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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • What would annoy me about it at least, is the implication that whatever you’re currently doing doesn’t matter at all. To him, whatever is currently on his mind takes precedence over anything you could possibly be doing at the same time. He doesn’t even think about how important or relevant to you the thing is that he wants to show you, because he doesn’t value your time the same as his. You’re supposed to just drop everything and do as you’re told.

    Not telling you what it’s about also increases the sense of urgency (the implication being that there’s no time to explain; the bird could be gone from the windowsill or the kid could have fallen out of the window) while at the same time making it harder to make an informed decision about actually hurrying over or refusing. If you’d ask for an explanation, it might already be too late after all.


  • am I correct in feeling wary of using this from a security standpoint

    I don’t really think you have to be worried about security. Without an official API I’d be more worried about stability and potential data loss due to e.g. bugs in the encryption implementation or unexpected API changes though.

    this is asking you to put in your Proton username and password and 2FA and it gets stored as a token in the config file.

    As far as I can tell it’s just using your username and password to obtain an access token just like any other Proton Drive client, including the offical one, would have to do.


  • It is (or can be) just as secure as a non-mnemonic passcode. The mnemonic aspect just helps with typing it out without errors.

    You’re not really supposed to remember the mnemonic passcode, but save it in your password manager and/or print it out and store it in a secure location.

    Now if you need to use your printed out mnemonic passcode, you just have to type in a bunch of normal words instead of a very long list of random characters and symbols, where it’s easy to make mistakes.





  • Not the Linux client specifically, but compared to other password managers like KeepassXC or 1Password it’s just seriously lacking in even some basic features (e.g. sorting) and has a terrible UX in places.

    This has gotten a little bit better in the web client I think, but folder management in the desktop client for example is still just plain ridiculous. You create a folder by typing its full name in the hierarchy. I.e. to create a folder for Lemmy accounts you might have to create a folder “Websites”, then a folder “Websites/Social Media”, then a folder “Websites/Social Media/Lemmy”. If you then wanted to move your accounts into that folder, there is no multi-select, no drag-and-drop. You have to go into every single account, select edit, click the folder drop-down, select the folder and click save. If you then want to e.g. rename the “Social Media” folder to “Socials”, you again have to go through every single of its subfolders and change the “Social Media” part in their names to “Socials”.

    This has been the case since forever and revamping folder management isn’t even on their roadmap. And don’t even mention “advanced” features like tagging or a trash/archived folder for accounts that shouldn’t be automatically suggested in the browser extension. Like with so many other features that the community has been requesting for ages, development seems to be either very slow or non-existent.

    That said, I’m still a paying Bitwarden user, but if it weren’t for the convenient synchronization between devices and good user/password fields detection of the browser extension I’d switch back to KeepassXC in an instant.