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varenctoday at 12:47 AM2 repliesview on HN

I have a good friend who doesn't own a cell phone. He's a math professor. Every year he keeps living life without a smartphone, I continue to be more impressed. Things like this makes me feel like he might have to eventually give in. https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare, this QR code backed CAPTCHAs. There seems no way to get past them without a smartphone. Sad times. I wonder at what point even basic government services will essentially require a smartphone.


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grueztoday at 1:09 AM

> https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare

It looks like a cloudflare page but it's not hosted by them. eg. https://bgp.he.net/dns/archive.is#_ipinfo It's hosted by AS49505 JSC Selectel

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phyzometoday at 2:21 AM

I don't have one either. No plans to get one, even with this.