Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web. Show all posts

Puzzles to Reduce Bots

Posted: Saturday, 20 September 2014

As artificial intelligence becomes more and more powerful, traditional image-based text solvers can overcome simple reCAPTCHA and other text-image Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) codes become less and less relevant to society today.
Solve media and their solution, CAPTCHA advertisements, provide a very simple, but effective solution to both drive bots out and generate revenue from advertisements.
Credit: Solve media. Blurred advertising.

But bots can still solve text-based capture challenges... We know this from the expanding field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and from Google's own artificial network designed to recognize house numbers:

Sidebar Vectors

Posted: Saturday, 13 September 2014

With the new design of the main website at extramaster.net, and subsequently the similar redesign of this blog, you may have noticed that the bar that used to be at the top:

...is now on the left...

As such, new logos were created, in order to distinguish and incorporate a more visual and feature-rich feel for the site...

... But, there's no real point in having the vector in some closed source structure (unlike the rest of the site), and so, I'm giving them away, for absolutely nothing...

Licence

CC0 License - Public Domain (applies only for the images and vector code on this blog page only).

CC0
To the extent possible under law, Andy Tran has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Sidebar Vectors. This work is published from: Australia.

Tools Icon Vector

Hammer and Spanner criss-crossed in a hybrid and supportive demeanour. Both are tools...

High-DPI PNG

SVG

Dice Icon Vector

A dice from a different perspective.

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SVG

Binary SmartPhone Vector

iPhone-inspired vector (Read: does not represent an iPhone, but a generic SmartPhone).

High-DPI PNG

SVG

Blog/Blogger-inspired Icon Vector

"B" text wrapped in a comment box.

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SVG

anotherOS/OS Icon Vector

Fun grid-like "OS" vector

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SVG

Bonus: Settings Cog Vector

Not a part of the side bar, but have fun with this settings cog!

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SVG

NB

The "+e" logo is not a part of this release. At ALL!

Checking for users who don't followback on Twitter

Posted: Sunday, 17 August 2014

Since I no-longer "digest" my news from twitter,

I maintain my twitter account solely for people interested in "subprojects" that I embark on, and to stop others from grabbing at "extramaster".

I am aware of those that don't really care about my tweets and about the fact that a substantial portion of twitter users are bots.
And so, to keep my twitter followers as close to 1:1 as possible, I created a little online tool which identifies users who are not following you, hence not "followbacking".

Instructions:

In order to check for Twitter users that don't follow you back/aren't following you, then you can follow the steps below.

  • Step 1: Visit the landing page - http://www.extramaster.net/tools/twitterFollows/
  • Step 2: Click on the "Login to Twitter" button.
  • Step 2.5: Authorize the application with Twitter, or if you already have, let it login automatically.
  • Step 3: Look through the accounts that aren't following you (that you follow), and have fun!
Please keep note that if you want to build a semi-meaningful relationship with me, feel free to have a chat with me on Google+! Twitter feels too much like a race, and it's doomed to fail anyways.