It has been some time already when I started to receive spam comments on these two blogs. After short period of denial I realized it really happens. I have turned the comments off. Being lazy to fix the problem I tried to turn them on couple of weeks later. Bots found me in about one week.
Turning them off again, waiting for time and courage to fix the problem... I have modified theyacaph generator to make different and less repeating waves of text and added some strikes-through. Nothing fancy, rmagick just did not obey my orders thoroughly and I lost my patience soon. Plus (just to err on side of caution) I have changed password and mangled hash code and file name. Being satisfied, I had turned the comments again on.
About two weeks passed. Another strange comment appeared. No, it cannot be true, just some typos and email address not reminding a name at all, but I should wait a bit more. After 2 days I got 2 more comments (I mean spams, of course) and turned commenting off again.
Time for reCAPTCHA to show what it can do. I hope it will work much better than my previous attempt to improve yacaph with fraction of time spent on integration. Well, to be fair yacaph worked perfectly for years, it just seems to be broken now.
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