I understand what you’re saying, and that in the real world, bad security practices abound among average users who are likely to have passwords like “12345678” or “password”

But in this fictional scenario, my advice is directed at someone who has something valuable enough to protect behind a 121 character passphrase against a very determined adversary who has a Planck Cruncher at their disposal and is willing to run it for 100 years to crack that someone’s data.

A little extra security protocol might be worth the extra effort.

I can see how that would be unclear, and I apologize for the misunderstanding.

You’re describing the best case scenario for the person wishing to protect their password, where the Planck Cruncher guesses the password on the very last possible combination, taking 100 years to get there.

The Planck Cruncher might guess the password correctly on the first try, or it might guess correctly on the last possible combination in 100 years.

What we really want to measure are the odds of a random guess being correct.

The most “realistic” scenario is the Planck Cruncher guessing correctly somewhere between 0 and 100 years, but you want to adjust the length of the password to be secure against a powerful attack during the realistic life of whatever system you’re trying to protect.

On average, assuming the rate of password testing is constant, it’ll take the Planck Cruncher 50 years to guess the 121 character password.

And that assumes the password never changes.

If the password is changed while the Planck Cruncher is doing its thing, and it changes to something that the PC has already guessed and tested negative, the PC is screwed.

Hint: Change your password regularly. edit: The user should change their password regularly during the attack.

Each password change reduces the risk of a lucky guess by that many years of PC attack.

And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.

Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.

Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ

Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social…

Joe’s Classic Videogames is great and fun nostalgia about the insides of the classic arcade cabinets and pinball machines of yore.

Lots of insider information on how these things worked and what goes wrong with them, and satisfying play on the machines after they’ve been fixed!

If they haven’t been brushing their teeth and there’s visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.

Forum.Rojadirecta.es has nodes dedicated to pretty much any major sporting events: Soccer, NFL, MLB, F1, NBA, Rugby Union, et al.

Mostly they’re direct downloads from sites with way too much advertising, too many popups and misleading links, so they’re best handled with JDownloader2

Actual torrent links are available sometimes.

There are plenty of crops that have to be tended and harvested by hand: Most green leafy vegetables for example.

This opens those fields to dual use alongside power generation, which might reduce agricultural use of fossil fuels, and provide shade for field workers which is especially dangerous with climate change raising heat levels.

I disagree somewhat.

A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.

And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.

Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?

The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.

Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.

kbin was designed or built with lemmy compatibility early on, and unfortunately not vice versa.

It’s really up to the lemmy devs as to when they’ll ever get around to it.

Avistaz has the a great selection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Hong Kong content.

The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.

Was part of a team that was sent to Boston for a project. While we were there, the company announced they were changing the meal expense policy from reimbursement for submitted bills to a fixed stipend.

But that policy change was a couple of days away, so the whole team went to this fancy expensive restaurant for dinner, and we ordered expensive food and wines as one last hurrah.

I don’t even remember where or what I ate or drank.

I just remember it was a good time.

Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.

Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.

This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”

契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”

LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.