Aaron Parecki

Always in awe of my ADHD's consistent ability to terrify me of tasks. Then, like clockwork, once I do finally complete the task I feel awful because of how easy it was to complete after all 🙃😭⚰️🪦💀

The OAuth happy hour with @aaronpk starts in 4 minutes! Who knows, we might even get to chat about the Explicit Flow :P
https://youtu.be/B3a3-JV-dl0

The whole blockchain thing reminds me of the early fervor over NoSQL.

Except with orders of magnitude more grifting, and the destruction of a forest each time a DB gets updated.

Look who is back in the family: @aaronpk ! With a great talk about #OAuth. Say hello to Aaron and see the details about him and his talk here: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2021/speakers/aaron-parecki

This is and remains an antitrust problem, a monopolies problem, a problem with turning the public space into a privately owned monoculture. That’s the problem to fix.

The situation we find ourselves in is one where the policy and algorithmic decisions of one company determine what three billion people across the world see. That’s FAR too much power for any company to have.

"Imagine being mad about a game using NFTs for in-game assets that are just records on a server when existing games already have items that work that way."

Yes, we know! You can do the useful part of the thing without NFTs! Thank you for admitting that!

This IS one of the most hilarious things about NFTs, because when the bubble began, the point that got hyped up the most was "guaranteed unique", leading to widespread confusion among the public when, for instance, everybody at a ceremony got "the same NFT" of Chadwick Boseman.

And hilariously this is what every NFT seller ACTUALLY DOES - they ALL mint multiple NFTs for the same file for as much as what the market will bear and then try to price them according to the order they were minted in ("Congratulations, you're Owner #77!") like this is real

Or just having a *normal* URL that lets anyone else in the world view my YouTube video the normal way, for free (or for the negligible cost of doing a normal data transfer on the Web shared between their ISP and my hosting service)

"But NFTs let you do it in a decentralized way."

Every single unnecessary step of the pointlessly convoluted and wasteful blockchain process depends 100% on the existence of internet architecture that is controlled by those central authorities you're supposedly circumventing.

Authorization codes eXXXposed! Check out these naughty native apps going PKCE-free in public! https://tinyurl.com/4ht58kst

Tonight I saw on StackOverflow a mention of the OAuth “explicit flow”, and that gave me pause 😝
I’m afraid to look it up, should I turn the safe search on?

OAuth isn't just a way to log into your favorite sites. It's a way to log into the internet itself.