Aaron Parecki

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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  Portland, Oregon, USA • 40°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:07am -08:00
• Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon   •   Dec 15

  SFO is the airport code, not the city. If you tell me you're visiting SFO, I assume you're just having a layover.
  

  Interestingly we do actually refer to the city of Portland by our airport code PDX but I realize we are an exception here 🤷‍♂️

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:20am -08:00
• Chloe Condon https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon

  The "O" in "SFO" stands for "omfg I can't believe I'm having to defend and explain something like this- get a hobby, and at least do a sensible Google/Bing search before you correct me on Twitter like a jester in town square for all to see" 🃏🤡

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:13pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:22am -08:00)
• matty stratton, charismatic grifter https://twitter.com/mattstratton   •   Dec 15

  There definitely are others - I think ABQ and ATL come to mind where I’ve seen locals refer to the area/city by that same code.
  
  Chloe’s right about SFO though :)
  

  Oh yea I think I've heard that about ATL before, but didn't know about ABQ!
  
  I think I've said "SF" a grand total of like 4 times, and I 100% agree that if someone said "SFO" I would in no way assume they mean the city

  Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:48am -08:00
• small robots https://twitter.com/smolrobots

  Literally just give me money and I'll draw things for you. It's not that complicated.

  Portland, Oregon • 39°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 1:29pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 5:48am -08:00)
• ATEM Mini Extreme PK1 monitor stand by daghi - Thingiverse (www.thingiverse.com)

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:01am -08:00 #pk1
• Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash   •   Dec 15

  Fully agree with this point. There is so much prior art about decentralization being ignored. But most of the fediverse/indieweb folks I see have not engaged with decentralization fans to say "we've got stuff that's better/cheaper/already works".
  

  oh we've tried, but then the glowing eyeballs come out yelling and screaming and it just isn't a productive discussion for anyone

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 8:33am -08:00
• Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash

  Fully agree with this point. There is so much prior art about decentralization being ignored. But most of the fediverse/indieweb folks I see have not engaged with decentralization fans to say "we've got stuff that's better/cheaper/already works".

  Portland, Oregon • 39°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:28pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 8:33am -08:00)
• Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli   •   Dec 15

  Yes and no, I know that I myself at least wouldn’t be happy to have the IndieWeb referenced as a “fediverse”, but then again, I’m a bit burnt after I implemented OStatus for Flattr back in the days only to see the very downside of a federated approach when it comes to longevity…
  

  I've implemented ActivityPub directly into my website, so my website is its own ActivityPub instance in the Fediverse. So there's definitely some overlap and grey areas between the two, but yeah generally Fediverse refers to the ActivityPub model of many ppl on one instance.

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:13am -08:00
• Daniel 🥌 Stenberg https://twitter.com/bagder

  I'm getting questions if curl or libcurl are vulnerable to the log4j CVEs.
  
  Clearly not even users and customers quite understand software stacks.

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Tue, Dec 14, 2021 10:11pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:14am -08:00)
• Shannon Morse https://twitter.com/Snubs

  To my friends battling #log4j and trying to explain this shit to the CEO and customers while also working overtime to patchpatchpatch, we all owe you a drink at the next con.

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:15pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:23am -08:00) #log4j
• Tinker https://twitter.com/TinkerSec

  Alright, I'm officially over #Log4J.
  
  Not saying anything in my org is patched.
  
  Just saying I'm done worrying about it & am moving on w/my life.
  
  Y'all need to stop living in fear.
  
  Just accept that exploits happen & if it's your company's time to be breached, it's their time.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 2:43pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:32am -08:00) #Log4J
• Marcus Hutchins https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog

  I was completely happy with my income until a friend told me that if you fly on private jets you don't have to go through the airport or TSA. They just drive you right to the plane door. Welp, back to work 😭

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Tue, Dec 14, 2021 7:50pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:34am -08:00)
• thisgoesnowhere https://twitter.com/thisgoesnowhere   •   Dec 15

  This sounds super interesting! Have you written about it?
  

  I haven't written anything specific about it because it's mostly a bunch of low-level gibberish around http signing and creating funny JSON blobs, but I did spin out the code into a standalone service I've used for other bots https://github.com/aaronpk/Nautilus

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 37°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:48am -08:00
• Eugen 🎄 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

  @downey @Mastodon Let me be clear: I care that Mastodon as an end product is free software. I do not care if the tools used to create Mastodon pass a free software purity check. If a tool will make the job of creating Mastodon easier, I will prefer it. See: GitHub, Discord, and so on.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Fri, Dec 10, 2021 1:18am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:57am -08:00)
• Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey   •   Dec 10

  Cool cool, @Gargron moving all @Mastodon project discussion behind a proprietary walled garden that requires agreement with Microsoft terms of service (and their analytics tracking). Now THAT makes a ton of sense. 🤦‍♂️

  #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #privacy

  https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/we-are-moving-to-github-discussions/4010
  

  Good. Less infrastructure for the project maintainers to maintain means more time to spend on the actual product. Running a Discourse instance isn't free, both in money and time.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:00am -08:00
• Pouchmouse https://twitter.com/Pouchmouse

  Game programmers: My code takes over a millisecond to execute. I am a failure and have dishonored my family.
  
  Other programmers: lol this hash function makes a web call who knew?

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 7:52am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:02am -08:00)
• Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

  True decentralization doesn't involve a conceptually centralized blockchain, change my mind.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:39pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:29am -08:00)
• Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

  If there's a "thing" you can point to and there's global consensus about it, it's centralized. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, just stating scientific facts.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:41pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:29am -08:00)
• Maybe: Fred Benenson https://twitter.com/fredbenenson

  I think one of the hugest things web3 people seem to be confused about is that somehow building systems that expect less trust will fundamentally fix problems of trust – it's a nihilist approach to systems engineering that speaks more to their psychology than any sound theory

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:30pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:37am -08:00)
• Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey   •   Dec 15

  @aaronpk Wrong: The Discourse project offers free hosting to maintainers and has for many years: https://free.discourse.group/

  Shilling for Microsoft is pretty far afield from the #IndieWeb ....
  

  I think you'll find most of the IndieWeb community is not the die-hard FOSS fans. Open source is important, but is not an end goal in and of itself. There's plenty of examples of not open source IndieWeb software that happily interoperates with the open source software.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:46am -08:00
• Michael Downey 🚩 https://floss.social/@downey   •   Dec 15

  @aaronpk Pretty sure moving to the proprietary walled garden GitHub where a project's data has no escape route fails at least 7/11 of the #IndieWeb principles.

  ❌ Own your data
  ❌ Make what you need
  ❌ Use what you make
  ❌ Open source your stuff
  ❌ Modularity
  ❌ Longevity
  ❌ Plurality
  

  I just agree with gargron that the tooling around a project doesn't need to blindly follow FOSS just for the sake of it. But I do realize I'm sending this to floss.social https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/107419999666450567

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 10:59am -08:00
• Anil Dash https://twitter.com/anildash

  I talk all the time to artists who say “I just want to support my work, and it seems like there’s an audience.” or individuals who say “I found a nice, welcoming community that’s having fun talking about art and tech.” Those are reasonable views. And we should engage with them.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 3:20pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 11:10am -08:00)
• Peter da Silva https://twitter.com/Resuna

  The web was already a massive decentralization compared to the "online services" model like Compuserve and Delphi.
  
  Just implement many many good independent websites that aren't Facebook and Amazon.

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 7:19pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 11:20am -08:00)
• Evan Hill https://twitter.com/evanhill

  early web: i can chat with my friends and download that song!
  
  social web: now i can talk to everyone all the time but it kinda feels like a job
  
  web3: dr. profit crypto says the next unicorn DAPP is storj

  Portland, Oregon • 37°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 7:14pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 11:31am -08:00)
• Matt Haughey https://twitter.com/mathowie   •   Dec 15

  I'm sure things changed after the federal push of boosters for all, but it was like pulling teeth to get a booster the first week of November.
  

  weird, I got mine in October and I don't even think there was a special box to tick, just had to be 6 months after J&J

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 12:23pm -08:00
• Steven Peterson 🏳️‍🌈 https://twitter.com/squeakytoy

  What turns me off the most is that web1 was about people being excited to share information in new (and free) ways, while web3 appears to be mostly about money and land grabs and gambling. It’s almost like web3 is the gross capitalist dystopian alternate ending to web1.

  Portland, Oregon • 39°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 2:06pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 3:18pm -08:00)
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  It's been over 3 years since I've published an update for Overland, my GPS tracker app, and I am a little terrified to re-download XCode and see how much work it's going to take to even make it compile now 😬 https://overland.p3k.app

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 3:52pm -08:00 #ios #overland
• Got Mac Bluetooth Lag? (scottswezey.com)

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:03pm -08:00 #apple #bluetooth
• Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Dec 15

  It's been over 3 years since I've published an update for Overland, my GPS tracker app, and I am a little terrified to re-download XCode and see how much work it's going to take to even make it compile now 😬 https://overland.p3k.app
  

  also my poor little M1 MacBook Air doesn't have enough disk space to even download XCode, so I guess I'm gonna do that on an older computer. or buy a bigger macbook

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:13pm -08:00
• Gabe https://mastodon.social/@gabek   •   Dec 16

  @aaronpk At least it's in Objective-c and not Swift. Swift code goes out of date weekly!
  

  oh no does it? I think part of it is in Swift when a couple of other people contributed some stuff to it.

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:15pm -08:00
• Ric Fink https://twitter.com/ricfink   •   Dec 16

  You sure thats the case? I have 1tb drive space on my mini and Xcode 13.2 took an hour to DL and actually never finished. Went on forever until I redefined forever to be Stop & End!
  

  I mean my laptop has 14gb free right now and XCode is 12.6gb. I did just see all the headlines about issues with XCode 13.2 so I guess I'm gonna put off this project until they get that sorted out.

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:24pm -08:00
• Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson   •   Dec 16

  Does Apple even let you publish something like that on their store? I saw that GPSLogger gave up on the Google Play store. I appreciate the privacy concerns with trackers but it'd be nice to have an exception for these "this data is for you" as opposed to adware.
  

  There's a ton of apps like this, I don't think it's a problem. Someone ported my iOS app to Android recently even. Also from what I read in (your!) HN thread, the reason it was removed from the Google Play store had nothing to do with privacy? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24735159

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 38°F

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  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 4:26pm -08:00
• Gabe https://mastodon.social/@gabek   •   Dec 16

  @aaronpk Not literally that fast, but Swift has moved really fast over the years. Swift written not long ago probably won't build anymore where Objective-c I wrote 10 years ago still builds! (Though Apple framework changes will still break code in any language over time)
  

  in any case it sounds like there's a bunch of bugs in the latest XCode version, so I'm going to hold off on doing anything until they release an update. But then I will report back on how it goes!

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:18pm -08:00
• Ricky https://twitter.com/rickhanlonii

  We don’t need everyone to upgrade log4j, just enough for herd immunity to takeover

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Sun, Dec 12, 2021 4:55pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Dec 15, 2021 6:44pm -08:00)
• Micah Silverman - #BLM https://twitter.com/afitnerd   •   Dec 16

  I got some great comments and questions about my video setup from my colleagues at @snyksec. Everything I do (and have) I learned from @aaronpk. I sent around a bunch of links to your http://kit.co/aaronpk kits today!
  

  Nice! Looking good!!

  Portland, Oregon • 38°F

  Wed, Dec 15, 2021 9:01pm -08:00