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Claude helps man recover $400,000 in BTC 11 years after he got high and forgot password
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this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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I bet it was "hunter2".
"*******" is a weird password. Aren't there supposed to be letters and numbers ?
Lemmy hides it for us. It's pretty sweet.
I absolutely love that feature. Imagine you accidentally type or paste your ******** into a comment. Now everyone can see your ********! What a banger. But not on Lemmy! It gets masked automatically so that none can see and guess you ********!
If i ever ran a public fedi instance, that top 100 password list would legitimately be in the filter just for shits and giggles.
Don’t worry, my 2FA code is also active. It’s only made out of the digit 5 but I won’t tell anyone the order you have to type them in
In the article.
hunter2
I'm familiar with the meme, I thought the real PW in question was funnier, especially as the user was clearly inebriated when he made it to forget that one.
All I see is "lol420fuckthePOLICE" does Lemmy automatically hide passwords or something?
Yeah, all I see is stars while you see "lolFuckthePOLICE".
Yeah it has this super innovative feature that looks up passwords and hides them for you. Like, my email password is "trumphasamushroompenis" and it hides it. Cool right?