When setting up Auto-type in #KeepassX you can identify the title of the window in which the password prompt appears (or use the window title as the entry name in KeepassX). You can also set a keystroke to initiate Auto-type. So once I see the login screen I just press "Alt+`" and Username + Password are entered automatically. One keystroke! That's *much* faster! And I picked Alt plus backtick because it's obscure, and easy to type with one hand (thumb on Alt, pinky on backtick).
And !TIL that Yoda Conditionals are actually a pretty good idea: If you accidentally mistype 'if (5 = y)' then the compiler barfs instead of getting the unwanted side-effect of adding 5 to y with 'if (y = 5)' https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/new-programming-jargon/41/5
Nice to see @aral in the fediverse. I've mentioned it before at meetups in Manchester, but it would be good if FSF or other similar organisations ran a campaign to get more folks from the open source world actually using open source communication systems, rather than Slack, G+, Facebook, Google Hangouts (or whatever it's now called), etc.
@mk@oracle.skilledtests.com You're not "most people", you're !security-minded already. For most people, the extra effort of opening the password manager, copying username, switching back to the main app, pasting username, switching back to the password manager, copying password, switching back to the main app and pasting the password is a greater effort than typing "password123" for every site. So, for most people a password manager with auto-type is a security benefit. Perhaps I'm not #MostPeople either, I'm just lazy...
Auto-type encourages the use of strong passwords. With #KeepassX and other password managers you should be generating a different, random, and long (20+ chars) password for each thing that needs a password. Typing something like p)?S_YZ:~%G:BL is bad enough with a real keyboard; auto-type is even better on phones and tablets. You're less likely to choose a convenient but weak password if you can auto-type passwords of arbitrary complexity. !security
Whoops! Fixed! ♻@aqeel@social.aqeeliz.com I think the default is username, tab, password, enter. If there was enter after username, it would cause issues on majority of sites.
Oh yes, huge controversy over #CETA - the dispute settlement is the worst, but there are all kinds of other agreements that disadvantage farmers, manufacturers, and even municipal governments from both sides of the agreement. CETA was started by the former Conservative government, which hated so much in the 2015 election that the Liberals won a majority government, but now the Liberal government is doing exactly the same things (like CETA) that the hated Conservative government did. !politics !cdnpoli