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Cake day: May 23rd, 2024

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  • No. Because the very nature of passwords and password managers make you immeasurably safer than not using one at all. Password managers in almost all markets detect password compromises and alert you to change them. Doing so is trivial and as long as you catch it in time, you’re much safer and harder to target than almost any other user.

    Passwords are like physical locks. Its not about being unpickable or indestructible. Its mostly about raising the barrier of entry high enough that you are an unappealing target. Why would I spend days/weeks/months trying to crack the account of someone using a random string of 14 characters unique to every service and that can change their password within hours or days–when I could instead gain remote access to hundreds of other users that keep a ‘passwords.doc’ file in ~/documents with open permissions? They likely use passwords like ‘Snoopdog2004$’ so they’re easy to brute force, they won’t notice incursions, and can’t easily change passwords that are shared between multiple services.






  • I have come to terms with knowing that I will never be so invested in software that I start building my own programs. And that’s okay. It’s been a blast exploring what amazing software other open source advocates have built. Just in this last year I built a PC, switched from windows to Linux on my laptop, started using libreoffice, prioritized F-Droid apps, learned terminal commands, built a software stack using Docker for a media library, bought a domain and networked a tunnel to access Jellyfin remotely, setup cloud sync with Immich to locally backup my photos…and I’m sure there’s much more I’m missing. If l’m ever looking for a new hobby, programming may eventually be something I look into, but for now I’ll just continue to support developers that make the FOSS I have used so far.