Also, “identical” has a different meaning here.
There’s a special place in hell for the monster who dreamed up this captcha!
Most infuriating things I’ve encountered in gatekeeping.
Had to do these to view some Twitter/X post a friend sent me: I don’t have an account and visiting the link redirects directly to login. So I created a new account with a temp mail. Then I had to solve 10 of these riddles. After the 10th there was an error message that I cannot use this email or so. I asked my friend for a screenshot afterwards. I had a loooong day and it was very late in the evening. I never ever do this again. Shitty SM.
Are they identical objects?
Get out Theseus!
Theseus who? I only know tHESEUS.
I looked it up in the Theseusaurus, they are the same.
What is it you have to use so badly you put up with this bullshit!? Haven’t they already proven that in 2024 bots can solve the CAPTCHAS better than humans can??
I signed up to LinkedIn to get in touch with someone. Deleting the account the moment I get a reply. They couldn’t pay me to put up with this nonsense. 😂
Yes GPT4o was able to solve this. I didn’t.
When I see this captcha and it says “1 of 10”, I close the page. This website doesn’t want me, and I don’t want to be there either.
Microsoft uses some of these. I remember having to do something like that to setup a minecraft account and at some point I thought I would just give up and lose my money.
OpenAI uses these too. I used to have the pro subscription, yet they asked me to solve 10 of these for every other request. Needless to say, I’m no longer their customer.
Concidentally, I only saw these captchas from hell on sites that also have their own apps. I suspect they’re trying to force you to use the app instead of the browser (while also training AIs of course).
What service?
LinkedIn.
To register a new account?
If so that’s costing Kim Jong hours!
Are you doing Azure training too? I cursed these out to my boss when I encountered them. I’ve seen a lot of bad captcha but these are hands down the worst.
Yeah, captchas have gotten worse recently. I had one asking me to choose the “the largest animal” and it had an example picture of what was meant to be a lion. There was a rhino in one of the other pics.
It wanted me to click on lions, but then gave me something larger than a lion.
And the frog is scaled to look bigger so you don’t know what they mean either.
I failed.
Rockstar uses these, but 30 of them, and each one asks for undivided attention. Count all visible sides of the dice, showing 6 different pictures of dice and then you have to choose 1 that matches the shown number. 30 times. Fuck that. I haven’t been able to play GTA5 since.
I literally ragequit that captcha. Mine was showing floor plans and grainy “pictures” of a room asking me to pick which floor plan matched the picture from that perspective. I swear to you, none of them actually matched, progress reset constantly because I’d invariably pick the wrong one. It provoked such a primal rage in me, it felt like I was being gaslit into believing I was wrong when actually that captcha was cursed to hell and back. Thankfully my very patient partner managed to get through them for me and I only had to do it once to get the launcher to recognise my new pc.
This image isn’t reCAPTCHA, but since it’s still relevant, here you go:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
The thing is, there will come a day when only bots will be able to get these right. The only way into a site will be to answer incorrectly, to prove you’re human.
“Prove that you’re inferior.”
“I…what?..What even IS this puzzle? There’s a glowstick, and a porcupine, a pez dispenser in the shape of ray romano, and the board game battleship? I don’t get it…I don’t even get whats being asked…”
“Correct!”
“…I still don’t get it.”
“Buddy, we know your human. Stop proving your inferiority.”
“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???”
“Now you’re just showing off…”
The system is broken
I see a future where you will need to have a philosophical argument together with a blood test to logon to the internet.
Just ask chatGPT, it can solve capchas faster than a person. Set up a script and boom, no more capchas issues.
Nice try bot.
“Just to prove you are a member of MENSA…”
It’s quite easy after you learn engineering-level math. It would still require some paper and patience, but it’s not hard.
Only something around 5% of the people go there, but it’s a matter of going there, not being a genius.
Isn’t it 0? They are giving you the value of x so it’s a constant and not a variable.
It is a partial derivative. Apparently you haven’t taken Calc III. I figured that would be basic math for most people. It is a shock to me that a person studying to be a nurse doesn’t need a degree in math.
To answer your question without being a dickhead: The given x indicates the point on the curve you need to find the slope at. In other words, find the derivative and then evaluate that function at the given x.
That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:
The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36
- § d/dx: 6cos(6x + Pi/2)
- = d/dx: -6sin(6x)
- = -36 cos(6x)
- = -36, when x = 2Pi
It’s called engineering level math because engineers, physicists, and math majors are required to take Calculus.
Yes I took calculus in high school but it’s not required. No I don’t remember much of any of it because it was decades ago.
You also learned all the countries/capitals in Africa when you were in middle school. But I bet you can’t name them now without Google. Same thing.
It’s been nearly 35 years since I did uni level calc and I’ve not really used in the the years since - fucked if I could figure it out without a lot of <insert search engine of choice> foo these days
You could just write it into an advanced calculator and then copy the answer. Ain’t that bad
Or use Photomath or ChatGPT. This wouldn’t work anymore.
