Shit that annoys you

[dan_pdx]

Re: passwords, obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/

I don't think having your passwords written down somewhere is the worst approach, as long as they're strong. If the bad guys are in your house, you probably have bigger problems than the security of your passwords. Might be a good idea to keep them somewhere other than next to your computer though.

[Mustonen]

Per XKCD pick a passphrase. Use correct grammar, spaces, and punctuation. When you make it more complicated than that the only person you’ll fool is yourself.

[old goat]

My wife keeps passwords on little pieces of paper she tapes to her laptop which she takes everywhere. Is that OK?

I use Google's password rememberer (I don't think it's a true password manager but maybe it is?) Only the fifty or so passwords I don't give a shit about are in it. You want to pay my phone bill? Knock yourself out. According to Google that password is compromised but still nobody has paid it. That narrows it down to a few passwords I care about and I can remember those and if not they are written down and all of them have two factor authentication and anyway apparently passwords are going away in favor of tokens and other stuff that will have it's own problems.

[Thaleia]

Had a manager ~10 years ago - very large multinational corporation, senior position. All of his passwords were on little post it's surrounding his monitor.

[riser4]

My wife keeps passwords on little pieces of paper she tapes to her laptop which she takes everywhere. Is that OK?

I use Google's password rememberer (I don't think it's a true password manager but maybe it is?) Only the fifty or so passwords I don't give a shit about are in it. You want to pay my phone bill? Knock yourself out. According to Google that password is compromised but still nobody has paid it. That narrows it down to a few passwords I care about and I can remember those and if not they are written down and all of them have two factor authentication and anyway apparently passwords are going away in favor of tokens and other stuff that will have it's own problems.

If it's a cell phone account you actually might want to care. SIM swapping is a thing.

[paulster2626]

When you die, whoever has to pick up your social media pieces and bank stuff (and cash in those reward points!) will GREATLY appreciate that password book kept beside the computer. Solid move.

Write your phone pass code in there too.

[Supermoon]

When you die, whoever has to pick up your social media pieces and bank stuff (and cash in those reward points!) will GREATLY appreciate that password book kept beside the computer. Solid move.

Write your phone pass code in there too.

Last thing I want is someone who likes/loves me to get into my phone or computer and realize they were wrong this whole time

[skaredshtles]

When you die, whoever has to pick up your social media pieces and bank stuff (and cash in those reward points!) will GREATLY appreciate that password book kept beside the computer. Solid move.

Write your phone pass code in there too.

This is a good argument for consolidation in the finance realm for folks, and a robust process for getting into the password manager in an emergency situation.

[Ted Striker]

Last thing I want is someone who likes/loves me to get into my phone or computer and realize they were wrong this whole time

lol, so much this.

That xkcd comic is pretty old, and unfortunately most sites for important stuff won't allow correcthorsebatterystaple anymore. It's lowercase, uppercase, number, symbol. Which leads me to the "annoys me" part... one bank says sure the hashtag is an acceptable symbol, while another bank says no way, but can we interest you in a nice ampersand? Even the exclamation point isn't universally accepted!

[Garbowski]

Having to change your password every 6 months is pretty annoying. I think that practice has been proven to be less secure.

[paulster2626]

Last thing I want is someone who likes/loves me to get into my phone or computer and realize they were wrong this whole time

Nobody is going to go snooping, and you're dead anyway so who cares.

This is just so they can go and delete your facebook account and unsubscribe to all those onlyfans things. It also helps to log in to someone's bank account and put a freeze on all cards and accounts the second they kick the bucket. Trust me on this - your passwords will be appreciated no matter how fucked up and traumatizing your 'secret folder' is.

[skaredshtles]

lol, so much this.

That xkcd comic is pretty old, and unfortunately most sites for important stuff won't allow correcthorsebatterystaple anymore. It's lowercase, uppercase, number, symbol. Which leads me to the "annoys me" part... one bank says sure the hashtag is an acceptable symbol, while another bank says no way, but can we interest you in a nice ampersand? Even the exclamation point isn't universally accepted!

Another advantage of the pw manager - just go to the password generator and hit the refresh until you get a password that meets the requirements.

[riser4]

Last thing I want is someone who likes/loves me to get into my phone or computer and realize they were wrong this whole time

Noice.

[Thaleia]

When you die, whoever has to pick up your social media pieces and bank stuff (and cash in those reward points!) will GREATLY appreciate that password book kept beside the computer. Solid move.

Write your phone pass code in there too.

Funny you should mention that - I've made a point to tell my direct family about said book for that reason.

But really in that respect - everyone should keep a list all of your various bank accounts, investments, debts, properties, insurance, vehicle and yes social media accounts etc information so when you pass, the Executer of your Estate has all of your details already in one place.

After going through the process of being an Executer I would say it's as important as a will or power of attorney.

[Ted Striker]

It should also be in one physical location. When we went through this with my grandfather, the safe deposit box at the bank was mostly old irrelevant stuff, and things like "where's the title for this car?" ended up being "found it in a shoe box at the back of the upstairs closet."

[seano732]

Fuck Xfinity. Still stuck with the fuckers. Fidium keeps showing on a map that I'm in their service area. And I keep submitting a pre-order. They can't tell me when they are going to actually hook up my portion of the street.

Posted for posterity. Xfinity/ Comcast can eat a dick. https://youtu.be/KMcny_pixDw?si=lJi-m2hwOURZDSDA


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[Rideski]

Isn’t this neighborhood charming? The cute brick ranches. The historic bungalows with their breezy porches. The old apartment buildings that symbolize our romantic notions of the working class.

Even the duplexes are just adorable. It’s inspiring how people share walls and divide roofs right down the middle. So egalitarian.

Yes, we love the character of this neighborhood, which is why we bought a house, tore it down, and built a mansion resembling a La Quinta Inn.

It wasn’t an easy decision, but once Brad talked to the architect, it just made sense to go with five stories, nine bedrooms, eleven bathrooms, and a six-car garage with a glass door that reflects the setting sun like the Eye of Sauron.

Did I mention how we love the big porches here? They’re such cute little areas for sitting and talking to your neighbors. It’s too bad they aren’t considered “livable space” and do not add to a home’s value.

That’s why our new home has a porch the width of the front door and the depth of a cardboard box. Depending on your Amazon driver’s creativity, you can stack the boxes six to eight high.

We also love all the yards around here. It feels like you can really relax and breathe—a great place to feel the grass between your toes.

It’s such a shame yards don’t count toward a home’s value either. This is why we left two sixteen-inch-wide strips of zoning-mandated grass on either side of the house and dug up the front yard—sorry, azaleas!—for the vaulted great room with a floor-to-ceiling wine rack.

Speaking of greenery, we just fell in love with the trees in this neighborhood. They provide so much shade. But they also take up a lot of space. And sometimes, in the fall, they make such a mess. And Brad has allergies.

So we cut down the oak trees older than your great-grandparents to make way for the indoor trampoline park.

Let me add that we believe it’s important to give back to the community. That’s why we built the world’s first subterranean Buffalo Wild Wings franchise in the basement. Everybody is invited to the restaurant tonight. Here’s a coupon for 10 percent off your first visit.

Also, if you’ve ever considered selling your home, tonight would be a good time to discuss it over a plate of Cheddar Cheese Curds. Brad just loves the Bulleit Bourbon Sauce.

We love this neighborhood, and we pledge to do our part to ensure that it never changes unless the benefits to us are undeniable. We’d be fools not to take advantage of this housing market.

[pfluffenmeister]

Golf clap.

[Jax]

My cc info and other shit was compromised. Thanks Ticketmaster for the free credit reporting for a year. Bastards.

Some shit needs to go back to paper.

[Flounder]

The usual fucking airline shit. I won’t say I’ll never fly Delta again because I’ve been screwed by every airline. This trip has been hell. Maintenance delay made us miss our connection, even with a 2 1/2 hour layover. Rerouted through SLC and now our final flight is delayed due to 1 missing flight attendant. You’d think with SLC being a major delta hub it’d be easy to find one. Nope, they are flying one in for from Minneapolis, where we just came from. We get to sit for 4 hours and wait for them to arrive. Now the rental car will be closed when we arrive. Looks like sleeping in the floor until 6am when they open.

[plugboots]

And nothing from them for the problems they caused.
Fucked w/o even a kiss.

[Boissal]

The usual fucking airline shit. I won’t say I’ll never fly Delta again because I’ve been screwed by every airline. This trip has been hell. Maintenance delay made us miss our connection, even with a 2 1/2 hour layover. Rerouted through SLC and now our final flight is delayed due to 1 missing flight attendant. You’d think with SLC being a major delta hub it’d be easy to find one. Nope, they are flying one in for from Minneapolis, where we just came from. We get to sit for 4 hours and wait for them to arrive. Now the rental car will be closed when we arrive. Looks like sleeping in the floor until 6am when they open.

Can relate, although not to that level.

Just got back from France, flew SLC-JFK-GVA and back with Ms Boissal and Little Miss Boissal who just turned 1. I won't list all of the bullshit we had to deal with but one highlight was the fact that the gate-checked stroller was at the gate for only 1 of our 4 flights. The rest of the time it came out with the regular luggage so we got to hoof it though the airport with all our carry-ons and the baby in arms. Including the insane wait in TSA and immigration lines in seemingly non air-conditioned areas. When we finally got home to SLC at 11:30pm (24 hours after waking up with only 1 hour of sleep for the little one) the stroller never appeared. I managed to harpoon a Delta luggage person who told me it was at the gate, in direct contradiction to what the gate agent told me. I had to get a gate pass from her, go back through TSA, hike the mile of airport hallway to the gate, then hike back with the stroller.

Bonus mention to the luggage issue on the GVA-JFK flight. Only 2 of our 3 checked bags came out, the missing one containing 3 bottles of wine and 3 kilos of cheese that would not have fared well if they had stayed out of the fridge for much longer (read: turn into a serious biohazard). One dude with a laptop was hanging out in a corner of the hall, apparently in charge of all 9 carousels disgorging the luggage of every incoming international flight. In the span of an hour he went from assuring me the bag was coming right out to telling me to make my connection and file a claim on arrival. Apparently the bag (along with a few others) was unloaded with the rest but for some reason was sent on a little excursion all over the airport and nobody had any clue when it would resurface. We had another hour before risking not making our connection so decided to wait. I sat in front of the carousel twiddling my thumb, watching it occasionally turn on and one of the other passengers in my situation luck out. After an hour I decided to call it, retrieved wife and baby, and started walking away. Literally 10' before exiting the luggage are my phone vibrated with a notification that the bag had been scanned. It came out a minute later, just in time for us to sweat our way through a 1.5 hour TSA lane and make it to the gate for boarding.

Wine and cheese arrived in good condition. The humans not so much. I'd rather take a bus in S America than travel by plane these days...

[MontuckyFried]

The usual fucking airline shit.

Man, that always is teh suckage. Reminds me of this South Park classic. The running joke in the episode was "Still beats what you have to go through at the airport" or something to that effect.

[chicken feathers]

Shitty neighbors. They wait till the evening to start ripping boards, or run the fuel out of their boat, or mow their .25 acre lot for an hour. Fucking white trash losers.

[Vt-Freeheel]

musk promises the one way flights to Mars will be musk more reliable.