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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Tankie: far right lunatic who delusionally believes they're a communist (or trollingly roleplays as what they believe one to be), despite defending authoritarian oligarchic states like Russia or China.

For instance, the Lemmy devs (and lemmy.ml admins).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

No. There's just repost bots left. There's no point in going back, I've already seen all the posts several times over the years.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's tragic, LG monitors used to be great.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

But it's trivial to torrent their content at whatever resolution I want...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I can have 20,000 character long passwords with a password manager

Sure. Most websites will either truncate them or outright reject them due to being too long, but sure.

Most users, however, will use the 12 to 16 characters auto-generated ones, though, which are sufficiently hard to crack (though not as much as an easy to remember passphrase, not that it matters; the easy to remember part is what matters about passphrases).

that makes it significantly less secure

No it doesn't. Even if a few of the passphrases leak, your algorithm, if well chosen, shouldn't be easy to reverse engineer... and unless someone is specifically targeting you (and has access to enough of your passphrases) there's much easier fish to catch; if a leaked passphrase doesn't work in other sites, no one will waste time trying to figure out if it has some logic to it.

I could have 20,000 character completely unique passwords with a password manager

No you couldn't. You'd have one password and one password manager (which would have all “your” other passwords; as would anyone else with access to your password manager).

Until you lose access to your password manager, of course... which is bound to eventually happen, due to hardware or software issues or loss of the device if it's local, or due to network issues, the provider discontinuing the service, or inevitable enshittification if it's online.

And, of course, you'll have a single point of attack from which your password can be leaked (or sold, if it's an online service) or stolen.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

vastly more complex passwords

Complexity is practically irrelevant when compared to length when it comes to passwords. That's the point of passphrases.

do you actually expect people to remember 100+ unique phrases

You can have a small number of passphrases and simply choose one and add a word or two based on the site. It's trivial to “remember” an infinite number of unique passphrases if you've got an algorithm. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

This assumes a) passwords, and b) poor passwords at that.

Passphrases are easy to remember, extremely hard to crack, and easily customisable for every site, and you don't need no fucking password manager to store them.

Though I'll give you this: password managers are not, after all, necessarily single points of failure.

If you need a password manager to manage your passwords you're a much more vulnerable point of failure than your password management bloatware itself.

correct horse battery staple

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

“Does it have denuvo (or any other form of malware, including microtransactions)” should be the first question.

If the answer is yes, never look at it again, and permanently blacklist both developer and publisher.

If the answer is no, then go on with the rest of the diagram.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my case they're facing a 100% revenue reduction regardless of when (or whether) it's cracked.

I'm never going to buy denuvo infested malware, and developers and publishers who try to pull this shit go straight into the blacklist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching.

About half the cast of Fullmetal Alchemist (Olivier Mira Armstrong, Izumi Curtis, Riza Hawkeye, Winry and Pinako Rockbell, Lan Fan, Mai Chang, Chris Mustang... and I'm sure I'm missing some).

Oh, and friggin' Chell, of course. Makes you almost feel sorry for GLaDOS.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Reddit is running on a potato.
Lemmy is running on several distributed potatoes, with a much smaller user load per tuber (and many orders of magnitude less bots).

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