• A Nonny Moose (unregistered)

    1st2WS!st

  • (nodebb)

    Ăý÷ýî

    Secnod, hopefully but I had a hard time entering your captcha.

    Addendum 2026-01-16 07:50: What do you mean that's a one-circumflex, not an i-circumflex?

  • (nodebb)

    My guess would be that it was testing for eight alphas and MarkR only had six.

    To WTFGuy and gordonfish: I replied to your comments in https://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/a-sudden-tern but I have no way to ping you.

  • (nodebb)

    Ăý÷ýí

    Harder than it should be to use Ubuntu's equivalent of "charmap" to type that, because unlike Windows, you can't construct a sequence in "Characters" and then copy the lot, just single characters.

  • Secret Squirrel (unregistered)

    The service I got for free from the OPM breach was worthwhile - they did not send so many alerts as to be unmanageable, and one of the alerts actually was useful (someone using my information to open a cell phone account, and the service helped to resolve it). The free 10 years ran out recently and I paid for an additional year.

  • (nodebb) in reply to dpm

    My guess would be that it was testing for eight alphas and MarkR only had six.

    My first guess was that they do a unique on the password, which would only be 7 characters.

  • (nodebb)

    This beats Cory Booker," commented nja for reasons I don't begin to understand.

    Nja is referring to Cory Booker's record-breaking speech on the floor of the US Senate lasting just over 25 hours.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    The GNOME "Character Map" app, separate from the GNOME "Characters" that only allows one character at a time, does have a text box and, IMHO, is better and more modern feeling than ye olde Windows Character Map. It even has access to Emoji if one needs it, though I prefer the KDE "Emoji Selector" app for that.

    Addendum 2026-01-16 10:57: On a whim, I did a quick search to see if there is a KDE equivalent, and sure enough, there is: "KCharSelect", which I installed and found is actually really nice. If you want a good character map application, both "KCharSelect" and GNOME "Character Map" do a good job, though the former has more features and I rather dig it's search box so far.

    Addendum 2026-01-16 11:02: And a quick useful tip I just discovered in KCharSelect: If you hold control with the mouse over the description pane, you can control the zoom level there as needed.

  • (nodebb) in reply to gordonfish

    Hey, thanks, that's much better.

  • MRAB (unregistered) in reply to jeremypnet

    @jeremypnet: It asks for the letters and/or numbers. ÷ is neither. A person would know that! :-)

  • (nodebb)

    Most of these friday things are simply indications that there was no or inadequate QA or any kind of testing other than millions of monkeys on typewriters.

  • Klimax (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    For emoji and other pictograms and symbols Windows have Emojy Entry. (Win+.) 😊 ÷ (❁´◡`❁)

  • Oracles (unregistered)

    The experian expiration times are correct, if you are a very, very slow reader.

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