absolutely

in OLED screens the colors wear out over time at different rates, so you may be correct

that story didn’t actually happened the way those headlines said it did. the AI was a genuine LLM, but the company also had human contractors that could custom build features for you.

THING

i meant other types of captchas as well, but yes, cloudflare is fairly configurable. I also know other captchas can be more aggressive. And of course captchas can also block or harass “high privacy” configuration browsers and clients, and there’s also the strategy of infinite delay, where a captcha is never quite sure you’re really a human, so you have to work through 12 phases of it only to have to do the exact same thing again the next time you’re on the site. Recaptcha V3 with its “automatic” background captcha is also in a surprising amount of places you’d never know about unless you’re infected with some kind of The-Mainstream-Internet-Hates-You disease. Captchas discriminating against poor countries isn’t some big secret though, as far as I’m aware it’s fairly well known.

they also often prevent legitimate traffic from poorer countries, and aggressively so

if you do it you legally have to buy one cheese wheel at the cheese auction there

farfetch’d is a duck that comes with its own leek

in china there are similar security checks for high speed rail

I’m pretty sure Isaac Asimov said that all androids are gay so this is like a betrayal of the fundamental spirit of robots

“So what’s this about your recent promotion at BlackRock again?”

kind of small for that. I would expect more goblin size if it was a baby abyssal demon. they need the body weight to embody the abyss.

Considering horses have the possibility of being loyal lifelong pets I’d say they can very well give happiness

the idea of “just browse the web normally with someone looking over your shoulder taking notes on what you like to then sell you shit - or even better, it infers what you like using magic and can even tell when you’re pregnant before you know it yourself” can be nice in some ways I guess, but yeah I agree. no thanks.

What capitalists are doing is intentionally sharpening the contradiction, probably with the goal of a revolution or reform in their favor (as can be seen in the USA right now). The neat thing about sharpened contradictions is that it will inevitably lead to change, the bad thing is that this is a massively organized effort with tons of planning and coordination, and The People:tm: are not ready for it.

Pirating movies is pretty good though. Mainstream media always manages to exploit labor incredibly harshly, to the point of suicide, and that behavior should not be rewarded IMO. Of course there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but one can dream. As an aside, pirated media is also incredibly convenient. There is a great community spirit in the piracy community.

Someone I know who is currently on a pseudoscience and conspiracy theory arc genuinely believes that personalized ads are good because then you can easily buy things you know you’ll like

anime protagonist and his harem

smell

hot glue or super glue? I mean super glue has super in the name

hey I have this epic business for you where you can be self-employed and get all the freedom of being a business owner with no downsides and all you need to do is sign up another couple people under your name and buy a bunch of shit that nobody wants