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Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by whstl »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #139
lexandstuff wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm confused about what you're fucking off. Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form? Being able to schedule appointments online is one of the big wins of modern life imo: it beats waiting around on hold and laboriously explaining to the receptionist how to spell my last name.

There are things that work anonymously (or at least pseudonymously) already: pizza delivery or hotel booking. It's not like the data presented at a random registration form has to reflect your government ID. Skipping the login step just saves the hassle, and preserves the win of being able to do things online.

Exactly. Purchasing with a guest login works fine for most shops here.

In this specific case I was talking about it's even worse: I already have to click a link in the email (or answer an SMS) to confirm the appointment. It's ludicrous.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by justsomehnguy »

lexandstuff wrote: post #131
whstl wrote: post #100

I'm probably the one with the least. I have 35 in my password manager. I purge the ones I don't need every 2 or 3 months. I even gave away GOG and Steam accounts to friends after years of not playing games. Sometimes I have to send a threatening email to delete some accounts. Currently there's about 2 I'm waiting for an answer. It's gotten worse lately: people just don't delete your account anymore :D. Because of tha…

I'm confused about what you're fucking off. Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form? Being able to schedule appointments online is one of the big wins of modern life imo: it beats waiting around on hold and laboriously explaining to the receptionist how to spell my last name.

> Would you prefer to schedule haircuts via a call or an anonymous online form?

Why the hell no?

At worst "an anonymous form" can ask for your mobile number only to remind you about the appointment (if it's not today for example). At best it should be really optional. In both cases there is absolutely zero need for both a login and a password.

I have a local pizza joint working like that - you just punch in what you need, your number with SMS code confirmation and you are in, with your address/es and pizza coins or whatever. And they have your number to contact you if anything is wrong with the order/delivery.

Another one just asks for a number and call back to confirm with an operator.

Why the hell I do need a login, a password and email|Facebook|whatever for a pizza delivery?

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by an_ko »

snailmailman wrote: post #136

Over 300 in a self-hosted vaultwarden. I’ve got my vault password memorized but that’s about it. All 300+ are secure randomly generated ones that I do not know. And I’ve got 2FA stored there too. Despite the huge number of accounts, logging into anything is seamless across any of my devices. And access to my vaultwarden is securely protected. Password managers are great. Really looking forward to vaultwarden eventual…

What's the point of 2FA if you store it in the same place as the first auth factor?

Or maybe I've misunderstood. Are they behind different master passwords or something?

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by whstl »

causality0 wrote: post #59
morkalork wrote: post #55

Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!

I take a pragmatic approach: the dozen logins in my life that actually matter get strong unique passwords, and everything I don't give a shit about gets the same password.

I don't know if I agree. A password manager is more pragmatic even for just a handful of accounts.

Whether it is safe or not, people can argue, but more practical? It definitely is.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by powvans »

a2128 wrote: post #128
akira2501 wrote: post #58

If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, "Forgot my password" is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero. As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as "guest" hasn't been a problem of any sort. There's like 10 critical things that I feel the need to…

For websites I really don't care about, I just get a disposable email on dropmail, and copy paste the email address to both the email and password fields to save time. Surprisingly, some websites check this and won't allow you to set your password to your email, but removing the last character or adding a 1 at the end works around it.

Why even go to that much trouble?

If it’s truly a throwaway I just use an email address like shitsinthewoods@mailinator.com, grab what I need, and go on with my life. If I ever happen to need to login again, I’ll just send a password reset to the mailinator address and once again carry on with life.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by irrational »

According to bitwarden, I have 363. Though, I have more than that that are not stored in bitwarden. Some of them are my work accounts, others are ones I created while on mobile where it is a pain to add them to bitwarden. The real number is closer to 400.
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