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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Please enter the first ten quintillion digits of pi to continue...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

You have 50 milliseconds..

[–] Eylrid 10 points 1 year ago

Some fifteen year old nerd: "I got this"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you use another bot to solve that bot's test?

We already have the reverse, where automated spam tools outsource to humans to beat the captchas: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26captcha.html

They would have to make a captcha that only a select group of bots can solve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It'll be bots all the way down...

[–] bfr0 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?

[–] ug01x 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, it is the bad kind of puppy!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used captchas before, this already happens :(

[–] PillowTalk420 14 points 1 year ago

please click all images with busses

Sees extremely distorted reflection of bus in a store window in one panel; has breakdown

[–] ayyndrew 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Complete Super Mario Bros. in under 5 minutes"

[–] shotgun_crab 2 points 1 year ago

"Complete Brawl's Zelda Ocarina of Time demo in under 5 minutes"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have enough trouble finding all the bicycles in the photos, they wouldn’t need to change much

[–] Eso 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which would you prefer:

  • A large, properly formatted data file.
  • A flower for your sweetie.
  • A puppy.

Edit: didn't see that someone else had already beat me to it!

[–] teacs 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's this a reference to?

[–] SE_DeepFried 2 points 1 year ago
[–] slock 10 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much what DRM does, keeping us out of the inner working of stuff

[–] j4k3 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have 10 seconds to solve: 4A % 1010

[–] NorthWestWind 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's too easy. It should ask you to unencrypt a message using a given public key.

[–] klp 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the other way: if it gets solved too fast, it is likely a bot?

[–] j4k3 4 points 1 year ago

We're keeping humans out, to let the bot empire thrive here. If you can mix base systems to do long division in 10 seconds on the internet, you deserve to be accepted into the bot technocracy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They already do for me. I am legally blind and I have to hand my phone off to someone else to get past most the time.

[–] mintiefresh 5 points 1 year ago

Y'all can pick out those buses right now eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they already do.

The number of Captchas I've been failing tells me the AIs are creating Captchas only other AIs can solve.

[–] Donovar 2 points 1 year ago

It's that little sliver of tire on the "Bus" captcha that always gets me. Do I tag it? Or not?

I seem to fail it either way.

[–] forkball 1 points 1 year ago
[–] slock 1 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much what DRM does, keeping us out of the inner working of stuff