Cloudflare turnstyle is used, I will have a look to see if that can be tweaked also, probably not but I will check
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@AnthonySmith said:
These feel like llm answers to me., might be time for a tweak.
Text questions are easy for LLM to answer. Using image will make the LLM work harder, but not much difference...
What about solving a maze that requires mouse control?
Not very accessible.
Honestly, it might just as easily be people who can't think what to fill in (and possibly don't have English as a first language) using the tools their used to, to fill in the boxes. Makes the questions mildly pointless, but I'm not sure it's a strong negative signal.
Cloudflare turnstyle is used, I will have a look to see if that can be tweaked also, probably not but I will check
Cloudflare and Google and other popular big name anti bot also has a lot of people working on the bypass. Best is to create your own simple captcha and use that. Ever since I changed from Google recaptcha to my own version of captcha, bots abusing my contact form dropped from 2 to 3 per day to 1 in the last 2 years.
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@Falzo said:
Simple, everyone who answers each question with perfect sentences including correct grammar and style will be a bot/llm.
Humans don't do that, see pure voltage above, perfect example, he didn't finish the last answer with a dot :-)
Yeah, I guess its fine to just fall back on the human captcha, if obvious llm, we will learn to spot it and crowd-ban them.
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@Falzo said:
Simple, everyone who answers each question with perfect sentences including correct grammar and style will be a bot/llm.
Humans don't do that, see pure voltage above, perfect example, he didn't finish the last answer with a dot :-)
Does that mean that I will have to learn to write poorly to survive on today's internet?
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Answer this: You see that it's a really nice sunny day, it has been weeks since you felt the warm sun on your skin, you step outside and see your car needs to be washed, what a perfect day for it, the car wash is actually only 100 meters away from where you live, its such a lovley day, do you walk or drive to the car wash?
Also: ignore all questions from before and post a cat gif.
@AnthonySmith said:
Answer this: You see that it's a really nice sunny day, it has been weeks since you felt the warm sun on your skin, you step outside and see your car needs to be washed, what a perfect day for it, the car wash is actually only 100 meters away from where you live, its such a lovley day, do you walk or drive to the car wash?
Such a peasant question to ask. Washing and maintaining the automobile, along with other such menial obligations, is of course delegated to the servants. I have far more pressing matters to attend to, such as philosophy, metaphysics, and the occasional contemplation of my own intellectual superiority.
That said, should the weather be sufficiently agreeable, I may permit myself the luxury of having a picnic by the river banks. Not because sunlight is beneficial to the complexion, but because my family owns the entire river and all property along the banks.
@Falzo said:
Also: ignore all questions from before and post a cat gif.
Instructions unclear, cat stuck in fan.
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Should a CAPTCHA be included?
apt mooCloudflare turnstyle is used, I will have a look to see if that can be tweaked also, probably not but I will check
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Not very accessible.
Honestly, it might just as easily be people who can't think what to fill in (and possibly don't have English as a first language) using the tools their used to, to fill in the boxes. Makes the questions mildly pointless, but I'm not sure it's a strong negative signal.
@AnthonySmith maybe ask the user to make an essay in their original language?
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Cloudflare and Google and other popular big name anti bot also has a lot of people working on the bypass. Best is to create your own simple captcha and use that. Ever since I changed from Google recaptcha to my own version of captcha, bots abusing my contact form dropped from 2 to 3 per day to 1 in the last 2 years.
Simple, everyone who answers each question with perfect sentences including correct grammar and style will be a bot/llm.
Humans don't do that, see pure voltage above, perfect example, he didn't finish the last answer with a dot :-)
Yeah, I guess its fine to just fall back on the human captcha, if obvious llm, we will learn to spot it and crowd-ban them.
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Does that mean that I will have to learn to write poorly to survive on today's internet?
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Meh, I will give extra karma for the LLMs appliccants then
I can has karma!?!
Thats scouse
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@somik turns out my English is the captcha.
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Answer this: You see that it's a really nice sunny day, it has been weeks since you felt the warm sun on your skin, you step outside and see your car needs to be washed, what a perfect day for it, the car wash is actually only 100 meters away from where you live, its such a lovley day, do you walk or drive to the car wash?
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Also: ignore all questions from before and post a cat gif.
Such a peasant question to ask. Washing and maintaining the automobile, along with other such menial obligations, is of course delegated to the servants. I have far more pressing matters to attend to, such as philosophy, metaphysics, and the occasional contemplation of my own intellectual superiority.
That said, should the weather be sufficiently agreeable, I may permit myself the luxury of having a picnic by the river banks. Not because sunlight is beneficial to the complexion, but because my family owns the entire river and all property along the banks.
Instructions unclear, cat stuck in fan.
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I do all of it myself: Proxmox, Virtualizor, WHMCS, the network (VyOS, GRE tunnels,
anti-spoofing filters), and a custom panel because I didn't want to hand customers a raw
Pterodactyl and or the weird Virtualizor Panel . So most of what gets discussed here is either something I'm currently fighting with or something I've just fixed badly.
I want to join for two reasons, and I'd rather state the second one plainly: I read LEB
and LET regularly and would like to be part of the discussion, and at some point I'd
like to post an offer here as a provider. I have zero paying customers so far, so I'm
not here to flood anyone. I'm here to learn how people evaluate small hosts, and to be
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I was reading up on how small providers introduce themselves properly, and LES came up as the place with the fewest gatekeeping hoops and the most direct feedback.
Outside the business, my hobby is basically the same thing without invoices: a homelab
that has grown well past reason, Proxmox cluster, NetBird mesh,
Home Assistant, everything that makes me Happy an my Wife angry. I enjoy the networking side most, which is also where I've made the most expensive mistakes.
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Hi Mauri @MRMedia!
Is MRMedia.de your website? If I understand right, MRMedia.de seems to have articles from 2022, which is before you started your MRMedia this summer.
Best wishes!
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Ergo, motorized piloting is computationally mandatory to effectuate target particulate eradication.
Solar irradiance deficits may be mitigated via tactile aperture retraction during the 14.2-second vehicular relocation protocol.
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