blackjackfoe

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by blackjackfoe 5mo ago
No "AI" required!
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by blackjackfoe 10mo ago
If your site is only hosted on one server and it catches fire, you can swiftly reinstall on a new server and change the IP your domain is pointing to, too... Still a single point of failure.
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by blackjackfoe 11mo ago
I run a small, extremely niche fan site with under 500 users, and I received a very similar email the other day - someone complaining about the "cookie popup" (which my site doesn't have), and then sending me a "screensh
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
All the worst slurs I can think of in my limited vocabulary can't even be spelled with the characters available. I suspect the opposite - they might have been chosen to avoid spelling things like that.
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
It does not, at least not once you pass the Cloudflare Turnstile challenge (which can be done with an API as well.)
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Is your company hiring? :)
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
I am always interested! Thank you for the tips, I'll definitely research these.
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
I would also be inclined to believe that my project to solve the proprietary 4Chan text CAPTCHA cannot solve an unrelated image CAPTCHA. I'd bet a lot of money on it, in fact!
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
I initially wrote the alignment-only script (in the source repo as `user-scripts/4chan-captcha-aligner.ts`) before the rest of the project because the person who was collecting the data manually for me couldn't wrap their head aro
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
The 4Chan userbase hates the CAPTCHA as much as I do :)
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
I really hope my post didn't come off as if I was trying to make it sound like this was a new idea. Regardless, this is good information, because it counters the posts of the form "great, now that you made this, you're going
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Reddit and Twitter both have huge bot problems. On Reddit it's a bit less obvious due to the upvote/downvote system, and on Twitter it's a bit less obvious because you usually only follow people you want to see. Make a post o
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Do a Web search for "4Chan CAPTCHA" sometime. All the top results will likely be people complaining about how terrible it is. You're certainly not alone. The worst part about the countdown: if you wait too long to make a post
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
What do you mean by "generated code"? All of the code in the linked GitHub repo was written by me, with the assistance of a couple friends who helped here and there, but didn't request to be credited. I learned a lot because
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
This project was really my first decent introduction to computer vision and machine learning (along with that of those who helped me in various ways; none of them desired to be credited here other than the guy who collected some of the data
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
I need to manipulate the data a bit, because right now it's just raw, unaligned foreground/background images with solutions. I need to do the alignment and save them as images rather than JSON files. I'll do that when I have
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Some datacenter IPs can post fine, mostly just not those belonging to any large hosting company. I would mention a list of ones I know aren't blocked, but, well, that might get them blocked.
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Little bit, but at least you learned something :)
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
Yeah, I encountered those as well in my data gathering. I threw them out from the training set, but I kept them for possible future experimentation.
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by blackjackfoe 2y ago
(author here) Interestingly, the email registration/time-limit was added after I started this project, but before I told anyone about it.