This Terry Pratchett (GNU) quote pretty much explains it (he uses the term “(Discworld) elves”, but given that Lords and Ladies is clearly based on A Midsummer’s Night Dream the quote equally applies to any kind of fae, and not necessarily, for instance, to Tolkien or DnD elves):

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

Looks like some kind of fae. Run.

Bots ain’t users, spez, you greedy little pigboy.

One letter for one sound is a lot less complicated ðan two letters representing two sounds.

Most languages that use alphabets have digraphs representing different sounds than their composing letters. It’s trivial to understand that ‘th’ represents a different sound than ‘t’ or ‘h’.

Most sane languages, on the other hand, don’t use the same letter or digraph to represent half a dozen different sounds (and when they do they use diacritic marks to distinguish them… which English only uses, without explanation, in borrowed words like fiancé or façade, which might actually be more confusing to native speakers than to ESL ones), or half a dozen letters and digraphs to represent the same sound.

you clearly didn’t check my profile

I’ve got enough of a headache from deciphering your posts, thank you

asshats

Pot, kettle…

They can be written now though

Yeah…? Then tell me why in fuck’s name (or should it be facks?) ‘oo’ can represent six different sounds (food, book, door, blood, cooperation, brooch), for instance, and how to tell them apart, or why the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘o’, ‘aa’, and ‘ea’ are used to represent the same exact sound in the words father, sergeant, body, bazaar, and heart…

Let me assure you that this nonsense is many orders of magnitude more confusing to people learning English as a second language than the ‘th’ shit!

If you’re going to use ancient letters use pre-vowel shift vowels too, you half assed coward.

You know what a turtle is? Same thing.

My boss just had me change two coworkers’ passwords so they wouldn’t be able to log back in.

I keep washing and washing, but the blood won’t come off.

Tankie: far right lunatic who delusionally believes they’re a communist (or trollingly roleplays as what they believe one to be), despite defending authoritarian oligarchic states like Russia or China.

For instance, the Lemmy devs (and lemmy.ml admins).

I for one do appreciate Denuvo. They help me blacklist anti-consumer publishers and developers.

You have a Schrödinger’s cat. It needs to be observed in order to collapse its wave function, or it can’t know what state it’s in.

You should probably get another one so they can observe each other.

Because they’re not pro life, they’re pro suffering.

And they want to control others (against their will if possible), so ending someone’s life and forcing someone to gestate a baby or die in the process fall in exactly the same bag.

Look, we’re talking people who call ninety-nine “four twenty ten nine”; you can’t expect them to name things properly.

Maru’s channel is great to have at hand when you’re having a bad day.

Maru is mostly fluff, though.

He’s been shown wet in some videos and he’s really quite slim under the hair.

(You can also see in this gif that he easily fits into the wrappers until he’s going slow enough for friction to catch.)

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.

Tighten’t.