[PLUG] Jitsi meeting password

Jason Barnett jason.barnett71 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 18:40:07 UTC 2021


In case anyone needs to communicate with kids, you can use the emoji
translator (first search result) https://emojitranslate.com/ which is what
I used to translate my previous email message.

My previous email started life as (intentionally poor English):

> I love this. No hate for future business writers. Perfect communication
> skills.
> They will not have email, but only text and im.



On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:34 AM Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I ❤️ this. No hate 4️⃣ future 🧑‍💼 writers. 💯 communication 🤹. They
> will ❌️ have 📧, but only text ➕ im.
> A glimpse at what the future holds...
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:23 AM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> 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
>>
>>
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