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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • I actually had a similar discussion with a friend a while back! Ideally, I’d say you convey the spirit of the scientific method, so the new civilization skips the first few millennia of mysticism and alchemy, and goes straight to rigorous discovery. Trying to put any individual fact in there seems hopeless when measures against the flood of knowledge we have now.

    Maybe something along the lines of

    True understanding is gained though falsifiable theories, experiments, and challenges from your peers, until that which fails to be disproven can be accepted as the truth




  • Use that, but only for the handful of passwords that you

    a) need to remember regularly, even when you don’t have access to your password manager b) need to be really secure

    I’d say email and banking are the obvious ones. For everything else, rely on a good (self-managed, open source) password manager. Sure, a passphrase beats any human-memorable password, but it doesn’t stand a chance against my 250bit entropy machine generated passwords. And thanks to KeepassXC I never have to type any of them. And sure, you can secure your password manager’s database with a passphrase, if you’re so inclined