I understand what you’re saying, and that in the real world, bad security practices abound among average users who are likely to have passwords like “12345678” or “password”

But in this fictional scenario, my advice is directed at someone who has something valuable enough to protect behind a 121 character passphrase against a very determined adversary who has a Planck Cruncher at their disposal and is willing to run it for 100 years to crack that someone’s data.

A little extra security protocol might be worth the extra effort.

I can see how that would be unclear, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.

You’re describing the best case scenario for the person wishing to protect their password, where the Planck Cruncher guesses the password on the very last possible combination, taking 100 years to get there.

The Planck Cruncher might guess the password correctly on the first try, or it might guess correctly on the last possible combination in 100 years.

What we really want to measure are the odds of a random guess being correct.

The most “realistic” scenario is the Planck Cruncher guessing correctly somewhere between 0 and 100 years, but you want to adjust the length of the password to be secure against a powerful attack during the realistic life of whatever system you’re trying to protect.

On average, assuming the rate of password testing is constant, it’ll take the Planck Cruncher 50 years to guess the 121 character password.

And that assumes the password never changes.

If the password is changed while the Planck Cruncher is doing its thing, and it changes to something that the PC has already guessed and tested negative, the PC is screwed.

Hint: Change your password regularly. edit: The user should change their password regularly during the attack.

Each password change reduces the risk of a lucky guess by that many years of PC attack.

It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.

If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.

Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.

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It’s part of the ol’ Big Tech playbook:

If a promising emerging competitor emerges:

1. Acquire the emerging competitor for cheap when it’s still small
2. Copy the competitor’s best features to make them irrelevant
3. Co-opt them with integration so the competitor’s users won’t see any advantage to staying with them
4. Pollute the competitor’s content to make your own offering look better
5. Steal the competitor’s best talent

Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it’s not paranoid at all.

I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.

I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.

A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.

If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.

It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can’t replicate the problem for you.

Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.

Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can’t tell you.

edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320

Someone just gave me a workaround for this:

Before saving the edits, select a language, other than “Undetermined”.

After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally

I’d forgotten all about C/FO because it had been such a long time since I’d heard of them.

It was really local groups who organized anime showings on college campuses who kindled me to take a more serious interest in anime.

Tape trading is where those groups from the 70s and 80s got their imported show from, but tape trading happened in all kinds of media, e.g. rock concerts.

Often we’d wind up watching 3rd or 4th gen VHS copies, i.e. grainy, washed out with bad sound, because we were so far down the chain.

Hahaha, the writer’s joke was on us the viewers!

It starts out as a boring isekai “quiet life” scenario, then things get complicated…

The amount of twists that were thrown in to ratchet up the tension…

This is the best first episode I’ve watched in the new season so far.

Another villain POV series, but this one takes the form of a gag comedy, with what was probably a 4 panel gag comic, turned into a series of skits per episode.

As in all gag comedies, don’t expect sakuga animation sequences.

The voice actor for the villain is great! And he should be, because he gets the most dialogue, and the story hangs on his character’s POV.

Basically, the theme is “don’t bug me on my day off” that should be relatable to 9 to 5 working people.

I didn’t like this first episode…

I didn’t care for any of the characters, the big fight looked expensive to animate, but there was never any sense that the sword dude was ever in danger.

Nor did I get any sense of the plot’s direction or why I should care.

Probably a drop for me.

Thanks for posting the episode discussion threads! I thought you were shinobu’s replacement bot!

I read the manhwa too, and so far it’s being faithful, and it was nice touch to have additional explanations of this world up front graphically animated without being talky.

Good so far.

Yes, I also agree that a double episode premiere would have been more effective, because we haven’t seen what this story is really about.

I’m finding the time to watch a lot more shows this season, and so far I’m finding enjoyment in the first episodes of some unexpected titles:

• Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Villain POV with S&M lewdness
• Sokushi Cheat - Kill all the evil classmates in an isekai. Kind of a similar vibe to The Executioner And Her Way Of Life
• Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha • The Unwanted Undead Adventurer - An adventurer unexpectedly joins the monster track of advancement and starts from being a weak skeleton
• Chiyu Mahou no Machigatta Tsukaikata: Senjou wo Kakeru Kaifuku Youin • The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - An average student gets sucked into an isekai. All likeable characters so far.

Sousou No Freiren continues to be a strong show.

Solo Leveling - I’ve enjoyed the manhwa, and this first episode is okay, it could have been longer to get to the key plot mechanic.

Conversely, I was disappointed by the first episode of the highly anticipated Dungeon Meshi/Delicious In Dungeon, which is fine. Some shows take a few episodes for the writing to gain traction.

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Like a lot of isekai first episodes, this was a good start.

I do like the evil-classmates-kill-em-all idea

But of course, it’s all about whether the writing can sustain the quality and surprise.

Starting with Winter 2023: Overall a weak season.

Vinland Saga S2 Handyman Saitou In Another World Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill

Spring 2023: A very strong season

Birdie Wing Golf Girls Story S2 Oshi No Ko Chibi Godzilla Raids Again Heavenly Delusion My Home Hero Skip and Loafer

Summer 2023: Honestly I got burned out here, and stopped watching halfway through the season