Aaron Parecki

I'm excited that beginning tomorrow, if I see a tweet from a celebrity or company I've heard of, I will have to click through to their profile, check their follower count, and scroll through 10 more of their most recent tweets to try to make an educated guess if it's really them

🚨 New YNAB Feature Alert! 🚨⁠
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Introducing Spendy, our version of the office assistant Clippy from our childhoods.

Spendy is sure to become an essential part of your budgeting journey.⁠ You'll never want (or be able) to budget without him again!⁠ 🤩
https://bit.ly/3G6PGBg

Well it was fun while it lasted! Since anyone can now use this to social engineer folks, you'll probably see less of me as I work on growing my community on other platforms (like YouTube!).

surprising amount of overlap between the “there are only two genders, you can’t deny science” and the “don’t get vaccinated, the scientists are liars” crowd

Say what you will about Elon, but it is truly impressive to be so uncool to your very core that despite every potential resource on the planet at your disposal you still make a service so spectacularly lame that guys who make 50 mil a year will make a point not to give you $8

11) Tonight is another test of that resilience. While a lot of web3 stuff has proven nonsense, the underlying principle that creators should have ownership in the consumer facing platforms that their content powers is still a vibrant idea, one most creators passionately believe.

1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is.

#LegacyVerified #NeverForget

https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio

this tool lets you extract text from an audio recording of keyboard strokes, right now, for free

i am not making this shit up, you can potentially steal a password from an audio recording in an office

One of the most overlooked features about our AI moment is over a billion people can access, for free, to the most powerful large language models on Earth. Being rich doesn’t get you better AI.

There is nothing you need to to buy, you can just experiment. https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-do-practical-stuff

japan's high speed shinkansen map overlaid on the west coast to scale (mirrored and rotated). this train network carries 300 million passengers a year at speeds of 150MPH-200MPH.

Well, the mask is off, if it was ever really on. As I predicted, the TikTok ban has evolved into blatant censorship of the internet. Let's talk about it. Big rant incoming, but if you enjoy continuing to have even some semblance of personal freedom, you're gonna wanna listen
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When inspecting Bing requests, I noticed an endpoint being used for Office 365 communications. As it turns out, Bing is allowed to issue Office tokens for any logged-on user. I quickly crafted an XSS payload utilizing this functionality, tested it on myself, and it worked!

Now if only the catclaw from @ETAservicesltd was a real thing. https://www.eta.co.uk/2018/01/10/catclaw-tackles-illegal-and-dangerous-pavement-parking-by-bursting-car-tyre/

How to Gain Prominence and Influence in Standards Organizations

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4144.html

The math behind a $250k per year online business:

- $20.8k per month
- Which is $695/day
- Which is 7 customers at $99/each
- Which is 475 web visitors/day at 1.5% conversion

Mind you, none of this is easy.

But it's certainly easier than staring $250k in the face with no plan.

Traditional 360° of the traditional #oauth dinner at #IETF, #IETF116 in particular :)

Some random tags - @_nat_en @tlodderstedt @aaronpk @dfett42 @ve7jtb @n3rd1ty @justin__richer @josephheenan

Journalists are so scared of mentioning drivers they come up with these absurd linguistically jumbled headlines to avoid mentioning them https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cornwall-coastal-path-blocked-mercedes-26565103

Microsoft: We have world class AI research
Google: We have world class AI research
Meta: We’re one or two steps behind in AI research
Apple: We’re not talking, but we have a bunch of AI research
Amazon: You bought a toilet seat last week, do you want a toilet seat this week?