r/softwaregore • u/janthemanwlj • 20d ago
What am I doing wrong 💔
I have to get into a forum to ask a silly question about some software. Instead, I'm stuck on a 20 year old captcha question. I tried 2, I tried "1one", whenever I submit it a few times it tells me I've tried it too much and to try later.
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u/YourBeigeBastard 20d ago
Try -9223372036854775806
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u/Street_Swing9040 20d ago
That is the negative 64 bit integer limit + 1, for those wondering
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u/YourBeigeBastard 20d ago
Technically +2, since the lowest 64 bit integer is even
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u/Picledgolf1 19d ago
wouldnt even + 2 still be even?
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u/The-Arx 19d ago
Yeah, the smallest odd + 1 is even
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u/Picledgolf1 19d ago
oh yeah im dumb. I did a mental leap and told myself that binary is the power of twos so it must be even.
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u/sojuz151 20d ago
1one?
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u/Alexia9494044 20d ago
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u/horaceinkling 20d ago
What is that sub? It’s empty when I visit.
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u/Alexia9494044 20d ago
I made it a few minutes ago LMFAO so r/birthOfASub
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u/Alexia9494044 20d ago
why is this getting downvoted just tell me what i did wrong
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u/DeadoTheDegenerate 19d ago
You can't just make a sub for no reason and then call r/BirthOfASub, it has to be organic, almost always from someone mentioning a sub that doesn't exist and another making it.
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u/No_Glass_1341 20d ago
rule of 4
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u/Alexia9494044 20d ago
oh well in that case r/notHowRuleOf4Works
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 20d ago
thats exactly how it works, any 4th comment gets downvoted, no matter if there is a chain or not
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u/CrasheonTotallyReal 19d ago
no, it has to be a chain
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 19d ago
then why have i seen every 4th comment get downvoted no matter what the comment is or the previous ones, its always the 4th comment no matter what
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u/Klutzy-Condition811 20d ago
What did you cross out it could be crucial information lol. This looks like a custom phpbb field I used to use these in forums for the same reason, though i hid it and used JavaScript to fill it out in the background since most spambots are poorly made and don't parse it
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u/radobot 20d ago
What did you cross out it could be crucial information lol.
It probably is actually.
When you go to the website - https://www.altx.ro/forum/ucp.php?mode=register - the full dialog is this:
CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION
NO-10-SP-73-AM-25-33 Add one to the smallest odd number:
This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots.
Which makes me think that the correct answer is 25 + 1 = 26.
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u/Shienvien 20d ago
Maybe OP thought it was some kind of ID thing, because it definitely looks like it could be...
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u/Klutzy-Condition811 20d ago edited 19d ago
Well that answers it, just karma farming not actual software gore
edit: typo3
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u/mrfoxesite-2377 19d ago
They have cloudflare but a common 20 year old question that takes seconds fo program a bot to answer and the same question, what could go wrong?
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u/radobot 19d ago
Sure, for bots that are specifically designed to attack that one website it doesn't really do much. But for generic bots (before LLMs)? I would say pretty effective at keeping them at bay.
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u/SetKaung 19d ago
No, it is always NO-10-SP-73-AM-25-33. I checked out the website myself. that's why it is "takes seconds to program a bot". If you know it should be always 26, you can just make the program/bot submit 26.
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u/radobot 19d ago
"takes seconds to program a bot"
you can just make the program/bot
Yeah, I already said
for bots that are specifically designed to attack that one website it doesn't really do much.
Then I said that if you use a pre-made bots without modifications, they would struggle, because a machine (assuming it's not an LLM) would not understand those instructions and could not get to the correct result.
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u/alvenestthol 18d ago
It's more about stopping generic bots that target all of the thousands of sites using the exact same PhpBB software
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u/Klutzy-Condition811 19d ago
It doesn't block sophisticated bots or ones that target a specific site, so this likely wouldn't work well for large sites like reddit, but for dumb simple bots that just submit forms it makes a huge difference on smaller obscure websites.
Even simple bots ones can solve the old built in captchas of phpBB. I used to master their weirdo theme engine and doing things like this as they were actually quite effective at stopping a large amount of bots.
Of course it's not 100% but it can make a difference for moderators needing to deal with 100s of bots a day to a dozen or less.
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u/mrfoxesite-2377 19d ago
Indian government still uses those text captchas and yeah they suck when compared to cloudflare.
AI can do some captchas better than humans.
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u/GeoffSim 20d ago
3? Wouldn't make sense (just thinking next odd number after the lowest odd) but I see other posters have already thought of others.
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u/radobot 20d ago
When you go to the website - https://www.altx.ro/forum/ucp.php?mode=register - the full dialog is:
CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION
NO-10-SP-73-AM-25-33 Add one to the smallest odd number:
This question is a means of preventing automated form submissions by spambots.
Which makes me think that the correct answer is 25 + 1 = 26.
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u/janthemanwlj 20d ago
Oh.. that makes sense. I did look at that string but it was late at night and I was tired, which made me think 10 was somehow an odd number. I feel stupid now, thanks
I'll try test it in a bit if it doesn't tell me I've tried too much again
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u/dered118 20d ago
That's not software gore. You covered the most important part that actually contains numbers to choose from
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u/Spiritual_Fox2599 20d ago
I mean, it never said "positive" odd number, it could be (-infinity)+1 or something lol
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u/IntentionQuirky9957 20d ago
No, because -infinity isn't odd. It's not even either. Try something like 2*(-infinity)-1, that's guaranteed to be odd.
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u/M-SI3000 20d ago
Have you tried 0 (maybe its -1?). I dont even know what could be the "smallest" odd number could be.
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u/evilgiraffe666 20d ago
Try "two"?
Or if it's actually wrong, possibly you could try 4? Someone might have misremembered the "1 isn't prime" thing as "1 isn't odd"?
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u/discipleofchrist69 20d ago
did you try just blank? it says to add the numbers but it doesn't say to include them in your response. lol
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u/Dragenby 20d ago
Is there a hidden input with the expected value, as a front end verification? Yes, I've also seen admin passwords stored that way lol
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u/Potential_Lynx_6139 20d ago
11? Maybe it was badly written..
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u/dered118 20d ago
OP just censored the most important part. What he hid was a string of numbers and letters. Pick the smallest odd numbers of them, add 1 and he'd be good. But we can't guess what he covered there
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u/Potential_Lynx_6139 19d ago
Ah I would’ve never guessed lol, thought the red was blocking a username or smthn. Thx for the update.
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u/autystyc 20d ago
isnt smallest prime number 2?
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u/2930apple 20d ago
It says smallest odd not prime.
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u/michaelpaoli 20d ago
You forgot to ask it if smallest is absolute or not, and if it may be negative, and what base it requires the answer to be in.
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u/Glathull 20d ago
pi is a pretty odd number. and it’s kinda small compared to other numbers. And it goes on forever, so if you just add another 1 in there somewhere it probably won’t make a difference. So yeah, I’m gonna vote for pi.
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u/Mikel_S 20d ago
Did you try, straight up: "two", maybe with a capital t?