Remove the appservice-kakaotalk bridge

The bridge could only be installed by self-building its source code,
and its upstream repository (on src.miscworks.net) has become
unreachable (the Internet Archive last saw it alive in May 2026),
making installation impossible. The bridge was also based on the
long-unmaintained node-kakao library and carried a warning that using
it may get KakaoTalk accounts banned.

The playbook catches leftover matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_* variables
and points users to the manual uninstallation instructions.

Related to #5068

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# 2026-07-15
## matrix-appservice-kakaotalk has been removed from the playbook
The [matrix-appservice-kakaotalk](./docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk.md) bridge has been removed from the playbook. This component could only be installed by self-building its source code, and its upstream repository has become unreachable, which makes installation impossible. The bridge was also based on the unmaintained node-kakao library, and there have been reports that using it may get KakaoTalk accounts banned.
The playbook will let you know if you're using any `matrix_appservice_kakaotalk_*` variables. You'll need to remove them from `vars.yml` and potentially [uninstall the component manually](./docs/configuring-playbook-bridge-appservice-kakaotalk.md#uninstalling-the-component-manually).
## Dedicated CAPTCHA variables for Matrix Authentication Service
[Matrix Authentication Service](./docs/configuring-playbook-matrix-authentication-service.md) can now be protected with CAPTCHA (ReCaptcha v2, Cloudflare Turnstile, or hCaptcha) via dedicated variables, instead of going through `matrix_authentication_service_configuration_extension_yaml`. See the [captcha documentation](./docs/configuring-captcha.md#matrix-authentication-service) for details.