Software As She’s Developed

I’ve been wondering why I haven’t received blog comments for a while now. Assumed there must be some spam issue, but only today did I investigate it - triggered by a Dugg article on Akizmet’s false positives. (Akizmet is the WordPress web-service-based spam filter.) Akizmet has done a great job at separating definites from possibles, […]

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I was wrong, the third character is apparently a nine. There ought to be a Captcha gallery/blog for all these. Apparently I’m not the only one who feels that way. Oh well, blame the spammers. But more to the point, what’s up with this Captcha brought to you by the letters “A…F”???? Hex captcha? Hey, why bother […]

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