cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/6822168
I was watching a twitch streamer play the game pogostuck (A game similar in frustration and difficulty to Getting over it with Bennett Foddy — Don't Fall!).
They were also reading chat at the same time (usually out loud, as well). Multitasking.
Lots of sources (here's one) say that true multitasking is impossible. Rather, it's very fast switching, where there is a degradation of performance.
Knowing this, I naturally made it my mission to trip the streamer up with seemingly benign messages.
I was sharing some actual information about another streamer who beat another game, but a made a typo something like:
I remember a streamer beat the game a game ...
And I noticed how much more the streamer struggled to read this compared to previous, accidental typos (missing spaces, extra spaces, etc.). He spent a good 5 seconds on this message, and during the process, he fell really far. 😈
So I decided to do some testing. Inserting words, swapping them around, and whatnot, to see what tripped him up the most. Most typos didn't affect him.
There was one typo that tripped him again, where I said something like:
If it wasn't for a for
So it seems to be repetition? But I couldn't always replicate this with other forms of repetition.
Later on, I copied the two guards riddle, with an alteration:
One of the guards always lies and the other always lies as wekk. You don't know which one is the truth-teller or the liar either. However both guards know each other
Sadly, I didn't cut the part about "don't know which is truth teller or liar" out.
The streamer spent a good 5 minutes interpreting this puzzle, and eventually interpreting it as the original puzzle. Then, he was trying to solve a riddle, game, and read chat all at once.
He was stuck on the bottom until he gave up on the riddle (I revealed that I meant what I said when I said both guards lie). 😈
Anyway, that was a bit off topic but still relevant.
I'm wondering if any studies have been done on this? I know studies have been done on human's ability to read words with the letters partially scrambled, but what about typos?
How can I improve my distraction game (with plausible deniability of course)?
I don't really get how this question pertains to F-droid specifically.
But, in networks that are more locked down, they can use stuff like deep packet inspection to figure out what traffic is happening, and automatically block it. Socks is a protocol explicitly for proxying, and runs over TCP. Depending on the setup, deep packet inspection can catch it.
On the other hand, disguising traffic as HTTP/HTTPS makes it very, very hard to detect that someone is doing something other than visiting an innocuous website.
At the high school I went to, they had Deep Packet Inspection set up to such a level that they could automatically detect and block VPN connections. Wireguard and OpenVPN would be caught basically instantly, and then you would be kicked off of the internet for 10 minutes. Although very extreme, a "10 minutes no internet" punishment is nothing in comparison to prison time or any number of extreme punishments authoritarian countries can come up with.
To get around the school firewall, I set up a web proxy called Metallic: https://github.com/cognetwork-dev/Metallic/ . This is basically a website, that lets me access other websites from within that website, and it's very, very difficult to block because of that nature.