Kid@sh.itjust.worksM to Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 5 months agoGoogle's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins saywww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down13cross-posted to: informatica@feddit.ittechnology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.org
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minus-squarevoracitude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down1·edit-25 months ago(Derogatory) English slang for clever people, researchers, scientists. The Register isn’t exactly the most reputable of publications.
minus-squarebazus1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 months agoIf you see the word “boffin” in your article, you’re probably reading The Register.
minus-squareKillerTofu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoNeat, thanks for explaining!
minus-squareadam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoIt also sounds like a Dickensian surname for a smart person.
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months ago“Boffin” sounds like an insult, not something you’d call a smart person. Someone who’s easily baffled. Also reminds me of a Zappa song, “Broken Hearts are for Assholes”, in which he speaks of a Sir Richard Pumpaloaf, a demented bread boffer.
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoAnd it would have worked, if not for those meddling boffins!
minus-squarekibiz0rlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoNeutral mob with low HP. Won’t attack unless provoked. Not a threat except in large numbers.
Boffins?
(Derogatory) English slang for clever people, researchers, scientists. The Register isn’t exactly the most reputable of publications.
If you see the word “boffin” in your article, you’re probably reading The Register.
Neat, thanks for explaining!
It also sounds like a Dickensian surname for a smart person.
“Boffin” sounds like an insult, not something you’d call a smart person. Someone who’s easily baffled.
Also reminds me of a Zappa song, “Broken Hearts are for Assholes”, in which he speaks of a Sir Richard Pumpaloaf, a demented bread boffer.
And it would have worked, if not for those meddling boffins!
Neutral mob with low HP. Won’t attack unless provoked. Not a threat except in large numbers.