Aaron Parecki

SEMANTICS MATTER:

"Crypto-" is a prefix.

If you hear it with the suffix "-graphy", then there's a good chance what follows is rational.

If the suffix is "-currency" then there's a good chance what follows is a Ponzi scheme.

this is another reason I think the "web3" thing is mostly bad news. Handful of good ideas in there, but sooo much grift. Another warning sign is that porn is nowhere to be seen, which is the usual harbinger of useful new tech

I just found out about the Finnish "formally neutral but informally reverential pronoun, that in spoken use is almost exclusively used sarcastically to communicate that this person actually is not respected" (often used for pets) https://keuhkopussirotta.tumblr.com/post/670545996696158208/i-know-a-whole-lot-of-finns-have-already-made

Unpopular opinion: I like Algorithms….As a user I feel like I’m being feed content I actually want to see. I’ve found amazing artists and I think it’s helped people find my content. So I’m team Algorithm.

Wait, we're doing "Web3" again? What does that mean for the last Web 3.0, from about a decade ago?

no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve

And reet (pronounced like rate) is rather more vulgar than anus. Also, as you can see we use the Dutch equivalent of rust instead of oxidize (tho when people want to be funny they do say anus and oxidize to make it comically formal)

👆today in Answers To Questions Nobody Asked

“Zero fucks given” in other languages

6. It’s sausage to me (German)
5. I care a cucumber (Spanish)
4. It can oxidize on my anus (Dutch)
3. I slap my balls on it (French)
2. It interests me as much as a kilogram of shit (Finnish)
1. Flowers on my dick and bees all around (Greek)

The reputational argument for NFT ownership has already been solved through usernames and a $9 domain registration. You know, human-readable things instead of, "Hi my name is MatFux4949 you can prove this by looking up xyzfu423955jftuitrtuihvftgkoye on CL1T Blockchain V2."

web3: still trust a company with your keys because you don’t know wtf ecdsa is and aren’t gambling your life savings on your ability to implement a robust disaster recovery plan.

I’m going live with @aaronpk from his studio… NOW! “🔴 Live Q&A with @PhotoJoseph! // STREAM WEEK” https://youtu.be/tvWJnjW1_Cs

Wow. this ATEM setup is great! It's almost like they're in the same room!

For the Apple employees getting $1000 for a home setup (or anyone that cares about how they look)…

Logitech Brio - $160
Shure MV7 - $220
(2) Nanlite 68 - $400
Lastolite 6x7 - $160
3 Light Stands - $60

Zoom fatigue is not about Zoom. It’s about bad audio and video.

Because I'm friends with a bunch of privacy folks on here, I want to give a PSA about an oddly worded request for info about data access procedures. It's a Princeton study, and you are under no obligation to respond. I think it's worthwhile to outline the study and my concerns:

Gonna take the blame off my ADHD this month and just blame my lack of serotonin on "supply chain issues".

I just found an ingenious way to get around the impending @Docker Desktop licensing kerfuffle: I paid them money for the software that I use all the time

People think OAuth is just about authorization, but in reality it is much more than that.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote the spec. But, somehow, it worked out.

Contrast in advice from leaders in Japan vs. UK in early March 2020

Japan: warning about poor ventilation, crowds, & vocalization in close proximity. Acknowledges uncertainty

UK (& USA): Wash hands, don't touch face. High level of certainty 2/

Guys I don’t think plastic straws were the problem