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@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Of course they do

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  • The support page both refer to seems to be real though? https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en

    Does what it's saying mean that Google Play Services is required to pass their captchas on mobile?

    Edit: Found a comment in the Reddit thread from someone claiming to have seen one of these captchas in the wild, which supposedly does do this check but is easily bypassed:

    Got good news, I just had this captcha. As you can see in the image there is an audio and an eye icon at the bottom. We can protest against this captcha by clicking the eye and doing the original one. As long as a substantial amount of people keep doing that I assume it wont' go away.

  • What's your opinion on automatic updates? Reasonable policy? Or Digital Authoritarianism?

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  • I am really uncomfortable with them, but there isn't a clear alternative given that our computing environments are designed in a way to be inherently insecure, patching exploits as they occur is the only plan other than not using the internet. But it means that the people with the keys to the software can install what they want on your computer and probably take it over. You could check every update yourself and compile it from source yourself if it's open source, but that would be too much work.

  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • I don't know, I spend a lot of time on the internet so it would feel hypocritical to limit it to a big extent, but I'm not sure if it would be doing someone a disservice to raise them to be like I am. Maybe I'd keep some desirable stuff blocked just so they'd have an incentive to go over to a friend's house where it isn't blocked.

  • Has the word antisemite lost it's punch?

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  • Might make more sense to just call someone a racist instead at this point

  • Need a AI update

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  • Yeah but then you wouldn't be using technology from Star Wars spinoffs

  • Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

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  • I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox.

    I agree with the top HN comment

  • Why and how are you an adult NEET (not in education employment or training)

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  • So it's basically just a judgment call of whether someone "deserves" to avoid working, because of having had a job in the past? To me it's basically the same if people are living the same sort of life, because those sorts of judgments are not a good way to consider a person's identity. It's only natural to not want a job and the main question is whether you have the means to avoid being coerced into it, people who have the means are really in the same category.

  • Why and how are you an adult NEET (not in education employment or training)

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  • What's the difference?

  • It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs

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  • The law is against explaining how to use a VPN in certain contexts ("websites subject to the state's age verification law"), so yeah it is selective and excludes a corporate office telling people how to access it with a VPN.

  • What commonly given advice is actually wrong or toxic?

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  • "Buy experiences, not things"

    The rationale isn't exactly wrong for the comparison, but it smuggles in an underlying assumption that it's reasonable and normal to be spending all your available money in an effort to be happy. Money is way more useful for reinforcing your continued survival and freedom than for anything else and the idea that it's good for regulating your emotions beyond that is a deception geared towards keeping consumer spending up.

  • What do you do when you can't sleep?

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  • Yeah, tbh I also take .5mg melatonin before bed regularly and add a valerian root tablet on top of that occasionally

  • What do you do when you can't sleep?

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  • All the most effective stuff you can do to get better sleep is done ahead of time (like daily exercise, not spending time in bed when not sleeping, keeping a sleep schedule, avoiding caffeine/alcohol etc), so if I get to that point there isn't that much to be done. Getting up and doing something nonstimulating other than lying in bed for ten minutes can help a little bit sometimes. If there's something in my sleep environment that is abnormal and it's possible to correct it that will help. Lowering the temperature can help.

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  • Sounds like a massive headache for whoever is in charge of their estate, needing to check with all the parts of the government they may have had outstanding fines with

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  • I would like to see some ROBOT9000 esque oddball meme communities overtly based on heavy algorithmic moderation, can be LLM but wouldn't have to be. Weird rules strictly enforced by robots, could be fun.

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  • Occasionally people have meltdowns and accuse/threaten other users for daring to vote a certain way, presuming specific motives for doing so

  • Inner Peace [SMBC]

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  • Index funds have been considered safe for a long time, but it relies on market prices being an accurate source of information about how profitable companies are, because you are blindly buying everything. If too much money is invested that way, the signal becomes weaker and more irrational, it may not be guaranteed to always be a good long term bet. If all the biggest companies end up with valuations that are entirely fake, you're pretty screwed. I have money in an index fund because I think it's probably going to be fine and safer than other options, but it isn't right to think of it as a sure thing.

  • Federation Has a European Legal Problem

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  • oh damn, I figured it was some kind of rubbery material but its metal

  • Federation Has a European Legal Problem

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  • I think it's some kind of synthetic material rather than sausages, there's a serial number or something stamped onto one on the bottom left, they don't look like they have any kind of skin and no oil/moisture/rot

  • Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity

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  • I wouldn't trust this, hopefully the car still drives when you cut the wires to whatever it's using as an antenna.