Aaron Parecki

IETF 114 reminded me how important the in person social hallway, bar and dinner conversations are to standards development.

They had this idea that talking publicly about security problems (in locks) is without value, dangerous, and inherently suspicious, and should be reserved for “official” members of their trade. I don’t agree with them about this.

I just learned that there's a coven of locksmiths STILL mad at me because of this paper I published twenty years ago. So let me repost it here.

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/mk.pdf

I remember a story about a person who had an absurd log file to parse, and it was too large to look at with any reasonable method, so they turned it into an audio file and listened to it. When the pattern changed dramatically, they went right to the distinct area.

I’ve read here and there about how autistic people aren’t able to recognise social hierarchies. Obviously I can’t speak for everyone, but in my experience it’s not that I haven’t been able to recognise them, it’s that I don’t respect them and I don’t care 🙃

So apparently the TSB banking app is failing, and users are being presented with an error message “Not enough good slaves” - which, to non-technical users, is unexpected.

I do feel that the move a few years ago to remove master/slave terminology from computing was the right one.

I am not 'doom scrolling', I am 'dopamine foraging'.

The mindset of using modern technology is only trusting it here and now but always having backups and alternatives

Web3: What if capitalism but stupider?

Metaverse: What if online shopping but more time consuming and tedious?

Blockchain: What if a distributed database but much slower and insecure?

NFTs: What if JPGs but for idiots?

100% recommend checking out the Udemy course @aaronpk has on OAuth. The best stuff I came across so far when it comes to OAuth. Concise and to the point. Looking forward to buying the book as well

Isochrones 😍 ! This map shows you how far a 5h train ride will take you, departing from any city in Europe.

https://chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/

Inspired by Direkt Bahn Guru by @juliustens.

The lack of WebFinger adoption robbed us of a once promising future. Much of the DID work is derivative of what WebFinger promised, and XRD and XRDS before that.

I want to talk about profile pictures in SCIM, why Azure AD's SCIM provisioning doesn't support them today, and what needs to change with the SCIM standard to allow that. This isn't something on this week's agenda at IETF114, but it's one of the topics I like the most. 1/9

vim is a scam by Big Keyboard to sell more Esc keys

"The real treasure is the now expired drafts that we wrote along the way."
@ve7jtb @selfissued @aaronpk @__b_c

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What might our cities look like if we prioritised people, not cars?

Here's a visualisation of what Marble Arch, London's 5-lane mega-roundabout, could look like if we did just that.

Visualisation: @jan_kamensky for #ShimanoFutureCities project

One of the #oauth sessions at #IETF114 I was looking forward to- @hpsin_ presenting on token theft as observed in @github

Customary update about #OAuth 2.1 from @aaronpk - at #IETF114.
Great progress!

Oauth WG meeting turning into a workation photo exhibit with @aaronpk joining the party