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    nil avatar nil 1 year ago | link | on: Whiley: A language with extended static type checking

    Saw it on Reddit and found this post while trying to submit it to Lobsters. Is the language still actively developed? The post is from March of this year.

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      glowe avatar glowe 1 year ago | link

      It appears to be active. See: https://github.com/Whiley

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      jabberwock avatar jabberwock 2 years ago | link | on: Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

      I dislike how this leaks metadata by storing the site names in plaintext. I’d care more about people finding out I had a Neopets account than I would about the password to that (entirely hypothetical) account.

      Also, is it possible to store a username for a site as well as a password? It doesn’t look like it from the examples. Sometimes remembering what username you used for a site is harder than the password.

      1. VISIONARY avatar VISIONARY edited 2 years ago | link

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          owen avatar owen 2 years ago | link

          A coworker who used crypt used a wrapper that passed everything through Crypt::Scrypt. Worked really well.

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          glowe avatar glowe 2 years ago | link

          Also, is it possible to store a username for a site as well as a password? It doesn’t look like it from the examples.

          Yes, you can store a username or any arbitrary data. See the section titled Usernames, Passwords, PINs, Websites, Metadata, et cetera.

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            jabberwock avatar jabberwock 2 years ago | link

            See the section titled Usernames

            Oh, duh. I searched the man page for “username” but not the website.

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              vfoley avatar vfoley 2 years ago | link

              Sounds like they need to patch their man page.

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            swehren avatar swehren 2 years ago | link

            You can name the files whatever you like. You could create an encrypted file that was a map of random filenames to the account name if wanted. I’ve thought about creating a patch that would do that storing and lookup for you.

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              bsima avatar bsima 2 years ago | link

              I’m not associated with pass, but I think that would be a much-welcomed optional feature, should you find the time to implement it.

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              unbalancedparentheses avatar unbalancedparentheses 2 years ago | link

              You can store any data you want. However I do agree I don’t like storing the site names in plaintext, but in general I find pass a really handy tool. I have just migrated from keepassx2 to pass.