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Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

look at what the Password Industrial Complex has been demanding your Respect for this entire time (these are real inconveniences dreamt up by real sweaty guys in meetings):

- fascist slop password managers (almost all of them)
- registration forms that don’t allow automatic input and require a complex password, and then a year later you get the email telling you the password leaked online cause they stored it unhashed in mongodb or whatever
- passwords suck, let’s make every login a “forgot password” link with the associated email spam and jank and incredible slowness
- getting dark patterned into using a passkey, a system that has so much Discourse online that I’m pretty sure it has no chance of being good
- your second factor is just your first factor but less convenient
- did you accidentally click yes on the passkey popup yet? come onnnnnnn

they have played us for absolute fools