There was a really interesting video (can’t remember the title) that went into Google’s captcha specifically, and found that it really isn’t designed to detect bots. It’s designed to detect a unique digital fingerprint that can be used by advertisers.

So, you can use a really simple mouse script to click the checkbox automatically with no issue, but as soon as you use a VPN you get served with the photo games. It doesn’t care if you’re a robot, it cares if you’re a valuable ad target.

TOR fundamentally cannot be backdoored. The US government funds it because more traffic on the network helps mask the traffic coming from CIA agents and the like

What are you running your server on?

What are you putting on your phone that needs that much storage? Photos or videos should be moved onto something with redundancy

Dark Reader has been in development since 2014 and is much more polished

M.2 would technically be the best performance available, but realistically I don’t think you’d notice the difference over a USB SSD. Maybe a few extra seconds on boot.

Expecting the average user to understand numbers is a high expectation

Nothing is more of a definition than a thing. It’s just the absence of matter.

Headphone jack was killed as of the 5a

RAM chips are dirt cheap these days, and uninformed consumers will gravitate towards the bigger number even if it doesn’t have a real impact

You can’t self host a tracker like that, at least not for free, because the only way for the data to be reported is through a cellular connection which costs money. The subscription fee seems perfectly reasonable

Brand new alpha video player app already has background play, Floatplane devs in shambles