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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah, I used Chrome up until extremely recently because genuinely no browser Just Works to the extent Chrome does.

    Fast, good media codec support, Web API support for hardware access for PWAs, doesn’t lock up w/ a lot of tabs (post-quantum FF is better about this, but not quite there), excellent DevTools, and just generally snappier and more polished than even chromium.

    I switched to firefox recently exclusively for better home-manager support, and other than the ability to use home-manager more easily, it’s just a slightly slower and jankier experience at all times whether it’s requiring transcode for Jellyfin, laggy WebGL performance, janky DevTools, or missing WebAPIs.






  • Very similar heuristic here, insofar as when to use passphrases and how long.

    LUKS and Bitlocker volumes get 8 words, computer logins usually get 4 words (potentially more depending on frequency/criticality of system).

    Smartcards and mobile devices do have numeric pins due to frequency of use and relative difficulty in copying those for offline attacks.

    Websites that are filled in w/ password manager get passwords get the random symbol-laden strings that ‘meet requirements’


  • Yet in the same posts they insult people who don’t have the same opinion as them.

    I’m betting it’s the use of the phrase “objectively easier” when that is incorrect by argument of geometry. The “objectively” riles people up.

    There is a reason why forklifts have rear-wheel steering (and therefore behave much like an automobile driving in reverse): having the point of rotation towards the direction of motion allows for much more precise maneuvering, much like you would need to do in a larger vehicle trying to fit into a tight parking space.