Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites
by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:37PM
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> Speaking of the word spam... You're not spamming! Spamming is when you send junk email! You're just pressing a button on your controller over and over again!
The gaming use seems to precede the email use by quite a bit, and be part of the route between the Monty Python sketch and the email use, FWIW.
Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites
by johnchristopher on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:12AM
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It's typical HN: words definition don't matter and can be tortured to death to mean anything unless one wants to nit-pick then people better use the most academic, agreed-upon and official meaning of a word.
Now back to updating the sophos captcha appliance at work.
Re:mCaptcha: Open-source proof-of-work captcha for websites
by thebears5454 on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:53AM
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Human language is a thing of beauty
It's a semantic expansion. It happens all the time in language. That's not a meme! That's just an image with a caption on it!
CAPTCHA is widely known as a thing that is implemented to prevent spam [0]. This is a thing that is used to prevent spam. It's CAPTCHA now. Here, the concept of preventing spam is communicated through the word CAPTCHA.
"mRateLimiter: Open-source proof-of-work rate limiter for websites"
Huh? What is this thing, what does it do?
[0]: Speaking of the word spam... You're not spamming! Spamming is when you send junk email! You're just pressing a button on your controller over and over again!