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[–] foo@withachanceof.com 21 points 2 years ago

Again why? Is this some repetition of the Cold War Soviet-US competition?

Yes, it's a prestige project. It's the same reason why some countries spend billions to host competitions like the Olympics/World Cup: it's an international dick measuring contest.

(For the record, scientific investment in space programs has incredible ROI so I whole heartedly support programs like this even if the motivation for doing so on the part of politicians is less than noble.)

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What questionable practices does Cetaphil have?

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 4 points 2 years ago

This isn't so much a Seattle proper thing, but I've never understood why all the housing developments in the suburbs clear all the trees on the lots before building houses. From what I understand, it's cheaper and quicker to build on cleared land and the builders can sell the timber, but I'd think that people would be willing to pay more for a house in a nice wooded area that distracts from how disgusting these neighborhoods are with houses that all look the same 5ft apart from one another.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This doesn't really answer your question, but you may want to consider hanging on to Thunderbird given massive UI upgrade that's coming very soon for it: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please tell me you have a photo of your dog's fake ID.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 3 points 2 years ago

Hashing is typically done server-side. So you need to transmit the password to the server and you can't have a truly unlimited data limit. Pretty much every web server will reject requests over some size so while it's entirely reasonable to support something like a 1,000 char password if you really wanted to, having it be truly unlimited with something using a 10 million character password is a security/operational risk in itself.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 2 points 2 years ago

It goes both ways: Programmers have a responsibility to inform PMs how bad of an idea short max password lengths are. And if they're still absolutely forced to implement it anyway, do you really want to be working somewhere that goes out of their way to purposefully implement poor security and somewhere that doesn't respect serious concerns raised from their engineers?

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 2 points 2 years ago

Is it completely bullshit or what?

Ding ding ding!

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 39 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Same reason some websites still have max password lengths of 12 characters: Bad programmers that don't know what they're doing when it comes to the most basic of security concepts.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a Protonmail user (on a paid plan) and like it. The bridge application works decently well on Linux with my desktop mail client. Their 24 month billing plan makes it $3.5/month.

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 3 points 2 years ago

"I use arch btw"

[–] foo@withachanceof.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The animal on the Firefox logo is actually a red panda rather than a fox. The term "firefox" is a translation to English from the term for "red panda" in Asia and isn't actually a fox at all.

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