• BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk
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    21 hours ago

    Generators aren’t intrinsically random either, the project that’s closest to random is the lava light room at cloud flare. But a wall of lamalamps aren’t random enough, so they add in a few parameters from the moon.

    But ultimately, it’s not truly random.

    Most generators are magnitudes simpler than that and honestly mashing everything at random yourself does a pretty good job at it. Especially if you smash too many characters and then scrambles it before picking a sequence without thought. As the biggest issue with manual button smashing, is the same character either won’t appear twice in a row ever or will always appear multiple in a row. Not to talk about special letters, which you likely wouldn’t hit - although we could make larger keyboards for the lulz

    Ultimately random generators is just a simpler/faster solution, but there’s ways of doing something as randomly by hand