For example, “PasswordPasswordPassword” is still going to be cracked in seconds. If your words are short, for example “DogIceUp”, then you still have an easy-to-crack password. Passphrases are still vulnerable to the same storage mistakes If you store passphrases in unsafe locations, ...
Yet still the sensor keeps going off. So we get frustrated. “There’s nothing wrong,” we’ll insist. And, the next thing you know, we’re treating the driver instead of the problem. Scratching an itch through the scalp to the brain, by Atul Gawande GO TO TOP • CONTENTS • ...
I haven’t exactly been feeling guilty for not blogging much, but I’m still going to back-date this post so the February archives link doesn’t come up empty – because that “Page not found” thing annoys me. So. Yeah. I don’t do guilty well. It’s an emotion I’ve never rea...
xkcd – Is It Worth the Time? – https://xkcd.com/1205/ Solution The perfect solution for me would be just one command. Something like git publish. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ~/C/my-fancy-project (master|✓) $ git checkout -b featureY Switched to a new branch 'featureY' ~/C/my-...
kind of thing, and most of those are incompatible with HomeKit, and with each other. (I’m reminded ofthis classic XKCD comic stripabout the problem with standards.) And while more companies are finally starting to build HomeKit-compatible devices, the whole market is still kind of a ...
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png Title: Re: What if someone is WRONG on this forum? Post by: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 08:39:51 am Quote from: bill_c on December 27, 2023, 05:00:05 am The ignore list should be all that is needed. If I just don't like ...
http://xkcd.com/435/ Liked by1 person Reply Wyrd Smythe July 23, 2015 at 10:38 pm (I think you’ll especially appreciate the hovertext. XD ) Liked by1 person Reply SelfAwarePatterns July 24, 2015 at 8:53 am I had seen that one, and loved it, but had missed the hovertext. Tha...
“correct horse battery staple” password, in honor ofthis XKCD comicexplaining the concept. Unfortunately, you may (like I do) run into providers that won’t let you use passwords like that. (Yes, there are financial institutions that cap you at 10 characters. No, I don’t know what ...
http://xkcd.com/radiation/ It is the level of exposure over time that makes it dangerous. Small levels are easily repaired by the body as Nuclear medicine has taught us. So, can we site Small reactors in hospitals and factories safely? Can they be sited in population centers where the ...
2) The battery-horse-correct-staple proposal by xkcd always bothered me because it felt like a dictionary attack with combos would work. However, a two-word combo is much, much less secure than a four-word combo, even with a 20k vocabulary. I think four random words is still going to ...