Aaron Parecki

And hilariously this is what every NFT seller ACTUALLY DOES - they ALL mint multiple NFTs for the same file for as much as what the market will bear and then try to price them according to the order they were minted in ("Congratulations, you're Owner #77!") like this is real

Or just having a *normal* URL that lets anyone else in the world view my YouTube video the normal way, for free (or for the negligible cost of doing a normal data transfer on the Web shared between their ISP and my hosting service)

"But NFTs let you do it in a decentralized way."

Every single unnecessary step of the pointlessly convoluted and wasteful blockchain process depends 100% on the existence of internet architecture that is controlled by those central authorities you're supposedly circumventing.

Authorization codes eXXXposed! Check out these naughty native apps going PKCE-free in public! https://tinyurl.com/4ht58kst

Tonight I saw on StackOverflow a mention of the OAuth “explicit flow”, and that gave me pause 😝
I’m afraid to look it up, should I turn the safe search on?

OAuth isn't just a way to log into your favorite sites. It's a way to log into the internet itself.

If you're not using OAuth, you're not on the web.

security engineer: we're going to start moving towards zero trust

developer: oh cool. how does that work

security engineer: [narrows eyes] why do you ask

Today I introduced Microsoft's Principles for Decentralized Identity - our guide posts for building a #decentralizedidentity service that enables user choice, portability, and control https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/06/microsofts-5-guiding-principles-for-decentralized-identities/

are we pronouncing them “nifty”s yet and if we did would that piss anybody off in a funny way

Will read more carefully tomorrow.

Not perfect, but a good bang for the buck on design I have to say :)

OAuth is a natural extension of a single table database

I got something about avoiding pricing overheads from Netflix and YouTube, without mentioning pricing, Netflix or YouTube. There’s definitely a hit list

And now your experiencing the pain of your bad decisions.

Write the full talk, then train a neural net to summarize the transcript.

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