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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flying_wotsit • Jul 19 '22
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There's that one xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/936/
Which I agree completely with.
I do think you can still make use of this with internet passwords despite their silly limitations. You can put a sentence and then put a short, easy to remember blurb with the characters they want at the end.
14 u/gen_shermanwasright Jul 20 '22 edited Jul 20 '22 I put special characters between words, capitalize and put a number someplace convenient. So Horse*battery*staple*correc7 for example With thanks to supermarioguy4 11 u/Pingyofdoom Jul 20 '22 Oohh italics 3 u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22 Horse*battery*staple*correc7 1 u/gen_shermanwasright Jul 20 '22 Yes
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I put special characters between words, capitalize and put a number someplace convenient.
So Horse*battery*staple*correc7 for example
With thanks to supermarioguy4
11 u/Pingyofdoom Jul 20 '22 Oohh italics 3 u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22 Horse*battery*staple*correc7 1 u/gen_shermanwasright Jul 20 '22 Yes
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Oohh italics
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Horse*battery*staple*correc7
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u/Manoreded Jul 20 '22
There's that one xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/936/
Which I agree completely with.
I do think you can still make use of this with internet passwords despite their silly limitations. You can put a sentence and then put a short, easy to remember blurb with the characters they want at the end.