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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 months ago (3 children)

"bUt ItS a SeCuRiTy RiSk." Yeah maybe when most people were keeping their passwords in a spreadsheet. However now that they are all encrypted in password management programs its a vulnerability. If I can't generate a 40+ char password for your site then I will not be using your site if I can help it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

you are correct that most people dont keep their passwords in spreadsheets. a lot of people prefer a plaintext file on their desktop, or a note in their phones!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Lifehack: if you use the same password everywhere you don't have to note anything down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

bonus: make it something easy to remember, like your year of birth

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

For extra security change an o to a 0, hackers will never be able to break into your account if you do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

thanks grandpa, helps a lot

you should do tech support for a living ❤️

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't even think that's what they were trying to stop, I think they just believe people making bots would only paste.

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

So put a timeout on too many failed logins instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not defending the practice lmao