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Welcome to ANI in the Air, Under the Tent and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings ons, ins and arounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So today was a rainy and stormy day, thundering even as we speak, I'm the only one under the
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tent as darkness descends, well there's a light in the distance, it's always nice, the
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rain falls, the rain stops, the rain falls, the rain stops, the lightning goes off, it's
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a wonderful day, naturally enough there aren't too many people out and they often go running
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from one building to the next and there were definitely people out earlier, largely hanging
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out around the awning and the ramp, did see like a two minute foot race, running to the
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tent and then back, a little stomping in the mud before going into the building for good
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measure so that's fun.
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Today there was a very long JC, I like to attribute the heat to the increased number
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of cases, temperatures rise as the temperature rises and but you know the team made it through,
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I wasn't part of that, I had yet another admissions interview which went well, so many admissions
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stuff going on but we're basically, well next week is our last visiting week of the year
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and so we might have a few visiting students next week but we are basically done with the
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people who would be starting at the beginning of next year.
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So anyway, let's see, after the JC ended we had article club, it was kind of a grab bag,
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we talked about a number of things including last week I had posted something about water
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ship down set to the dark side of the moon, so we talked about that a little bit, talked
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about a little bit of outrage videos, things that are just outrageous, silly and disgusting
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or whatever and the weird desire to look at it even as one is outraged about it and that
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kind of weird pushing of buttons in the human psyche I guess.
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And then had a few other topics going around but then we spent a lot of time on talking
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about stone age, hunter gatherers, the affluent, can you hear the rain?
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Hope you can hear the rain, I don't know if the microphone will pick it up but it is a
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beautiful sound here and it just pours on down and then it stops and then pours down
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again, it's quite interesting, the darkness all around.
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Anyway, yeah so you know, a lot of the conversation was sort of about the stone age hunter gatherer
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life being one of leisure shall we say and kind of wondering why or how it came about
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that you know, the hard life of farming came into being where you work really hard for
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most of your days instead of working a little bit every day, so yeah that was fun.
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Few different opinions and stuff about all that, so that was a nice discussion, I think
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we'll have one more article next week on Friday because on Thursday is the beach field trip
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so do it Friday at one and I don't know that might be the last one or we might try to squeeze
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one in last week of school we'll see but yeah the year is winding down or getting to the
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point where the last of stuff will start happening.
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We've only got two more scheduled school meetings, two more announcements, everything's just
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sort of closing down, oh wow I can actually see I think the rain probably over my house
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right now just coming down and just like I just see it whipping by holy moly like just
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lines in the sky oh and a lightning bolt it's looking right at the lightning bolt oh man
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hope it didn't hit my house wow this is fun this is really fun I'm pretty much the only
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one out here except someone who's sitting on top of a mulch pile I guess they like the
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rain but yeah anyway that's what's going on today I'm just sitting under the tent being
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amazed by all sorts of meteorological events here pretty awesome very lovely wow oh I'm
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in the middle of the tent and water's blowing in at me oh man oh oh I should probably go
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uh tip of the week Thursday about computers um I'm gonna go with the first tip being don't
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get your computer wet don't record podcasts in the middle of a thunderstorm it's Matt
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good for the electronics oh god oh man I'm losing it here oh oh oh man oh man wow wow
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yeah it's uh it's uh it's a good storm right here seeing it just come off the buildings
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we have windows open of course for covid protocols sure that's going well and oh wow so uh yeah
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anyway uh tip of the week uh Thursday is um yeah keep your computer dry please keep your
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computer dry uh also um one of the things about um the evolution of the computer chip
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I don't know if you can hear me over this I can barely hear myself it is thunderous
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down here anyway um the uh the getting more and more powerful computers it does mean that
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cracking passwords is a lot easier so you know short passwords are very easy to hash
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through so you need long passwords you need passwords that humans wouldn't think of what
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you need is a password manager to ideally uh manage your passwords they generate the
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passwords they can be long they can have crazy things they don't mean anything to you and
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that is all good um and then they store them I have a password manager one password uh
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and it has something like 500 passwords and accounts stored in it there's no way I could
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remember that and I need it stored some will argue to use uh your your browser password
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manager because you already trust your browser uh the problem with that is of course it's
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either local to your browser or you're extending your trust to some kind of syncing operation
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on the browser side um which you may or may not trust still but um you know ideally uh
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I like going with uh someone whose entire business is around the password management
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because they make a mistake that's really bad on them um and so they have a lot of vested
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interest in not making that mistake but you know you really gotta check these things out
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get your comfort level you are trusting it with somebody somehow somewhere um but the
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most important thing is do not reuse your passwords at other sites uh you know password
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lists even though they're hash can leak out and then when they leak out uh people can
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use uh their uh powerful chips nowadays I think usually the graphical processing units
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get used for this um to just run through all possible hashings of these things and you
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know uh the hashing is designed to make it very slow but as computers get faster um it's
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uh easier to crack them so uh a site with uh good security management which is probably
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somebody who uh you know you actually care about being secure well like a bank well you
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know have a high level and you don't have to worry about it but then you have just some
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rinky dinky website that for some reason you had an account with and you use the same password
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then that is the easiest place for someone to get your password from so I've really got
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to go the rain's coming in again keep your computers dry people keep your computer dry
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I'll see you if I survive this see you when I see you