Got a non-captcha-looped source? I gave up after ten rounds of clicking bicycles.

Qt Creator

Other mainstream distros cannot even be installed by blind users because screen readers are broken on wayland

Been using Ubuntu since 2008… looks like this will be the last year for me.

I meant no interest in using it.

macOS 26? I thought the last version was 15…

Time to switch then. I have no interest in wayland.

To me, any binary I do not have the source code for is random. I have no idea what’s in it and it could be doing any number of malicious things.

sudo curl

sudo random binary

Umm

https://chitchatter.im/

I’m a huge fan of bootstrap and I feel that writing CSS from scratch is much harder.

many native elements either do not function like people want or cannot be styled the same

I would argue TRON OS and its variants are in more devices on the planet than Linux is.

the interface is not near as slow and clunky IMO, and it’s always broken when using JShelter extension for me

https://0x0.st/XDh2.png

And even if the game did greatly benefit from it, most people are already using esync/fsync in lutris/proton/etc. and so they also won’t really see a difference from what they’re used to.

I prefer to stick with the original C version.

What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

Source? I strongly disagree, and it’s not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.

Proof of Work is a terrible solution

Hard disagree, because:

it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs

The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic… meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.

Canvas fingerprinting would work.

Demonstrably false… people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks

I don’t like the approach of banning nonresidential IPs. I think it’s discriminatory and unfairly blocks out corporate/VPN users and others we might not even be thinking about. I realize there is a bot problem but I wish there was a better solution. Maybe purely proof-of-work solutions will get more popular or something.