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Hey YOU!!! Yes, you random webside.
You do not deserve that kind of password requirements.

If you are a forum, online game, mod manager ffs, microsoft etc... YOU DO NOT DESERVE MY GOOD PASSWORD. You get the common no capitalization, no numbers, no special characters and in dictionary password exactly as you deserve.

And guess what... What happens if they hack my nexus account? Are the hackers going to download mods from my mod list? Are they going to read MY public posts?

I fucking don't care... :blobhammer:
Get on your own fucking level. If your site is worthless, use an adequate password requirements for fucks sake.

This rant was brought by github, where I created account to upload 1 file and learn workflow for my job.

@LukeAlmighty What's the big deal?

Sorry but good passwords should be common practice and everyone should use them everywhere.

Use a password that is either offline and sync it somehow or use nextcloud or something equally self hosted and don't worry about it.

@mgrondin
It should not be a full time job to work arourn your inability to accept simple passwords for services with 0 loss in case they are hacked.

Why should I not be able to just download skyrim mods without downloading a 3rd party software and finding my phone before I can login into your shitty service?

@LukeAlmighty @mgrondin Let's be honest, to begin with, having to log in to download mods is ???????????????????????????????
@LukeAlmighty @Zerglingman ya that I can agree with. On that site specifically I questioned why they even required an account. I said outloud "Why would I need an account just to download mods"
@Zerglingman @LukeAlmighty @mgrondin hey, man!

If you're on Fallout 4 and get a lil stoned, and even just a lil giddy at the prospect of a 2D Mini Nuke Chaingun mod, you're the kind of guy *we need to know about.*
@LukeAlmighty I'm not gonna change your mind and you're not going to change mine. Strong password practices are a good thing. Requirement or not all my passwords are long and complex.

I'm the opposite and grumble when a site refuses my long password.

@mgrondin
That is like saying a WORKING communism is a good thing.

But what you end up with are users using the same password on forum as well as e-mail, because their weak password was refused.

So, when inevitebly one source leaks, guess what... Their e-mail password is leaked too only because the dumb site refused monkey for a registration on site, that was used once...

@LukeAlmighty @mgrondin It is worth noting that most places ham on about not using the same password anywhere else.
And a tiny handful of them even check HIBP before letting you use a password.

@Zerglingman @mgrondin
Not gonna lie, some sites pissed me off enough, that I just use a random string, and always log in through a reset password feature.

@LukeAlmighty That's a different problem all together. Passwords should not be reused.

@mgrondin
And setting password requirements based on people who use password managers is like basing max speed on road based on rally drivers. Technically a good idea, but it will destroy everyone elses safety.

@mgrondin
BTW, why do you think it's reasonable to have this kind of demands on normies?

@LukeAlmighty because security is important and people should care and be used to it. Heck it should be taught in school. Much more important that trigonometry

@mgrondin
Man, I love IT security, but the way it is thought/ implemented is awful...

And I don't agree about trigonometry either :alexjonessmile2:
Ok. Thanks for sharing.

@Zerglingman @mgrondin @LukeAlmighty radiens pi and he should do a full 180°

Gnosis fact of the day: My first born son was a perfect pi baby and weighed exactly 3.14kg.
@mgrondin @LukeAlmighty I only remember the password to my kdbx database, all others are randomly generated alphanumeric (upper and lowercase) & special characters.

@jawsh @mgrondin
There are always people who will dodge the problem, but this hell does not help the average user...

@mgrondin @LukeAlmighty Or just get into pgp auth and stop treating patch fixes like solutions.

@LukeAlmighty
I think the whole point is to annoy you into using a password safe. 🔐

@awaspnest
Again... it has the exact opposite effect on the population, so that's why I care.

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