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GIGABYTE Releases Statement on GP-P850GM & GP-P750GM PSUs
GIGABYTE is aware of certain media outfits casting doubt over the quality of Power Supply models GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM. GIGABYTE takes pride in the design and quality of our products and as such, takes reports of this manner extremely seriously and therefore would like to address the reported...
--Patrick
Steve's response to the "response"...GIGABYTE Releases Statement on GP-P850GM & GP-P750GM PSUs
GIGABYTE is aware of certain media outfits casting doubt over the quality of Power Supply models GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM. GIGABYTE takes pride in the design and quality of our products and as such, takes reports of this manner extremely seriously and therefore would like to address the reported...www.techpowerup.com
--Patrick
Sooo...looks like imgur got bought.
No idea what this is going to mean for its content. Or anything else that's ever been posted on their site.
Dare I hope that the plug-in starts working better?
--Patrick
No idea what this is going to mean for its content. Or anything else that's ever been posted on their site.
Dare I hope that the plug-in starts working better?
--Patrick
Every other image hosting service has managed to publicly slit their own throat in pursuit of "growth" *cough*Photobucket*cough*. Imgur's time will come soon enough.
GasBandit
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They "allow" it but have been cracking down on it more and more over the last couple years ever since they realized they like advertiser money.
Remember when Imgur was just a pet project to make it easier to post pictures on reddit, and not a BUSINESS?
It's the same cycle as always. Bout time for the new homegrown solution to pop up, I think.
So, apparently Facebook isn't just experiencing the usual "downtime."
Also awfully convenient this happened right after last night's 60 Minutes expose with a whisteblower who used to work at Facebook.
Also awfully convenient this happened right after last night's 60 Minutes expose with a whisteblower who used to work at Facebook.
This is a huge blow to independent vaccine research (I stole this joke, sorrynotsorry)
So, uh, this might be bad.
I mean, if the user was silly enough to actually give them to Facebook in the first place, that is.
--Patrick
Word is that it is scraped data and not a data breach
First Facebook, now Twitch. It's recommended you update your passwords and use a non-SMS authenticator like Google Authenticator.
EDIT: Just in case someone wants to play semantics, obviously not the exact same situation as Facebook.
EDIT: Just in case someone wants to play semantics, obviously not the exact same situation as Facebook.
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GasBandit
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If your password isn't 15+ characters of upper/lower/numeric/special, and unique to that site, you are doing it wrong.
GasBandit
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The lastpass browser plugin also has a flyout control panel that lets you generate these passwords on the fly, and save/autofill them.
Yup, 1password (or at least my old non-SAAS version) does something similar. I click the plug-in icon and choose generate password, and the pop-up window I shared shows up. If I "hit" ok, it'll autofill and choose to save.
Quite a while back, 1password switched to software as a service, where you pay a monthly fee, and so I can no longer really recommend them. Because fuck that. I store the password master file encrypted on my own dropbox. I don't need to reduce my security by having them store my passwords on their servers and pay them monthly for the privilege.
It was (only) 12 of mixed-case + numeric and unique to that site. All my passwords are unique.
Also, I have never repeated my work password even once over 14 years, and I have to change it at least every 90 days, sometimes sooner. I don’t even reuse parts (e.g., passwordJan, passwordFeb, etc). Do not quote the deep magics to me, etc.
…though yes, as often as this seems to be happening lately, it’s probably time to revise the methods I use to generate my passwords going forward. Sigh. It was a good 20+ yr run, I suppose.
—Patrick
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The biggest problem I have with my auto-generated passwords is piss poor programming on some sites. I've had sites fail to accept passwords if they start with stuff like a curley brace. That's not a big deal. Generate another password. But I've had some sites totally accept a password when creating an account, but then not save it correctly in the site's database due to some unknown special character. So, later, when you try to log in, you can't.
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I know it's old fashioned, but I still stick to one "main" password part, with some special symbols but easy to remember, and with some variation determined by the site's address added on to it.
Every site is unique, the whole password is usually 10 symbols, and they're not stored anywhere. Unlike with a password manager, I can log in from anywhere I care to without compromising my total security, just remember them all by heart, and not worry about a data breach or targeted attack by someone on a central server.
I mean, yes, someone specifically trying to get into my accounts probably can (except for the ones with money tied to them), but I doubt anyone is going to bother trying to hack my log in for the local newspaper.
Every site is unique, the whole password is usually 10 symbols, and they're not stored anywhere. Unlike with a password manager, I can log in from anywhere I care to without compromising my total security, just remember them all by heart, and not worry about a data breach or targeted attack by someone on a central server.
I mean, yes, someone specifically trying to get into my accounts probably can (except for the ones with money tied to them), but I doubt anyone is going to bother trying to hack my log in for the local newspaper.
GasBandit
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I have 239 logins in my lastpass vault. There is absolutely no way I would remember that many variations on a single password theme, especially as often as there are breaches and passwords need to be changed.
I mean, if what you have works for you, then great... but for me, I've got a ridiculous number of websites I need to log into, and I want them all to have unique passwords.
I'm pretty sure I have a bit less, but still easily over a hundred. Com1A2bc3456?!orumshalf, Co.uk1A2bc3456?!dianguar, etc are perfectly fine easy to remember passwords for individual sites
it does become a bit more problematic when sites need regular changing, but honestly, that mostly applies to work stuff (for which I use another system anyway, ever since I found out the admins at my previous place of employment could enter my mails without my knowledge), and rare important stuff like my bank, for which I use fingerprint ID. Yeah, it works for me, it's not perfect, I'm awareAnd obviously, that's not actually the random bit of placement I use for my passwords.
I, like Bubble, have a "standard" password that I'll morph as necessary based on a site's password rules. I mainly use it for relatively unimportant sites though, like Reddit, HF, etc.
For my more important passwords, the ones that could have financial consequences, such as email, banking, Steam, etc., I created more complicated passwords, which I then wrote down on a piece of paper and hid in my drawer at home.
For my more important passwords, the ones that could have financial consequences, such as email, banking, Steam, etc., I created more complicated passwords, which I then wrote down on a piece of paper and hid in my drawer at home.
I currently use BitWarden for password management, but I don't keep all of my passwords in there - I also have a KeePass database for my work passwords.
I used to use LastPass until LogMeIn bought them 6 years ago and the final straw was when they killed off XMarks. I loved the feature of having all my bookmarks in one spot but have profiles for what I wanted to sync (work/home/etc)
For bookmark sync, I've gone with EverSync - doesn't have profiles, but it at least syncs across browsers with not a lot of headaches... I get enough of those from my day job.
I used to use LastPass until LogMeIn bought them 6 years ago and the final straw was when they killed off XMarks. I loved the feature of having all my bookmarks in one spot but have profiles for what I wanted to sync (work/home/etc)
For bookmark sync, I've gone with EverSync - doesn't have profiles, but it at least syncs across browsers with not a lot of headaches... I get enough of those from my day job.
Probably going to be some sweeeeet deals pretty soon on discontinued SteelSeries peripherals:
www.engadget.com
--Patrick
Jabra's owner buys SteelSeries to expand into gaming gear
Jabra owner GN is buying SteelSeries to expand into gaming gear like headsets.
--Patrick