Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk Yes.

I managed some computers remotely on a ship outside Africa once, they paid thousands of dollars equivalent per month for satellite equipment and internet, but only got 768 down and 256 up in kilobits.

We used to split it up into 512/128 for the servers, and 256/128 for the few clients to browse the internet (5 shared desktop computers), both splits with sad attempts of QoS ontop of them of course.

But after Windows 10 landed we just had to give up, one or two computers would barely work on 256k, but if we connected up all of them, the 256k of bandwidth didn't work. As long as three or more computers were powered on, even doing nothing, you were lucky to browse anything. With four or five machines powered on, you could just give up, nothing would ever load.

Eventually we gave up, giving all bandwidth to the more critical servers and said "sorry, no internet". Leaving all outside-world communication to go via the server, in the form of things such as low-bitrate VoIP calls or E-mail.

It's sad that 15 years ago, we were happy to finally get 768k broadband to replace our broadband, and I even downloaded torrents with that connection.

Yet now, with only a few Windows 10 computers, that whole broadband line could be almost entirely spent on forced telemetry.

Proposal for a new Grant API: user consent treated as an AS resource with own ID, life cycle and revocation, which persists across the expiration and revocation of any tokens linking to it. @tlodderstedt at the @openid #FAPI F2F in London

Insecure Surveillance Cameras Provide Dystopian Peep Show https://hackaday.com/2020/02/18/insecure-surveillance-cameras-provide-dystopian-peep-show

Caroline Buttet's Virtual Peephole is an Arduino-powered box that taps into a random selection of insecure CCTVs: every time you lift the shutter, you get a different feed.

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I love when you're investigating a bug and the question "why is this broken!?" turns into "why did this ever work?!?"

There’s this phenomenon I like to call VPB: Valley Pattern Blindness. It’s when a tech startup forgets every QA case for their product / feature outside temperate weather in a wealthy, internet-connected urban area, and nobody in the QA / development process catches them either.

A whatchamacallit in different languages:

7. Thingamajig (English)
6. Chingadera (Spanish)
5. Himstergims (Danish)
4. Naninani (Japanese)
3. Zamazingo (Turkish)
2. Dingsbums (German)
1. Huppeldepup (Dutch)

I wanted to take some notes on the airplane so I pulled up Notion but it wouldn’t load because of lack of internet. This stuff kills me, it’s not acceptable

If you like it you should put a URL on it

Kittybox Companion for Android is now open-source! https://gitlab.com/vikanezrimaya/kittybox-android

It’s really rough, lacks IndieAuth (for now), can’t load Microsub posts beyond first page, the pictures are small (I need to make a popup overlay to enlarge them), and Micropub attachments are utterly broken. But otherwise it works for me!

Perpetual exhaustion is the key to falling asleep on airplanes.

Seattle removing planter boxes they used to protect bike lanes because the planter boxes frequently got hit by cars is some kind of a thing

Sometimes I forget that I'm a musician. Writing & performing live soundtracks at conferences was the way I got in for free so I could get to know many of the folks I collaborate with now. There's a metric ton of music I wrote & performed between 2014–2017, but have yet to record.

Seeing a lot of people post their salaries, most of whom are deleting after for a variety of reasons. As someone who did doctoral level research on salary negotiation and has designed the compensation strategy for 2 distributed tech cos, I have some add’l context that may help.

burnout culture is finding new hobby in an attempt at self-care then trying to figure out how to monetize that hobby so that it, maybe, will pay your way out of burnout culture

There’s no code faster than no code.

It’s worth remembering that, at the time that the Internet Protocol was being designed in the 70s, countless competing standards (like ATM and XNS) that had more features (but were thus less modular and evolvable) ultimately lost against IP’s minimalism.

IP has thus come to be known as the "Narrow Waist of the Internet". It is the single protocol through which all traffic flows. Its most obvious advantage is that it decouples the application layer from the hardware layer so that each may evolve independently.

I wouldn’t want to be in the photo software business.

Offer a subscription? Folks are pissed.

Offer paid upgrades? Folks are pissed.

I guess the photographers who want free software must be the same ones who work for exposure.

That's 7 straight weeks at Shipping Stores. You set a new record!