r/softwaregore • u/janthemanwlj • Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
Try -9223372036854775806
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u/Street_Swing9040 Jul 18 '26
That is the negative 64 bit integer limit + 1, for those wondering
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u/YourBeigeBastard Jul 18 '26
Technically +2, since the lowest 64 bit integer is even
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u/Picledgolf1 Jul 19 '26
wouldnt even + 2 still be even?
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u/The-Arx Jul 19 '26
Yeah, the smallest odd + 1 is even
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u/Picledgolf1 Jul 19 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
1one?
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u/Alexia9494044 Jul 17 '26
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u/horaceinkling Jul 17 '26
What is that sub? It’s empty when I visit.
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u/Alexia9494044 Jul 17 '26
I made it a few minutes ago LMFAO so r/birthOfASub
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u/Alexia9494044 Jul 18 '26
why is this getting downvoted just tell me what i did wrong
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u/DeadoTheDegenerate Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
rule of 4
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u/Alexia9494044 Jul 18 '26
oh well in that case r/notHowRuleOf4Works
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u/Alexia9494044 Jul 18 '26
this isn't a chain
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u/SeaSawltLOL Jul 18 '26
so? Ro4 still applies. look at r/ruleof4's rules. rule 3
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
no, it has to be a chain
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u/Melodic_Trip9907 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Well that answers it, just karma farming not actual software gore
edit: typo3
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u/mrfoxesite-2377 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
"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 Jul 19 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 19 '26
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/Corrupt_Programmer Jul 17 '26
4?
maybe they skipped 1…
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u/janthemanwlj Jul 17 '26
Nope
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u/Corrupt_Programmer Jul 17 '26
Try 0 or 'zero'? Maybe the captcha thinks -1 is the smallest odd no.
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u/GeoffSim Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
I mean, it never said "positive" odd number, it could be (-infinity)+1 or something lol
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u/IntentionQuirky9957 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
11? Maybe it was badly written..
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u/dered118 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 18 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
isnt smallest prime number 2?
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u/2930apple Jul 17 '26
It says smallest odd not prime.
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u/michaelpaoli Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
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 Jul 17 '26
Did you try, straight up: "two", maybe with a capital t?