The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

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zombot•about 1 hour ago

So I got an Incident ID and some captcha mumbo jumbo for attempting to browse that site. Apparently they don't like visitors. Feeling generous today, I decided to not inconvenience them further.

random3•19 minutes ago

perhaps it's your IP/network. I'm not getting any of that

zombot•10 minutes ago

Looks like the effect was temporary, it's gone now.

quantummagic•about 1 hour ago

Same. Not going through a captcha for a random link.

sanjayjc•20 minutes ago

I too detest captchas. I found the paper elsewhere:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08804

zombot•35 minutes ago

Ironically, if you throw up road blocks for human visitors, the only ones who take the abuse will be bots.