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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
  • I'm with you, despite seeing lemmings downvote the heck out of your comment 😢

    The reason, and specifically for whitespace at the beginning or end of a password, is that a lot of users copy-paste their passwords into the form, and for various reasons, whitespace can get pasted in, causing an invalid match. No bueno.

    Source: I'm a web developer who has seen this enough times that we had to implement a whitespace-trim validation for both setting & entering passwords.

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    Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis
  • I'm guessing here, I don't think Musk, the person, took out the loans, I think xitter did. So if xitter defaults, Musk's assets aren't on the line.

    Edit for clarity: 'leveraged buyout with debt reassignment post acquisition'

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    Which is which?
  • It's not the right answer, but all the same, my head said:

    Queen bees and Dodo birds

    ... - I think that checks out.

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    Boxers or Briefs?
  • Oh that's interesting! Locally in the US I'm always noticing the opposite: it's all briefs or boxer-briefs, rarely boxers.

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    Fantasies
  • 5:30am. Same. Nice and ironic this was the first post I clicked on after giving up on just going back to sleep.

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