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Wahaha wrote

Appealing to authority isn't an argument, y'know? It's a logical fallacy.

I won't get it and within my personal contacts, no one will get it, either. Some of whom happen to be doctors themselves. If you feel comfortable getting a vaccine in the early stages of testing, good for you. I feel different.

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Rambler OP wrote

Usually what happens instead is that you get an unsolvable challenge. Well, not always unsolvable, occasionally the algorithm has mercy and lets you through after minutes of suffering. But it's not really worth trying.

I've been stuck in reCAPTCHA hell before where I swear they were sent to specifically discourage someone from continuing.

"Select All the Crosswalks" but then, they have an image of the rumblestrips cut into the side of highways (that warn you when you veer off road) when, photographed correctly "look like" crosswalk stripes. Didn't select it because it's not a crosswalk, failed. Then everything else is "Select the bicycles" with images of motorcycles too. Does Google know the difference between the two? I do. Still failed, maybe I should have selected the motorcycles also.

And don't even get me started on the ones where you have like 4 pixels of an image in another square. Do you select it as well? Part of the fire hydrant is in that square. When selecting the street lights, do you choose JUST the very clearly obvious ones, or do you select the small, out of focus ones in another square as well?

Usually at this point I just say, "fuck it" and find what I'm looking for elsewhere.

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burnerben wrote

Please do not try to debate a subject you are uneducated in, it makes you look like a fool. if you really cared about your safety you would do research on the vaccine and understand like the majority or us that yes of course they tested in groups. do you not understand how medical studies work? i close relive of mine has already gotten it as he is a doctor and he says he feels stronger. if your not at high risk medically then take the vaccine your just adding to the problem and making it harder to reach heard immunity.

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Rambler OP wrote

In the last year, Google has started to roll out reCAPTCHA Version 3. And, unfortunately, there’s not much that can be said for this, because it’s such a closely guarded secret. All that we do know is, from the minute you enter a website with reCAPTCHA Version 3 on it, you will be monitored in the background, and when you go to click ‘submit’ you’ll have already been assigned a ‘How Likely This is to be a Robot’ score.

There are no documents detailing how they work this out, and we can only hope that they are taking into account Incognito Mode, and importantly, accessibility tools. For all we know, those with a negative score may have their comment immediately archived or their form submission sent into a spam folder. And there’s no way to tell if you’ve failed.

Facial recognition

Something that Monzo Bank are doing, is a sure-fire way of ensuring you’re not a robot. Their identification checks involve you sending a picture of your ID, and thereafter sending a video of you saying a phrase. Not only is this checking you are a human, it’s ensuring you’re the specific human in question.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

I'll have to check this out. I'm not a fan of tech and their warnings / labels / "additional context" but it seems like it can be disabled.

About 80% of my YouTube usage is music anyway, so if it's going to give additional information about the videos it might as well have neat band trivia and related artists instead of fake news warnings and context added.

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Wahaha wrote

There hasn't been enough time for the thing to get the status of tested. Give it a couple of years. To repeat these runs and see if it even works and for how long.

I still won't be getting it, since my immune system is weak. Always has been. But at that point I'll stop complaining about it being untested.

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z3d wrote

Thanks to the magic of scripting and cron (and term99), we now have an update url for automated I2P+ dev build updates from within the console.

To enable updating with unsigned zip files, add the line: routerconsole.advanced=true to your router.config file located in your configuration directory (not the application dir) and then browse to http://127.0.0.1:7657/configupdate and add the following url to the "Update with unsigned development builds" section: http://skank.i2p/dev/i2pupdate.zip

Be sure to enable the option, then save, and then hit the "Check for updates" button. It may take a few tries before the proxy responds, and then you'll see an update notification in the sidebar (if a new update is available).

It's also recommended to set the update policy to "Notify only" to ensure you don't update with vanilla I2P releases, and can update at a time of your choosing.

If you'd prefer to update with release versions, the update url is: http://skank.i2p/i2pupdate.zip

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Rambler OP wrote

Okay, should be fixed now.

Turns out an upgrade on my end borked the path to some keyfiles.

The good news is I learned a good lesson on how to prevent it in the future and a learned a better practice than that of the default router's handling of these.

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Wahaha wrote

To test a vaccine you have to actually apply it to a group of humans and then see how well they do a few months down the line. I don't watch news. They are all fake.

Reviewing just the paper is meaningless before the field testing on a large group of people. If the paper stage wasn't satisfactory they wouldn't go ahead, now would they?

Also, how are you supposed to go outside if there's police patrolling the street preventing you from just doing that? Maybe your place is better off than others. But even then, vitamin D is only half the story. The other half is that by being exposed to germs around the year our immune system is stimulated to work. The more clean we make our environment, for example by avoiding other people and thus germs, the less our immune system will have to do around the year and thus be weakened.

I know my immune system is weakened, since I wasn't outside much this year and basically haven't met any humans. I'm certainly not standing in line to get the virus via a vaccine. I made this mistake a long time ago, where I got the flu a week after I got the supposed vaccine against it. Never got that vaccine again and never got the flu again. Go ahead, take the risk to sacrifice your health because you have empathy for me. I'm betting on your herd immunity and not getting this particular vaccine, since I don't want to get sick from a vaccine again. Thanks for your understanding.

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