Aaron Parecki

Years ago after I quit a job I had an Lenovo laptop I forgot to return. A few weeks later they called let me know, and dropped it off that afternoon.

Very different than the FBI searching my house for several dozen MacBook Pros that they’d been telling me about for months.

Under-engineer. That's almost always better for usability and accessibility. Simple solutions are almost always more robust.

🎉 Six years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

A key social web building block, Webmention enabled peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses to be created, updated, and deleted across the web, by both dynamic & static websites.

It was accompanied by a report of over a dozen implementations that demonstrated interoperability: https://webmention.net/implementation-reports/summary/ using an open test suite: https://webmention.rocks/ that is still up and running and used by developers today.

Many many more implementations have been developed, open sourced, shipped, launched since. The specification itself has a webmention endpoint and accepts webmentions.

Exactly a year before that, Webmention was published as a First Public Working Draft by the W3C Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160112/

It took the best parts of the prior Pingback protocol, simplified it (ditched XML-RPC), made it more secure, separated presentation from plumbing, and added update & delete semantics.

It was in many ways a model for how open web standards should be developed.

See the wiki page for an overview and numerous screenshots of implementations: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

If you want to implement Webmention yourself, there are now numerous developer resources to do so.

Start here: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer and come say hi at the IndieWeb development chat channel: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev

Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2020/012/t1/happy-birthday-webmention
* https://tantek.com/2018/012/t1/anniversary-million-webmentions
* https://tantek.com/2017/012/t1/webmntion-first-w3c-recommendation-high-bar

This is day 12 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.

← Day 11: https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention
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Appreciate the shout-out!
Funny thing is, I actually gave a talk about this at @vidsummit back in 2021 and have already done a video about how to protect your account. Barely anyone came to the talk but those that did haven't been hacked so I guess they learned something!

It's called a YTStealer attack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2022/06/30/youtube-hacking-warning-as-automated-2fa-bypass-attacks-underway/

Some steps:
- Watch my @vidsummit talk from 2021
- Use a @Yubico to protect your account from 2fa phishing
- use a separate Gmail for your YouTube account
- audit online security (esp connected 3rd party apps) often

Don’t understand the OpenAI hype at ALL. ChatGPT is basically a direct ripoff of SmarterChild, which was invented in 2001. Why is no one talking about this??

Researchers just found that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases.

Recently I read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality.

I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests.

Here's what I learned.

All flights currently in the sky are safe to land. Pilots check the NOTAM system before they fly. A Notice to Air Missions alerts pilots about closed runways, equipment outages, and other potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the flight.