Aaron Parecki

The new factors for authentication
Something you wish you were
Something you want
Something that hurt you

Today marks four years of #Owncast! Can you believe it? For fun, let's take a short look back at what that looked like.

https://gabekangas.com/blog/2024/05/today-marks-four-years-of-owncast/

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

I realize my inability to do sales holds back my career/financials a lot, but EVERY time I encounter an IRL sales person it's a nightmare and causes weeks of stress. I don't trust anyone who can manipulate people every day like this.

in general my approach to things like webservers and email is

a) own my domain names
b) pick companies to run my email/website/mastodon/etc
c) switch whenever I want

I really appreciate the convenience of using services like fastmail/gmail/fly/netlify/github/nearlyfreespeech/etc, and I know that if things go downhill I can always switch

@aaronpk thanks - i like step '0'

You are very brave, patient and understands that you have options (1) and (2)

saved for playing around with.

I always knew this day would come. “Add a shared credentials relationship from twitter.com to x.com” https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/pull/759

@aaronpk sure, drop me an email (see my website in bio) and we can arrange a call.

2024: OpenAI releases a free virtual assistant with a weirdly flirty voice.

2025: Millions of men become emotionally attached to the AI.

2026: OpenAI threatens to delete your virtual girlfriend if you don't pay a monthly subscription. You must also buy her digital flowers or she will hate you.

I have never felt the precise mix of ire and awe that this “Millennial CAPTCHA” has left me with. It’s been days since I tried it out and I’m still disgusted and impressed with how perfectly executed it is.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

hello netherlands you mean to tell me I don't need to download a separate app for every local transportation system for every city I visit but can simply use my existing credit, debit, or EC card as both payment and ticket?

My feeble German mind cannot comprehend this

@aaronpk Apple does not fuck around when it comes to understanding their users.

I made something to watch the 2024 eclipse remotely!

This is every public webcam in the path of totality, with a live-updating view of the umbra.

https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

if you're going to name your company boeing the planes should at least bounce when they crash

girl are you the ipv4 address space because you seem completely exhausted

“But AI is cheap!”

It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.

Loading bars explained:

I will never not repost this

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft Autocorrect?