Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

Also, Hanlon’s razor just means that in normal circumstances stupidity is the simplest and most likely explanation, but malice is still a possibility, and these are far from normal circumstances… you’ve got a significant portion of the population which is both extremely stupid and extremely malicious…

Nope.

It’s the professor’s dog:

The professor’s dog:

Earth will be created in 2036. This is just a rehearsal.

Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx

That’s fucking Audrey II is what it is.

The Doctor is only on “TRUST WITH YOUR LIFE” as long as you aren’t messing with (or have ever attempted to mess with) humans or other people they care about… otherwise they’re on “RUN, RUN VERY FAR”.

No Doctor Nick…?

That’s why I specified naturally dried up. The mites will have moved to greener pastures, I mean lichens.

don’t eat anything that casts a shadow

Anyone who doesn’t exclusively survive on naturally dried up lichen ain’t no real vegan in my book!

Air resistance would make flight harder, though, not easier, wouldn’t it…?

As I understand it wings work by Bernoulli’s principle, which is an air pressure / conservation of energy thing, so it should still work in a frictionless atmosphere…

Then again, we’re talking chickens here (and spherical ones at that), which aren’t particularly renowned for their aerodynamics and wing efficiency, so maybe they would need to be able to push on the air to generate lift…

The road being frictionless is irrelevant unless it’s also in a vacuum.

Chickens are not very good fliers, sure, but even this spherical chicken could probably manage a short flight to whichever side of the road it pleased.

Yeah, he meant to say IBS.

I can have 20,000 character long passwords with a password manager

Sure. Most websites will either truncate them or outright reject them due to being too long, but sure.

Most users, however, will use the 12 to 16 characters auto-generated ones, though, which are sufficiently hard to crack (though not as much as an easy to remember passphrase, not that it matters; the easy to remember part is what matters about passphrases).

that makes it significantly less secure

No it doesn’t. Even if a few of the passphrases leak, your algorithm, if well chosen, shouldn’t be easy to reverse engineer… and unless someone is specifically targeting you (and has access to enough of your passphrases) there’s much easier fish to catch; if a leaked passphrase doesn’t work in other sites, no one will waste time trying to figure out if it has some logic to it.

I could have 20,000 character completely unique passwords with a password manager

No you couldn’t. You’d have one password and one password manager (which would have all “your” other passwords; as would anyone else with access to your password manager).

Until you lose access to your password manager, of course… which is bound to eventually happen, due to hardware or software issues or loss of the device if it’s local, or due to network issues, the provider discontinuing the service, or inevitable enshittification if it’s online.

And, of course, you’ll have a single point of attack from which your password can be leaked (or sold, if it’s an online service) or stolen.

vastly more complex passwords

Complexity is practically irrelevant when compared to length when it comes to passwords. That’s the point of passphrases.

do you actually expect people to remember 100+ unique phrases

You can have a small number of passphrases and simply choose one and add a word or two based on the site. It’s trivial to “remember” an infinite number of unique passphrases if you’ve got an algorithm. 🤷‍♂️

This assumes a) passwords, and b) poor passwords at that.

Passphrases are easy to remember, extremely hard to crack, and easily customisable for every site, and you don’t need no fucking password manager to store them.

Though I’ll give you this: password managers are not, after all, necessarily single points of failure.

If you need a password manager to manage your passwords you’re a much more vulnerable point of failure than your password management bloatware itself.

My brain. A password manager seems like a completely unnecessary single point of failure.

Reality has the bad habit of often being unrealistic.

“Does it have denuvo (or any other form of malware, including microtransactions)” should be the first question.

If the answer is yes, never look at it again, and permanently blacklist both developer and publisher.

If the answer is no, then go on with the rest of the diagram.

In my case they’re facing a 100% revenue reduction regardless of when (or whether) it’s cracked.

I’m never going to buy denuvo infested malware, and developers and publishers who try to pull this shit go straight into the blacklist.