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Can you elaborate on that claim? I couldn't find anything substantial in the article.

I'm not being facetious though. Off-site backups of a digital password collection are easy to setup and maintain. But when you change your password or add a new entry, it's going to be a pain in the ass to have to drive over and update a physical copy.

If you can live with those downsides, that's fine. But in my opinion it would be facetious to pretend a physical backup is "just as good/usable" as a digital one.

-edit: whoops, misread that as implying that I was being facetious. As you were sir -

If getting a Dropbox account is too difficult for them, I seriously wonder why they'd be subscribed here, or reading articles about password management in browsers.

If you never, ever need your passwords outside of your home, that's great advice - it's as secure as can be against digital theft. Less so against fire though, and backups are out of the question.

I guess now is as good a time as any for them to start using a proper password manager.

Personally, I recommend Keepass - it has multiple clients for all platforms, and you can keep the file in sync with a program of your own choosing, like Dropbox, syncthing or whatever you like.

Like, duh. That's Dehumanising 101. It's like they weren't even paying attention.

You just need to able to get there instantly, and after that, the ability to tread water for a long, long time.

Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.

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I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.

Sure, some of those links are different. But you have to admit, even if you are interested in this story, 5 times is a bit excessive.

Since you asked, here are the other four times it was posted.

• https://lemmy.world/post/17906460
• https://lemmy.world/post/17913261
• https://lemmy.world/post/17930528
• https://lemmy.world/post/17949956

There was a fifth one, but that one has since been removed.

How many times is this going to be posted? I've seen this several times now over the past few days.

Right now, sure. But remember that 10 years ago, neural net generated images were putting eyes everywhere, and wouldn't create anything close to a believable photo. I wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now, video's will have made a similar leap.

On the other hand, I do hope that between now and then, some laws will have been put in place to only train on ethically sourced datasets - which will slow down progress, but is more fair to the creators.