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- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 2 days ago:
It does work with screen readers but their solution seems far from ideal. Also, that relies on the fact that the scrappers don’t typically run JavaScript.
Screen readers (used, for example, by people with visual impairment) work from the source code, where your words are already swapped. The font only fixes things on screen, so a shielded block would be read aloud as fluent, wrong English. Shielded sections in our React tier carry aria-hidden to stop that. In its place, an opt-in beta ships the correct text encrypted in the page. A button only screen readers reach asks the reader’s browser to solve for the key: a chain of steps where each one needs the answer to the last. It also needs JavaScript, which most scrapers never run. The cost currently lands on the reader: up to twenty seconds on a slow device. That is friction, and it is the part we most want help fixing.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 2 days ago:
Pretty much, yeah.
The font must be sent to the browser so it can display the original words. Anyone who downloads it can therefore inspect it and work out the substitutions. That is unavoidable. But our goal is not to stop someone who deliberately targets a specific site. Instead, it is designed to disrupt large-scale automated scraping, which processes many sites without examining each one individually (because that costs money). ShieldFont currently ships with three different word mappings and gives publishers the tools to create their own, so decoding one mapping does not automatically reveal the others.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
If the whole idea is to just add some friction then you can use your password manager to generate a password for that profile you can’t possibly remember, instead of using a numeric PIN. That way each time you want to switch to it you will have first to go unlock your password manager.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered's lengthy patch drought could end with its Switch 2 release, which Bethesda say includes "optimisations" they hope to bring to PC 1 week ago:
I stopped caring quite a while ago. Now I am waiting to Skyblivion which is finally around the corner.
- Comment on Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine 1 week ago:
I have heard many people say they would consider buying it if it was much cheaper, even though they have a capable gaming PC. Also, it doesn’t cost Valve anything offering a barebones version. Unless they don’t want to do it because their stock is limited and it is not just an issue of RAM and storage availability.
- Comment on Valve see the great RAM shortage "getting worse," just in case you were clinging to hopes of a cheaper Steam Machine 1 week ago:
They could easily sell a cheaper Steam Machine by selling a barebones version without RAM or storage.
Especially when it comes to the storage which is by far the biggest cost after the RAM, I am pretty sure there are tons of people who already have a spare NVMe drive they could use.
- Comment on "Never say never": Criterion aren't ruling out a return to Need For Speed, but Battlefield is their only focus for now 2 weeks ago:
Riders on the storm…
- Comment on Valve's Steam Machine gets competition in the "Stim Machine", a cheeky French PC box that's already reportedly been re-named 5 weeks ago:
isn’t that what Valve wants anyway? The whole point of the Steam Machine just how it was for Steam Deck was to increase the SteamOS adoption to reduce the control Microsoft has over them with Windows. The more companies make SteamOS compatible devices the better is for adoption.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
Slightly off topic, but if you need a QR code scanner there are really good open source ones available on F-Droid. Such is SecScanQR which I have been using for quite a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Welcome to Europe!
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
They can definetly use signals like VPN usage, not allowing third-party cookies and whatever else to force this verification mode if they want to. They may not be doing it right now but nothing prevents them.
- Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
- Comment on Pumping out new Fallout and Elder Scrolls games faster is reportedly the plan at Xbox, as the spectre of potential corporate rejigging looms 1 month ago:
Do you go to the Cloud District very often? What am I saying, of course you don’t.
- Comment on Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server 1 month ago:
The MCU only has 3KB of SRAM so probably not. I think you need at least something like a Pi Pico or an ESP32 for that.
- Comment on Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server 1 month ago:
The question is why a disposable vape needs a high performance 32-bit 24 MHz ARM MCU. What exactly does it do that can’t be accomplished by an 8-bit microcontroller.
- Comment on Linux and open source getting age checking exemptions could be problematic 2 months ago:
Why on earth would my bank or utility company need to verify my age though my OS when they have all my info already?
- Comment on Oops - someone nearly caused a fire with the Steam Controller Puck 2 months ago:
Plus the puck attaches magnetically, which means you could even detect it using a hall sensor if you just wanted to use 2 pins for whatever reason.
- Comment on Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable" 2 months ago:
No, because he didn’t. What I meant is that he said what the article quotes.
- Comment on Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable" 2 months ago:
Linus Torvalds. Pretty weird title though.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
The survey didn’t ask when their current PC was built. Just when they plan building a PC in general.
- Comment on App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows 3 months ago:
Because they are safe! Unlike those Withguard and Veracrypt things.
- Comment on Memory shortage set to run until 2027 as chipmakers focus on AI 3 months ago:
More like at least until 2027.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Nothing wrong with the statement. Federated doesn’t mean decentralized.
- Comment on Solid-state nuclear battery claims 100-year power for ultra-low energy devices 3 months ago:
The device operates within a voltage range of 1.0 V to 20.0 V and a nominal current between 7.5 nA and 33 nA, all within a compact 20 mm by 20 mm by 12 mm form factor.
Yeah, can’t even power an ESP32. Wake me up when this thing can do between 7.5 mA and 33 mA, not nA.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced 3 months ago:
There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though.
- Comment on New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges 3 months ago:
Ike’s solution is to leverage blockchain technology in the chip on the e-cig cartridge. It would use a camera to scan some form of ID and then also take a video of the user’s face. Once it verifies your identity and determines you’re old enough to vape, it translates that information into anonymized tokens. That info goes to an identity service like ID.me or Clear. If approved, it bounces back to the app, which then uses a Bluetooth signal to give the vape the OK to turn on.
I just cannot begin to describe how stupid this is. You know what? I’m not going to even try.
- Comment on Plague Inc: Evolved is getting a big new Aliens & Anti-Vaxxers DLC and free update 3 months ago:
The DLC will introduce the new Xenolith: The Alien Crystal plague
Green glowing alien crystals that kill you. Hmm, where have I heard this before?
- Comment on Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds 3 months ago:
You can run — but you cannot hide. Eventually you will get tired — we need no rest. There is no escape — you will be integrated!
- Comment on Imagine GTA with AI-generated characters "just going along with whatever insane thing you say," muses Valve writer, absent-mindedly spotlighting what terrifies me about genAI 4 months ago:
I just want Skyrim where I can have actual conversations with NPC, instead of them repeating the same lines over and over again.
- Comment on FCC Bans All New Routers Not Made in America 4 months ago:
This is hilarious.
Nonetheless, the move forces the manufacturing of routers to be moved to the U.S. rapidly, particularly since it’s not clear that any consumer routers are currently made in the U.S.