get monsters to frag each other but it didn't count towards the required 3 kill count.

Also using cheats, kills with the rocket launcher aren't registered on the app.

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When I try to log into AWS console and have to solve their captcha I always think that the target audience that this is designed to avoid can easily automate it (Some open source models can solve this without all that "AI safety" gatekeeping) while the majority of audience are simply suffering from this "feature". Apple has proposed a solution to captcha[1] which I can't wait to be standardized and widely used. [1] h…

> you don't have to complete a CAPTCHA. All you have to do is sign in to the app or site No thank you. Do not want. PS: I stopped reading the apple support article after reading that sentence.

The cryptography that Apple uses for _their users_ is something novel and useful. I'm sure there would be completely open solutions that doesn't require Apple servers. At the moment this is Apple specific. I'm guessing most users will user Apple/Google solutions (just like how Passkeys are being used today) but for the security and privacy conscious there is always ways to keep your own private keys. Most people are handing over their private keys to Google and Apple for Passkeys today. That's not necessary a bad thing. Most people reuse passwords so it's an improvement.

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post #227

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> you don't have to complete a CAPTCHA. All you have to do is sign in to the app or site No thank you. Do not want. PS: I stopped reading the apple support article after reading that sentence.

The cryptography that Apple uses for _their users_ is something novel and useful. I'm sure there would be completely open solutions that doesn't require Apple servers. At the moment this is Apple specific. I'm guessing most users will user Apple/Google solutions (just like how Passkeys are being used today) but for the security and privacy conscious there is always ways to keep your own private keys. Most people are…

If Apples solution only tell the site that the current user has an verified apple account without providing futher info I guess I can be acceptable for most. If the site being visited get info about whom that specific user it is a no-go.

On a more meta level it is tragic that we wont be able to use our computer online without being signed in to an online and be verified.

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post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cryptography that Apple uses for _their users_ is something novel and useful. I'm sure there would be completely open solutions that doesn't require Apple servers. At the moment this is Apple specific. I'm guessing most users will user Apple/Google solutions (just like how Passkeys are being used today) but for the security and privacy conscious there is always ways to keep your own private keys. Most people are…

If Apples solution only tell the site that the current user has an verified apple account without providing futher info I guess I can be acceptable for most. If the site being visited get info about whom that specific user it is a no-go. On a more meta level it is tragic that we wont be able to use our computer online without being signed in to an online and be verified.

> On a more meta level it is tragic that we wont be able to use our computer online without being signed in to an online and be verified.

Fully agreed! Again, for most people this is the way of life. They type in Google in search bar to go to google Google and then search...

> If the site being visited get info about whom that specific user

My understanding is that you only get to know user is legit without knowing anything about them.

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