Anon comes up with filenames

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually pretty common as most people would subconsciously hit the same areas each time.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I was gonna say I’ll do the same thing and I usually just end up hitting only hte home row keys, and usually my left hand hits keys before the right hand.

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  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why “random” numbers or passwords you come up with yourself aren’t really that random

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    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1234 is as random as 1111 🧐

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah the filename is fsdfsdf like always

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  • __nobodynowhere@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    asdf

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• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also the birthday paradox to consider - each new file increases the number of potential matches for all files that follow, and also is a potential match for all files that precede it. The total number of ways to match is something close to the square of the number of files.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also smashing the keyboard is very poor randomisation, you naturally place your hands the same and probably even start hitting the keys the same way.

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, very much so.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re probably hitting the same area of your keyboard and roughly the same number (length).

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• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, I have seen people do this, and I gotta ask… what is the plan?

  Like you are saving the file, implying that you plan on using it again… why make it so hard to figure out which one it was? Especially in this case, where he has done it to enough files all in the same place that he eventually hit the same combo again… like, are there hundreds or thousands of randomly named files in that same folder? Why save them if they will be impossible to find again anyway?

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My guess is they are images and the thumbnail is more important as an identifier than the name would be.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then why change it? Most apps give a default name, so you literally just need to click “save” or press “Enter.”

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t do specifically what OP did, but often I remember things by when better than by name.

    Sorting a folder by last modified/created in descending order generally gets me what I’m looking for pretty quickly

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I tend to save things with the name embedded, so “<year>-<month>-<day>_<short-description>” and use the date that’s relevant for the file, not necessarily when it was created (e.g. due date for homework, tax return due date, etc). If I don’t care (e.g. a downloaded image), I just accept whatever the default is.

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    because: lazy

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “doc1”, “doc2”, “doc3frogstudy”, “doc4”

      hmm, the doc is redundant. the number is also redundant, it has date to sort by. 1, 2, and 4 can be whatever.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t it more lazy to just accept whatever the default is?

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    some websites will save the file name when you upload a file. it could be done for privacy reasons if you don’t want a website to know how you got a file. this is the best reason i can think of for randomizing file names, but i don’t actually do this in practice. sometimes i’ll just rename the file before uploading if im worried about it. file names are just too useful.

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• innermeerkat@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Muscle memory

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty common actuality. Across all people hence smashing a keyboard for a random password is a bad idea

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is why you have:

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