• @[email protected]
    11•2 years ago

    Not really underrated but one that most people probably dont know, hackaday.com. Its all about hardware hacking, which is primarily people making stuff with electronics or making them do things they werent designed to do but they also have a whole heap of non electronics stuff. If you can make it, and its clever, it belongs there!

    • @[email protected]English
      9•2 years ago

      Crontab generator was my gateway to all things ‘generator’. Looking for a quick way to construct something? Google it + generator to see if someone has created a generator site for it.

      • @[email protected]
        3•2 years ago

        Just don’t be that guy that uses a website to generate passwords. If you’re going to generate passwords it needs to be a trusted utility that runs locally otherwise someone has your password.

        • @[email protected]
          5•2 years ago

          If the website generating the password a) doesn’t know the site/account and b) doesn’t know the username then it doesn’t matter. And c) with 2fa knowing a password doesn’t grant access by itself.

          If a site is decently coded, it would be run in client side scripting like JavaScript anyway. It wouldn’t require anything being sent to the site.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            If a site is decently coded

            This is the crux of the issue. The average internet user, the kind of user going to a random website to generate a password, would not be able to find this out. For all we know, even without the username, a randomly generated password could be saved to a wordlist after it’s generated. That would be pretty smart, since now you have a list of known used passwords that someone went through the effort to generate to secure something more valuable. (Which would refute your points A and B)

            And your point C, not always. By your same logic, you’d be comfortable using “password” as long as you have 2FA? There is always a possibility of 2FA being bypassed through some other vulnerability depending on its implementation. This is why it’s TWO (or multi) factor authentication. In case one factor is compromised, you have another layer of defense. If you use a compromised password (by either using “password” or a sketchy password generator), then you’ve effectively reverted yourself back to one factor authentication. Or zero, if you didn’t have MFA.

            Don’t listen to anyone suggesting otherwise. Don’t use random websites. Either stick to a password manager to generate them for you, or take it completely offline with a dice roll-based generation.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      Oh how I wish I knew this existed years ago! My standard procedure is to go to systemd’s doc website and spend 10 minutes looking for the option I want.

  • @[email protected]English
    43•2 years ago

    https://exercism.org

    Learn coding on a site that seems to get it right. Lots of information, multiple languages, and mentors to help you get past a difficult problem.

    Fantastic site, highly recommended!

    • @[email protected]
      7•2 years ago

      Wow, I’m in computer science 1 this semester and my instructor is not great at breaking things down. This may help save my semester!

        • @[email protected]
          3•2 years ago

          I was too lazy to pull out my laptop last night, but I looked at it on my phone and it looks like it’s going to be such a helpful resource! I’m going to share with a few of my classmates who are also struggling with the lack of instruction. You’ve definitely helped at least one poor computer science student, thank you so much!

        • @[email protected]
          5•2 years ago

          Just dug in some more and saw it’s open-source too, and they teach you how to contribute. I’m in love.

          I’ve been planning to learn Javascript and Python – you just made my month!