{"id":75,"date":"2004-11-25T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2004-11-25T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T03:05:14","slug":"and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2004\/11\/25\/and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"and again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ohhhhhhhhh yes&#8230;the damn spambots found a way to bypass all measures agorf had taken. So it was time for the gd library to come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>I found a patch for wordpress that creates a random text string on one image and someone has to copy that text to a text field to &#8220;validate&#8221; his comment.<br \/>\nThe url to the patch is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudlyf.com\/index.php?p=376\">http:\/\/www.gudlyf.com\/index.php?p=376<\/a><br \/>\nThen I had to install libjpeg, freetype,gd and recompile the latest php to use all that&#8230;DAMN these spambots!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how long it will take until the spambots find ways to figure out text out of images&#8230;I am not sure if I really want this to happen or not &#8230;If it happens it will be a great improvement for AI in general&#8230;but all that authentication measures based on images will go down the drain&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Btw I&#8217;ve learned today that gentoo is not a &#8220;random&#8221; word for a distro&#8230;but rather a &#8220;penguin race&#8221;&#8230;You can find some info here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.siec.k12.in.us\/~west\/proj\/penguins\/gentoo.html<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.antarcticconnection.com\/antarctic\/wildlife\/penguins\/gentoo.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ohhhhhhhhh yes&#8230;the damn spambots found a way to bypass all measures agorf had taken. So it was time for the gd library to come in handy. I found a patch for wordpress that creates a random text string on one image and someone has to copy that text to a text field to &#8220;validate&#8221; his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":5658,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}