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Gin drunk. (The drunk of sophisticated people.)

AMA.

Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it's harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions.…Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

In a paper [PDF]

arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

titled "Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,"

@voltronic

Now would be a good time to make a new habit of using a URL expander before clicking on any link. Example: copy that mystery link into the box on this website
checkshorturl.com/

^ If you had nefarious intent, It would take no more than a couple minutes to grab a photo of KH, write a couple paragraphs, and add a link to your malware deployment server. This would be a low-sophistication attack, relatively speaking.

^^ Boosting this because wouldn't you know it, I received this earlier today.

It sure looks and sounds legit, but there is ***no f-ing way*** I'm clicking on that sketchy-looking link.

PSA: Don't click on any links you receive from unsolicited political fundraising campaigns. You never know where or what that link will lead to.

Delete the message and block the sender. If you want to make a donation to something, you know where to go for it.

I guarantee the 2024 DNC won't be anywhere near the shitshow the 2016 DNC was. I was there in person for the first night, and it was a zoo. Jill Stein leading her crazies in immature stupidity outside the convention, Susan Sarandon leading her crazies in immature stupidity inside the convention, Sanders delegates and supporters booing and cat calling through many of the speeches. Disarray on full display; lots of adults behaving badly.

Today's harvest. Large dinner fork for scale. I could have picked more, but decided this was as many I could handle for now.

The cucumbers have been going absolutely bonkers. I can't eat, pickle, or give them away to neighbors fast enough.

Also my first vine-ripened tomato of the season.

^ When your emotions are running high, that's when you're most vulnerable to manipulation. And you can bet your ass that people will try to exploit that fact.

PSA: Don't click on any links you receive from unsolicited political fundraising campaigns. You never know where or what that link will lead to.

Delete the message and block the sender. If you want to make a donation to something, you know where to go for it.

Could we please stop posting screenshots from x/Twitter? Or at least add filter words to your posts? Most of us are here because we want nothing to do with anyone or anything from that hell hole.

PSA: this is not a bird site.

We do not have to poop on heads when startled.

We're not re-running the primaries. We're not choosing new delegates. The delegates are already chosen, and the Convention will go ahead with them. That's the process. That's how it always works. The delegates choose the nominee.

They won't be bound to vote for anyone on the first ballot, but I actually expect that there will be a first-ballot victory for the nominee.

cheers to all of y’all using keywords or hashtags to hit our filters. Gentle reminder you don’t HAVE to tag with but every time you do a butterfly is born and a bumble bee pollinates a fruit tree… 😂🤣😘

Apparently some people missed that President Joe Biden endorsed Kamala Harris.

She's running. She's the most likely candidate, given that the convention consists of a vast majority of Biden delegates who were elected to support a Biden-Harris ticket.

I don't think repeating misinformation, either about events or the process, is in the least bit helpful.

I cleaned out one of my old traveling toolboxes and found a Cyrix chip pulling tool.

Cyrix went under in 1997. But not before I made a lot of money "upgrading" 386 CPU based machines in law offices with Cyrix 486 CPU's.

That toolbox was overdue to be cleaned out.

Backing up only to cloud storage (GDrive, iDrive, etc.) is *not* sufficient because you do not have full control. You need local copies of anything that matters. Also, don't put anything on cloud storage that could be potentially harmful or embarrassing to you or others if it leaked publicly.

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