froztbyte

too fucking many

yeah this is the thing I’ve been thinking a lot about

fucking reCaptcha is literally mass-weaponising users for data filtration, and there is no good counter besides just not using reCaptcha (which is something one can’t easily pull off without things like regulatory action, massive reputational problems that make people gtfo, etc)

I have similar worries about cloudflare being such a massive chokepoint and using that position to enable “ai bot filter” services. feels extremely monopolistic, but ianal and I’m not entirely sure what the case grounds/structure on that would be (if any)

the only other viable strategy at the moment is fully breaking contact with any potential bad traffic systems, and that’s extremely fucking dire because that’s yet another nail in the coffin of the increasingly less open internet

sigh

that's also happening, but yeah it's going to have to be a team effort

"percussive maintenance"

has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so

let's not

this is the best default imo

the only times I dislike it are when the site's dark mode implementation is trash. I occasionally get to notice these, because their implementation is such way that dark reader activates (time trigger), I suddenly get flashblind on some site because dark reader flips their thing to eye-stabbing light colours

and now that damn jingle is playing in my head at early o’ clock

awful.systems: where the abyss delivers, always

"comments? what do you mean, why aren't these people just on usenet?"

ASTx, autoplag standard time, but with tzdb entries localized as relative to each seminal paper/work

for geolocale, I suggest coordinates such as null island, and wraparound/bounding-box corners (per multiple mainstream map projection)

sammy boi is giving up on the pretense that any of this was about enriching lives, and is now only focusing on the eyegrab (archive)

anyone wanna take bets on how much pearlclutching surprisedpikachu we'll see