A better version of this might be https://piper.gq/ that I made last month.
Password Generator
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Re: Password Generator
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You might be interested in https://github.com/laerling/xkcdget , the correcthorsebatterystaple-type version of my own https://github.com/majewsky/pwget .
It looks cool, but I'd rather use completely independent random passwords. You seem like a nice person, but I don't trust you you to have gotten your crypto totally right. Someday I'll describe how a massive flaw in my understanding of gpg and pass let me recover from loosing my gpg key. One small comment: the password I remember is the password I type, or I run into issues. If the sentence has "the" and plurals, so…
> You seem like a nice person, but I don't trust you you to have gotten your crypto totally right.
That's the correct position to hold. Note that my readme makes you read through big fat warnings and security considerations before getting to installation and usage instructions.
Re: Password Generator
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It looks cool, but I'd rather use completely independent random passwords. You seem like a nice person, but I don't trust you you to have gotten your crypto totally right. Someday I'll describe how a massive flaw in my understanding of gpg and pass let me recover from loosing my gpg key. One small comment: the password I remember is the password I type, or I run into issues. If the sentence has "the" and plurals, so…
> You seem like a nice person, but I don't trust you you to have gotten your crypto totally right. That's the correct position to hold. Note that my readme makes you read through big fat warnings and security considerations before getting to installation and usage instructions.
I did note that, and I agree you're completely correct to disclaim I shouldn't use your work if I would hB relying on its security. I chose to listen to you :)
Re: Password Generator
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Why thank you :) From the perspective of someone who's just getting started with learning to code, perl seems like a pile of spermaceti: was once very important, could be turned into beautifully smelling products so long as you didn't pay too much attention to the production process, and no longer needed because of modern synthetics :) But I've only ever read people mocking perl, never built anything with it. It appe…
Perl's problem is that it's more confusing than it is powerful. I think most of the people who were into Perl for the "beauty" ended up going to ruby. People who were into it for CPAN went to python. You might find this interesting, as you can see the spirit is alive and well: https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi... ruby -0ane 'print $F.shuffle[0..3].join,"\n"' If you're intrigued by the idea…
Or Raku https://raku.org:
raku -e 'say lines.pick(4).join' < /usr/share/dict/words