<p>reminder that captchas are extremely, *unbelievably* cheap to bypass. $500 gives you a million captchas a month, or a third of that for hcaptcha, etc</p><p>the only thing they&#39;re &quot;completely automatically testing&quot; is how much cheaper human time is in the global south</p><p>solving them with &#39;AI&#39; is economically meaningless. you just go to e.g. <a href="https://anti-captcha.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">anti-captcha.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Wow, interesting. Got it sorted out, eventually, right? They may have put that &quot;delay&quot; there so nobody can snitch the username right away, or something.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mementomori.social/@rolle" class="u-url mention">@<span>rolle</span></a></span> A PSA: I followed these instructions, but encounted a problem of being &quot;rate limited&quot; when trying to change the name of the new account to the old one.</p><p>Stumbled across a reddit comment that if you just clicked the change button as fast as possible for like a minute (getting repeated &quot;rate limited&quot; errors), it would eventually work. </p><p>As a SW guy, I&#39;m thinking &quot;WTF?!?&quot; But, I try it and after about 45s of this nonsense--username changed.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I could never get this things to work. Could not find the steam games.</p>

Q: What kind of material would be used if Touhou girls are going to make integrated circuits in Gensokyou? A: High-kappa dielectric.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.au/@LanceTurner" class="u-url mention">@<span>LanceTurner</span></a></span> man you have brainrot</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@void_friend" class="u-url mention">@<span>void_friend</span></a></span> hah no not in the real world</p><p>consider numba and llvmlite (my old nemesis) alone</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> oh niiiice</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@foone" class="u-url mention">@<span>foone</span></a></span> maybe they just want you to do GNSS</p>