lis  
“xkcd references are second nature to us terminally online nerds, so it's easy to forget the average person probably only knows about 936: Password Strength and 327: Exploits of a Mom and the 1337 series.”

»and 2501: Average Familiarity of course.«

“of course.”

even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
Feb 12 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadmax*ineFeb 12

@lis every time i want to reference xkcd in offline spaces:

hey do you know xkcd?
<no what is it?
oh you're one of today's lucky 10 000!

Show threadLeonardo Ferreira FontenelleFeb 13
@max @lis (insert Leonardo DiCaprio clapping hands GIF)
Show threadPterryFeb 13
@lis I understood the reference and I'm not even a geologist 😄
Show threadLeonardo Ferreira FontenelleFeb 13
@lis and yet we make a point of always mentioning the relevant comics
Show thread𒀭Ralf Muschall🐙Feb 13
@lis I doubt that even specialists know 936. In Germany, over the last few years the Telematik Infrastruktur in the medical field has been rolled out. Many of the services and appliances enforce passwords that shall be 15 or so characters long, must contain upper+lowercase letters, digits and introduction interpunction signs and shall be changed yearly. The result is Tr0ub4dor&2023!, Tr0ub4dor&2024!, Tr0ub4dor&2025! and so on (except that doctors use something simpler than "Tr0ub4dor").