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Comment by amarant | Hacker News Reader

I feel like the future will have this, plus ads displayed while the work is done, so websites can profit while they profit.

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Every now and then I consider stepping away from the computer job, and becoming a lumberjack. This is one of those moments.

Worth getting to know the in and outs of forest management now. I don’t think AI will take most tech jobs soon, but they sure as hell are already making them boring.

my family takes care of a large-ish forest, so I have to help since my early teens. Let me tell you: think twice, it's f*ckin dangerous. Chainsaws, winches, heavy trees falling and breaking in unpredictable ways. I had a couple of close calls myself. Recently a guy from a neighbor village was squashed to death by a root plate that tilted.

I often think about quitting tech myself, but becoming a full-time lumberjack is certainly not an alternative for me.

Hah, I know, been around forests since childhood, seen (and done) plenty of sketchy stuff. For me it averages out to couple days of forest work a year. It's backbreaking labour, and then you deal with the weather.

But man, if tech goes straight into cyberpunk dystopia but without the cool gadgets, maybe it is the better alternative.

adCAPTCHA already does this:

https://adcaptcha.com

This is a joke, right? The landing page makes it seem so.

I tried the captcha in their login page and it made the entire page, including the puzzle piece slider, run at 2 fps.

My god, we do really live in 2025.

Holy shit. Opening the demo from the menu, it's like captchas and youtube ads had a baby

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