Aaron Parecki

what I usually say to speakers is a rough title and 3-4 bullet points of what you want to cover as a start-I think why it's challenging is folks try to "sell" the talk from the get go, rather than refine the focus, then worry about selling it

this is why I write a lot of the abstracts for speakers at our conferences! I know speakers often hate this bit the most!

Proof of Work systems don't work when you can do work in zero time! clearly we can't depend on bunkchin crytypocurrentseas going forward as they are not resilient to atemporal computation attacks

But that venn diagram is getting closer to a circle every day and when it finally becomes one, we'll have reached thermodynamic equilibrium and no more money will be able to be extracted and it'll finally just GO AWAY

You can make a general remark about all NFTs and someone will be like "well what about Blimbletons? how do you explain the massive Blimbleton market?" and they're convinced anyone outside the NFT filter bubble knows anything they're talking about. I think that's great.

nft arguments are fun because you can be like lol people are spending thousands of dollars on intensely ugly lion avatars for zero reason & then some dude from higher up the pyramid will say um, actually, i make thousands of dollars selling ugly lion avatars. so it isn't funny

Lets finally talk about how NFTs are a giant scam. (1/) 🧵

Like all crypto scams, the essence of the NFT grift is in recruiting new believers by convincing them a blessed database is an authoritative registrar of value. Just like star naming the grift isn't about utility it's simply a shared delusion in a get rich quick scheme.

/fin

First let's talk about what the NFT market actually is. Unlike buying bonds, equities, real estate, or actual art you're not buying something with any tangible existence, rights or utility. You're buying an expensive entry in someone else's database. (2/)

I've been in mostly violent agreement with @smdiehl and others who call out cryptocurrency and its descendants for what they are—an end run around financial regulation at best, a massive fraud at worst. We all agree it makes no sense as a technology. But one thing worries me:

But this is also an indictment of the web. Why did we let it basically turn into TV? Where's the outlet for talented young people who want to turn the world upside down, but don't care to sign on to the giant scam that is cryptocurrency? We don't have a good answer for them.

Whoa so people selling jpegs on the internet for thousands of dollars turned out to be a scam? Crazy stuff.

Thanks @aaronpk for the clarification 👍
So OAuth 2.1 is essentially OAuth 2.0 without the naughty bits :)

Draft 4 of the OAuth 2.1 Authorization Framework is out!

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-04.html

I am especially excited to see @tlodderstedt working on this who is one of the authors of the OAuth 2 Security Best Practice doc.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics

New version available! "The OAuth 2.1 Authorization Framework" https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-04.html by @DickHardt @aaronpk @tlodderstedt #oauth #oauth2 #ietf

No one wanted Facebook back.

it's five years' time. you angle-grind open another server cage, welding it closed when you're done. you can't help wonder if there's a better way to do regular scheduled maintenance, but today isn't the day to take on fixing technical debt when everything works just fine.

Ok, seems I may have found my next unnecessary gear item purchase, the @accsoon_cine CineEye system. The hilarious YouTube banter between @GeraldUndone & @PhilipBloom, along with @aaronpk’s analysis has me sold! - You will go FAR with the CineEye 2S Pro! https://youtu.be/viYKCTcG9dg

On the bright side:
Facebook complied with all relevant privacy laws for 6 hours in a row now.

#facebookdown #instagramdown

From trusted source: Person on FB recovery effort said the outage was from a routine BGP update gone wrong. But the update blocked remote users from reverting changes, and people with physical access didn't have network/logical access. So blocked at both ends from reversing it.