Yeah. It's not like it's a product that people buy or anything.

the problem is not usually install wine directly, but the other windows requirements, like directx, mono, codecs, etc
you also may need to override some dll or finetune some registry. It is not hard and usually there are tools that can help you do that automatically, but in proton it is included directly

hey, the site i manage have no ads, people pay money ... we actually pay money to cloudflare.
we want to protect from attacks and all the bots and AI browsers are using a huge amount of resources, that we have to pay, so it is cheaper for us to pay cloudflare than scale the infra and pay for it.

and if you disable javascript, most site will actually not work (i know, i tried, i used noscript for many years), better option is use umatrix where you choose what to load or not or using a curated list like adblock. I use umatrix and while i allow cloudflare javascript for captchas (i do block some other resources), i block ads server and javascripts, cookies, etc from many sites

it is the same, you press a random place in the area, not a exactly the center pixel.
when you type, you also have a distinct timing, not a constant speed
 

why? what is your problem with it?

yes, the captchas are annoying, but cloudflare already did their best to avoid showing them and make then as easy as click a box (instead of select 3 or 4 times images or try to read some distorted letters/numbers)
Yes, they are big and control many site traffic, that is a danger, but mostly to the sites, not the user... but they are also big because they work well and are much cheaper than most alternatives (that usually even perform worse)
Yes , a site without it would be better, but like email got unusable without spamfilters, sites owners are having huge problems with either attacks or bots, if you have a big enough site, you are a target and have huge amount of bot/ai traffic... that they have to pay for

you also have more and more sites using anubis (https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis), that is opensource, to try to block bots/AIs, so clearly is not a problem with a couple of sites

you know that these features already exist in javascript and are commonly used to monitor user behavior, either for ads or for study how you interact with sites?!

https://developer.mozilla.org/...

the only difference here is that this is being used to check for bots and cloudflare announced it... most other companies use this and do not announce it

cloudflare is not doing anything new actually, other that using this data to detect bots... you already have sites that mouse, keyboard and clicks, mostly to learn how you interact with the site and what features work/get used and do not work

If they could map your eyes, they would be happy to follow your eyes to guess to what you are looking at... to see if that ad is working or not

So don't blame cloudflare, while they are huge and that is already a problem, they are mostly good guys... the problem is all the others, specially the ads industry

yes, but humans aren't random... so linear speed is a bot, totally random is a bot. Add that info from multiple inputs like cloudflare is doing and probably can guess within a error margin if it is a bot or a human... hey, even if it fails to detect 50% of the bots, it is already 50% less traffic arriving to a site.
Sadly there is no way to detect 100% of the bots/humans, but every hint helps.
Of course, people using bots could be much nicer and use correct user-agents to identify thyself and allow sites to decide if they allow or not the access. Even better, read the robots.txt and obey to them!!

Wages and career prospects are a factor in what students chose to major in:
- Business and Finance: relatively easy courses, excellent career prospects and very good pay. Good social status too
- STEM: work long and hard to graduate. Wages are decent but in general there's not a lot of upward mobility (unless you go into management). And no one looks up to engineers.
- Academia: unless you love what you do, forget about it, because you're not going to get anything else out of it. Not even tenure, these days.

At that point decent emergency healthcare in remote locations like the upper Andes, remote mining camps, container ships, and antarctic research stations becomes possible. Parachute the robot surgeon in to the site, set up the mobile operating theater, and carve away. For that matter, it would make sense to send one along on lunar and deep space missions, both as surgeons and general fetch-and-steps.

I wonder if it can "reason" out the number of Rs in strawberry or whatever other trivial reasoning task it hasn't been trained on an exact example of.

wine you have to install and setup, while there are tools to help. steam itself install the proton and do the setup, so:

- via steam, it is just click and play for most games, you don't even know that you are using proton - https://www.protondb.com/explo...
- a few rare games may need switch proton version or do some finetune (try without changes, if fails see the protondb above and check if you need some version or parameter/file)
- a several FPS run fine, but them fail to check the anti-cheat (some is kernel anti-cheak, that linux do not support, most is not compatibility problems but just was disabled by their studios - https://areweanticheatyet.com/... , complain to them... this is today the main problem, but do complain and go play a game that do allow linux, taking your friends with you, support games that support linux, stop playing games that refuse to do so)
- too new or too old games may still fail, but in every release, new bugs/features are added and games may start to work without warning... see this one as a example: https://www.protondb.com/app/3...

I had a friend who knew both Spanish and French. She decided to take up Portuguese because it was similar to both. At one point she got so confused she couldn't use any of the three!

A lot, if not most, gold trades never involve metals physically changing hands, any more than stock trades involve you handing over paper certificates. Generally if you're a large buyer you purchase the gold from an exchange and it sits in their vault where the neighborhood meth head can't get to it.