Originally published at: Why Google's CAPTCHA images are "so unbearably depressing" | Boing Boing
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Select all images with an atmosphere, an insect, an intent to deceive.
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I notice that the images keep getting smaller, and they ask to pick small details in them like the hint of a traffic light.
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That’s because the AIs are moving into their endgame. Be prepared.
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So you use a password manager to save time and… it ends up wasting more time.
Another of the ironies of “security”.
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I avoid most sites that use these, but when I can’t avoid it I take pains to get as many wrong as possible. I click images that don’t meet the criteria and ignore ones that do. I take time to find the sweet spot that will let me in while muddying the data collected. Fuck the information overlords.
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They need to follow the lead of Randall Munroe…
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That’s so cruel.
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Seems like the old era of two-word non-sequiturs is already passing from memory. Too bad.
Also, is the link to the article missing?
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I’m not sure of anyone who uses a password manager specifically to save time. I know I don’t.
I use it in order to actually be more secure since I’m not remembering hundreds of usernames and passwords.
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Google’s captchas are so culturally problematic:
- what’s a “crosswalk”? a word only used in one country, what they look like on the road differs between countries
- taxis are always yellow?
- fire hydrants are always those things that dogs pee on in cartoons? (here they are a yellow plate in the road)
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