Aaron Parecki

What they don’t tell you about marriage is that between year 5 and 15, your wife will record you snoring in the night, and then present it to you like it’s evidence in a murder trial.

I’ll say it again — someone should be selling a $2500 webcam that looks as good as an annoying complicated DSLR + dummy battery + stupid capture card setup but connects with one cable and you’re done. They would be printing money.

The $300 ones are 👎 Someone make a *great* one.

So this is how I learned my work calendar wasn’t private.

"Write 10 suggested tongue-in-cheek article titles for the Onion" -> some of these are pretty good

The people that live here love to lecture you about the environment:

Hello everyone, I’m glad I could be a shared vehicle for discourse tonight.

To those replying “omg no shit”: Good job not believing the robots! I’m really proud of you. You get a gold star today ❤️.

For the anti-AI bro dunkers: that’s very cool & consistent with being pro-human

Thinking about going with an acquaintance to a cramped house party. As the night goes on you notice people in the crowd grinning at you with mouths that hold too many teeth, hands grip your shoulders possessively, squirming with far too many fingers. You're the guest of honor.

The AI #bigfingersandteeth industrial complex promotes unrealistic beauty standards to impressionable young women everywhere—it’s ok to have a normal amount of teeth, and working hands and fingers. Don’t let society tell you otherwise.

This is what the inside of an empty Boeing 787 looks like https://medium.com/dohanews/this-is-what-the-inside-of-an-empty-boeing-787-looks-like-2d4c536c94ec

My family has only just now discovered that Firefly is on Disney+ which means they’ve only just now discovered that I am a Disney Princess by default, I don’t make the rules, I am basically Ariel now

A creator should never lose their account due to copyright strikes until YouTube can figure out a way to stop it from being weaponized.

Like you said, it’s too easy to take a channel offline and there are no real consequences for doing it.

8 Things Your Video Setup Says About You

... and how to fix them

In 100 milliseconds, people decide if they like & trust you.
How you look on camera says everything.

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We’ve helped 400+ people design & build their home video studios (both for Zoom calls & recording content)

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Some people like the easy cleanup, but the really cool thing about an induction stovetop is that once you make one meal, then show you can make another meal, you eat for free for life

Years ago after I quit a job I had an Lenovo laptop I forgot to return. A few weeks later they called let me know, and dropped it off that afternoon.

Very different than the FBI searching my house for several dozen MacBook Pros that they’d been telling me about for months.

Under-engineer. That's almost always better for usability and accessibility. Simple solutions are almost always more robust.

🎉 Six years ago today, the #IndieWeb Webmention protocol was published as a W3C REC https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

A key social web building block, Webmention enabled peer-to-peer comments, likes, and other responses to be created, updated, and deleted across the web, by both dynamic & static websites.

It was accompanied by a report of over a dozen implementations that demonstrated interoperability: https://webmention.net/implementation-reports/summary/ using an open test suite: https://webmention.rocks/ that is still up and running and used by developers today.

Many many more implementations have been developed, open sourced, shipped, launched since. The specification itself has a webmention endpoint and accepts webmentions.

Exactly a year before that, Webmention was published as a First Public Working Draft by the W3C Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-webmention-20160112/

It took the best parts of the prior Pingback protocol, simplified it (ditched XML-RPC), made it more secure, separated presentation from plumbing, and added update & delete semantics.

It was in many ways a model for how open web standards should be developed.

See the wiki page for an overview and numerous screenshots of implementations: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

If you want to implement Webmention yourself, there are now numerous developer resources to do so.

Start here: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer and come say hi at the IndieWeb development chat channel: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev

Previously, previously, previously:
* https://tantek.com/2020/012/t1/happy-birthday-webmention
* https://tantek.com/2018/012/t1/anniversary-million-webmentions
* https://tantek.com/2017/012/t1/webmntion-first-w3c-recommendation-high-bar

This is day 12 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb #100Days.

← Day 11: https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention
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Appreciate the shout-out!
Funny thing is, I actually gave a talk about this at @vidsummit back in 2021 and have already done a video about how to protect your account. Barely anyone came to the talk but those that did haven't been hacked so I guess they learned something!

It's called a YTStealer attack
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2022/06/30/youtube-hacking-warning-as-automated-2fa-bypass-attacks-underway/

Some steps:
- Watch my @vidsummit talk from 2021
- Use a @Yubico to protect your account from 2fa phishing
- use a separate Gmail for your YouTube account
- audit online security (esp connected 3rd party apps) often