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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • Perhaps even worse than this is when the hash allows you to enter what you think is your full password, but as long as the first characters are a match then it will succeed.
    16 characters is probably fine as far as passwords go, but if the site is secretly truncating from 16 down to, say, 7 and still allows you to sign in, you don’t even realize that your password isn’t nearly as secure as you thought it was.










  • It’s a time honoured thing from back in the day when you took your camera with you on holiday, your roll of film had 36 exposures that you had to ration and think carefully about where and when to use them.

    So when you got back and had your photos developed and printed, you had 36 photos to share with people.

    Now you can take thousands of pictures per day with your phone and there’s no life to any of them as you force people to swipe through them.