Und die anderen 30%?

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There are differences of course. Still, Steam’s policy, which is often internationally praised as consumer friendly, is very restrictive from a European perspective.

Of course. But we don’t know what actually hit it. He fires outside the picture, then the camera moves to show the smoke.

If actually true. We conveniently don’t see the target before it’s hit.

I can get faulty physical goods fixed/refunded by the store up to 2 years after purchase (EU). It’s the store’s problem to get a refund from the manufacturer. The same should be true in case of Valve and a publisher.

Meine Eltern meinen die Grünen taugen nichts, weil Habeck Kinderbuchautor ist/war.

Dr. phil. Robert Habeck?

Genau. Wenn es eine Konstante in der deutschen Politik gibt, dann dass die Union zuverlässig auf der falschen Seite der Barrikaden kämpft.

Crunchy peanut butter is superior peanut butter.

Whatever brother printer is on sale

Hmmmmmmm, neeee. Keine Euros für Ubisoft Woweich.

Even in your example above, with only two letters, no numbers / special characters allowed, requiring a capital letter decreases the possibilities back to the original 676 possible passwords - not less.

No it doesn’t. It reduces the possibilities to less than the 52x52 possibilities that would exist if you allowed all possible combinations of upper and lower case letters.

You are confused because you only see the two options of enforcing or not allowing certain characters. All characters need to be allowed but none should be enforced. That maximizes the number of possible combinations.

that passwords should all require certain complexity, but without broadcasting the password requirements publicly?

No, because that’s still the same. An attacker can find out the rules by creating accounts and testing.

By adding uppercase letters (for a total of 52 characters to choose from), you get 52 * 52 = 2704 possible passwords.

You don’t add them, you enforce at least one. That eliminates all combinations without upper case letters.

So, without this rule you would indeed have the 52x52 possible passwords, but with it you have (52x52)-(26x26) possible passwords (the second bracket is all combinations of 2 lowercase letters), which is obviously less.

The only way you would decrease the number of possible passwords is if you specified that the character in a particular spot had to be uppercase

Wrong. In your example, for any given try, if you have put a lowercase letter in spot 1, you don’t need to try any lowercase in spot 2.

Any information you give the attacker eliminates possible combinations.

Das ist unglaubwürdig wenig, wenn das nicht nur eine Person in Teilzeit ist.

Which is funny because those strict rules reduce the number of combinations an attacker has to guess from, thereby reducing security.

Wear hearing protection.

Normal people have friends and family and would like to use social media to stay in touch with them.

Normal people stay in touch with their loved ones even if they are not on the same platform. You do not need everyday group chat noise for that.

Oh come on, that’s like “all politicians lie”. There is “I record every millisecond of your private life to sell to anybody with a fat enough wallet” evil and there is “I am raising prices this year because I can” evil. The two are not the same.

If my workplace is in any way representative, it’s because decisions are made by close to retirement out of touch old geezers who want to virtue signal very hard that they are not out of touch old geezers. So they push the “new thing” for lack of any actually innovative ideas of their own. Then, when the younger team members who do have some rough knowledge of the “new thing” try to explain why it might be a bad idea, they call them afraid of progress and double down on the “new thing” even harder.

I’d like an EV that’s actually affordable, not “affordable”. The number does not start with a 4. Not with a 3 either.