Nah, into our airplane seats! See, if we’re all in claw machine seats, they don’t need aisles so we can get crammed in even closer together. No more wasting time with overhead bins: when you’re in the terminal, you put your carry-on in the bin under your seat, close the lid, and sit down. Then the claw machine scans your ticket, picks you and your seat up and deposits you in the right slot - no more wasting the airline’s time holding up the line while someone tries to steal your seat or misreads a row number or fumbles with the overhead bins.

Once you land, they empty the plane by running a full-row claw machine, and then the entire plane is an empty shell, making it easy to clean. The empty seats themselves can be cleaned in the terminals between flights - hell, they can probably set up some kind of conveyor belt autoclean system.

I wonder how much it would cost to bribe the FAA and NTSB to sign off on this concept? …

This made me giggle

Also the anti-fingerprinting in Firefox breaks them. Fucking awesome that I can solve that bullshit just fine and it still won’t validate unless I let some asshole slurp my browser data.

The goal is to be worse than the computer now???

Is that why I have to go through 3 of those fucking things per captcha every time?

I really hate the ones that make you select pictures that contain particular images.

In a way, those are interesting because you can use them (sometimes retrospectively) to tell what Google or Google’s clients are working on. First it was all the text stuff as they digitized old newspapers and books and magazines. Then there was that period when you wanted you to identify stop signs and house numbers and businesses and other stuff like that - all of that fed into Google Maps. Then it was traffic lights and speed limits and stop signs, which was early self-driving. Now it’s motorcycles, buses, bridges, and bicycles - all things that were (maybe still are?) proving a challenge for advanced self-driving. The traffic lights and crosswalks fit into this somehow, though I’m not sure if it’s self-driving cars, map directions, both, or something else entirely.

I have absolutely no idea what they’re doing with fire hydrants, staircases and mountains, though. It’ll probably be obvious in retrospect. But anyway, how do you like your life as not only a data point that Google can sell to anyone interested, but also as a cog feeding data into Google’s many businesses and helping them solve their identification issues?

Fuck is that what it is? Sometime I just give up after they seem to reset 3-4 times

And then if you actually click on all of the squares, even the ones with slivers of a bus in it, it’ll make you do it 4 more times, because fuck you.

Please verify that you are human to file taxes.

Beat a game to beat your meat

“Please fix my marriage to prove that you are not a robot”

The chess captchas are fittingly also used on chess sites like lichess (or maybe chess.com, don’t remember anymore).

I feel like chart GPT would probably handle that better than most of us anyway

ChatGBT will do this…Can already do this pretty well. As can more than a few others.

Looks like it requires some basic OCR and pretty beefy image analysis(assuming the right side is presented as an image). Well within the bounds of modern computing, but expensive enough that you’d be hard pressed to generate thousands of spam accounts. Captchas are less about completely preventing computers from signing up and more about making it inconvenient and expensive enough that most people won’t bother.