bpev

@bpev@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is *mathematically correct, but practically not really. But let me give you a long answer. There’s essentially two things here that are different:

  1. Does a longer password make your password more difficult to guess? (always yes)
  2. Does a longer password make accessing the content it protects more difficult (yes, to a certain point).

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  The reason for #2 in digital systems is because of hashing, which is used to protect your password in the case of a data breach. Essentially, you can think of a hashing algorithm as an algorithm that takes an input, and then always returns the same output for that input, but isn’t reversible (in theory, you can’t derive the input from the output. It’s one-way). This is why if someone hacks Facebook, they don’t necessarily have your Facebook password.

  Usually, these algorithms return a fixed-length character string. And so your data is mathematically not more safe if you exceed this length, since a random password combination can theoretically resolve to the same value as your super-long-password. This would depend on the algorithm being used / data being stored, but for example, bcrypt outputs a 60-character string. So mathematically, your password is not more secure beyond 60 characters.

  However in practice, this is a non-issue, because I think that basically the only way that collisions like this are useful is for brute-forcing a password? And the chance of a password collision in this way is something like 10^27-or-28^ (being hit by lightning every day for 10,000 years)? The much easier solution is to get your actual password. So if your password being longer makes it harder for people to guess, I’d say that adding security by way of #1 is still extremely valid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Majora’s Mask but with wave dashing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ohhh right. I do that, too. But not to the fainting level of effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF I’ve been choking on water since I was a wee lad. I just drink too aggressively. A drinking problem, of sorts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent tip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using Graphene until last month (temporarily off it because my phone picked a fight with a rock and lost). So just going off memory. But compatibility is in a much better place these days. I don’t recall having had any compatibility issues besides banking apps and “pay with phone nfc” over the last few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate crimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My only thing I know about Salon is that at one point, they had a piece about how depressing it was to live in a hacker house, and I was like “wait. I lived in this exact apartment”. I remembered the Pinterest guy who lived in the closet. That was slightly surreal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do most celebrities/influencers & some normal people have those fake-looking teeth?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So people often comment on my extremely straight teeth, but it’s actually because I didn’t see the dentist for many years, it turns out that I grind my teeth, and so now my canines are flat. My dentist said I have teeth like someone in their sixties, and now I wear a mouth guard when I sleep to prevent further degradation.