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Cake day: July 10th, 2024

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  • I think I started with Mint 13. After hopping around for years I’m now on Debian.

    I recommend Mint to people in general. It’s perfect for most people. We shouldn’t be required to learn about everything in the world.

    I don’t expect anyone to become a mechanic just because they need a car. If that were a requirement then most people would just not get a car. It’s also okay to continue driving and never becoming a mechanic later.





  • This year I’ve gotten about four that match what you describe. Before that I got maybe ten that were supposed to look like just normal people. Some of them often followed eachother.

    They have all been on mastodon.social, which is what I first noticed and found weird. Personally I’m on a small and niche server being run by a dude in his garage. I barely have any followers and don’t post much. There’s not many ways to just randomly discover me on Mastodon.






  • In practice, yes. IF IMPLEMENTED PROPERLY it would be extremely unlikely for an attacker to get in.

    For example with a proper implementation of TOTP it would require an attacker to guess the correct number between 1 and a million in less than a minute. Most services make you wait a little bit (often less than humans notice) between attempts and don’t allow infinite attempts, so an attacker would have to be unimaginably lucky.

    There are sadly lots of huge companies that DON’T IMPLEMENT 2FA PROPERLY. Sony Entertainment (account for PlayStation) for example. So a unique and long password is still important.