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Stop Putting Your Passwords into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are the PR

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Re: Stop Putting Your Passwords into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are the PR

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post #5

I make up all my passwords on the spot and never write them down. Every service I use has a different password I may or may not remember. If I need to reset it, so be it. I consider changing my passwords frequently a good thing. Yes, it slows me down from time to time, but whatever. And for something I use every day like email, I just leave myself signed in on my main devices. But eventually that even gets reset...pr…

keepassxc is a decent option too

Re: Stop Putting Your Passwords into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are the PR

#12

This is wild. I figured it was going to be something about reusing password but no it’s just a treasure trove of secrets from folks formatting JSON and saving it to a public link. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would do this, I haven’t used a language which doesn’t have some sort of pretty print functionality built into the common/standard JSON library. What’s crazier is everyone’s browser can do th…

What's crazier is that a lot of it is not even JSON, so it's not being formatted at all.

Re: Stop Putting Your Passwords into Random Websites (Yes, Seriously, You Are the PR

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one if you do `copy(JSON.stringify(data,{}, 2))`. A very useful tool when you need to get the auth token from here over to there! Also if you are someone who needs JSON then install jq and do `pbpaste | jq . | pbcopy`.

Is jq not pre installed?

Yow you're right. I've got one at /usr/bin as well as the one I thought I had to install. What a world!!
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