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  • Why not use the Yubikey for the master password on a KeePass DB (or another password manager) and then use actual different passwords—not just prefixed ones—saved in said password manager for your logins?

    It doesn't matter if your base password is a 255 character high-entropy annoying-to-type-manually-on-a-phone-keyboard or a 16 character string of alphanumeric characters if you reuse it in a slightly predictable manner. For it to be somewhat secure, the prefix would have to be completely random, which kinda defeats the idea of you being able to remember them. A "base password" is, to be frank, only one small step up from using the same password everywhere.

    And as someone else pointed out, it makes it very difficult to change passwords, which also should be a huge red flag.

    Take a look at the leaks on Have I Been Pwned and see how many of them include either clear text passwords or extremely weakly hashed (perhaps even unsalted) passwords. If you show up in just one or two of those, then you're in a significantly worse position than you would be had you just used different passwords.

  • LibreWolf is a very decent Firefox fork. Open Source is great because bad CEOs can't really threaten the source code.

    Not saying this one is bad though — I have no idea. The last one was raking in $7 million/year which is less than ideal for an open source project.

  • After reading the article, I'm confused about how it works. Guinea worms are parasites that you get infected with from bad water sources. Unless you eradicate the source (e.g. the worms themselves), can you really say that you've eradicated the disease? Even if we go a decade without any human contracting it, it's no harder for someone to contract it by drinking contaminated water than it is today. It's not like a viral disease, that simply stops existing if infection numbers drop to 0 for a while.

    That being said, it's great that numbers are as low as they are. Education and better water infrastructure is helping.

  • I pretty much stopped reading at:

    Genre terms exist to prime expectations for players.

    What a ridiculously self-centered claim. Genre terms (and other categorizations) exist because language users use them to make things easier to communicate about. I can only imagine the author of the article going: "Well, actually a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable" when talking to a chef about gazpacho, or "a penguin is not technically a bird because it doesn't fly" when someone says that a penguin is their favorite bird.

    MFer needs to learn about cognitive categorization, prototype theory, etc. It doesn't need to be 100% the same within a category — then the category is too specific and is absolutely useless — it just needs to be similar enough that most people (that aren't necessarily experts in the subject) understand what you're getting at.

  • Did you read the article? She's not saying that she didn't know that measles are dangerous, she's saying that she thinks people would vaccinate more and sooner if they knew the potential delayed effects of measles. Her son died 4 years after catching it and he wasn't vaccinated at 2 because he was on a delayed vaccination program (it doesn't say why). It's a super tragic story really and it doesn't seem like she's anti-vax or anything like it, quite the opposite.

  • I played Everything today. That was both hilarious and wonderful. Like Proteus and Mountain it's definitely not a game for everyone, but if some silliness and philosophy doesn't scare you away, you're probably going to enjoy it.

    Edit: If you'd rather just watch it as a short film, then that's possible too: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/SrNsE3Jo-dYsrOfVj or you can let the game play itself for you if you'd rather just lean back and take it all in. Just leave the game unattended for a while and it will start playing itself. Settings for autoplay can be edited in the game's settings menu.

  • That mess of knobs and buttons has been around since the '50s — longer than the more compact '80s synths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizer Because of their size they are usually considered studio gear and not stage gear, which may also explain why the more compact synths were more visible earlier, because you rarely got to look into studios then compared to now.

    To answer your question: A synthesizer (when talking about sound) is an instrument that generates sound by creating waveforms and possibly combining them in different ways to achieve different sounds. Typically they come with filters and envelopes, that further affect the resulting sound.

  • High On Life. I'm usually not big on FPSs, but the writing is so dumb/hilarious that I'm still having a blast. Also, that dino love story b-movie that's on the TV in the living room — I gotta check that out IRL.

  • Vinyl has, AFAIK, been gaining a lot in popularity over the last 20 years. The last few years pressing plants have had trouble keeping up with demand — in part due to supply chain issues, but also because everyone and their grandma wants vinyl pressed.

  • You can use the regex: /\bx\b/i

    It'll catch 'x' surrounded by word boundaries (stuff like spaces, dashes/hyphens, commas, etc.) but not 'x' with other letters on either side, so it won't match e.g. "sax" or "boxer", but it'll match "x.com" and "Elon's X" and stuff. It's probably not perfect though, so use with caution.

  • I'd argue that it's for all skill levels — and you can always make your own levels.

    It's free, so there's no reason to not give it a go.

    Edit: Meant to reply to https://feddit.de/comment/4718792 but messed up and hit the wrong Reply button in Sync. Leaving it as is as to not cause confusion.