i wanted to create an issue in the Archwiki for some outdated information, but the capsha is too complex for me and my fedora

  • Maxy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It would probably be more useful to run an arch container in something like distrobox. “Pacman -V” outputs some version information, which changes quite often on a rolling release distro. If you run your own arch box, you wil always be able to get the newest captcha code.

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      1 year ago

      Machines are better at solving captchas than humans. No, really.

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      1 year ago

      It works because it is different from other captchas that all have ways to workaround already automated. Having a niche problem for a niche community works surprisingly well for weeding out the widely cast bots that are designed to solve the common captchas. Though it wont do much for a dedicated attack - I don’t think they have had much of a problem with these and the mods can always change tactic when it no longer becomes effective.

  • vsis@feddit.cl
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    You can install docker. Then…

    $ docker run --rm archlinux pacman -V|base32|head -1
    Unable to find image 'archlinux:latest' locally
    latest: Pulling from library/archlinux
    5bab4a299671: Pulling fs layer
    c22c9691c4d8: Pulling fs layer
    c22c9691c4d8: Verifying Checksum
    c22c9691c4d8: Download complete
    5bab4a299671: Verifying Checksum
    5bab4a299671: Download complete
    5bab4a299671: Pull complete
    c22c9691c4d8: Pull complete
    Digest: sha256:a816f62c10a68a77df6041efdec165e8638644e8209b21ee27d7ecfd3f83d823
    Status: Downloaded newer image for archlinux:latest
    BIQC4LJNFYQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAIBAEAQCAICQMFRW2YLOEB3DMLRQFYZCALJANRUWEYLMOBWS
    
  • eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site
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    Distrobox my dude. Run an arch container and run the command. Not super hard to set up since I barely know what I’m doing and I got it working.

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    just paste it in terminal, it will give some random characters. Paste it in the captcha. This is honesty the best captcha I’ve seen. lol