Aaron Parecki

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I can't believe we STILL have to remind people of this after A YEAR AND A HALF but:

If your pet appears on the Zoom, you are REQUIRED to introduce it so the rest of us may address it by name

Come play birthday dress up with me! Only 3 mile ride, ends at the river, I will mix you some mocktails at the end. Leaves colonel summers at 6:30 - https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-13395

That's 70 straight weeks at Grocery Stores. You set a new record!

The west is still using QRCodes totally wrong. A QRCode on a restaurant table that opens the menu is not really what we want. A QRCode can be unique to the table and allow food ordering directly to it. Should carry state and context.

All camera apps can scan QRCodes. They all can open the web browser which all have payment methods build in now. The browser is the super super app. We

Who's thinking about going to NAB in October? (Why/Why not?)

Oh boi, #audacity issue regarding legal terms and privacy policy exploded yesterday. Like, for real.

I created a fork that removed all those features, and we're currently working on a rebrand, github orga, and automated builds via GitHub actions:

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

Up-close, surreal video of the South Champlain Towers demolition just a little bit ago. The sounds and video are powerful #Surfside #Demolition https://t.co/jY4XExJOzS

The remaining part of the Champlain Towers South building was demolished Sunday night, hours after the mayor of Miami-Dade announced the timeframe for demolition. As of Sunday, rescuers have recovered the remains of 24 people, with 121 still missing.

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.

https://t.co/5HK6VVfxOP

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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/