Buddahriffic @ Buddahriffic @lemmy.world

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Which suggests to me that MS stores plaintext passwords. Because a hash function doesn't care about the length of what it's hashing, the output will always be the same length, so they could verify a 300 character password with the same storage space as a 3 character password.

We are closer to the 2060s than the 1960s.

This year, 1975 is as far away as 2075.

Based on the other responses, better to be asking the question than assume he was stupid for asking it.

Even with civilisation or society, there's always been a subset of people looking to exploit whatever facet of existence they can, whether it be religion, politics, crimes of opportunity, weaknesses in social systems, or even the justice systems that are supposedly meant to deal with those flaws.

And to add even more complexity, other people who aren't pieces of shit looking to exploit others form emotional attachments to those who are and are fooled by their lies and will defend them. Others don't have attachments but see parallels to themselves and worry that attempts to deal with the problematic ones will result in the same treatment being applied to them (and aren't necessarily wrong because even justice trying to act in good faith can get it wrong).

It's all a complex web of power struggles and religion is just one set of stands.

Yeah, it would most likely be a malicious trolling kind of theft which is probably why it doesn't happen often.

Or burning.

Yeah, but that's just a button and maybe a light.

Unless it's java.

Wait, does this mean that if you have a smart doorbell, someone could just walk up to it, grab it, and walk away with it?

I don't have the patience to keep it up for a long time but I barely get any scam calls after pushing the button to talk to someone and then just asking about the plot holes in their script. Like the one claiming there's going to be a warrant for me, why does the guy need to ask for my name and other information? Why would revenue Canada (of anyone who isn't a scammer of some sort) ever want any kind of payment in gift cards? I'll use a tone of voice on the verge of laughter, too.

One time, after I asked, the guy just asked me why I even pressed the button to talk to a person and then hung up. Most of the time they just hang up. Sometimes the English option seems to only be there to make it seem more realistic for those who would pick the Chinese option because the call disconnects right after picking English.

Though more recently I've just been hanging up early in the recording when I do get the odd scam call. They might filter that, too, because even the volume of those calls stays low. Which makes sense because even just making the calls probably costs them something, even if it's just pennies.

Well then you're in luck because that might already be a feature of the model you have!

If you want reliable media to last on a timeline relevant to our lives and even several generations, look into M disc blurays. Though, similar to dual layer dvds back in the day, it's much easier to find a writer than the media itself. But it claims lifespans of centuries to millennia rather than decades usually associated with other disc media. They are actually etched instead of just using some fancy ink. Readable by normal drives, too. It's just on the writing side that you need one that can specifically handle M discs. It also supports multi-layers, but those are even harder to find and get pretty pricey.

Still not likely a way to pass information ahead to civilizations even tens of thousands of years away, and even before they break down, a new civilization would need to figure out how to read and interpret them (when we had trouble reading hieroglyphs from known civilizations that we could read directly with our eyes).

But at least they should be relatively safe to write, verify, then forget about for a few decades until you find them and want to take a walk down memory lane. Assuming you can still get a bluray reader at that point, or held on to one. Pack them together and future you or your heirs might be grateful.

My routine when I walk into the room where my daughter is playing a game:

1. Identify the game she is playing.
2. Ask her how <activity in game she isn't currently playing> is going. Like if she's caught all the Pokémon when she's playing Minecraft.

I'm not even trying to be subtle about it, but am still not sure she realizes I'm doing it deliberately. Either way, she corrects me with exasperation each time.

Or just start the cut in the long direction and slip the knife between the top and bottom flaps for the sides. Assuming whoever taped it didn't add more tape perpendicular to the main length, though even then you just need to start a cut for each of them. Tip just needs to barely pierce it.

I had to spend an annoying amount of time finding all of the settings to make it so that my windows machine would never wake up on its own, spread out over an even longer period of time because some of them aren't easy to trigger on my own so it was a matter of trying something and then trying more things if I find it awake on its own again.

Even disabling the wake on mouse movement was a pain because it doesn't properly label mice and keyboards and doesn't have a global setting. I wanted to keep wake on keyboard but not have it wake if my mouse moved a nm because a butterfly flapped its wings too vigorously as it flew by the closed window.

After I installed Linux, I went to do the same thing there only to find it already had sensible defaults set.

Tesla and DJT have lost similar amounts in the last month.

Even if the original question was asked in bad faith (not that I think this was the case here, but to address what you're implying with this comment), responding with "go look it up elsewhere" doesn't negate its effect for anyone reading. I believe it plays into those bad faith hands because it looks like you don't want the question answered here to anyone already suspicious of the situation.

I remember the very first time I saw that was a thing and wondering why the fuck would anyone ever want that? Can't remember if that was before or after I started the habit of disabling autorun on any inserted media, too, though I do know that that was my reaction to learning about Sony's rootkit.

Though I might be one of the few that didn't like UAC because it wasn't strict enough instead of because it was annoying. I wish it had a setting where every action required permission and the dialog included the specific thing it was currently tying to do instead of the vague "it wants to change things on your computer".

An installer is likely going to trigger that prompt whether it's legit or not, I'd like to know if it's triggered because it's trying to associate its filetype with its application or trying to overwrite a dll in an unrelated program's files.

Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.

Not that it wouldn't be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn't know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.

I've been coming to the understanding that "bourbon" is like champagne in that it doesn't describe a type of alcohol so much as alcohol of that type produced in a specific region (though with the caveat that there might be factors about that region that also means boubon is a distinct type of alcohol due to those factors). If that's accurate, wouldn't it mean that "the American bourbon industry" is redundant like "the French champagne industry" would be? All Bourbon is American.