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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
sigh
anyone got a good replacement?
Kinda, but nothing Iām entirely happy with. We use bitwarden at work, at my suggestion, but I donāt like the tools as much as I do keepassxc, and even though you can self-host the network service that stores the data, you still have to host something whereas keepassxc is standalone and you can sync the password vault over some file sharing service, or carry it on a usb stick, etc. there have been a couple of incidents whereby user license data wasnāt processed correctly and people got locked out of bitwarden vaults, which is pretty serious even if it was only temporary. That canāt happen with easily-backed-up-and-restored local databases.
Theyāve also had some ālicense controversiesā which should also give you pause for thought if you were interested in a free and open system: https://www.techradar.com/pro/bitwarden-clarifies-open-source-commitment-amid-user-concerns
The original keepass project is still alive, and maybe Iāll have a look at that. The current maintainer is a bit odd, and the project has had some historical security issues, but I suspect that all password managers (at least on windows) will have the exact same problems. It is unlikely to have the same range of features, but it is written in a memory safe language (C#) rather than in C++, which keepassxc uses (and Iāve never been entirely happy with).
In short, everything is awful, and I will probably stick with xc for my own purposes for now, as there isnāt quite a replacement for me yet. Iād buy a mooltipass (https://www.mymooltipass.com/) except Iād want a backup, and that means an outlay of a good Ā£300 which is a bit painful. And theyāre often out of stock š
thanks, yeah we use bitwarden at work and i really donāt like the ux. plus the simplicity of just having a file to sync is very convenient to me.
i might try authpass soon, seems to look nice enough.
helpful post, ty - Iāve also been halfheartedly looking at bitwarden (possibly with vaultwarden server) and I havenāt pulled the trigger yet because extra yaks. so knowing some of the other happenings thereā¦ oof
(including pulling the trigger Iād want to have it hosted on an island instead of directly exposed, which adds other requirements and steps)
the only other option is (gnu) pass, but it sucks pretty majorly ito clients. it really isnāt a good time in password managers :|
Thereās an interesting mastodon thead from back in July where someone was unhappy with the state of bitwarden and looked at a bunch of alternatives:
https://transfem.social/notes/aa2w3yuz3tfz0hdp
This also seems to have been around when keepassxc started using coding assistants, so it isnāt quite clear to me why the issue has suddenly surfaced now.
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/12207
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