Aaron Parecki

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In a world with even “digital-natives” increasingly don’t understand basic file management, and where it’s more and more common for user data to be siloed per-app even on desktops, I propose a corollary to Zawinski’s Law: “All apps which don’t store data transparently in the file system are doomed to implement their own limited and fragile filesystem equivalent”

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.

It’s a very autumnal IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg this weekend. #indieweb

I have lived long enough to see the phase "there's an app for that" go from a marketing slogan to a threat

Found this out hiking the other day. There HAS to be a great caption for this... What's your best shot?

I'm assuming it has potential for at least the #UX and #QA folk

Kudos to Sarah Silverman! This will most likely become a landmark case.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-silverman-copyright-suit-chatgpt_n_64ab2ce5e4b02fb0e6f94a1b

This article reminded me that Meta launched Threads not to scoop up disgruntled Twitter users, but to scoop up disgruntled Twitter *advertisers*. Because of course that's all they care about. Duh.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvp8j/threads-is-all-the-worst-parts-of-twitter-and-instagram-in-one-very-bad-app

I find I get this uneasy feeling in my belly every time earth system parameters hop outside of the limits of the last 125,000 years. You?

There are real downsides to running my website on VPS I sysadmin myself & a homegrown pile of code in JavaScript, Python, Swift, and Zsh. The code is all over the place in every sense of the phrase.

But I can personally guarantee that it'll keep working and remain available so long as I can afford the DNS and VPS fees. I can't say that about any other place I post on the internet.

Own your own space on the web. Post there. Write there. Link to it from your various accounts elsewhere. #indieweb

@aaronpk Shut Google down before Google shuts you down 😬