Aaron Parecki

Sometimes when I’m having a low tank day, to cheer myself up I remember that D.A.R.E. tried to market to the youth by making these “TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS” pencils

and that as you sharpen them they change to “COOL TO DO DRUGS,”

and then just “DO DRUGS”

All that being said, I am actually an NFT fan but I’m more furious that Instagram was my fav platform to see what my friends were doing and now I don’t see them anymore.

hes a 10 but uses a clicky keyboard with an open mic

Don't laugh: Golf carts could have a bright future as urban mobility vehicles.
- Smaller, slower, and safer than a car
- Ample storage capacity
- Usable by many people unable to ride a bike/cargo bike
https://www.tampabay.com/news/transportation/2022/08/02/downtown-tampa-has-e-scooters-bikes-and-streetcars-ready-for-golf-carts/

This totally works and I think it's partially because YouTube has started showing a motion preview of the video while you're scrolling.
I just reuse some of my prettiest b roll during the first 5 seconds or so and do a bunch of quick cuts then do normal cuts the rest of the vid.

Here's a common scam that is going around that you should know about:

Sometimes cats will meow at you like they haven't been fed, but in fact someone DID feed them and they're just trying to get fed again

I have several projects that I consider to be actively maintained that I haven't touched in over a year! Glad I put those on GitHub and didn't use GitLab for them

By age 30 you should stop letting complete strangers with a twitter account prey on your vague feelings of inadequacy in order to sell you their get-rich-quick books full of useless tips that each fit in a tweet

Half of the design energy of any authoring product should be invested in making sure users can easily tell the search box from the new post textbox.

I had a very productive week at #ietf114! Got a ton of things done esp. in #OAuth WG - SD-JWT went to call for adoption, security BCP advanced, and @__b_c pushed DPoP forward. Looking forward to London in November!

No it ain’t. Universally, “100” has long been a round number used to convey there being an abundance of something. “40” has never been that. 40 Celsius means something to you, because you grew with that. To people who didn’t, it’s not a big enough number to signify anything.

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