Aaron Parecki

Happy international palindrome day!

It is:
- 02/02/2020 (US)
- 02/02/2020 (EU)
- 2020/02/02 (ISO)

I thought of making a comic for it but I couldn’t come up with suitable dialog. Oh well.

99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html

12: Daddy what are you doing?
Me: Filling out expense reports and submitting receipts
12: But I thought you were important?

who named it untappd and not liverjournal

Anytime a rich person donates money, this is how you should report it. https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1222939292227592196?s=19

“The engineers who design and program them come from over a hundred countries. Thousands of people have the opportunity, acting alone, to slip a back door into the final product.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/supply-chain_se_1.html

Never enter credentials anywhere.

I purchased a new trash can today. Now I can't stop thinking about how the hell I'm supposed to throw away my old one? Where do I put it? It's too big to fit in the new one! Is this recursion?

* Old Fashioned: Uses steam or clockwork to make any cocktail other than an Old Fashioned

* Shot of the Long Now: Takes 10,000 years to make the drink. Jeff Bezos is not permitted to enter in this category

* Aviation: Any drone-based bartending device

2/N

Potential cocktail robotics competition categories:

* One-shot: A robot that only ever makes one cocktail, and destroys itself in the process of making it

* Cube Goldberg: A ludicrous chain reaction/Heath Robinson machine that probably won't work

1/N

https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1221839381062918144

We’ve published an explainer about an idea to harden SMS-delivered one-time passwords by allowing senders to associate the codes with a website. We’ve been talking about the idea with some folks at Google, and would like more feedback. https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/blob/master/sms-one-time-code-format/

All we do is talk about manipulating the DOM, but what about checking in and caring for the DOM?

Once private webmentions are more popular, it’s over for dating sites. 😛

Hivemind question:

Whats the technology/approach for a person who wants to build a self-hosted site for very low volume e-commerce?

Because I'm grouchy about the "everyone uses npm" discourse today, I just wanna remind people the

YOU CAN STILL MAKE WEBSITES IN WHATEVER TOOLS YOU WANT

HTML + JS and a lil vanilla CSS? Just HTML and some gifs? Heckin' ASCII?

Also theres a club for it
https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club

Fine, visor up this time – but at least the magnificent Earth still makes an appearance too. All #spacewalk #selfies (and other photos) made possible with a Nikon D5 with a 28 mm lens in a protective housing (visible in center of 2nd photo). #SelfieSunday

Having ported my phone numbers several times to/from cell<->voip providers, I can tell you that it is incredibly insecure. You need basic information and then you "promise" that you are the owner. It gets ported. It works in the new provider. The cell phone will just stop working