Post 9oB0VDFFBpcEy9jP1s by winniehell@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9oAxdgR2FHsfxHatkm by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2019-10-22T06:52:00Z
       
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       #GitLab has always used Goggle #reCAPTCHA, which annoys human users and requires nonfree #Javascript, as part of their attempts to prevent spam accounts and issue spam. After a lot of discussion and experimentation, they are currently testing an invisible #CAPTCHA that will hopefully replace it : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/46548Hopefully this is a sign of the immanent decline of Goggle's unpaid mechanical turking malware, which currently festoons a huge amount of the web.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oB0VDFFBpcEy9jP1s by winniehell@octodon.social
       2019-10-22T07:24:48Z
       
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       @strypey This is for user registration only. We are also experimenting to completely remove reCAPTCHA from issues and merge requests: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/29830
       
 (DIR) Post #9oCxGTfNwPz80gA1HE by toeplitzer@vis.social
       2019-10-22T10:57:42Z
       
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       @winniehell @strypey nonfree Javascript?
       
 (DIR) Post #9oCxGUJ5YnkBzojjA8 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2019-10-23T05:57:40Z
       
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       @toeplitzer > nonfree Javascript?Nonfree as in proprietaryhttps://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.htmlIf I'm not mistaken, the code implementing GL's invisible capture will be released under the same free license as the rest of their community edition.@winniehell
       
 (DIR) Post #9oCzKTpNU3PVZns3e4 by toeplitzer@vis.social
       2019-10-23T06:21:06Z
       
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       @strypey ok thanks for clarifying. I thought you meant the language itself isn't free. I think the entire underlying machine learning and dataset not being free is a much bigger issue personally.
       
 (DIR) Post #9oD5bTIfIXjkaW3U4e by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2019-10-23T07:31:21Z
       
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       @toeplitzer agreed, that's why I object to being forced to contribute my labour to them, to get access to huge swathes of the web (via the nonfree reCAPTCHA JS), and I'm excited to see GL make progress in phasing it out.