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ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

There's a comment by one of OpenAI's employees over on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567575

Of course, the irony of "this is being done to be able to keep our endpoints from being abused" isn't being lost over there either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568172

I continue to say: I am not against AI, but I *am* against the AI industry (and deeply critical of the effectiveness of current tech and its risks vs how it is sold), and a large portion of it is the intentional power grab dynamics and hypocrisy.

Hard to think of a better example of hypocrisy that apparently one of the mitigations is that they require clients to execute proof of work! Anubis, anyone?

ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It.

Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting. The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city,

Buchodi's Threat Intel

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕11h ago

No, you're crying. 🇨🇦 ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVw-4L59Tw0

Rush performs Finding My Way live | 2026 Juno Awards

YouTube

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕1d ago

Where would we have been without pay phones?

"In late April of 1968...They borrowed an acoustic coupler—a forerunner of the computer modem—and connected it to a nearby pay phone. With this hardware in place, the youngsters dialed in to an off-site minicomputer."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/teenage-hackers

The RESISTORS Were Teenage Hackers and Computer Pioneers

In the 1960s, before PCs and the Internet were a thing, the RESISTORS were O.G. computer hackers, learning to code on old mainframes in a New Jersey barn.

IEEE Spectrum

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕1d ago

Going to go out on a limb and say it's not just researchers, but sure...

"A Melbourne urologist, Helen O’Connell, says the clitoris has been ignored by researchers for far too long."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery

The Guardian

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕1d ago

Fabian Giesen 1d ago

FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".

Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕1d ago

Old English Wordhord 1d ago

palm-trēow, m.n: a palm-tree. (PALM-TRAY-oh / ˈpalm-ˌtreːɔw)
Image: Benedictional of St Æthelwold; England (Winchester), mid to late 10th century; British Library, Add MS 49598, f. 45v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕2d ago

Zeb Larson 2d ago

Some memes you need to save in your phone because it will just keep coming up again and again.

Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕2d ago

Charlie McHenry 2d ago

Whoa⁉️ TIL there’s a special desk made for people who work from home and have cats. Uh-huh. Of course it’s Japanese… #cats #CatsOfMastodon #desks #DeskSetup

https://soranews24.com/2026/03/27/japan-now-has-a-special-desk-for-people-who-work-at-home-with-a-pet-catphotos/