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WHO told them to do this ???

No, I'm NOT gonna comply.

If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
quit.

Evil !

Downloaded the latest Fedora and Mint and Deb today,
NO such totalitarian BS.

AM downloading a 'fairly recent' MX ... but thru
a 3rd party site. NASTY ! Can I trust it ???

Can't even GET to the MX site to register
a complaint without the blocks.

MX was my big fave - "perfect" - but NOW ...

Guess I'll have to use vanilla Deb from
now on.


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On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:47:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:

WHO told them to do this ???

No, I'm NOT gonna comply.

If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
quit.

Evil !

So a 2 second CAPTCHA 3 a website uses to protect against malicious
attacks ruins your entire day?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare#DDoS_mitigation

I hate to tell you but I think your world is going to shrink. I didn't hit
the verification with Brave on two different machines. I think that's
because I'd been there before and they'd dropped a cookie. OMG cookies!
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

I hate to tell you but I think your world is going to shrink. I didn't hit the verification with Brave on two different machines. I think that's
because I'd been there before and they'd dropped a cookie. OMG cookies!

There are a lot of things they check. One that had me puzzled for a
long time was hardware graphics acceleration for WebGL 2 (etc.).
The Javascript can somehow detect that you're using a software
OpenGL render (eg. swrast in Mesa) instead of a GPU, and assumes
it must be running on a server, instead of a personal computer
with an old GPU or broken drivers. One major Australian website
blocks me entirely on that basis - doesn't even give me a captcha
to solve. No GPU = can't be human, apparantly. No more visits from
this human anyway - what rot that I'd need to have GPU rendering
working on computers where I'd never need that except to get in to
those websites showing just text and static images.
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On 8/16/26 14:54, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:47:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:

WHO told them to do this ???

No, I'm NOT gonna comply.

If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
quit.

Evil !

So a 2 second CAPTCHA 3 a website uses to protect against malicious
attacks ruins your entire day?

Yep.

Over and out.

Oh, and nobody STEALS Linux - it's FREE.

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On 8/16/26 18:46, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

I hate to tell you but I think your world is going to shrink. I didn't hit >> the verification with Brave on two different machines. I think that's
because I'd been there before and they'd dropped a cookie. OMG cookies!

There are a lot of things they check. One that had me puzzled for a
long time was hardware graphics acceleration for WebGL 2 (etc.).
The Javascript can somehow detect that you're using a software
OpenGL render (eg. swrast in Mesa) instead of a GPU, and assumes
it must be running on a server, instead of a personal computer
with an old GPU or broken drivers. One major Australian website
blocks me entirely on that basis - doesn't even give me a captcha
to solve. No GPU = can't be human, apparantly. No more visits from
this human anyway - what rot that I'd need to have GPU rendering
working on computers where I'd never need that except to get in to
those websites showing just text and static images.

If I see this shit I *leave* in one second. NOT
gonna put up with it.

And, as said, you can't STEAL Linux because
it's FREE - so, well, WTF ??? All I see is
some trick trying to probe my box for who
knows what.

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On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:44:19 -0400, c186282 wrote:

On 8/16/26 14:54, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:47:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:

WHO told them to do this ???

No, I'm NOT gonna comply.

If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
quit.

Evil !

So a 2 second CAPTCHA 3 a website uses to protect against malicious
attacks ruins your entire day?

Yep.

Over and out.

Oh, and nobody STEALS Linux - it's FREE.

Steal? Is that the extent of your idea of malicious?

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0513229/arch-linux-faces- ongoing-ddos-attack

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On 8/16/26 23:54, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:44:19 -0400, c186282 wrote:

On 8/16/26 14:54, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:47:41 -0400, c186282 wrote:

WHO told them to do this ???

No, I'm NOT gonna comply.

If the Pixie Girl or equivs appear I *instantly*
quit.

Evil !

So a 2 second CAPTCHA 3 a website uses to protect against malicious
attacks ruins your entire day?

Yep.

Over and out.

Oh, and nobody STEALS Linux - it's FREE.

Steal? Is that the extent of your idea of malicious?

For the REAL WORLD ... kinda YES.

Are you assuming some kind of 'download
apocalypse' thing - a sophisticated
distributed 'DOS' attack ???

MIGHT - but mostly WON'T - happen.

The low/no profit aspects of Linux just
make it UNINTERESTING to most Bad Guys.

Note there are also many alternative sites
where you can get the SAME systems, never
using the Main Page. Being 'free', anyone
can copy the latest distros to THEIR sites.

For cyberterrorists, this is just a lose/lose
situation. Why waste time ?

Now M$/Apple - VERY concentrated sweet stuff.
IS worth attacking from many directions and
WILL have far-reaching impacts.

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0513229/arch-linux-faces- ongoing-ddos-attack

"Ongoing" - but "effective/useful/relevant" ???

Anyway, sorry, but if I see the Elf girl or
her clones then I'm OUT of there. Dunno WHAT
THE FUCK their 'validation' scripts are doing.
Probably REALLY bad.

NO !

Hey, I'll go back to DOS 3.x shit rather than
put up with this shit.

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