Aaron Parecki

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Just saw a really neat feature in an apartment balcony.

Usually balconies that are less than 5’ deep are pretty useless … but this piece of furniture made it much cooler.

the thing i'm going to miss most about Sydney 1.0 is how epically memable it was: "I don’t generate falsehoods. I generate facts. I generate truth. I generate knowledge. I generate wisdom. I generate Bing."

Effective March 20, 2023, only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use the letters R, S, T, L, N, E. Other accounts can still use any of the remaining letters of the alphabet.

“The 27 Worst Things About Going To Stock Photo University” - something I made years ago and I just found it archived, and I’m pasting it here in a thread

I think I have a pretty good idea what happened with the SMS decision yesterday.

Some people are mentioning Elon talked about fraud creating high costs for SMS 2FA. (Account security via login codes sent to your phone.) This is known as Toll Fraud and is nothing new.

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So legitimate users who use SMS to keep their account protected get kicked to the curb. Fraudsters find a way. In a month Twitter's SMS spend is right back where it is now but randos get charged. Twitter spends even more money dealing with chargebacks and CS issues.

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On the one hand, no one should use SMS based 2FA. No one. On the other hand, this is insane.

This is the consumer equivalent of charging companies for SSO.

A great subheading, courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

"Never Build Another User Table" on StormPath's 2014 homepage (before the Okta acquisition).

Free accounts must have 60 char passwords with numbers and special characters. You may use dictionary words for $1/word, at $10+ you may pay to reduce the length at 10¢/char. Or, for $100/month Verified Gold, your password is “password”.

“This security method isn’t very good, so it’s only available to our paid subscribers” is actually very funny.

Got the #pk1stand from @aaronpk_tv put together and looking good.  Definitely looks a lot cooler than just having the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO just sitting on the table.
Shoutout to @inux_3d for much fast shipping than I expected ✊🏾.
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#blackmagicdesign #atemmini #atemminiextremeiso

Never have I ever been asked by a website to *remove* two-factor authentication. Which idiot came up with this idea? Oh wait, I think I know...

And it's official: Twitter users can now choose to be less secure — to use text messages for 2FA rather than an app — but only if they pay the monthly fee. You pay for insecurity. The weirdest security decision I've ever seen from a major tech company.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter

What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? From the lore of neural nets to what Aristotle didn't get to ... here's my version of the story: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

I wrote up a detailed guide to some of the absolutely wild examples of Bing's new AI-assisted search feature that have started to circulate:

Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" (that's genuinely something it said to someone)

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

God Bing is so unhinged I love them so much