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   me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 02:28:02 JST me
   I was today years old when I learned that when inputting a password that doesn't echo on the terminal, I can usually hit CTRL-U to clear the password if I mistype instead of spamming the backspace key to be sure I've got it all. #LinuxTips
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 02:41:31 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard True, but none of my passwords do. They're all base64 encoded randomness.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 02:59:08 JST me

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard Yes, with some rules in place to ensure individual sites' password policies are observed, namely minimum number of upper/lower case letters, numbers and whether or not special characters are allowed/required. It limits the potential charactes used, but the entropy can be made up with longer passwords. The default settings give me 96 bits of entropy, which is... probably fine.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 03:57:58 JST hypolite

     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard @me No, the password itself is a long base64 string if I understand correctly. There’s no underlying cleartext password, it’s just noise encoded.
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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 04:10:14 JST me

     • hypolite
     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard @hypolite Given the number of password policies that don't allow non-ASCII, it seemed a reasonable workaround.