Yes, I am human alright!
p.2 #1Yes, I am human alright!
ramesesthe2nd wrote:
Select all images with motorcycles. Just see scooters hahaha, yeah i hate these. I do miss my motorcycle though, i see your profile pic is that a triumph scramber?! I had a ducati scrambler but sold it, now im bike-less. 
I stopped riding around the Covid period and sold all my motorcycles, but eventually I ended up buying almost all my favorite bikes again, including the Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE, the Ducati Scrambler 800 Classic and the Honda Monkey. I have not ridden anything since I bought the Monkey. It is such a fun little bike to cruise around town and it always puts a smile on my face.
Honestly very grateful and pretty excited to have my bike collection back.
Nice rides! I sold my bike because I had to move to El Paso, and its frequent on the news here to see riders die because driving here is pretty bad.
This was my bike, hurts to see this pic haha should have kept it, didn't have to ride could have just kept her covered up!
pdog109 wrote
ramesesthe2nd wrote
I kid you not. My state DMV website has this Captcha test on every second page refresh. I was trying to pick a custom plate and it took joy out of the whole process.Honestly very grateful and pretty excited to have my bike collection back.
Nice rides! I sold my bike because I had to move to El Paso, and its frequent on the news here to see riders die because driving here is pretty bad.
This was my bike, hurts to see this pic haha should have kept it, didn't have to ride could have just kept her covered up!
Sep 26, 2026 at 08:32 PM
p.2 #2Yes, I am human alright!
I use a firewall device called Firewalla to block ads across everything on my network. I still see Cloudflare’s Human Verification once in a while, but it’s rare enough that it doesn’t bother me.
Sep 26, 2026 at 08:33 PM
p.2 #3Yes, I am human alright!
nhsonyshooter wrote:
Try Brave Search engine. I will not do any of these websites or You tube without going through their site.
mudlake wrote
RoamingScott wrote
mudlake wrote
Thanks for posting this, Joshua. It’s been pretty terrible here lately having to wait almost every time I change pages. I hope Fred does something about it.Many thanks! I’m using Brave now and it works perfectly.
Sep 26, 2026 at 08:44 PM
p.2 #4Yes, I am human alright!
I also use Brave browser, on my Google Pixel phone. It is transparent and works great.
Sep 26, 2026 at 09:07 PM
p.2 #5Yes, I am human alright!
I use Firefox and Brave for general usage. Firefox was always good for CM, but they all look decent nowadays. The Russian developed Yandex for sensitive searches. I trust the tech giants even less then they trust me.
Our long-time weather site told me the other day it can scrape some content even without my permission - out it went, never to be seen again. SEs are another story in the ongoing battle.
Our long-time weather site told me the other day it can scrape some content even without my permission - out it went, never to be seen again. SEs are another story in the ongoing battle.
Sep 26, 2026 at 09:34 PM
p.2 #6Yes, I am human alright!
Forgive my ignorance but I have no idea what Cloudflare is about and how to notice its existence. 
P.S. After posting this note, I went to another thread and clicked on a link in the thread. Vila, there was a delay and a middle page showed up where i noted the expression 'Cloud Flare'. I had seen this middle page before apparently verifying I am authentic human. I hadn't paid enough attention to read all the words in the page. I agree it is annoying. I also admit we are now living in the age of bots and it seems we have to deal with consequences. I have to say, this is just the beginning. It is going to get really really bad in the not so far future.
P.S. After posting this note, I went to another thread and clicked on a link in the thread. Vila, there was a delay and a middle page showed up where i noted the expression 'Cloud Flare'. I had seen this middle page before apparently verifying I am authentic human. I hadn't paid enough attention to read all the words in the page. I agree it is annoying. I also admit we are now living in the age of bots and it seems we have to deal with consequences. I have to say, this is just the beginning. It is going to get really really bad in the not so far future.
Sep 26, 2026 at 10:39 PM
p.2 #7Yes, I am human alright!
Rainbow Chaser wrote:
Of all possible technical improvements that could improve this site's user experience, I'm surprised to see this much attention on Cloudflare.
If you’re just browsing from one thread to another, Cloudflare is annoying, but manageable. When it kicks in after you’ve carefully written a reply or a new topic and added images, causing the entire post to disappear, that’s a whole different level of frustration.
Of all possible technical improvements that could improve this site's user experience, I'm surprised to see this much attention on Cloudflare.
If you’re just browsing from one thread to another, Cloudflare is annoying, but manageable. When it kicks in after you’ve carefully written a reply or a new topic and added images, causing the entire post to disappear, that’s a whole different level of frustration.
Sep 27, 2026 at 08:11 AM
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p.2 #8Yes, I am human alright!
AGeoJO wrote:
If you’re just browsing from one thread to another, Cloudflare is annoying, but manageable. When it kicks in after you’ve carefully written a reply or a new topic and added images, causing the entire post to disappear, that’s a whole different level of frustration.
YES!!!!!
That (and other unexplained failures to load FM pages) have bitten me so many times that I now try to remember to copy my posts before posting them so that I can recover.
I get two kinds of errors in this regard.
1. I do occasionally get taken to the “verifying you are not a bot” page (that I assume is from Cloudflare) after sending a message, but after clicking the little box get an error… and I cannot back up to the page where I wrote my text and try again. Grrrr….
2. Sometimes I write text and hit the Send Reply button and the page… just sits there until it times out. When I see this happening I stop loading the failing link, select and copy my text, and try again. It usually fails. Sometimes I have to leave the FM site for a while, come back, and find my way back to the thread.
Not fun.
Rainbow Chaser wrote
Of all possible technical improvements that could improve this site's user experience, I'm surprised to see this much attention on Cloudflare.YES!!!!!
That (and other unexplained failures to load FM pages) have bitten me so many times that I now try to remember to copy my posts before posting them so that I can recover.
I get two kinds of errors in this regard.
1. I do occasionally get taken to the “verifying you are not a bot” page (that I assume is from Cloudflare) after sending a message, but after clicking the little box get an error… and I cannot back up to the page where I wrote my text and try again. Grrrr….
2. Sometimes I write text and hit the Send Reply button and the page… just sits there until it times out. When I see this happening I stop loading the failing link, select and copy my text, and try again. It usually fails. Sometimes I have to leave the FM site for a while, come back, and find my way back to the thread.
Not fun.
Sep 27, 2026 at 09:18 AM
p.2 #9Yes, I am human alright!
raminolta wrote:
Forgive my ignorance but I have no idea what Cloudflare is about and how to notice its existence.
Cloudflare is mostly a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) that copies page data including images onto fast servers on fast connections in various locations. when a client loads a page, say with a graphic, instead of loading that graphic graphic from the website’s own host the image may be delivered from Cloudflare’s faster network. This can speed things up and relieve pressure on the site’s own hosting service.
Forgive my ignorance but I have no idea what Cloudflare is about and how to notice its existence.
Cloudflare is mostly a “Content Delivery Network” (CDN) that copies page data including images onto fast servers on fast connections in various locations. when a client loads a page, say with a graphic, instead of loading that graphic graphic from the website’s own host the image may be delivered from Cloudflare’s faster network. This can speed things up and relieve pressure on the site’s own hosting service.
Sep 27, 2026 at 09:22 AM
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p.2 #10Yes, I am human alright!
That’s 1) an incomplete oversimplification of what Cloudflare does and 2) not how it’s being used here and not how it’s causing what is being complained about by OP.
Anyone who has paid attention to the oldest post on any given page 1 of any given subforum can see that traffic and forum activity is way down even from just a year ago. I have to think that real users were and have continued to be driven away by the ads and heavy-handed anti-bot behaviors of the website.
Anyone who has paid attention to the oldest post on any given page 1 of any given subforum can see that traffic and forum activity is way down even from just a year ago. I have to think that real users were and have continued to be driven away by the ads and heavy-handed anti-bot behaviors of the website.
Sep 27, 2026 at 09:30 AM
p.2 #11Yes, I am human alright!
CaptainObvious wrote:
That’s 1) an incomplete oversimplification of what Cloudflare does and 2) not how it’s being used here and not how it’s causing what is being complained about by OP.
Jeez. Give it a break.
You could be a real resource around here and elsewhere if you could learn to adjust your attitude.
My reply was intentionally not a deep dissertation about what Cloudflare does. It was a basic description of what Cloudflare and similar CDN systems provide — for a forum member who has no experience with this.
I’m impressed by how consistently you manage to be insulting and condescending in your posts on FM. From time to time you have something useful to offer, which you manage to obscure with your off-putting attacks.
For example, here you could have simply added whatever you think is relevant about Cloudflare. Instead you just post another nastygram.
Like this:
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"That's true. It has some other features, too. Here's a note from the FM admins about how they use some of them.
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See, that's not so hard. Doing it that way enhances the FM community, helps the poster who had the question, and adds useful information.
Give it a try.
Also, maybe post a thread on a general subject like this in the Forum & Miscellaneous forum in the future. That's what it is there for.
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That’s 1) an incomplete oversimplification of what Cloudflare does and 2) not how it’s being used here and not how it’s causing what is being complained about by OP.
Jeez. Give it a break.
You could be a real resource around here and elsewhere if you could learn to adjust your attitude.
My reply was intentionally not a deep dissertation about what Cloudflare does. It was a basic description of what Cloudflare and similar CDN systems provide — for a forum member who has no experience with this.
I’m impressed by how consistently you manage to be insulting and condescending in your posts on FM. From time to time you have something useful to offer, which you manage to obscure with your off-putting attacks.
For example, here you could have simply added whatever you think is relevant about Cloudflare. Instead you just post another nastygram.
Like this:
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"That's true. It has some other features, too. Here's a note from the FM admins about how they use some of them.
- - -
See, that's not so hard. Doing it that way enhances the FM community, helps the poster who had the question, and adds useful information.
Give it a try.
Also, maybe post a thread on a general subject like this in the Forum & Miscellaneous forum in the future. That's what it is there for.
Edited on Sep 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM · View previous versions
Sep 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
p.2 #12Yes, I am human alright!
RoamingScott wrote:
Almost as bad as my DMV refusing to accept my REAL ID driver's license as identification when renewing my license because it's not an "approved" form of ID. Instead, they wanted a 40+ year old paper birth certificate and a social security card signed by 7 year old Scott.
All to hand me a new REAL ID which I can't do hardly anything in Texas without.
I was looking into getting a fast-track or Pre-Check ID to get through airports faster, but they make it very difficult for some people. You cannot do it via internet and I would need to drive at least six hours to the closest location if I wanted to get the process started before actually traveling. The second issue is that they require a birth certificate with the parents' signatures, which mine does not have. And, for the year that I was born, the state (Florida) does not re-issue birth certificates with parents' signatures - they probably did not require them at that time. I have no idea if there a way to still get the ID in this situation or not.
This whole thing is really getting absurd.
AGeoJO wrote
I renewed my registration online with CA DMV by paying them using their electronic funds transfer system (ACH debit). And my bank declined the payment! Luckily, since I did quite early, I could receive a letter they sent by snail mail telling that. So, we could still go to a local DMV office and paid there avoiding the late fee but they only accept credit card, charging a 3% fee. They don't want to deal with "rubber" checks and understandably so, and EFT maybe also denied by the bank again. What a life we live in now!All to hand me a new REAL ID which I can't do hardly anything in Texas without.
I was looking into getting a fast-track or Pre-Check ID to get through airports faster, but they make it very difficult for some people. You cannot do it via internet and I would need to drive at least six hours to the closest location if I wanted to get the process started before actually traveling. The second issue is that they require a birth certificate with the parents' signatures, which mine does not have. And, for the year that I was born, the state (Florida) does not re-issue birth certificates with parents' signatures - they probably did not require them at that time. I have no idea if there a way to still get the ID in this situation or not.
This whole thing is really getting absurd.
Sep 27, 2026 at 12:49 PM
p.2 #13Yes, I am human alright!
Abuttolph wrote:
I was looking into getting a fast-track or Pre-Check ID to get through airports faster, but they make it very difficult for some people. You cannot do it via internet and I would need to drive at least six hours to the closest location if I wanted to get the process started before actually traveling. ...
This whole thing is really getting absurd.
I'll agree with that last comment. It gets crazier by the year.
One hint about your TSA Pre-check application... I think you can do that airport visit verification thing at the airport the next time you fly. I know that adds to your time on that next flight, but it may be less time consuming that doing that crazy round trip just for the process.
And now that we are thoroughly off-topic and about as far from discussing Sony products as I can imagine, I'll let this go... ;-)
I was looking into getting a fast-track or Pre-Check ID to get through airports faster, but they make it very difficult for some people. You cannot do it via internet and I would need to drive at least six hours to the closest location if I wanted to get the process started before actually traveling. ...
This whole thing is really getting absurd.
I'll agree with that last comment. It gets crazier by the year.
One hint about your TSA Pre-check application... I think you can do that airport visit verification thing at the airport the next time you fly. I know that adds to your time on that next flight, but it may be less time consuming that doing that crazy round trip just for the process.
And now that we are thoroughly off-topic and about as far from discussing Sony products as I can imagine, I'll let this go... ;-)
Sep 27, 2026 at 12:54 PM