This is not my pic because I forgot to screenshot it when I did it. Microsoft has the hardest captcha I have ever had to complete. This one looks easier but I had a similar one that on my phone the images were too small, not recognizable and were more abstract looking shapes. It was so hard, I failed like 8 times (there were several ‘rounds’) and it almost made me second guess whether I might actually be a robot lol. Luckily, there was an audio version where you have to pick from a number of melody recordings and choose the one that was a pattern. Anyone else have trouble with this?
People generally already don’t want a ms account, so now they’re making it even harder to get one lol morons
Some services require an MS or Google sign in
That’s a fair point. But I’ve always seen it as a choice (sign in with ms, LinkedIn, google, or fb). Which services (besides Microsoft) require a ms account?
I forget the name but I was looking for free versions of no code app builders to make a productivity app of my own and one did not have a way to sign up with any email only sign up with Google or MS. Also had to create this second MS account, triggering this captcha, originally because I was using MS designer to generate free AI images but the fast tokens run out 15 a day. So to exploit AI, I always use multiple accounts and it is an MS service. I have like 10 MS accounts now due to using up the free OneDrive storage plans.
Edit: I never connect anything to FB. Meta is the only place that knows my real name and info. (Unfortunately). I also don’t have LinkedIn.
Ah, that makes perfect sense. Also, with all those ms accounts tied to your IP, I can’t blame them for the verification lol
I do it for all free services. Like AI where you have daily limits. I thought about VPN but I don’t have the cost. It seems the only trusted free tier VPN is Proton bc they have a paid plan. I read good reviews and it didn’t seem to slow down anything noticeably.
I didn’t mean to sound like I disapproved at all. I’m all for what you’re doing haha I’ve use proton’s free tier. They’re fine. I just don’t really trust any vpn company that’s based in the USA, due to their (completely understandable) requirement to keep USA data collection laws.
Proton is Swiss I believe.
I think we’re way past the need for an “if you can’t auto detect bots then that’s a you problem, dog” legislation. I guess you could be boring and call it anti-hostile experience regulation or whatever. but this shit needs to die like most Google projects.
Apparently if you wanted to feed AI you just need to ask the user how many R’s there are in strawberry.
OG captcha: What’s this word?
Feed that I told ML to get OCR.
Now AI can’t count letters.
I fucking hate captchas with a passion. They make me violent. Captchas should be illegal for the sake of my mental health. As a VPN user I see them 10x more than the average person.
Honestly captchas and the enshittification of the internet has completely driven me away from tech. Its become so user hostile that it simply is no longer worth the effort. There have been times where just to access a page I have to do five rounds of captchas.
Yeah, also, where did all the fun stuff go? Now it’s just rage bait AI generated “articles” that pushes the dopamine button.
Where are 3D printer projects, robots, science, the arts, longevity science, DIY, and so on?
Mustn’t we build a new internet without the idea that you should earn a living from whatever you do there?
the arts
tech has never been that friendly to the arts, tbh.
Yeah I feel that. I spend lots of time on my computer offline. I got games, music, movies, even some books. I’m pretty much set. Part of me does want to run away and live in the woods though.
They should just make a captcha that asks how many 'r’s in ‘strawberry’.
Today I learned I was a robot.
I can’t make a github account for that reason, smh.
So, it’s a little known fact that captchas and such like no longer test to see if you can solve something, because the bots have evolved to pass those kinds of tests.
They also tried to set them up to succeed where humans failed, but then bots evolved to pass those, too.
So now they look at how you fail or pass, or how you keep trying. Basically, they’re checking if you’re human by seeing how you respond to frustration.
They also use captchas to train AI more so… 🤷
well, there’s that too.
Kind of a “we need to put this out there anyway” kind of thing…
The way they verify you’re human is how you respond, but they’re also getting you to train AI’s while they do it.
I forget where I heard that these are actually used to help train AI, but I don’t doubt they are somehow.
Are…are the hackers actually deterred but these…things? Are they not accessing the data in some other way?
it’s not meant to deter hackers, but spam bots and web cralwers, and such like. Possibly also meant to stop people hitting the service as a way of breaking the service.
but mostly they want to know the person looking at it is a human so they can feed it advertisements.
Someone shared with me having to calculate the resistance of a resistor once. I sent them the color band chart to figure it out lol
Is this c/anarchychess ?
I’ve been staring at this thing for like 30 seconds, and I have zero clue what it’s asking you to do.
There is simple arrows at the bottom which changes availiable images. They just change orbits on different images and when it’s in correct orbit click submit
drag the red circled piece into the orbit that is labeled 9
But…9 is on a different orbit. It’ll collide with the teal chess piece. Then we’ll have chess pieces floating in space for all eternity!
and if you fail too many times and they collide then you’ll initiate a cascading reaction of ever-more-destroyed chess pieces, invalidating entire orbits, and rendering every possible orbit uninhabitable.
that’s what the debris is that you can see in the orbits.
Chessler Syndrome
I recently set up a new GitHub account and it had the same crap. And you have to get 3 in a row correct. I got so frustrated and I was cursing enough that my wife came into my office to make sure I was okay.
Rapidly getting into the “overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists” levels of captcha
Hey man, I don’t like Chicago either, but to say that their football players are all dumb? I’m sure they’re reasonably smart…
I just feel jipped bc my version of the orbits and numbers were all jumbles so you couldn’t tell which orbit pertained to which number.
