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jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Yeah… only OCR and AI have advanced to the point where a spammer/bot can easily bypass them.

20+ years ago, Microsoft proposed a Penny Black project, which was superseded by reCAPTCHA. Nowadays, we might have to go back to that… maybe by mining crypto as a proof of effort.

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