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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

The issue isn't that you're not well informed.

The issue is that, when confronted with being wrong about something you're uninformed about, you double down and act like an ass.

[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Well, not every metric. I bet the computers generated them way faster, lol. :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

To be clear, harassment and defamation are crimes in the US as well. Freedom of speech doesn't mean that you can harm people with your speech with impunity. It's a prohibition on the government from meddling with political speech, especially that of people who are detractors of the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I think the issue is that, while a country is certainly allowed to write it's own laws, the idea that it is deeply fundamentally immoral for the government to prevent someone from saying something (or compel them to say something) is very deeply baked into the American zeitgeist (of which I am a part.)

So in the same way that a country is perfectly within its sovereign rights to pass a law that women are property or minorities don't have the right to vote, I can still say that it feels wrong of them to do so.

And I would also decry a country that kicks out a company that chooses to employ women or minorities in violation of such a law, even if that is technically their sovereign right to do so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Printing Nazi propaganda isn't illegal in the US.

And I realize this isn't in the US, obviously. But I think that the idea that the government shouldn't be able to ban people from saying things, or compel them to say things, is so baked into the American zeitgeist (of which I am a member), that it feels wrong in a fundamental moral sense when it happens.

It's the old, "I don't agree with anything that man says, but I'll defend to the death his right to say it," thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely beautiful. What a company, lol.

The real beauty of it is that I can't fathom the logic. Unless they're storing the passwords as plaintext, it's not like it can be a storage issue. The hashes will be a constant size. I guess it takes longer to hash bigger inputs, but like, that difference should be unnoticeable until thousands of characters.

Did the engineer who made it truly not fathom that people might have passwords longer than 12 characters? That's the kind of mid-90s logic that makes me genuinely worry that the passwords aren't hashed on the backend, or are just MD5'd or something...

Makes absolutely no sense at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Weird. I had to make up a new one cause all my normal passwords were too long.

Several people on here have had the same issue it seems, and Google agrees thats their limit is 12.

Not sure how you got around it. Maybe you're using a USAA reseller or something? You sure that your password's more than 12 characters?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Tell me about it. USAA has a password policy of "between 8 and 12 characters."

Like, that's not even secure under old understandings of secure. A max of 12 should be, like, an actual offense with sanctions attached if they get hacked at some point. Especially for a financial institution. Ridiculous.

Definitely used a one-off password for that one...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I think he was talking about some of the questionable representation of the tribal peoples in the film.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

The NBA allows women to try out though? It doesn't ban women from competing at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A few I've been big on lately:

The Meat and Dairy Network Podcast - A British humor surrealist comedy podcast about the inner workings of the meat and dairy industry.

The Horror Virgin - A guy who hates scary movies has two friends who make him watch them.

The League of Ultimate Questing - High production actual play DnD podcast. Very funny with some fun hooks.

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