<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@rolle" class="u-url mention">@<span>rolle</span></a></span> Yeah, it worked, but I had to click &quot;save changes&quot; about 50 times in quick succession.</p><p>My guess: Unlike posting a tweet, changing your username is just the kind of unusual operation that might involve distributed consensus (Paxos, Raft, etcd). It&#39;s entirely likely it could be handed off to a small 3-node cluster somewhere. It&#39;s also an expensive operation, so the whole thing is probably throttled (globally). </p><p>I&#39;d bet even money the error message was actually related to that.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I&#39;m convinced recaptcha is just google using people to train its AI</p><p>I also see a lot more recaptchas when using a Firefox based browser than with a chromium one </p><p>I use an extension called Buster that uses AI to solve them for me because I&#39;m not training multiple captchas just to load a website</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@RobLoach" class="u-url mention">@<span>RobLoach</span></a></span> it’s brand new and highly experimental, did you submit a bug report?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@rcombs" class="u-url mention">@<span>rcombs</span></a></span> that&#39;s kind of what i mean by &quot;a tax&quot; (like a punitive tax, not a revenue generating one)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I was at a conference when captchas came up and that problem of cheap labour in other regions was mentioned. The response by the free market loving person on the stage was that it is expected, that with globalization and the internet the wages will adjust to a global average and thus captchas will become too expensive to solve by human hands. It sounded like Sci Fi then and still does.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i thought it was there because of ddos and spam...</p>

<p>people misunderstand the purpose of captchas a lot. they&#39;re not there to prevent scraping. they&#39;re there to tax it. at a really low rate too</p>

<p>just noticed that they also have a browser extension that lets you never see cloudflare prompt you for a captcha again. wild. tor browser users take notice^W^W^W^W^W</p>