Gregory's Server
TIL our app uses reCaptcha and was saddened.
I didn't realize how much i've come to absolutely hate everything about reCaptcha
* i hate doing free labor training AIs for ultra-rich companies
* i hate that they punish Firefox users by increasing the likelyhood of showing multiple captchas
* i hate that the instructions are hostile to autistics
That latter one may be non-obvious. When it asks you to click the ⏹s with things, and one barely crosses into another ⏹, do you click that ⏹ or not?
just realized my explanation was still non-obvious. The neurotypical doesn't stress about this question. They simply click or don't and don't think about it. The autistic rule-follower wants to follow the instruction correctly.
Knowing that this is used to train cars and the result might actually kill someone kicks in my (our) strong moral imperative and makes me want to get it right even more.
I know i'm not the only autistic who gets hung up on this problem with captchas.