Hello! I'm Miquel the author of Doom Captcha Thanks jukkakoskknen for sharing it on HN and everyone here talking about it, I hope you enjoy it :)
It wasn't clear in the documentation, but should I take this too seriously?
What do you think?
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It mostly depends on what you are trying to protect with your CAPTCHA. When I managed a small phpbb forum, all I had to do was to change a few lines in the register page to make it non-standard and it stopped all bots. Better than the built-in CAPTCHA. Simply, no one cared enough about our forum to write a specialized tool, no matter how easy it was. If it is all you have to protect, go ahead with your clever ideas,…
I am on a forum with like 20 other posters and bots were stopped by the addition of a call/response field. Nobody who wanted to register would forget the classic response, but no bot was going to be able to answer it without some pretty specific google fu
How does that work if you want to grow your hobby or group?
And if it’s something between friends why not use a private whatsapp group or IRC
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#73Am I the only one that has a problem with audio that defaults to maximum volume? Amazon does this too. But I keep my default to a volume that lets me crank up soft stuff enough to be audible. For pages like this, the sound just about makes my ears bleed before I can mute it.
No. This is a problem in a lot of places.
See: Every video game ever made with audio settings locked behind a 2 minute unskippable cutscene.
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#74Hello! I'm Miquel the author of Doom Captcha Thanks jukkakoskknen for sharing it on HN and everyone here talking about it, I hope you enjoy it :)
Hello and thank you.
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I am on a forum with like 20 other posters and bots were stopped by the addition of a call/response field. Nobody who wanted to register would forget the classic response, but no bot was going to be able to answer it without some pretty specific google fu
How does that work if you want to grow your hobby or group? And if it’s something between friends why not use a private whatsapp group or IRC
The one's I've seen are not difficult questions. I.e if it was a forum for some TV Series fandom, a question could be 'What is the main character's name?'
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#76Am I the only one that has a problem with audio that defaults to maximum volume? Amazon does this too. But I keep my default to a volume that lets me crank up soft stuff enough to be audible. For pages like this, the sound just about makes my ears bleed before I can mute it.
I don’t, the “volume” adjusters on websites are all ... fake?
There are several layers of volume control but the last one on the stem level is the only real one (ok maybe one more level on a physical speaker amp if you have it)
Application levels can only cut dynamic range by adjusting volume, i would expect the default level to be full, if i want something quieter i’ll turn down the system loudness
The nominal loudness of a sound is sometimes inconsistent but that is on the sound mastering level not the application level.
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#77Hello! I'm Miquel the author of Doom Captcha Thanks jukkakoskknen for sharing it on HN and everyone here talking about it, I hope you enjoy it :)
The only criticism I have, is that your timer is too fast.
I can listen to their demands and negotiate a peaceful, mutual benificial resolution. After that we can establish a framework to resolve hostilities. But when I want to talk about free trade and opening borders to exchange goods... the timer runs out.
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#78My hands went straight for the arrow and ctrl keys, assuming it was real DOOM controls. I was disappointed :)
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#79Am I the only one that has a problem with audio that defaults to maximum volume? Amazon does this too. But I keep my default to a volume that lets me crank up soft stuff enough to be audible. For pages like this, the sound just about makes my ears bleed before I can mute it.
I get annoyed when sites don't have things at their maximum volume, and I keep all my applications at the max too, unless I need to mute one. The master volume is the only thing I touch regularly.
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#80Am I the only one that has a problem with audio that defaults to maximum volume? Amazon does this too. But I keep my default to a volume that lets me crank up soft stuff enough to be audible. For pages like this, the sound just about makes my ears bleed before I can mute it.
My pet peeve of these is not the volume being too high (which they normally are), but the lack of volume control on web/desktop. Unfortunately it would be more and more common as the mobile world take the dominance.
Firefox already displays a small speaker icon on each tab playing audio that can be used to mute it. A nice addon could display also a volume slider when hovering above it with the mouse, therefore allowing volume control.