Like many, I've already trained myself to commit to giving up immediately after the second bus or traffic light or puzzle (some of which I don't even understand anymore). Sounds like my life will not be all that different.
Worst case scenario, if this neuters my sovereign and all powerful linux desktop from some critical business I can't avoid (which remains to be seen), it sounds like I will have to have some scripts and a dummy android phone in my home lab as a sort of second router.
Kinda off topic question to google - when I do this labour of tagging your data so you let me use the internet - should I click on every box that has parts of the bus? Even if it's like one pixel?
Follow up question - why ask people to work when you can just say "pay 1 shmeckel to view this content" and then use this money to pay for data taggers?
Recaptcha contains a whole maximally obfuscated virtual machine with its own bytecode language. It measures your mouse movement, clicks, timing, cadence, hesitation, consistency, tile clicking order, etc.
Ambiguous tiles are deliberately placed because the behavior they elicit from humans can be used to discern them from bots.
Yes, the "correct" reaction to the ambiguous tiles is to hover a bit indecisively. You need to waste a certain minimum amount of time on the CAPTCHA. I've found that applying videogame reflexes and zapping all the tiles in a short period of time is a fail, even if they're the correct tiles.
I think it depends on how much it trusts your ip address / user agent. I used to use an extension, nopecha, that would just use ocr and then select all the matching boxes, and it never seemed to get flagged; but I have a lot more trouble on a vpn ip like proton.
These days I use buster to solve captchas and it works enough of the time that I don't have to fight with captchas.
My office uses ZScalar which most sites (especially Cloudflare ones) perceive as an "open proxy". The IP that Z's datacenter uses resolves to some place in Chicago. Some days, no amount of clicking on boxes works for their algorithm.
There's no specific "right" answer on the boxes. Like another post said they're looking at god-knows-what to decide whether or not to let you load the website.
Years ago I started to deliberately pick one or two wrong answers, or just not take the time to really look at them, and it made no discernible difference on how often I pass.
An increasing percentage of the dumb majority are opting for dumb phones and plenty of people still use laptops, it doesn't have to be anywhere remotely close to a majority for many analytics-obsessed site owners to see the drop in sales and opt for another solution.
In any case, sites using an extremely restrictive mode of recaptcha during ddos attacks will just be one segment of a very fragmented digital future, not society as such
I use Linux at home and MacOS at work; I am quite fond of every visual change in Tahoe with sole the exception of the obscenely large radius rounded window corners which make no sense on a rectangular screen and make resizing windows a relatively slow and arduous task. I really wish they could be disabled.
I've used Linux at home for 20+ years, and sometimes mac at work.
To be honest I struggle to notice many changes, my machine was already configured the way I liked it and at work I basically live in only four applications:
Firefox for personal-browsing, chrome for work-browsing, terminal for running terraform, git, etc, and emacs for all development work.
Sure resizing is less good, but I do that once a day, in the morning, when I login. The rest of the changes I just don't notice or care about.
For those who don't need quite that much power I recently added an Orange Pi 5 to my own homelab, the RK3588 SoC packs an impressive punch for what it is
Similarly, a Beelink mini runs one of my Proxmox nodes and it's excellent. Literally sips power, too. I think I measured under 30w while under load. I mainly use it for my Plex instance given the N100 with QuickSync.
As of this past year (6.15+), most stuff you’d need for a regular desktop is upstreamed. Collabora has been working pretty hard on getting the chip mainlined, so it’s on a very good place compared to something like the Pi 5, which is not at all what the experience used to be in the past!
Companies trust them with their passwords and intellectual property and remain in business. It's insane to me too, but that's the world we actually live in
Worst case scenario, if this neuters my sovereign and all powerful linux desktop from some critical business I can't avoid (which remains to be seen), it sounds like I will have to have some scripts and a dummy android phone in my home lab as a sort of second router.