Someone should make a joke version that replaces the ***s with comedic passwords or ridiculously bad ones: When you're typing your real password, "iloveyouiloveyou", "12345612345", or "hunter42hunter.." gets printed to the screen.

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chuckadams 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do like Lotus Notes did and have it update a row of literal hieroglyphics on every keystroke.

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andai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This made me think, it seems like there used to be a lot more whimsy in computing. I'd love to see more of that.

Whimsy, and character.

Used to be that everything was trying to look different. Now it seems like everything is trying to look the same.

	▲	morkalork 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		1) It definitely feels like we're out of Cambrian explosion period of experimentation 2) It's amazing the amount of (pseudo-) nostalgia that millenials, gen-Z and younger have for 90s-2010s computer aesthetic. The Amazing Digital Circus comes to mind for example

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stavros an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While I support this for the humour factor, it does make it much easier for a shoulder surfer to count characters, for whatever that's worth.

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the_real_cher 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would absolutely install this.