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Voting has started: https://news.opensuse.org/2023/11/23/selecting-the-new-face-of-os-is-underway/

Interesting, I can't post here if I select "English" as the post language.
I get an error 400 HTTP status with a JSON error: "language_not_allowed".
It works fine if I leave the language as "Undetermined". Are these just the OpenSuse community settings?

How numbers are pronounced.
In German the number 185 is pronounced as "hundred-five-and-eighty" (hundertfünfundachtzig), the digits are not spoken in order of their magnitude.
Not terrible, not great.

The security of a fully random password depends on the number of available symbols (alphabet) and the length.
The strength of the password is simply symbolcount^length.

For a conventional password the symbols/alphabet are characters, numbers and special characters.
For a mnemonic the symbols are simply full words and the "alphabet" is a list with a couple thousand words.

Mnemonic passwords are secure because of their large alphabet, and easy to remember because of the lower length (in symbols) and because human brains are good at coming up with associations (usually stories) for random words.
If you want to generate your own mnemonic password you can try diceware.
With diceware you roll a few dice to select random words from a list.

"This release includes major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. Special thanks to @phiresky, @ruud, @sunaurus and many others for investigating these."

Hehe, lemmy.world doing some stress testing for the entire lemmy project.

Seems like the subscript markdown doesn't work on Jerboa yet.
Apologies to anyone bothered by the tildes. 🙇

There is value in real people selecting what to post on a link aggregator like lemmy/reddit/... .
I don't want to loose that human feeling, both in posts and comments.
Of course the voting mechanism can do a lot of the heavy lifting, but having a flood of robot posts with a score of one might have a negative effect on good posts getting discovered.

~Hopefully~ ~the~ ~community~ ~will~ ~grow~ ~naturally~ ~to~ ~a~ ~point~ ~where~ ~it~ ~can~ ~satisfy~ ~my~ ~doom-scrolling~ ~addiction.~

Captchas depended on websockets which were removed.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200#issuecomment-1600505757

"Note that captcha uuids and answers were stored in-memory in the websocket server which is removed now, so its necessary to add a new database table for captchas."