Remembering (and inevitably) forgetting passwords for all your different accounts is inconvenient, frustrating, and arguably less secure than a randomly generated password unique to each account.

Additionally, it can be tempting to reuse passwords for multiple accounts, which is trouble when a less-than-reputable service that you used that password on is breached, since that password wasn’t unique.

If you use an open-source, tried and true password manager (Bitwarden, Vaultwarden, KeePassXC) and keep a passphrase unique to that password manager only, you avoid the problems above which are way more likely to occur than Bitwarden passwords getting breached in plaintext, or a security vulnerability to the KeePass database.

Plus, most password managers offer support for passkeys, which are easier to register/use than passwords. They usually only require a “verify with passkey” button on a given website.

Bottom line, password managers are probably (definitely) more secure than any other reasonable solution that anyone has come up with.

I sentence you to radial blur on everything

maybe once a month if even.

only phone I’ve ever catastrophically broken by drop is a Galaxy S20; curved screen edges are bad for durability. glad most phone manufacturers have axed it now.

can’t be heartbreaking if you don’t have a heart

no. events and our decisions are abstracted far enough so that the illusion of free will is apparent. I think it’s very well impossible to fully distinguish between free will and fate from our limited perspective

probably not true in most other langauges. although I’m not well versed in the way numbers are represented in code and what makes a number “NaN”, something tells me the technical implications of that would be quite bad in a production environment.

the definitive way to check for NaN in JS would probably be something like

// with `num` being an unknown value

// Convert value to a number
const res = Number(num);

/*
 * First check if the number is 0, since 0 is a falsy
 * value in JS, and if it isn't, `NaN` is the only other
 * falsy number value
 */
const isNaN = res !== 0 && !res;

C, because yes.

I missed something didn’t I?

other distributions should start having an option for this in the GUI installer, but it might be tricky for the average user

Arch Wiki has a guide on FDE using the TPM and it’s transparent in my everyday usage

some minor issues I see are:

• Secure Boot needing to be disabled then re-enabled during install for it to work as intended
• needing to write down a long backup passphrase, but this also happens on Windows and MacOS iirc

pickles

only to the extent of what you can do on stock android. implementing changes that enable customization is unfortunately not on Graphene’s radar, it’s security focused changes

then don’t.

it’s not something your being forced to do. it’s the lifting of an unnecessary restriction that in turn gives you more power on your device.

Unless I’ve missed something big, passkeys are pretty easy for me if the website supports them imo.

Using KeePassXC, I click register on the website, register the passkey with KeePass, then it just works when I need to authenticate or login. My database is then synced across all my devices.

Passkey support is yet to come to KeePassDX on Android though, so I’ll be awaiting that feature

and this is why uBlock origin is the be all end all of extensions.

If you’re using a phone with one of those cheap eccentric mass vibrators, maybe.

With a higher quality linear actuator, I heavily disagree. These motors respond faster and tighter than those cheap ones do. It makes a big difference to the feel.

never been diagnosed.

agnizing over tasks happens often, and at the same time I’m not actually bringing any pleasure to myself by avoiding it.

ah yes, writing a letter. just like the millions of people that UHC murdered wrote letters to.

UHC and many other health insurance companies in the US will and do let people die in order to keep profits. Brian Thompson was complicit in this process. His murder is fully justified.

I don’t want a future where murder and violence is the only way to bring issues to light, but when governments, regulations, and other protections fail us, people get desperate. They are left with no other choice.

this, except it’s just an upsetting reminder that the task I’m putting off is not even that hard, yet I’m still not doing it.

Voyager on mobile, Photon on desktop