> That’s not a software guy who happened to raise some money. That’s someone whose stated specialty is the PE integration and exit process.
Holy smokes has that's not just -> THAT IS become one of my trigger words.
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
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#92I don't care about raising prices, I'm worried about the new CEO having a PE mindset. That means Bitwarden will now focus on extracting value while the product stagnates and degrades in quality. Time to jump ship before their security and quality goes down the drain.
Not my project but Vaultwarden is an open source (in Rust) alternative backend for Bitwarden. I believe its been around a while, and is still maintained.
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#93I got my parents using bitwarden a few years ago. This was a massive improvement over them writing passwords in a little notebook in a drawer (yes, really!). But Keepass is a bridge too far for them. I'm not that enthusiastic about it myself to be honest. The UX is a bit meh (for the clients/extensions I've tried) and file syncing and handling is not something I can in good conscience push to a non technical user. It…
I switched from KeepassXC and KeepassDX to Vaultwarden, primarily to make it easier to get family members to transition to using password managers.
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#94When I first learnt about Bitwarden about 3 years ago, I started hosting Vaultwarden right away. Right now I have one instance for myself and another for my friend's company. Everything runs as smooth as butter. If you can self-host something, do self-host a Vaultwarden instance. If you are (like me) somewhat paranoid about the fact that Vaultwarden hasn't got a proper security audit on its codebase, just run it behi…
Yes, but vaultwarden isn't something you can casually run by yourself without some careful thinking. You are hosting secrets whose longevity is important, so if deploying yourself, take good care of backups and do regular drills, so you validate that the backups work, that they aren't corrupted and that you keep a copy off-site.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm getting really tired of the enshittification cycle. Learning about android verification and captcha changes recently has been another big frustration point. I moved to android as a more open alternative to apple just a few years ago, and to bitwarden from lastpass around the same time. I would like to just have these infrastructural services work well and quietly without thinking about them for many years. Do I r…
Vendors doing a rug-pull isn't just capitalism. China is adding DRM to AM radio: old receivers won't work. Heck, Soviet WWII ration cards no longer give turmips.
uh, by DRM you mean Digital Radio Mondiale[0], an open digital radio broadcasting standard? sure analog receivers won't work, but hardly a rugpull lol
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#96I have moved to KeepassXC[1] on my desktop from Bitwarden. On phone, I use KeepassDX[2] which is Android client compatible with KeepassXC. On browser, I use KeepassXC Browser extension which connects with the desktop client. Since KeepassXC operates on a single file, you can use any Filesystem syncing tool to sync that file between devices or to store it in the cloud. I am really happy with the move. [1]: https://kee…
This is my exact plan too, if I ever have to leave the Apple ecosystem.
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#97When I first learnt about Bitwarden about 3 years ago, I started hosting Vaultwarden right away. Right now I have one instance for myself and another for my friend's company. Everything runs as smooth as butter. If you can self-host something, do self-host a Vaultwarden instance. If you are (like me) somewhat paranoid about the fact that Vaultwarden hasn't got a proper security audit on its codebase, just run it behi…
Yes, but vaultwarden isn't something you can casually run by yourself without some careful thinking. You are hosting secrets whose longevity is important, so if deploying yourself, take good care of backups and do regular drills, so you validate that the backups work, that they aren't corrupted and that you keep a copy off-site.
You should be doing regular exports/backups of your vault regardless of how it's hosted. Bitwarden could go belly up tomorrow and lose all their stored vault data.
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#98What a shame. I've been a paying Bitwarden customer since 2018. I really don't have time to move off yet, but I'll need to keep an eye out for where to jump. It sucks that this seems to just be the logical conclusion of all great projects.
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#100> That’s not a software guy who happened to raise some money. That’s someone whose stated specialty is the PE integration and exit process. Holy smokes has that's not just -> THAT IS become one of my trigger words.
It's almost certainly ai written though. All the regular tells are there... Though he likely edited some out, like that "just"
Also if it was handwritten, it'd have been a third in length, the rest was LLM fluff