Aaron Parecki

Micah Silverman https://twitter.com/afitnerd • Aug 29
Me (in Australia): It took me a bit to get used to how all your power outlets have individual switches.

My mate (I use the word mate now): You mean in America the power to all the outlets is on all the time?

Me: yup

My mate: Well, that's just fucking dangerous!

also I'm imagining someone saying that in an australian accent and it is great

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 11:19pm -07:00
Micah Silverman https://twitter.com/afitnerd • Aug 29
Me (in Australia): It took me a bit to get used to how all your power outlets have individual switches.

My mate (I use the word mate now): You mean in America the power to all the outlets is on all the time?

Me: yup

My mate: Well, that's just fucking dangerous!

Last weekend I was chatting with a friend who does forensic investigation of fires and it turns out electrical outlets are ACTUALLY REALLY DANGEROUS omg. Don't ever leave a device half plugged in it turns out it *will* start a fire.

Portland, Oregon

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 11:18pm -07:00
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Aug 28
It's for a tool to export the user's entire Swarm checkin history and save it to a local SQLite database file

I need this tool!

Castro Valley, California

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 5:00pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Aug 28
Yeah there are a couple tricks, none of which are ideal. Basically you kick off the flow from the CLI app, get the user to visit a URL, but the redirect is to your server, and then you either tell them to paste an auth code into the CLI or

or, you spin up a local web server to catch a redirect back from your backend, or you mimic the OAuth device flow on your backend. Hmm this sounds like a fun blog post 😬

Castro Valley, California, USA

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 4:58pm -07:00
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw • Aug 28
@aaronpk do you know if there's a neat way for me to auth with Foursquare from a CLI tool I'm building? I need the user to be able to get their own OAuth token but I don't want to ship my client secret with the CLI tool

Yeah there are a couple tricks, none of which are ideal. Basically you kick off the flow from the CLI app, get the user to visit a URL, but the redirect is to your server, and then you either tell them to paste an auth code into the CLI or

Castro Valley, California

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Wed, Aug 28, 2019 4:57pm -07:00
dietrich https://mastodon.social/@dietrich • Aug 23
TIL: You can get watermelon poisoning.
It's terrible, I do not recommend.

is that like...eating too much watermelon? or watermelon poisoning like how lettuce can give you food poisoning?

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 11:16pm -07:00
Sen. Samantha Bananathon :qvp: https://social.illegalpornography.com/@BestGirlGrace • Aug 27
"What's your calling convention?"
- me, asking a robot girl if she wants me to talk to her on the phone or what

some people do this for humans too http://ttk.me/w/CommunicationProtocols

Portland, Oregon

Mon, Aug 26, 2019 9:53pm -07:00
Amateur Slacker https://twitter.com/noop_noob • Aug 27
BTW, the reason I found this sentence is because the documentation for the "httr" R package linked to it https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/vignettes/secrets.html

oh wow yeah, I can see how that would be incredibly confusing. Well for the record, OAuth secrets are absolutely supposed to be secret, and we have different solutions for deployments that can't keep secrets.

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 8:46pm -07:00
atola visuals https://twitter.com/AtolaVisuals • Aug 27
Litto baby camura

can our cameras be friends

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 6:44pm -07:00
Jᵾlien Genestoux https://twitter.com/julien51 • Aug 26
Controversial opinion: recurring payment are an anti-pattern.

If a product/service does not have enough value to justify a quick "one click" checkout on a monthly basis, then anything recurring is rent seeking.

I know of at least one other person who shares this opinion :-)

https://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel/

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 2:34pm -07:00
Amateur Slacker https://twitter.com/noop_noob • Aug 26
"The process results in a client ID and, in some cases, a client secret, which you embed in the source code of your application. (In this context, the client secret is obviously not treated as a secret.)"

from https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2

I'm confused.

Good find... that is a really confusing sentence. I'm going to try to track that down and see if they can remove it.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 2:31pm -07:00 #oauth
atola visuals https://twitter.com/AtolaVisuals • Aug 26
Smile! 😁📸

oh my god what is that camera I must have it! 😍

Portland, Oregon

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 1:42pm -07:00
Michael https://mastodon.xyz/@nortix • Aug 26
@aaronpk When you‘re away it displays that you‘re away? 😉

Yes then it says where I am and when I'm coming back!

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Aug 25, 2019 10:45pm -07:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Aug 25
Having one of those moments where I feel like I need to tear up my entire office and living room and reorganize things and get rid of clutter, but that is not a project I should start at 5pm on a Sunday

Update: I spent an hour cleaning and organizing, and ended up with two bags to take to goodwill. Not bad.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Aug 25, 2019 8:01pm -07:00
LimeAID https://twitter.com/_LimeAID • Aug 26
Sorry to hear about this! Please send us a DM or email us at support@li.me to follow up. https://help.li.me/twickets/5637460

It's fine, they switched back to English after I rode some in the US again!

Portland, Oregon

Sun, Aug 25, 2019 8:00pm -07:00
The Everyday Dad https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Aug 25
This app is single handedly why I think the @LumixUSA GH5 (and others) are the best studio cameras 👍

Confirmed, this is lifechanging! Thanks for the tip! Didn't even have to buy any new gear 🤣

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Aug 25, 2019 10:46am -07:00
Owen Williams ⚡ https://twitter.com/ow • Aug 25
How long does it take for ad networks to realize you don't live in your old country anymore omg

@LimeBike kept sending me emails in Czech for months after I rode a scooter in Prague once.

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Aug 25, 2019 9:54am -07:00
The Everyday Dad https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Aug 25
This app is single handedly why I think the @LumixUSA GH5 (and others) are the best studio cameras 👍

oh dang it never even occurred to me to use an iPad as a studio monitor! Gonna try that out for my next video.

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Aug 25, 2019 8:13am -07:00
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/DaveMaze_ • Aug 23
My iPhone XS Max broke and Apple replaced it with a brand new one...should I just sell this BRAND NEW iPhone XS Max on eBay....pay off the debt ($500ish) and keep the profit then get the next thing? LOL

yes

Portland, Oregon

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Fri, Aug 23, 2019 9:44pm -07:00
jeff_mcfadden https://micro.blog/jeff_mcfadden • Aug 24
@aaronpk makes sense. I’ve got a larger residence, and I wanted in-wall switches so my wife & kids could keep using their muscle memory, which left us with zwave and weird stuff like Leviton as the options.

I'm glad that's working! I'm also testing this stuff out so that when I end up in a bigger place I know what to get, and I definitely want every light switch to be connected to the system!

Portland, Oregon

Fri, Aug 23, 2019 9:22pm -07:00

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