In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
There are a truly ridiculous number of these things around right now. And they are fucking loud. Like, ~100dB loud. But they are completely stupid. They can't fly or see very well and they aren't smart enough to be afraid of anything.
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Does it deactivate when the user is about to walk into traffic?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
There are a truly ridiculous number of these things around right now. And they are fucking loud. Like, ~100dB loud. But they are completely stupid. They can't fly or see very well and they aren't smart enough to be afraid of anything.
And they're very succesful.
Hence a great role model for ... (oh, we are not in the garage).
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
There are a truly ridiculous number of these things around right now. And they are fucking loud. Like, ~100dB loud. But they are completely stupid. They can't fly or see very well and they aren't smart enough to be afraid of anything.
And they're very succesful.
Hence a great role model for ... (oh, we are not in the garage).Its okay to say JavaScript developers outside the garage.
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Looks like Facebook are forgoing the three laws. I might invest now.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Does it deactivate when the user is about to walk into traffic?
Not for free it doesn't. Hopefully that's handled by competitive bidding.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Looks like Facebook are forgoing the three laws. I might invest now.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Looks like Facebook are forgoing the three laws. I might invest now.
She's not coming back.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Nick Rockwell wrote:
We detected the disruption within one minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration.
, even though "within one minute" only applies to "detected the disruption" and "then identified and isolated the cause" took longer than that.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Something something fact checking something
This story likely exists as part of the test set for a fact-checking / review process. Likely, the process is under-funded due to lack of market demand.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
“Earlier today, a mock article intended for a testing system was published on our site in error,”
Riiiight. They were probably testing their new AI writing robot.
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@dcon Sounds like an error to me.
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@HardwareGeek guess how I can tell you guys didn't RTFA.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek guess how I can tell you guys didn't RTFA.
It wasn’t even that long!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Yes.
The developer does emphasize that his project is mostly a bit of fun and that it’d be pretty easy to “break the security” of the CAPTCHA. It even has a cheat code Easter egg: type IDDQD while the CAPTCHA runs to skip past it.
His implementation of CAPTCHA completely fails at what CAPTCHA is meant to do, and if it wasn't enough, he specifically added a feature that undermines it even more. At the same time, he left intact the part of CAPTCHA that's the most frustrating to legitimate users - wasting time and driving attention away from the task at hand.
This is the best metaphor of modern webdev I've ever seen.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek guess how I can tell you guys didn't RTFA.
It wasn’t even that long!
Doesn't matter, it's a principle.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Yes.
The developer does emphasize that his project is mostly a bit of fun and that it’d be pretty easy to “break the security” of the CAPTCHA. It even has a cheat code Easter egg: type IDDQD while the CAPTCHA runs to skip past it.
His implementation of CAPTCHA completely fails at what CAPTCHA is meant to do, and if it wasn't enough, he specifically added a feature that undermines it even more. At the same time, he left intact the part of CAPTCHA that's the most frustrating to legitimate users - wasting time and driving attention away from the task at hand.
This is the best metaphor of modern webdev I've ever seen.
No wait, you left out one part:
He wasn’t even aware of it!
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Yes.
The developer does emphasize that his project is mostly a bit of fun and that it’d be pretty easy to “break the security” of the CAPTCHA. It even has a cheat code Easter egg: type IDDQD while the CAPTCHA runs to skip past it.
His implementation of CAPTCHA completely fails at what CAPTCHA is meant to do, and if it wasn't enough, he specifically added a feature that undermines it even more. At the same time, he left intact the part of CAPTCHA that's the most frustrating to legitimate users - wasting time and driving attention away from the task at hand.
This is the best metaphor of modern webdev I've ever seen.
From his own page:
Don't take this too seriously, this is a little project for fun, if do you know how to code it's pretty easy to break the security of this.
I can see how the idea he might have done it for fun would have been overlooked though
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Yes.
The developer does emphasize that his project is mostly a bit of fun and that it’d be pretty easy to “break the security” of the CAPTCHA. It even has a cheat code Easter egg: type IDDQD while the CAPTCHA runs to skip past it.
His implementation of CAPTCHA completely fails at what CAPTCHA is meant to do, and if it wasn't enough, he specifically added a feature that undermines it even more. At the same time, he left intact the part of CAPTCHA that's the most frustrating to legitimate users - wasting time and driving attention away from the task at hand.
This is the best metaphor of modern webdev I've ever seen.
From his own page:
Don't take this too seriously, this is a little project for fun, if do you know how to code it's pretty easy to break the security of this.
I can see how the idea he might have done it for fun would have been overlooked though
That explicit statement of intent is presumed to be false, this is a developer.
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@loopback0 does being "a little project for fun" absolve it of being the exact opposite of what it's claimed to be? It's not just that it's low quality. It's not just that it's ineffective in practice. The problem is that it doesn't fulfill its basic purpose and has additional features that make it even worse at that basic purpose than it would be otherwise.
It's like a save dialog that doesn't just completely ignore the path you've selected and always uses default location instead, it also has a switch to scramble the output and make the saved file irrecoverably corrupted. I don't care if you made it just for fun - your save dialog is bad and you should feel bad.
Now, if he realized his project is an antithesis of everything CAPTCHA is supposed to be, embraced it and purposely made it as a parody, that would be different. But it doesn't seem to be the case.
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It's not just that it's low quality. It's not just that it's ineffective in practice. The problem is that it doesn't fulfill its basic purpose and has additional features that make it even worse at that basic purpose than it would be otherwise.
He had fun writing it. I had fun playing Doom. Purpose achieved.
Now maybe you didn't find it fun and maybe that's OK because you're a computer and it really worked afterall
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@loopback0 it's just that words have meaning, that's all. Don't call it CAPTCHA if it doesn't Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 it's just that words have meaning, that's all. Don't call it CAPTCHA if it doesn't Tell Computers and Humans Apart.
Humans? I see... This is obviously CAPTCHA for Hell, its purpose is to tell Computers and Daemons Apart.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So I went to read the article (yeah,
) and the actual quote is:
“That is like George Lucas promising no more mediocre and schlocky Star Wars sequels shortly after selling the franchise to Disney. Such a promise would be illusory¹.”
¹ “As evident by Disney’s production of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.”
So it's making a camel out of a mosquito… but it's rather funny that someone does.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So I went to read the article (yeah,
) and the actual quote is:
“That is like George Lucas promising no more mediocre and schlocky Star Wars sequels shortly after selling the franchise to Disney. Such a promise would be illusory¹.”
¹ “As evident by Disney’s production of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.”
So it's making a camel out of a mosquito… but it's rather funny that someone does.
Star Wars was always mediocre and schlocky. The only way to keep the promise of 'no more' is to never again make anything Star Wars.
One can dream, alas here we are.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It's not the cicadas themselves that's the biggest problem.
(This was the first news site in Google results for "cicadas eaten by rats" that didn't require me to either enable JavaScript or move to the U.S.. )
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Ha! I should write an article about a fruity terrorist group palnning to bomb New York with Durian fruits.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Star Wars was always mediocre and schlocky. The only way to keep the promise of 'no more' is to never again make anything Star Wars.
I've got a bad feeling about this....
(If I didn't say it, someone else would have.)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
If I didn't say it, someone else would have
I find that statement vague and unconvincing.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Star Wars was always mediocre and schlocky. The only way to keep the promise of 'no more' is to never again make anything Star Wars.
I've got a bad feeling about this....
(If I didn't say it, someone else would have.)
Yeah, asinine quotes injected into conversations for no fucking reason are probably the worst thing about SW.
Although this one is probably the least annoying. Droids thing or Joda idiotic pseudo buddhist crap is far worse.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Star Wars was always mediocre and schlocky. The only way to keep the promise of 'no more' is to never again make anything Star Wars.
I've got a bad feeling about this....
(If I didn't say it, someone else would have.)
Yeah, asinine quotes injected into conversations for no fucking reason are probably the worst thing about SW.
Although this one is probably the least annoying. Droids thing or Joda idiotic pseudo buddhist crap is far worse.
Mee-sa even have my limits honestly, no, yeah about that bad...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It's not the cicadas themselves that's the biggest problem.
(This was the first news site in Google results for "cicadas eaten by rats" that didn't require me to either enable JavaScript or move to the U.S.. )
Fortunately, rats (Rattus norvegicus) are not infectable with SARS-CoV-2, as a study with rats inhabiting the sewer system of a town in
has shown:
Unfortunatly, there is a different kind of Coronavirus infecting rats which was discovered just a couple of years ago...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It's not the cicadas themselves that's the biggest problem.
(This was the first news site in Google results for "cicadas eaten by rats" that didn't require me to either enable JavaScript or move to the U.S.. )
Fortunately, rats (Rattus norvegicus) are not infectable with SARS-CoV-2, as a study with rats inhabiting the sewer system of a town in
has shown:
Unfortunatly, there is a different kind of Coronavirus infecting rats which was discovered just a couple of years ago...
Good thing the rat angle for the black plague is a myth, although sadly we didn't quite get rid of all the Guelphs.
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Tempted to leave this in the garage but I feel this is a universial truth.
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A:
B: its been a poor showing all round. I'll allow it.
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I cant find the nft thread.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A:
B: its been a poor showing all round. I'll allow it.It's from 2018. I'm pretty sure we had posts about it at the time.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I cant find the nft thread.
Unless there is a more specific one, that would be the cryptocurrency thread.
Also,[
maybe.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
Not sure if it's the same Italian artist selling an invisible statue, or if it's a new one.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I cant find the nft thread.
Unless there is a more specific one, that would be the cryptocurrency thread.
Also,[
maybe.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
Not sure if it's the same Italian artist selling an invisible statue, or if it's a new one.
And even if we confirmed that it's the same artist, we also can't tell if it is the same invisible sculpture.
EDIT: It seems this joke was already posted. I'll claim mine is a cover version.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I cant find the nft thread.
Unless there is a more specific one, that would be the cryptocurrency thread.
Also,[
maybe.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
Not sure if it's the same Italian artist selling an invisible statue, or if it's a new one.
And even if we confirmed that it's the same artist, we also can't tell if it is the same invisible sculpture.
Same title, but, the regress is readily reestablished.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I cant find the nft thread.
Unless there is a more specific one, that would be the cryptocurrency thread.
Also,[
maybe.
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
Not sure if it's the same Italian artist selling an invisible statue, or if it's a new one.
And even if we confirmed that it's the same artist, we also can't tell if it is the same invisible sculpture.
You can use the NFT to establish which non-existing sculpture it is…