• db2@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I’d have upvoted if it weren’t for the annoying pointless blur.

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      21 days ago

      I am sure there has to be some significance to this non-censor that is so common. Like a very thin line that doesn’t cover the word or a single dot that partly covers a single letter. Maybe seeing who complains to distinguish people and bots?

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          21 days ago

          No AI or basic OCR would fail to recognize the words. Oldschool captchas have been inefficient at stopping bots for years now

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            21 days ago

            Is it any different than censored words in TV shows or movies? You hear pretty much the entire word with just a single syllable beeped out that for me at least immediately fills with the correct syllable effectively making the censorship pointless.

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      21 days ago

      I think it’s not censorship, just intentionally masking it like this, probably to avoid it being immediately flagged by OCR.

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          20 days ago

          Yeah, okay, I’ll somewhat agree on that one, but I was commenting on the “failed” part - it’s not like someone else (or OP from the screenshot) was unsuccessful in masking it - it was deliberately masked enough to mess with automated flagging systems, but not enough to even start being ambiguous or unclear (like it would be with actual censorship). So… “task failed successfully”? I dunno.

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    21 days ago

    I think the most interesting thing about drug markets is how stable they are compared to real life markets. Even as the currency deflates drugs maintain their value over the years.

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      22 days ago

      In my country it would be 24%

      if you source the crack from a VAT paying business you get a refund on that bit. Which isn’t much.

      The question is if you’re selling it for 5000 + VAT or 5000 including VAT. B2B sellers usually list their prices the first way, B2C the second way.

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      21 days ago

      But to truly beat the house you need to find that one ATM which has a transaction flaw where you can withdraw your entire balance but the withdrawal does not get recorded anywhere, and for extra measure nothing about the transaction gets recorded so they don’t even know it was you who accessed that ATM.

      Fun fact: there have been a few such cases of ATM flaws in the last few decades, either time-limited to a specific period (the hour after midnight, for example) or transaction-limited to a specific type.