What’s your password for this site?

@helenS Pseudo-random? That's a completely new one on me. 🤔

@Crazychick Computers are completely deterministic and they cannot produce true random numbers. Their output is called pseudo-random.

@helenS I've never heard of that expression before.

@Crazychick If you want [u]true[/u] random numbers (or characters), try "random.org". They use atmospheric noise to generate true random. They have an excellent password generator:
https://www.random.org/passwords/

@helenS on a computer project we had to re-write the random selection code because it was predictable.

government caused study of course.

@helenS I've always thought there was something pseudo about the word "random" to begin with. The very definition of the word defies science.

@Crazychick it's like the difference between true anonymisation and pseudonymisation in population datasets. It's virtually impossible within an algorithm to get true anonymisation.

@SW-User What's that in English? Lol :)

@Orca4950 Every random code algorithm is predictable, by definition. You need a physical noise generator to produce random.

@helenS You mean like a motorbike? The ones in our neighbourhood are physical noise generators. Lol :)

@Crazychick Haha yes, sort of...

@helenS Lol :)