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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's a semantic expansion. It happens all the time in language. That's not a meme! That's just an image with a caption on it! CAPTCHA is widely know
by dqv 3y ago
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It's a semantic expansion. It happens all the time in language. That's not a meme! That's just an image with a caption on it!
CAPTCHA is widely known as a thing that is implemented to prevent spam [0]. This is a thing that is used to prevent spam. It's CAPTCHA now. Here, the concept of preventing spam is communicated through the word CAPTCHA.
"mRateLimiter: Open-source proof-of-work rate limiter for websites"
Huh? What is this thing, what does it do?
[0]: Speaking of the word spam... You're not spamming! Spamming is when you send junk email! You're just pressing a button on your controller over and over again!
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Speaking of the word spam... You're not spamming! Spamming is when you send junk email! You're just pressing a button on your controller over and over again! The gaming use seems to precede the email use by quite a bit, and be part of the route between the Monty Python sketch and the email use, FWIW.
- johnchristopher 3y agoIt's typical HN: word definitions don't matter and can be tortured to death to mean anything unless one wants to nit-pick then people better use the most academic, agreed-upon and official meaning of a word. Now back to updating the sophos captcha appliance at work.
- thebears5454 3y agoHuman language is a thing of beauty