Aaron Parecki

macgenie https://micro.blog/macgenie • Sep 27
@aaronpk I need this organizer. I don’t see it on your Life Stack yet. 🙂

had to test it first before I put it on the site! 😉

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Sat, Sep 26, 2020 5:11pm -07:00
cheesemaker https://micro.blog/cheesemaker • Sep 26
@aaronpk I love this. What are you using to store them in? Is that a shoe holder?

It is!

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Sat, Sep 26, 2020 4:50pm -07:00
Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson • Sep 26
How did you segregate HDMI version / bandwidth support? Is there any way to even tell, looking at a cable?

Most of mine don't have any markings. I doubt I have any of the oldest type at all anymore, and everything from the second gen onward is good enough for 1080 so I don't really care about the differences beyond that right now. USB on the other hand is quite a mess.

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Sat, Sep 26, 2020 4:20pm -07:00
All my HDMI cords are now sorted by length and connector combo (full HDMI, micro, mini) and hung up on the inside of my closet door and this is so much nicer than cramming them into various drawers! Next up: USB

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Tommy Callaway https://twitter.com/tgcallaway

What if the next iPhone had an SD card slot built in and recorded photo/video directly to it? We would probably use phone cameras more.

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Steven D. McKie/ https://twitter.com/Steven_McKie • Sep 25
The right way to use Handshake:

> Download HSD or the HSD/Wallet wrapper, http://BobWallet.io

> Get some HNS and send to your wallet

> Bid on any <63char string you can think of by opening an auction for it on handshake

> Buy a TLD for <$1

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J7SNCLNP3loPVKR5lHVHG6tyIGrXh2C7yRsWEuck2pM/edit

kind of proving the original point here ^^

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rabble https://twitter.com/rabble • Sep 25
So if you’re able to control a domain name and set Mx records you’ve got portability. It actually works pretty well but it’s not used for individuals so much as organizations. What’s the equivalent or way to extend it to individual users.

For some reason DNS providers haven't iterated on the UX around configuring records much. If as much time and money were spent on making DNS easier to use without understanding all the terminology as was spent on all the blockchain tech, we'd be in a much better place right now.

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Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

For sure; it just requires specific functionality on the provider's side. With webfinger, we always imagined that you could enable "portability" by setting a redirect or a pointer, again provider-dependent.

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Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine • Sep 25
For sure; it just requires specific functionality on the provider's side. With webfinger, we always imagined that you could enable "portability" by setting a redirect or a pointer, again provider-dependent.

in a way, email already is portable. My email address is on my domain, parecki.com, but it’s actually a Gmail account under the hood. If i want to move that to another provider, I can, and I don’t need to tell anyone a new email address. This is of course thanks to DNS 🙃

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Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

LOL. 90 days for trademark owners to register. Seems legit.

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Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine • Sep 25
i.e., is that something that *must* happen with consent from email providers/domain controllers? Or is it something that could be baked into ssb/deltachat/similar? What would ownership verification look like in that case?

the “I’m locked out of my account” problem is not going away any time soon, and is a real hurdle in building this kind of thing in a decentralized way

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rabble https://twitter.com/rabble • Sep 25
I walked through setting up an account and identity on handshake. First the cheapest one was $49 and took an unbelievable amount of technical knowledge and steps. It made dns seem simple. I don’t see how normal users would ever use it.

with that description, I don’t see how abnormal people would use it either!

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Thu, Sep 24, 2020 6:40pm -07:00
Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine • Sep 25
The reality is that the only real question of a global namespace is a regulatory one - who gets ultimate control of it? And in that, DNS is actually not a bad approach and has spent ~30 years ironing out regulatory bugs and has found a pretty stable spot.

Agreed! And all the blockchain versions of a global namespace have nowhere near this level of experience in maintaining the system in the long term, and are very likely much more fragile than DNS

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Blaine Cook https://twitter.com/blaine

The reality is that the only real question of a global namespace is a regulatory one - who gets ultimate control of it? And in that, DNS is actually not a bad approach and has spent ~30 years ironing out regulatory bugs and has found a pretty stable spot.

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