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Derek27
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You're all set up - FINISHED!!

Then a flipping barrel-load of questions and screens!!
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Derek27
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Randomly generated passwords should not have "vv" together. Set your generator to avoid similar characters and it still has "I" and "l", in some fonts they look the same!
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Derek27 wrote:
Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:19 am
Randomly generated passwords should not have "vv" together. Set your generator to avoid similar characters and it still has "I" and "l", in some fonts they look the same!
Stumbled across that the other day - think they changed the kerning although my font files for Arial date back to May 22 so not recent - although could be the display driver not obeying the kerning prompt in the file which is a more likely cause since never noticed this particularly before in any version of windows

Try lower case R and N together - viewing csv in excel and had me searching for a bug in my csv file generator program whereas I just had to read it correctly - need to wear auto-kerning MS glasses !
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foxwood wrote:
Tue Jun 18, 2024 4:27 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:19 am
Randomly generated passwords should not have "vv" together. Set your generator to avoid similar characters and it still has "I" and "l", in some fonts they look the same!
Stumbled across that the other day - think they changed the kerning although my font files for Arial date back to May 22 so not recent - although could be the display driver not obeying the kerning prompt in the file which is a more likely cause since never noticed this particularly before in any version of windows

Try lower case R and N together - viewing csv in excel and had me searching for a bug in my csv file generator program whereas I just had to read it correctly - need to wear auto-kerning MS glasses !
I don't use generated passwords. I'm paranoid that if they present me with a password it bypasses the point of a password. But I recognise this is an alarmist view. :-)
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There's more technology in a modern smartphone than there was in the first vehicle to land on the moon, but we still don't have the coding expertise to make clock widgets with a secondhand. I bet the Apollo Lunar Module had a clock with a secondhand!
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Jun 21, 2024 2:15 pm
There's more technology in a modern smartphone than there was in the first vehicle to land on the moon, but we still don't have the coding expertise to make clock widgets with a secondhand. I bet the Apollo Lunar Module had a clock with a secondhand!
Certainly more computing power. What we have done with that power is a debate.
But the moon expeditions were simply sensational. What us humans can do when we're positive and not squabbling on terra firma is immense. With power comes responsibiity. Who said that? Confucius. Oh bugger, it was Spiderman - I'll get me coat!
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I've read some pretty stupid things on the internet, but a recipe that requires "one bowl" of flour in its ingredients is just about the pinnacle!
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Derek27 wrote:
Sat Jun 22, 2024 8:14 pm
I've read some pretty stupid things on the internet, but a recipe that requires "one bowl" of flour in its ingredients is just about the pinnacle!
:lol: But surely a bowl is a couple of cups plus a nudge.Everyone know that:-)
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This is getting flipping ridiculous. This new test is difficult enough and you have to pass it five times! By the time you get through it the code's expired and you have to start all over again. :evil: :evil:

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Does look a step too far - just produce less buggy software would be a better defence in their case.

However, it seems this approach has succeeded and outed robot D27 at last :lol:
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One of the things that really makes my blood boil with Android phones is, shortly after a reset, you get bizarre messages and requests for information like name, phone no, etc. You don't even know who or what app is asking!!
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foxwood wrote:
Sun Jun 23, 2024 9:24 am
Does look a step too far - just produce less buggy software would be a better defence in their case.

However, it seems this approach has succeeded and outed robot D27 at last :lol:
tbh - this type of *puzzle* is used for training various backend systems (no doubt in this case, AI based refinements). In the OLDEN days when you had to identify things like bicycles, traffic lights, buses etc, this was all part of googles driverless vehicle programme, i.e. get the biggest testing community in the world to test it - i.e. the world :)
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I can't delete any flipping Outlook folders - they keep coming back!! :evil:
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Derek27 wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2024 12:06 pm
I can't delete any flipping Outlook folders - they keep coming back!! :evil:
Are your outlook folders synched to an email server?
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greenmark wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2024 2:18 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Mon Jun 24, 2024 12:06 pm
I can't delete any flipping Outlook folders - they keep coming back!! :evil:
Are your outlook folders synched to an email server?
Yes, but I deleted them all last night. I think the problem is, if there's a delay between syncs, it doesn't know what came first, the edit or the delete.
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