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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 00:32:54 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   captchas in 2027: Please take this sphere into pieces and rearrange them into two spheres of exactly the same size

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 00:33:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     the thing that i really hate is that not so long from now, the main way to prove that "you are human" would be to prove that you have an (unique) bank account

     payment processors and banks already have way too much power over our lives, and it's about to get so much worse

     (the other option is "digital ID" but i think that stuff is just not standardized enough for it to happen quickly. banks though? sure are)

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     flacs (flacs@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 00:34:29 JST flacs

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     @whitequark "that's right! it goes in the square hole!"

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     Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:07:22 JST Ted Mielczarek

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     @whitequark I bet you could have a very effective captcha nowadays that just asked "how many R's are in the word strawberry?"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:07:29 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Wilfried Klaebe

     @wonka for sure

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     Wilfried Klaebe (wonka@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:07:31 JST Wilfried Klaebe

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     @whitequark And even if Digital ID were standardized enough, we should reject that because we want to retain anonymous usage where possible.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:00 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • LR

     @lritter i think yours just determines if someone is evil

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:02 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • LR

     @lritter Why

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     LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:02 JST LR

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     @whitequark isn't the purpose of the test to determine if someone's human?

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     LR (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:03 JST LR

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     @whitequark captcha tests should be more like "which of these persons healthcare should be stripped away?" and regardless of who you pick, you fail the test

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     ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ (deshipu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:37 JST ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

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     @whitequark Because all humans have bank accounts?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:12:37 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

     @deshipu because it's cheap enough to deny access to those who don't that I can plausibly see this happening

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     ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ (deshipu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:17:17 JST ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

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     @whitequark that is very compelling logic

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Nov-2025 01:17:17 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

     @deshipu this is already de-facto happening (ask any tor user what they think of cloudflare and then look at what the workaround is), just not at a massive scale yet. but it's very much headed that way

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 13:30:02 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Douglas McMillan
     • caitp

     @caitp @Nerdfest oh i think it's already horrifying and will get much worse. i personally have had _plenty_ of issues stemming from this

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     caitp (caitp@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 13:30:04 JST caitp

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     • Douglas McMillan

     @whitequark @Nerdfest how would you have a system that didn't give somebody obscene power to abuse? maybe it's just a misguided path down the tech tree that maybe we shouldn't be on