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Archive for June 19th, 2025

Keyboard shortcuts in social media: Twitter still tops is; BSKY needs a plugin; Mastodon is buggy

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19

One reason I still use Twitter is that it trumps keyboard shortcuts over other social media I use.

References:

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zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19

Many web-sites and password managers have a strength indicator built-in.

This is a really good example (with open source JavaScript code!) of one: [Wayback/Archive] zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX

Be aware though that it stores a plain text file named passwords.txt on your system (this seems to confuse some users, especially when their password is in it).

Homans password behaviour does not change much over time, so this half hour 2016 presentation on it is still current: [Wayback/Archive] USENIX Security ’16 – zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation – YouTube for which you can download:

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Posted in Chrome, Development, Edge, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Safari, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 2 Comments »