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Yeah

And let me tell you about the 'super strong password' your generators create: they suck

They suck if you have to deal with any kind of escaping (like in a shell script, for example)

They suck if you're unsure of the current keyboard layout you're currently using

Easier to take out some character classes instead of having to solve support tickets

Back when I was in school, in the U.K., my password contained a ‘£’. This was fine for logging into Windows or Outlook etc, however the printers required you enter your password and only had a US keyboard layout - so that was fun.

Agree. Apple’s default password generator has always seemed to strike a sane balance - plenty of entropy, technically contains special characters (-) but nothing that needs escaped, and very typeable or readable.

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