Aaron Parecki

Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey • Sep 15
@aaronpk Had that problem on my first visit to Australia but it was long enough ago that getting to the web form from inside the airport was a bit of a challenge. I think that was when I was still using a Neo Freerunner; whatever it was, I remember thinking that most people in that situation would have been out of luck at the time. Now browsing the web on your mobile device from anywhere is routine...

Heh nice. Yeah I was surprised that the application form was actually quite usable on a phone. All I ended up having to do was step away from the counter for a few minutes to fill it out, pay $20, then go back to check in.

I'm still a little embarrassed/annoyed I didn't know about this before I showed up at the airport!

Susanville, California • 75°F

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Minor moment of panic at the ticket counter trying to get a boarding pass when they said I need a visa before I can check in to the flight to Australia.

Turns out the visa "application" process was just filling out a web form on my phone, and it was "approved" immediately. I was worried I was gonna have to wait a full business day or something but guess not!

Also kind of weird is the ticket agent just had to check a box that said I have the visa, and that person would be fined $5000 if they were wrong. Seems like not the most ideal way to enforce that but okay.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 75°F

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Australia

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Portland, Oregon • Sat, September 14, 2019 2:40pm

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Heading to Australia! 🦘 — with anomalily

Portland, OR, United States • 75°F

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Portland, Oregon • 75°F

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Darius Kazemi https://friend.camp/@darius

I met a couple people at XOXO who told me how much they like my RFC blog and it really meant a lot to hear that in person!!!

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

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PINE64 https://fosstodon.org/@PINE64

This is the PineTime. A companion for your Linux smartphone, and new side-project of ours. More news coming in the future...
(If you have experience with FreeRTOS or mbed, and are interested, please get in touch!)

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

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Sebastian Lasse https://mastodon.social/@sl007 • Sep 14
@aaronpk
It was pure magic. Feel free to click #apconf -
the thing is :
I cutted the videos but now a keynote has 16GB and 90GB are all videos and they wanna have it on peertube but no peertube accepts this size.
How could I compress it further -
youtube "hd" resolution or fps ???
I mean : Is it realistic that a 16GB video becomes 2GB ok quality ?
Just would like to upload it anywhere …

If you just use ffmpeg with default options you'll get a much more compressed file, with no real noticeable quality difference. It's normal for the file to shrink that much, just make sure you aren't scaling it down to a lower resolution.

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

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Serverless IndieAuth (piperswe.me)

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Max Böck https://twitter.com/mxbck

One of the principles of #IndieWeb I really love is to encourage plurality of solutions. Have everyone build *what works for them* - it's the antidote to the "best practice" kool aid.

https://indieweb.org/plurality

Portland, Oregon • 64°F

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WireGuard Setup Guide for iOS - Graham Stevens – Grh.am (grh.am)

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Portland, Oregon, USA • 63°F

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Eugen https://mastodon.social/@Gargron

@zatnosk @jeroenpraat Funnily enough I've come around on this as well over the years. I think local/federated timelines create a lot of issues.

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

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at Goodwill Donation Express

Portland, Oregon • Thu, September 12, 2019 5:35pm

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Dropping off a bike full of stuff

Portland, OR, United States • 79°F

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Vika https://fireburn.ru/ • Sep 12
Was struggling to choose between Couch and MongoDB. Instead decided to save stuff in flat files.

@aaronpk is this a sign that database antipattern got me mad and I'm ready to eschew databases as primary storage?

store in flat files, index them in a database! \o/

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