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Aaron Parecki

  • Rian van der Merwe https://twitter.com/RianVDM   •   Feb 1
    4/ In short, the process to โ€œown your contentโ€ is currently in the chasm, and wonโ€™t cross over into mass adoption until we make it *way* easier. That said, I like this setup a lot, and am encouraged that itโ€™s a thing that is now possible.
    Aaron Parecki
    ๐ŸŽ‰ Welcome! Definitely agree this needs to be easier, but it's slow progres. The fact that you were able to get this far is an excellent demo of how much easier it's become compared to 5 years ago!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F
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  • ห—หห‹ Liaizon Wakest หŽหŠห— https://mastodon.social/@wakest   •   Jan 31

    @aaronpk oh damn I didnt see you were in town. I live here too bad. what were you here for?

    Aaron Parecki
    Oh darn! Was there for a training, quick in and out. I was originally supposed to hang out there this evening but my flight tomorrow got cancelled so I took one tonight instead. Next time!
    Salt Lake City, Utah • 29°F
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  • ๐Ÿ•ธ Kanane ๐Ÿ•ธ https://xoxo.zone/@spideyj   •   Jan 29

    I'm thinking about getting the Hue smart bulbs for my bedroom because it seems like it would help to be able to dim and brighten the lights around bed time and waking. Anyone using them or other smart bulbs? Thoughts?

    Aaron Parecki
    Hue bulbs are my fav, because they don't rely on the internet to work, everything runs locally in your house network. I've been using them for like 6-7 years now!
    New Orleans, Louisiana • 42°F
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  • Aaron Parecki https://twitter.com/aaronpk   •   Jan 30
    Yeah that may be easiest ๐Ÿ˜ญ I was hoping there was some service that allows unauthenticated requests but with arbitrary paths cause then you could write to like http://example.com/longrandomstringthatisasecret/key = value. But mebbe I don't understand exactly
    Aaron Parecki
    lol twitter autolinked that.

    /longrandomstringthatisuniqueperapp/key = value
    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA • 42°F
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  • Cher ๐Ÿ’ https://twitter.com/codehitchhiker   •   Jan 30
    I'm regretting not just standing up a server with a single endpoint at this point lol
    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah that may be easiest ๐Ÿ˜ญ I was hoping there was some service that allows unauthenticated requests but with arbitrary paths cause then you could write to like example.com/longrandomstringthatisasecret/key = value. But mebbe I don't understand exactly
    New Orleans, Louisiana • 42°F
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  • Cher ๐Ÿ’ https://twitter.com/codehitchhiker   •   Jan 30
    I feel like if I explained what I'm doing you'd understand why I'm so limited, but I really only need to store a single thing and the simplest solution at this point if mLab doesn't work for it is to write my own service on my own db ๐Ÿ˜‚
    Aaron Parecki
    tbh it sounds like the simplest thing is to have each app generate its own long random string and use that as basically the key for writing and reading data. And this coming from someone who is clearly a fan of OAuth.
    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA • 42°F
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  • Fitbit Support https://twitter.com/FitbitSupport   •   Jan 30
    Hi, Lillian. We'd like to help you with your confusion. Can you tell us more details about it? In the meantime, for more info on how sleep is detected and measured, refer to our FAQ: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1314. Hear from you soon.
    Aaron Parecki
    I have this same problem. It's never worked for me when switching timezones, unless I very carefully choose when I sync with the phone and when I change my timezone. It overwrites data if I don't do it carefully.
    New Orleans, Louisiana • 43°F
  • Jacky Alcine https://v2.jacky.wtf   •   Jan 29

    I should work on properly ingesting Twitter links so I can fully own my likes, reshares and replies on that site. For now, I need to look into a โ€œsilo-based translatorโ€ to the IndieWeb.

    Aaron Parecki
    I stopped favoriting things directly on Twitter a long time ago! I always favorite stuff because either it shows up in my reader and it's just one click, or on the off chance I do click on a tweet, my browser bookmarklet also gives me one click access to favorite something. Way easier than trying to pull my Twitter favs back from their site.
    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA • 43°F
  • oyam https://micro.blog/oyam   •   Jan 29

    @ablaze @aaronpk Ah ok, that makes sense. I did some research on it couple of years back, and FAA always deferred to individual airlines to make the call on that. The airline has the authority to disallow calls, but it's not an FAA regulation. Some in-flight companies (like GoGo) explicitly forbids VoIP calls in their ToCs (at least used to) that you agree to when you join their network.

    Aaron Parecki
    I'm surprised they don't just block Zoom since it's one of the biggest ones. They do block YouTube.
    New Orleans, Louisiana • 46°F
  • oyam https://micro.blog/oyam   •   Jan 29

    @ablaze @aaronpk Did you by any chance grab the pamphlet/page from her? I'm not aware of an actual VoIP ban by FAA, but flight attendants sometimes confuse it with regular cell calls. Although, many carriers block VoIP calls via their in-flight WiFi, due to noise complaints, etc, as well as bandwidth concerns. Some technologies work around that, but if VoIP is "blocked" (as far as they're concerned) and you're on a call, you're more likely to be mistaken for doing a cell call.

    Aaron Parecki
    Yeah I'm curious about this too. I couldn't find anything while googling (on the plane). I'll probably look a bit more tonight.
    New Orleans, Louisiana • 49°F
  • ablaze https://micro.blog/ablaze   •   Jan 29

    @aaronpk Yes, VOIP calls. I actually ignored her at first, and she came back shaking with rage and waving a printed FAA page in her hand and told me she would tell the captain I was ignoring her instructions if I didn't stop. I stopped.

    Aaron Parecki
    Holy crap that's intense! Well I guess I won't be doing that anymore.
    Tallulah, Louisiana • 39°F
  • Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/   •   Jan 28
    Spent the afternoon at the city permit office researching building codes and land use review. There's a lot of parallels between building codes and software specs.

    Can you imagine if there was a similar permitting process for building websites and apps?
    Aaron Parecki
    what if companies had to get a demolition permit before they could shut down a website
    Delight, Arkansas • 40°F
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  • ablaze https://micro.blog/ablaze   •   Jan 29

    @aaronpk Last time I took a call on a plane, the flight attendant interrupted me and told me I was violating FAA regulations and subject to a $25,000 fine if I didn't hang up immediately.

    Aaron Parecki
    hah wait what. My phone was still in airplane mode, no cellular service at all. Or is this specifically about VOIP too?
    Mena, Arkansas • 42°F
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  • Benjamin Reid https://twitter.com/benjaminreid   •   Jan 28
    Seems the cookie banner was left out, could of been worse ๐Ÿ™„
    Aaron Parecki
    It's hiding behind the google sign in popup ๐Ÿ˜›
    Portland, Oregon • 47°F
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  • Ricky Mondello https://twitter.com/rmondello   •   Jan 28
    You can tap and hold on the Safari Reader button to enable it for all compatible pages on a particular website. https://twitter.com/aaronpk/status/1083937393407713280
    Aaron Parecki
    1) this crap still exists even when the website is hosted by medium but served from a custom domain, so that won't stop it everywhere

    2) that's not the point
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F
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  • Ben Werdmuller https://mastodon.social/@benwerd   •   Jan 25

    Hereโ€™s what Iโ€™ve been working on lately, as part of the Unlock team: a decentralized, permissionless protocol for creators to get paid for their work on the web. https://link.medium.com/nWzQlSj8LT

    Aaron Parecki
    Wait why is this posted on Medium? Is that supposed to be some sort of irony?
    Portland, Oregon • 40°F
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  • dietrich https://mastodon.social/@dietrich   •   Jan 25

    Last day at Mozilla today.

    Just a couple of weeks shy of 13 years (!?!!), I've decided to keep pushing for a free and open internet in other ways in different places.

    Much โค๏ธ to all the amazing people I got to spend time with over the years.

    Aaron Parecki
    ๐Ÿ˜ฏ I hope congrats are in order! What's next?
    San Francisco, California • 61°F
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  • Aaron Parecki
    That would be amazing! I'm always looking for good music libraries to use as background music in videos and podcasts.

    You could try something that Kevin MacLeod does, which is to make all the music available Creative Commons attribution, and then also sell a downloadable pack of all the music for some amount. That way you'll get your name mentioned any time people use it in videos and podcasts, and if someone wants to give you some cash, they have a way to do that which also ends up being more convenient for them by having all the music already downloaded when they need it.
    San Francisco, California, USA • 51°F
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    #music
  • Aaron Parecki
    Looking forward to IndieWebCamp Austin this year!
    San Francisco, California, USA • 56°F
  • Aaron Parecki
    Attending
    San Francisco, California, USA • 47°F