I’d sooner kill myself from loneliness than become emotionally dependent on a soulless machine.

It’s all just the placebo effect!

now what?

Don’t buy it?

null (haven’t taken a test yet and don’t have a reason to)

I’m not arguing that random passwords are better for everyone, just that they’re most secure for their length. A 9 word passphrase is just as secure as a 16 character random password, but is far longer.

A 4 word xkcd passphrase is more or less equivalent to a 7 character random password, and is secure with xkcd’s threat model (online brute force attack) but not with other threat models, like a brute force of a weak hash, which is many orders of magnitude faster.

If you’d like to verify the math:
4 word xkcd passphrase: 2048 (possible words) ^ 4 (number of words) = 44 bits of entropy ≈ 17.6 trillion possibilities.
7 word password: 70 (possible characters) ^ 7 (number of characters) ≈ 42.9 bits of entropy ≈ 8.2 trillion possibilities.
(Adding an eighth character raises the number to 576 trillion).

To destress: Switch off phone and ignore the message, then walk into the forest and stay there forever.

I’m not prone to forgetting things, but if you are, it’s easy enough to write down and store somewhere secure like a safe deposit box. If you have people you trust, you should have a backup copy anyways so they can access your password manager if you die suddenly.

The xkcd-suggested passwords have 44 bits of entropy. Assuming a weak hash like SHA1, a single 4090 could crack such a password in under 10 minutes (source).

My 16 character password, with 70 symbols per character, has log₂70 * 16 ≈ 98 bits of entropy. That corresponds to a cracking time of over 200 billion years with the same parameters.

xkcd’s password system is quite terrible for security. Its only advantage is that it’s relatively secure for how easy it is to remember. If you’re someone who really struggles to remember passwords and would otherwise use something even weaker, go for it, but if you want security then random characters are the way to go.

Randomly generate your master password too. It takes a bit to memorize, but becomes muscle memory pretty quickly. And since random passwords have the highest possible entropy per character you can use a shortish one, which allows for fast typing while still being impossible to brute force (I use 16 chars).

How to correct (or exacerbate) uneven tire wear:

“This food isn’t salty enough” Huffs chlorine “Much better!”

From what I understand, thorium reactors have been more or less proven to be a viable power source, while fusion reactors still have major unsolved problems and likely won’t be viable for decades.

“laptop”

clearly a desktop

Supercritical fluids are more like a gas than a liquid. Their lack of surface tension means they’ll diffuse throughout whatever container you put them in, so they can’t really be “poured” like a liquid can. They’re actually a pretty good example of why liquids need surface tension to be liquid.

For a liquid to be a liquid, rather than a gas, it needs to be held together by intermolecular forces. Which means it will have some amount of surface tension. I therefore dismiss this hypothetical as physically unrealistic! :P

This can actually be beneficial if your router is right at the corner of your house. The foil acts as a reflector for some of the radiation that would’ve been wasted, and thus improves the signal quality within your house.

Can you make me a website that runs on my microwave?

Not on iOS, of course. But if you’re using iOS what are you even doing?

Yeah that’s happened to me too; as far as I can tell it’s just Spotify silently banning your account. Must’ve signed up for one too many free trials.

Microsoft likes defaulting to email-based login, and I always click on the option to enter my password instead, but after doing that it sends me an email with a verification code anyways. Seriously???