Are you a human?

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In space nobody can hear you scream. Whereas on the Internet nobody knows whether you're human ...!

They used to make us count traffic lights, ladders, bicycles, ... Now there is a new guy in town. Or rather, a manga style cat girl:
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Anubis, named after the Egyptian god. "Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!"

See also:
en.wikipedia.org

Anubis (software) - Wikipedia

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I have considered using Anubis for VegenForum, but I don't think it will help. I.e. its "challenge" isn't expensive enough to keep bad actors away.

I will keep my eyes open, though - hopefully something better will come along.
 
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I think asking whether you're a human or not can be relevant in quite a few contexts. But then I'm sure there are going to be other questions we'd also like to ask online, such as, are you old enough to access this service? Or, are you a man or a woman? (Or, do you identify as a man, woman, neither, etc.)

We already have online services to answer some of these questions via information on credit cards. Maybe in the future we'll need to use government-approved ID (such as your passport ...) every time we sign up to a new online service such as VF.
 
On the one hand you have "Human, all too human", a book by philosopher F. Nietzsche. I won't pretend to have read it but I have dabbled in Nietzsche more generally, and anyway a part of this book as well as Nietzsche's other work has to do with human weakness and overcoming this as the superhuman or "overman", Übermensch.

Versus:

From Yiddish, we have the word mensch/mentsh. Mensch originally meant just human or person, but in Am. English/Yinglish we get the expression "a real mensch" which was someone of honour and integrity, a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", which is something positive to aspire towards.

(If we're getting off-topic, don't worry, that's fine with me!)
 
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