4grams

@4grams@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks like my play through of a fallout game. For some reason it amuses me to no end to make a random, huge pile of found alcohol, in game.

  I’m humbled by this man doing it in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a google voice number for that. Most things no longer accept it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had delusions of trying to keep track of which address is sold by who which is why I did the hide my email addresses. But I’ve always kept separate personal and spam accounts. This was my attempt at combining to a single account.

  xkcd.com/927/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, there are systems that work. I built up a very successful smart card based system many years ago after a failed audit. I initially hated the idea but in the end we built a crazy secure environment that was very easy to use and maintain. That project is long since obsolete but after doing that one, over a decade ago, I figured things were headed in the right direction.

  I think I’m extra sensitive right now because my aging mom has made the issue acute. She’s not the same as she was a few years ago and helping her with all her online accounts has become a nightmare. It’s just too complicated for many folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m up to 40 hide my addresses for that same reason. Figure if the password sucks, at least the email can be unique and obscure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My password is not accepted because it is too long⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit pisses me off so bad. I had an identity theft a few years back, took ages to undo, and my credit score is still impacted by it. At the time I moved to a password manager and all my passwords are 31 characters of garbage. I’ve got several, highly sensitive accounts that my passwords don’t work for, in fact one a bank, until fairly recently, had repurposed a phone number field in the DB so passwords were limited to 10 characters numeric only (I managed to get one of their IT folks on the horn to explain why the password was so awful).

  I cannot believe we live in 2025 and we still haven’t figured out passwords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t a best, maybe a less bad but even then it’s an impossible choice. ✋wins here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satire, I think⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Married couples often start looking alike over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First, I love you for this joke. Second, I don’t want to risk pissing off Ron Swanson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know right. And the motherfucking cultists in my own family are telling me it’s my fault for trusting the stock market. But these same fucks have told me that’s my only option for retirement because Soc. Sec. Is a “Ponzi scheme”.

  We’re setup to fail, we’re only here to produce value that can be stolen.