CarbonConscious

joined 2 years ago
[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 57 points 1 week ago

Patriots are in ~airtraffic~ control.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure it will take that long; Kindles already work on this model.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah just learned about Redot today.

Oh a fork of Godot? Neato! Surely for a major technical reason or implementation beef. anakin-padme-2

No, apparently Godot social media leaned into the accusation of "woke" and that was the split. So Redot is meant to be "non-political". Yay. blob-no-thoughts

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

!remindme ~~10~~ 5 years

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Good info! And that's exactly what I meant - a word is weak, but several randomized words together is pretty crazy strong. Slightly less than random letters, but much easier to type in memorize when the situation calls for it.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another nugget I've heard, is if you include some random chunk in all of your passwords, like "*****" or something, even if it's predictable, just the sheer character count it adds already gives you a huge boost to entropy. At the end of the day, character count is king. (And the best way to remember long character count strings, especially when they are all unique per service, is a password manager. That's the actual real secret.)

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ya know that's what they say, but I'm not so sure - is your dictionary-based brute-forcer doing strings of three words together? Allowing for interspersed special characters between? The sheer character length of three truly random dictionary words in a row is already staggeringly high amounts of entropy - I'm not sure I need to be worried about an attacker capable of that kind of sheer number-buggery.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean to be fair, I think

"he had a secret conversation"

is a lot more forgiveable to believe than

"he had a secret conversation^~~~frombeyondthegrave!!!~~~^"

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk if it was just my latent social anxiety interacting with that list of names or what, but those last few sentences were extremely hard to parse.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Right? These kind of stories start to feel like the hunt for "good guy with a gun prevents a thing" stories, where it's like yeah, it does happen sometimes, but the cost of enabling it to happen is beyond catastrophic for the rest of us (and, of course, born mainly by society at large or even more acutely by vulnerable populations, rarely by the people also benefitting financially by the whole arrangement).

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