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forestjohnson
5y ago
Yeah I would love to find a way to support non-JS browsers. For now I considered it out of scope. I could very easily make a browser extension or companion app for it though!
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forestjohnson
5y ago
It sounds really scary at first, but once you start using it in practice, it's not so bad. As the developer, you simply locate your lowest common denominator device (older cell phone) and test it out a few times, adjusting the difficu
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forestjohnson
5y ago
If you wish to see it in action you can click here: https://picopublish.sequentialread.com/files/aniguns.png It will redirect you to a unique link tied to your IP/User Agent string so if you want to see it again y
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forestjohnson
5y ago
Yes, unfortunately I don't know anyone who uses a screen reader personally and I've never spent the time to learn how to use one myself. So I don't really have a great way to make it accessible to blind users at the moment, b
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forestjohnson
5y ago
yes, but they cant create 1000s of fake users on EVERY website, unless they wanna shell out millions of dollars per year for the compute power required.
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forestjohnson
5y ago
In short, the Scrypt hash function was designed for this. With SHA256, the "toaster" you were refferring to is called an ASIC and you can buy one for $200 that plugs into a USB port and it would hash faster than 2 million CPUs. Ho
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Hi, developer here, there is a table showing hashes per second on various devices at the bottom of the readme. My laptop (thinkpad t480s) = 70h/s, my phone (motorolla g7) = 12h/s. Its not so bad on the phone. The site owner can t