Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux 7.2 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:45:29 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20260819084529.0000379e@gmail.com> References: <115uihs$qnpl$3@dont-email.me> <1161o0e$1rflc$2@dont-email.me> <6a84d9a3@news.ausics.net> <11648o1$2l1f7$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="2877448"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+5u0oHxdTUS+CkKfnw8Zm/7D77QrhqHs8="; posting-host="d1b4afe8b7f29b35ffbef3dadefc6c26" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0dXa6zxztx3VE1hm3bwQZP7wU/o= sha256:nFO7txVkHYqnZCp1gmYwB456AncJbKoRINEDm/NwBXM= sha1:vyrlVYyxKCYsd+WRgbzE3o4sdH0= sha256:6HZv5+YnUTJlgqDZ2JpPCnLfI19/2boNKB+ZHWl2V4E= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:90145 On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:49:05 -0000 (UTC) Rich wrote: > While I don't like the damn things any more than anyone else here, at > least the pixie girl, while looking like an adolescent prank, does > not often force me to "click on all the busses" three times in a row > (after clicking on "all the busses", because it does not realize the > panel truck in frame 5 of 9 is **not a bus**) followed by select the > bicycles (and now it thinks motorcycles are bicycles) just to get > past its screening. It explained a *lot* about Google CAPTCHAs when I put 2 + 2 together re: their self-driving StreetView cars. Apparently the proof of person- hood is one's willingness to do free training for someone else's robots :/ Hate these things as much as anybody, but I will credit the Anubis dev with this: it's *vastly* more lightweight and cross-compatible than furshlugginer CloudFlare, which at this point straight-up crashes my browser. Just can't wait for the damn bubble to finish bursting, already... A'course, there's a whole other rant to be had on the needless anthropo- centrism of "are you human?" =^_^=