Random irritations/questions

[Ave IT]

Bitwarden - nuff said - free

I'm sure it's good but way too late for me now I think. I must have hundreds of passwords by now including all my work stuff. The most annoying is when you don't even know you had a password already. I tried to do click-and- collect from Screwfix recently just for some bleddy Jubilee clips only to be told "that email already exists" .... then forced to go thru the dance of guessing passwords, giving up, getting a reset email, then 'changing' the password that I'll forget again in a few years I next want something trivial ... FFS!!.....

Dont get me started on the complications of half-forgotten family stuff either. My daughter's learner-driver car insurance for example .... Now did I do that with her email or mine? Then again the car she's learning on is in my wife's name - so maybe it was in her name and on her insurance? .... But wait - I cleverly saved all that info somewhere but being security minded I saved it with some indirect 'clues' so nobody but me could possibly guess it ..... Except even when I eventually find it I'm buggered if I can now guess it either! FFS!!!!!!

So please - just inject me with the ID chip now!!

 

[Ham Green]

Employers: If you want to work for us, please fill out our massively over-complicated online form. On the last page we'll ask you to upload a CV containing the exact same information.
Plus a covering letter. Please make sure it's readable in Microsoft Word '97.
Then maybe we'll be in touch.

If we do get in touch, we'll invite you for an interview.

And then another interview.

And then an assessment day.

And then another interview.

Then we'll need you to provide us with a 30-year checkable work history, even though you've already provided that twice.

Then another interview.

Then we'll bring you in to give a presentation.

Then a trial shift.

Then another interview.

If you pass all of this, we may offer you a job. Or we might just completely ghost you.


Also employers: damn we're having real trouble recruiting and retaining staff right now, I wonder why.


Seriously, any employers on here, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

 

[Argylegames]

I'm sure it's good but way too late for me now I think. I must have hundreds of passwords by now

Bitwarden will remember current ones for you when you use them. If you need new ones it can be asked to generate new ones and will remember them next time you need them. It is an extension for chrome/chromium browsers and is available on phones too. You just need to remember one password - Bitwarden's

 

[Argylegames]

People who have "This email has been checked by xyz antivirus" at the end of their emails (and their usenet posts!!!)

 

[Mat]

I'm sure it's good but way too late for me now I think. I must have hundreds of passwords by now including all my work stuff. The most annoying is when you don't even know you had a password already. I tried to do click-and- collect from Screwfix recently just for some bleddy Jubilee clips only to be told "that email already exists" .... then forced to go thru the dance of guessing passwords, giving up, getting a reset email, then 'changing' the password that I'll forget again in a few years I next want something trivial ... FFS!!.....

Dont get me started on the complications of half-forgotten family stuff either. My daughter's learner-driver car insurance for example .... Now did I do that with her email or mine? Then again the car she's learning on is in my wife's name - so maybe it was in her name and on her insurance? .... But wait - I cleverly saved all that info somewhere but being security minded I saved it with some indirect 'clues' so nobody but me could possibly guess it ..... Except even when I eventually find it I'm buggered if I can now guess it either! FFS!!!!!!

So please - just inject me with the ID chip now!!

There’s a lot to be said for a hugely complex password that you deliberately forget, and reset every time you want to use a website. No duplicate passwords across systems.

There are many good password management systems as well, as previously mentioned.

 

[MickyD]

Homogenous. No, no, no. It's homogeneous.

I blame those 'homogenised milk' ads back whenever they were on telly (70s, 80s?). Only after that did I start to hear people saying homogenous.

 

[Lousy Pint]

Homogenous. No, no, no. It's homogeneous.

I blame those 'homogenised milk' ads back whenever they were on telly (70s, 80s?). Only after that did I start to hear people saying homogenous.

It's all the same to me Micky!

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

Pubs where you're not trusted to carry your pint from the bar to the table, or where you're not allowed to go to the bar. Mr Landlord, if you don't let your customers go to the bar in your pub, what you have is a restaurant.

 

[greeninbrasil]

People who reply to a guestion, starting by saying “yes, no” or vice versa, bloody confusing to us oldies

 

[Lousy Pint]

The Mbappe era at Real.
I'm already bored pooless with it. A mere 4 articles on the BBC sport site this morning.

 

[mervyn]

The pointlessness of the electronic sign on the A38 at Halton Hill which regularly says ‘this sign is not in use’. Oh yes it is. It’s the circularity of it. A bit like looking up your bum to see if your hat’s on straight.

 

[Brussels Bureaucrat]

The Mbappe era at Real.
I'm already bored pooless with it. A mere 4 articles on the BBC sport site this morning.

I'm turning into such a grump about elite level football but I completely agree with you. Wonderful footballer but I just don't care any more.

 

[Jon with no H]

Has anyone else noticed the seemingly large number of discarded tyres in central reservations in numerous motorways in England?

I drove from Plymouth to Bolton and back yesterday and couldn't help but notice a staggering number of these tyres on various parts of the M5 and M6, which I thought I had imagined when driving from Bolton to Plymouth last month.

I'm also fascinated by the armchair that appears to have been placed on the A38 just before the south (or is it west? It's towards Cornwall, for sure) bound Deep Lane exit on the A38 as if someone wanted to have a comfortable place to watch the cars flying past.

 

[Greenarmy96]

People who sign off their posts on Pasoti. It says your name at the top??

Greenarmy96

 

[Frank Butcher]

There’s a lot to be said for a hugely complex password that you deliberately forget, and reset every time you want to use a website. No duplicate passwords across systems.

There are many good password management systems as well, as previously mentioned.

Complexity is good to mitigate guessing, but length of password is more important as it increases the number of permutations. Character generators don’t care what they’re looking for and sites that ask for complexity can, for example, still allow something like Abc123!!

Not saying it doesn’t help but sites would be better off focussing on length rather than complexity. Clearly, a combination of both is preferable.