Aaron Parecki

This is interesting from a game theory perspective.

Intuit tells 1.4 million small businesses using QuickBooks Online Payroll product that it will share their payroll data with Equifax unless they opt out by the end of this month. Why opt out? Equifax has a crappy reputation for safeguarding employment data https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/intuit-to-share-payroll-data-from-1-4m-small-businesses-with-equifax/

The ocean is on fire in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured. Good system.

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A proposal: all international climate negotiations should be held in 45 degree C rooms.

I'm amazed by how much work (in a large org like google) gets done because a single person has a vision and pursues it. I can tell by projects that lose steam/direction when they leave. You'd think people in an org as big as google are more interchangeable than they actually are.

Took @indiewebcat on her first @pedalpalooza ride, the cat ride! She enjoyed getting to meet her adoring subjects from the view in her Royal Carriage.

The mass remote-wipe perpetrated against many MyBook Live users recently was enabled by a Western Digital developer who removed code that required a valid user password before allowing factory resets to proceed, Ars' @dangoodin001 reports: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/hackers-exploited-0-day-not-2018-bug-to-mass-wipe-my-book-live-devices/

I just received a two factor authentication SMS from Google that included an ad. Google's own Messages SMS app flagged it as spam.

What a shameful money grab.

at first I was like, wow Google went and did the evil thing

....then you read the thread and realize that the *carrier* injected this ad into a 2FA SMS 😈

This is a look at permits for new multifamily apartment buildings in Portland... You see 2020 and 2021? It has some folks worried the city may find itself in a similar scenario from a few years ago.

The Portland Airport officially hit 116°F shortly after 5pm this evening making this the warmest temperature on record. This breaks yesterday's warmest temperature on record of 112°F. 3 days ago the warmest temperature on record was 107°F set twice in Aug '81 & once in Jul '65.

Bike:
- Ws2812 strip I artfully zip tied + Pixelblaze controller + 20000mAh 5v battery.
- Cube was a gift from @im889, I absolutely adore it forever. He sells the parts to make it.
- Blue roses from Amazon. Simple and lovely.
- (in video): LED full face mask from @lumencouture

I admire people that make YouTube videos. A lot of them have other things they have to do (paid gigs, day jobs, etc.) - they don't HAVE to make those videos.

They could be watching Netflix, or doing something else. So if you're a creator, know that your efforts are appreciated.

i love hating cars because it's so simple, continues to be entirely correct, and eventually is either the reigning policy or a thing to shout as we all drown