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On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:23 AM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/5/21 9:57 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > >> To quote myself - "I'm a huge fan of setting the meeting password > >> BASED ON THE OUTPUT OF THE GUEST SPEAKER'S NAME PIPED TO MD5SUM" > > > >> It was intended as a linux commandline joke, but in order to see the > >> joke you must read the ENTIRE sentence. Cutting the sentence in half > >> completely changes the intended meaning. > > > > Okay. I thought you pasted that md5sum into a password text entry widget. > > > Nope, that's not what I said. But I think that would be a totally > awesome way to manage passwords :) > > > On a slightly (un?)related note, this reminds me of one of the > conversations last night about education. Everyone talks about how we > have severe problems with our education system and how this pandemic > thing is adding to an already stressed system. But the question that > sticks in my brain is: "what is the real-world impact of a failing > education system? " > > > What does that failure look like when children grow up and enter the > work force? IMO it would look like what just happened here. > > > Failure to teach basic linguistic skills will ultimately result in > adults who routinely fail to understand simple statements. Not only am I > struggling to properly convey my thoughts, you are struggling to > properly understand the message as it was written. Imagine the chaos 20 > years from now when the children of today's Zoom classes start taking on > real responsibility. > > > -Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
