Obligatory: ‘Rules for Rulers’ is a very condensed summary of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’.

Took them long enough, it seems. Apparently lack of traffic controllers wasn’t preventing flights last week.

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Passwords are typically sent to the server and hashed there. I’m a bit hazy right now on the implications of client-side hashing, but it would likely present some security problems.

Edit: at the least, it would allow an attacker to use a leaked password database to log in to the sites, sidestepping the whole hashing thing.

There are protocols that send a hashed or encrypted password instead of plaintext, but they’re more complex than just hashing. Iirc they involve a challenge-and-response method.

I remember when Wine was in alpha for twelve years (and then beta for three more). Was surprised to learn that it finally exited that stage, some time ago already.

Germans in the southern hemisphere… Where have I heard it before… 🤔

Nice to see that Reddit’s pointless arguments exist on Lemmy too. I’m gonna feel at home here.

Should work alright if the server handles Unicode correctly, and isn’t one of those ass sites that put restrictions on the password’s length and composition. Hashing functions don’t even care if you’re feeding them raw binary.

Thanks to my password manager, commas are among the more tame characters that occur in my passwords.