Aaron Parecki

How to Gain Prominence and Influence in Standards Organizations

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4144.html

The math behind a $250k per year online business:

- $20.8k per month
- Which is $695/day
- Which is 7 customers at $99/each
- Which is 475 web visitors/day at 1.5% conversion

Mind you, none of this is easy.

But it's certainly easier than staring $250k in the face with no plan.

Traditional 360° of the traditional #oauth dinner at #IETF, #IETF116 in particular :)

Some random tags - @_nat_en @tlodderstedt @aaronpk @dfett42 @ve7jtb @n3rd1ty @justin__richer @josephheenan

Journalists are so scared of mentioning drivers they come up with these absurd linguistically jumbled headlines to avoid mentioning them https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/cornwall-coastal-path-blocked-mercedes-26565103

Microsoft: We have world class AI research
Google: We have world class AI research
Meta: We’re one or two steps behind in AI research
Apple: We’re not talking, but we have a bunch of AI research
Amazon: You bought a toilet seat last week, do you want a toilet seat this week?

Why does English have one dedicated verb for “nodding” but requires “shaking your head” for its negative counterpart?

JavaScript leaked out from the web into desktop apps and now consume all available memory and CPU doing what lesser Win32 apps did 20 years ago

Today in timezone madness: Lebanon had a last minute announcement of DST postponement. The Olson database complied. Now there is a dispute if it happens, and *parts* of the government reversed it. The country now has two timezones concurrently depending on who you ask.

Click on this link to see everyone you follow who paid for a blue tick #BlockTheBlue https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Averified%20filter%3Ablue_verified

i just found out that tumblr went to town on this venn diagram i made

The CEO of $currentJob decided to try out the Zoom avatars in all hands the other day, and chose the fox one.

Needless to say, I immediately came off mute and asked, “so can you definitively answer for us… what does the fox say?”

Everyone was FURIOUS.

Well, lots of people are qualified to do lots of things, it's just, most people practice or train to do the things they either want or need to be good at doing. Driving is a rather significant exception to this general truth.

We’re about to enter a world where we will have no way to know if any image or video is real or not.

And we seem to have no plan for how to deal with that.

Here's the *first* paragraph of the *first* blog post that OpenAI published (2015). Quite different from what it is now…

Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT plugins, GPT-4 AGI sparks and I can only think about one thing: OpenAI has fooled us all.

From non-profit open-source AI lab untethered from shareholders’ interests to the opposite in 8 years: closed-source, for-profit, fully corporate

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

The case for Apple ultimately winning the generative AI race

Last time they tried this someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and tanked their stock price by pretending insulin was free

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications