JanMay 20
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
This is tragic, the fall of Bitwarden: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes

Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...

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Show threadChris PetrilliMay 19

@Migueldeicaza I also run Vaultwarden, and am keeping a local copy of the code for the client. I can support this model, but not most people can.

It's just f-ing exhausting.

Show threadMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉May 19
@petrillic it truly is.
Show threadMurphy's LawyerMay 20

@petrillic @Migueldeicaza Thanks. I looked at Boyd’s “How I migrated to Vaultwarden” article and noped out very quickly. I have neither the knowledge nor the spoons to do what he did.

I do know that just copying and pasting commands at that level without truly understanding what they do will lead to disaster.

Show threadChris PetrilliMay 20
@murphyslawyer @Migueldeicaza absolutely non trivial. And the risk to your secrets is pretty high if not managed well.
Show threadRichard ChamberlainMay 19
@Migueldeicaza appropriate adjacent posts
Show threadMaddieM4May 19
@Migueldeicaza I'm very grateful to learn about Vaultwarden, and I plan to set up an instance. I just moved to BW right before this, and as much as it originally felt like unbelievable bad luck to be repeatedly jumping onto sinking ships PWM-wise (it's been a couple migrations in quick succession. I'm tired, boss), on reflection, I shouldn't be surprised. The entire economy is collapsing, private equity is on a gluttony spree, and seemingly every business owner is trying to squeeze now in case there's a violent revolution in the next 18 months, so of course it would be *every* commercial PWM going to shit at the same time. Common causality, not independent events 🤦‍♀️
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAMay 19
@MaddieM4 @Migueldeicaza I regret to inform that Vaultwarden has AI slop being committed into it, if that’s a concern of yours.
Show threadMaddieM4May 19
@c0dec0dec0de @Migueldeicaza oh for FUCK'S SAKE. I mean at least, for once, I find out before moving all my data. I swear to god I'm putting all this shit in a notebook and just eating the inconvenience when I need to access accounts via phone. Pen and paper have never done me wrong.
Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAMay 19
@MaddieM4 @Migueldeicaza
Yup, it sucks and I’m angry
https://bolha.one/@cadusilva/116583736889201873
Cadu :neurodiverse: (@[email protected])

The current state of password managers: :firepoop: Bitwarden [1] :neobot_hyper: Vaultwarden [2] :neobot_hyper: KeePassXC [3] :neobot_hyper: 1Password [4] :neobot_hyper: Proton [5] [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down [2] "A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository" (Claude) [3] https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ [4] https://1password.social/@1password/116569353856438624 [5] Generally speaking about the company and also: "a user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository" (Claude) in Proton Pass Github.

Bolhinha
Show threadVít Skalický May 20

@c0dec0dec0de this concerns me, but I could not find much LLM generated code in the git logs. Only one commit mentions "Solved with some help of Claude Code."

Definatelly no AI agent vibe coding there.

Show thread0xC0DEC0DE07EAMay 20
@vitSkalicky that’s heartening. My evidence was solely that there were Claude co-authored commits as reported by people who have the GitHub user blocked and therefore see a notice on the repo. Given the general tenor of things and the rapid adoption of the confabulation machine, I was and remain rather ready to jump from that small evidence to larger worries.
Show threadXenotarMay 19
@Migueldeicaza That's why I still use Bruce Schneier's Password Safe to this day.
Show threadmorkansMay 19
@Migueldeicaza purged & deleted. Bye @bitwarden
Show threadDave RahardjaMay 19

@Migueldeicaza PEs continue to be a blight to small companies. Do you continue to make a great product at a modest profit? Or do you cash out and let a bunch of M&A MBA types take your accomplishments and crush them into shit?

Sad to say, a lot of people will choose to cash out.

Show threadDan SugalskiMay 19
@drahardja @Migueldeicaza I am, at this point, absolutely convinced that the biggest issue with the modern economy is the fact that one company can buy another. Private Equity, in those instances where the previous thing doesn't apply, is a close second.
Show threadDave RahardjaMay 19
@wordshaper @Migueldeicaza I don’t think mergers can be effectively outlawed, only regulated. For a company to have “value” (e.g. for debt collateral, IPO) it must be possible for it to be sold.
Show threadDan SugalskiMay 19

@drahardja @Migueldeicaza I could make a very gross US-centric argument that mergers are unconstitutional. But that aside... I'm not entirely sure that it'd be bad if companies couldn't be sold in any way other than as a corporation that sold shares.

There are plenty of ways to value a company for debt service/issuance reasons, you don't have to be able to sell the company as a going concern to do that.

Show threadCyMay 20
My password manager is a program I run on my computer.
Show threadBeat WaltiMay 21
@Migueldeicaza just today I was thinking about decomissioning my Vaultwarden instance and migrate to Bitwarden Cloud... but here you go.. thanks for the heads up!
Show threadAlex HyettJun 8
@Migueldeicaza I run VaultWarden and I really hope that remains an option. I migrated from LastPass years ago to VaultWarden and I hope I won't have to move again.