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  • Remembering (and inevitably) forgetting passwords for all your different accounts is inconvenient, frustrating, and arguably less secure than a randomly generated password unique to each account.

    Additionally, it can be tempting to reuse passwords for multiple accounts, which is trouble when a less-than-reputable service that you used that password on is breached, since that password wasn’t unique.

    If you use an open-source, tried and true password manager (Bitwarden, Vaultwarden, KeePassXC) and keep a passphrase unique to that password manager only, you avoid the problems above which are way more likely to occur than Bitwarden passwords getting breached in plaintext, or a security vulnerability to the KeePass database.

    Plus, most password managers offer support for passkeys, which are easier to register/use than passwords. They usually only require a “verify with passkey” button on a given website.

    Bottom line, password managers are probably (definitely) more secure than any other reasonable solution that anyone has come up with.







  • probably not true in most other langauges. although I’m not well versed in the way numbers are represented in code and what makes a number “NaN”, something tells me the technical implications of that would be quite bad in a production environment.

    the definitive way to check for NaN in JS would probably be something like

    // with `num` being an unknown value
    
    // Convert value to a number
    const res = Number(num);
    
    /*
     * First check if the number is 0, since 0 is a falsy
     * value in JS, and if it isn't, `NaN` is the only other
     * falsy number value
     */
    const isNaN = res !== 0 && !res;