Aaron Parecki

... and the algorithm showed me your tweet 21 seconds ago

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Another Great Office Hours today. Thanks to @alexlindsay, @guycochran, @aaronparecki and everyone there.

I just keep finding new modes for this iPad stand

New iPad stand. Has multiple angles and positions.

I just saw someone say engineering is harder than teaching and how teaching is less skilled labour. As a teacher of engineering

No

I swear if Twitter had been around in the Industrial Revolution there’d be a tweet with 50k Likes like “if we can’t employ tiny orphans anymore, who will we send into the smallest mine shafts and between the sharp parts of the big machines???”

100% makes sense. I wonder how we could report those kinds of stats in a more secure way? Although I’m inclined to think there probably can’t be a verifiable way to do it and maintain privacy, so maybe we should care less about these sorts of stats anyway 🤷‍♂️

Toast fell asleep on my lap

Amazon now makes a Smart Shelf. When you run low on things you put on it, they automatically ship you more. https://amzn.to/3sqGwaa

Everyone knows that increasing the spending power of low wage workers is bad for the economy because all they end up doing with the money is depositing it in off shore tax shelters and converting it to capital gains through loophole investments oh wait

Billionaires convinced y’all certain jobs aren’t hard work, so don’t require a decent wage. And y’all ate it up. Yet in a pandemic those same workers became “essential workers” and kept our service economy from collapse.

For sure, and I 100% agree with the matrix folks. Moxie's argument basically boils down to "it's easier to make the trains run on time with a centralized service." 🤔

For sure - I mean, China is moving away from fossil fuels and building mass transit way faster than western nations. Does that mean we should ditch democracy to prevent global warming? Honestly, maybe, depending on what your values are. I'm not ready to take that path, though.

Also a useful summary:

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom

This kind of comes down to "Freedom to Make Potentially Dangerous Choices", which in practice is the same as "Freedom to Someday Leave a Hegemonic Society".

I think.

This is a pretty good independent writeup of GNAP, from @mooreds, and I kinda love this Beergarden metaphor.

https://fusionauth.io/blog/2021/01/07/gnap-next-gen-oauth/

Congrats. Now you have to find somewhere to put it where it's on camera all the time.

Great story about how @catherineols and her housemates COVID risk calculator came to exist! And also makes me miss being in homes that have names. 🌯
https://www.wired.com/story/group-house-covid-risk-points

Sitting down to dinner last night in New Zealand.
Waiter: is this a special occasion?
Me: yes
Waiter: what’s the occasion?
Me: finally being able to eat dinner in a crowded restaurant without fear of death
Waiter: how about we start with champagne then

Omg we did it! 🤩

Thanks to the community feedback (and ya, bad press) Apple decided to remove the ContentFilterExclusionList (in 11.2 beta 2)

Means socket filter firewalls (e.g. LuLu) can now comprehensively monitor/block all OS traffic!!

Read more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46179028