Kid@sh.itjust.worksM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 years agoGoogle's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins saywww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down13cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarevoracitude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·edit-223 days agodeleted by creator
minus-squarebazus1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 years agoIf you see the word “boffin” in your article, you’re probably reading The Register.
minus-squareKillerTofu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoNeat, thanks for explaining!
minus-squareadam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIt also sounds like a Dickensian surname for a smart person.
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years ago“Boffin” sounds like an insult, not something you’d call a smart person. Someone who’s easily baffled. Also reminds me of a Zappa song, “Broken Hearts are for Assholes”, in which he speaks of a Sir Richard Pumpaloaf, a demented bread boffer.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoAnd it would have worked, if not for those meddling boffins!
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoNeutral mob with low HP. Won’t attack unless provoked. Not a threat except in large numbers.
Boffins?
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If you see the word “boffin” in your article, you’re probably reading The Register.
Neat, thanks for explaining!
It also sounds like a Dickensian surname for a smart person.
“Boffin” sounds like an insult, not something you’d call a smart person. Someone who’s easily baffled.
Also reminds me of a Zappa song, “Broken Hearts are for Assholes”, in which he speaks of a Sir Richard Pumpaloaf, a demented bread boffer.
And it would have worked, if not for those meddling boffins!
Neutral mob with low HP. Won’t attack unless provoked. Not a threat except in large numbers.