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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by juanre on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:38AM (#48501907)
A couple of weeks ago I essentially failed the Turing test (took to be an AI). I found it a bit annoying, so I built Possibly Made By A Human. It tracks your keyboard use (not the content, ms between keystrokes etc) and produces a signature for you. It can of course be spoofed, but that also takes some effort.

Actually made by a human, signature: https://possiblymadebyahuman.com/7PuEdZs1i1

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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by hathym on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:44AM (#48501944)
a solution waiting for a chrome extension :)
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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by juanre on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:51AM (#48502412)
I wrote it! I just haven't told anyone yet (nor tested it :-) This is a fun side-project, I don't have much time to play with it.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/possiblymadebyahuma...

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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by smokedetector1 on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:11PM (#48506726)
This is one of the coolest tech things I've seen in a while. Can you explain how the "Check a document" works? I'm not sure I understand how you would check if the timing aligns based only on the text content.
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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by juanre on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:32PM (#48506987)
Thanks! I had a lot of fun doing it.

The signature includes a hash of the text, done at the browser so that the server does not have to see the content.

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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by smokedetector1 on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:18PM (#48507553)
Ah, okay! Would you mind explaining what does "comparing wording, not exact text" mean?
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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by juanre on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:42PM (#48507858)
It's a very poorly written way of saying that instead of storing your text it uses a hash of your text to sign. When you want to check the signature you only need to hash the text to check, again without touching the server.
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Re:If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human ... by smokedetector1 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:40PM (#48512187)
I must agree that is quite poorly phrased
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