Aaron Parecki

I added some basic identity capabilities to XYZ. Thanks to @aaronpk for the initial inspiration. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-transactional-authz-05

It’s an #IndieWeb Meetup! Tonight in NYC at Think Coffee on Mercer 6-8pm.

Meet IndieWeb co-founder, co-author of several W3C specs, prolific host of IndieWeb services, and hot sauce afficionado Aaron Parecki!

https://events.indieweb.org/2020/02/indieweb-meetup-nyc-GSlzpBwleWLT

I'm gonna be there too! Come for the cat stickers, stay for the conversation about owning your own online content, oh yes

Can someone please explain me why YouTubers use the weirdest faces in their YouTube thumbnail? It looks like they have just farted. Is this some kind of thumbnail strategy that I am not aware of? 🤔 #youtube #thumbnail #YouTubers

You just got to love this footnote by @chriscoyier. And it is your daily reminder that every time you hit publish on Medium, you actually pay with your work and give up control over it in exchange for “reach”.

Own your work. Publish on your own site. 👊 #takebackyourweb

My parents will be speaking to you about the A and where I needed to be better so I can get the appropriate punishment.

Technology is crazy. I missed my partner's calls, he's out of town. He turns on our Echo from his phone and made it play "Call Me Maybe," making me nearly jump out of my skin.

Very good point, thank you for this feedback. It's something we might revisit in the future, so we'll share with our engineering team to take to heart.

@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!