Aaron Parecki

Web 2.0 showed us our worst social issues are exacerbated by building tech first and asking questions later. web3 plants seeds for environmental disaster, artificial scarcity, and general disregard for bad actors. On the internet there’s no such thing as “future problems.”2/5

your annual review makes me jealous. EVERY. YEAR.

…the total outcome of NATs is to increase the available address capacity in IPv4 from 4 billion endpoints (232) to some 1,000 trillion endpoints (250). …the usable address capacity in IPv6 is somewhere between 49 bits and 58 bits. This conclusion points to the observation that the overall carrying capacity of IPv6 is not all that different from that of a dense IPv4 deployment making highly efficient use of NATs.

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– Geoff Huston, IPv4 Address Markets (emphasis mine)

No, because I worked in this field and it's nothing but smoke and mirrors. The longer I looked at it, the less anything made sense: there is no technical improvement, it's a solution in search of a problem. Permissioned (private) chains might make sense, but these aren't web3.

So I saw a fascinating video recently by @GeraldUndone about video waveforms, and today I've been tinkering up a visualisation to help explain how they work.

It's Really Simple™ - just think of the image as a five-dimensional object being rotated 90° in three-dimensional space.

I get a lot of the same questions about pedestrian streets over and over so maybe an infographic will help.

OAuth is to OpenID as HTTPS is to HTTP

90% of ppl on YouTube are just some random person. the fake authority we give people simply because they have a channel is hilarious. you can learn to love and trust someone's take on things but its impossible to know everything everyone will want or need, and its ever evolving.

If you're making 2022 resolutions, let "Publish my content on my own site" be one of them? And "Provide an RSS feed for my blog/content" be another?

I feel much more inclined to share links to articles on personal blogs than those published on large publications.

2021 was the year of Nintendo Switch for me. I’m not a “gamer” but I have completely fallen in love with the switch. It feels like a system designed for people like me. I love the games and I love the whole concept. Got my first Switch with the OLED and am totally a fan now.

I wonder if anyone has written a parody of OAuth 2.0 that was discussing a completely different subject.

Why did we call it a Booster Shot instead of a Sequel Injection

Coffee not only objectively tastes bad but also infects the drinker with a brain parasite that makes them get hog mad at anyone who says it tastes bad. This is the coffee plant's evolutionary mechanism of defending itself

This is a real TikTok theory I have. They conspire for one of your first 10 regular posts to go super viral to keep you chasing the carrot 🧢🧢

Thank you! I love this Christmas gift.

PSA just a reminder YouTubers aren’t customer support for the shit you got for Christmas. Wait until Monday like a normal human.

Love this idea that the reason voice assistants don't seem to stick for most people is that they're actually command line interfaces, but even less discoverable because they don't provide any visible feedback at all

After a standard leaves a standard setting body, it may enter a loop of reinvention, with each new version being closer to its natural state.

The fact that people raised on neoclassical econ can't tell the difference between "addressing a distributional problem" and "making it worse but also letting rich people buy their way out of it" is basically the core problem with the world today.

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They claim they can cut your wait time - that they created with a Denial of Service attack on a federal agency - by 90%! Ransomware by another name.

https://callenq.com

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