Brian "bex" Exelbierd is the RHEL Community Business Owner and works to inform the RHEL roadmap with community efforts and to support Operating System communities. At Red Hat, Brian has worked as a technical writer, software engineer, content strategist, community architect and now as a product manager. Brian spends his day enabling Red Hat Operating System communities and easing the way for RHEL to participate in the great things they do. Before Red Hat, Brian worked with the University of Delaware as the Director of Graduate and Executive Programs in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and as a Budget Analyst. Brian's background in software engineering stretches back years before his university work and includes stints in both business and government. Many of his projects are the "glue code" or interstitial pieces that fill the spaces between systems, providing continuity and ease of use.
He writes on his blog at winglemeyer.org.
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I personally have my encrypted files scripted to be unlocked via a gpg secured password when I log in so I haven't needed a GUI. That said, the SiriKali seem to be involved in the upstream projects they support and are active in updating their software and reporting issues. I encourage anyone who wants a GUI to take a look.
Choosing good passwords was out of scope for this article, however, I tend to agree with your thoughts. There are both memorable/prouncounceable systems, similar to the one proposed in XKCD and completely generated passwords such as those done by pass which tend to be random. I personally follow a policy of having completely random passwords (as long as allowed by the site) generated by my password manager. I never type them directly because the password manager remembers them for me.