Aaron Parecki

Caleb Pike https://twitter.com/calebpike • Dec 6
Made a huge personal decision today. Been battling this for a long time but I just need to do it... Selling/giving away every camera bag, case, pouch and organizer I own that I haven't used in the last year. I hope this tweet gives some of you the strength to do the same!

I did this 6 months ago and it was great.

But then I went and got more bags...

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Dec 6, 2019 8:51am -08:00
Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika • Dec 5
ex-fucking-SCUSE me https://palm.com/pages/product

omg! 😍 I really don't need another phone, especially an Android phone, but omg this is so cute!

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

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Thu, Dec 5, 2019 3:57pm -08:00
Dan https://xoxo.zone/@mil • Dec 5
@annika it's cute. I love what punkt are doing (https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/) but they're just so expensive, this seems a better option

That Punkt phone is really cool. If I actually talked on the phone ever I might consider it! Most of my voice communication happens via Zoom these days tho.

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Thu, Dec 5, 2019 3:56pm -08:00
brentsimmons https://micro.blog/brentsimmons • Dec 5
@manton I’m still not quite sure why it wasn’t a good idea!

Two reasons:

1: The only data in the Pingback payload is two URLs. Wrapping this an an XML container that's also doing RPC is incredibly overkill for sending just two values. That's why Webmention went with form-encoded instead, like regular HTML forms, which is about the most compact way you can send two values.

2: Pingback never went far enough with the user experience of displaying them. At best, you'd see a snippet of the text near the link, which it turns out wasn't really that useful or contextual. Once social media started taking off, the interactions there became far richer than seeing the pingback excerpt, so people abandoned them. With Webmention, we're explicitly focusing on enabling the kind of rich interactions people do on social media instead.

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Thu, Dec 5, 2019 3:35pm -08:00 #pingback #webmention #indieweb
Brion Vibber https://mastodon.technology/@brion • Dec 5
Recommendations on lightweight git self-hosting? I want something for my personal projects that is easy to maintain but still has a nice web UI for grabbing/cloning/PRs. Could do issue tracking separately if need be.

definitely Gitea. Been running it a few years now.

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Thu, Dec 5, 2019 2:39pm -08:00
Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika • Dec 3
I've uploaded a handful of photos to Google Maps and one of them is inexplicably getting a ton of views recently.
I added the photo in May 2018. It hit 10K views on Nov 5, 20K on Nov 19, 33K today.

That happened to me too! It's also funny that Google keeps emailing me about the stats.

Feels a little like the magic YouTube algorithm deciding to promote stuff randomly.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Wed, Dec 4, 2019 9:12am -08:00
Christopher Lemmer Webber https://octodon.social/@cwebber • Dec 4
Typosquatted Python libraries exfiltrating PGP and SSH keys https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/
Same stuff as the event-stream incident, effectively. This is only going to get worse; object capability security is no longer an optional thing; we need it to survive as a society.

How does ocap help? Wouldn't the attacker just exfiltrate the ocap token?

Seems like a better idea would be to use a hardware security model to contain the private keys, only letting the machine use them but not copy them out.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Wed, Dec 4, 2019 9:10am -08:00
gerwitz https://micro.blog/gerwitz • Dec 3
@aaronpk I am! For experimenting. But the Z-wave USB stick is too fiddly.

yeah, the weak link for this seems to be USB hardware. Thankfully I haven't had any trouble since switching to the Intel NUC

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Tue, Dec 3, 2019 7:42am -08:00
gerwitz https://micro.blog/gerwitz • Dec 3
@aaronpk between unifi’s software and synology’s, I mean. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The NAS is my only “server” unless you count a CloudKey and Apple TV. I think it’s time for a HASS box, though.

You could always run Home Assistant on the Synology NAS https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/synology/

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Tue, Dec 3, 2019 7:38am -08:00
gerwitz https://micro.blog/gerwitz • Dec 3
@aaronpk 👍 I have a Synology NAS and UniFi network so am…conflicted.

conflicted? I also have a Synology NAS and UniFi network!

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Tue, Dec 3, 2019 7:21am -08:00
Scott Hanselman https://twitter.com/shanselman • Dec 3
This is the gigabit tiny travel router I use. #ref https://hnsl.mn/35XDNJq

Ok I did not expect that to have support for WireGuard ... buying it right now!

Portland, Oregon • 32°F

Tue, Dec 3, 2019 6:36am -08:00
Govner https://twitter.com/oidc6 • Dec 3
Add this one to your list: https://threatpost.com/microsoft-oauth-flaw-azure-takeover/150737/

aaaand this is why the Security BCP says to have an explicit list of redirect URIs and not allow wildcards 🤦‍♂️

Portland, Oregon • 32°F

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Tue, Dec 3, 2019 6:20am -08:00
Mark Derricutt https://twitter.com/talios • Dec 3
No generator - but "The built in "media pool" allows loading of up to 20 separate broadcast quality RGBA graphics for titles," - shows up as a separate input. From https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/atemmini - I remember that from the launch. Seems there a photoshop plugin to for something....

oh yeah good point, I forgot this model has that! I do that with the ATEM TVS all the time, the Photoshop plugin basically gives you a menu option to push an open file into the media pool.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 7:01pm -08:00
Mark Derricutt https://twitter.com/talios • Dec 3
Wouldn't the atem mini give you titles and obs like things? Seems to....

Nah, it doesn't have any title generator in it. You could create titles on a laptop and feed them in through one of the HDMI inputs, but that's the only way to do it. That's one of the nice things about OBS is how much stuff it has built in.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 6:54pm -08:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Dec 3
Thats a good idea, but it would probably dual role as playing games I can't get to work on my Mac.

#fulldisclosure

oh I see, looking for an excuse to buy a new computer 😉

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 6:07pm -08:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Dec 3
Heres the quick templated run down of what I'm thinking for a dedicated live-streaming studio.

3x Lumix G7
8-18 and 2x 25mm
ATEM Mini
2x Shure 7MB
Zoom H6
Elgato keylight (maybe)
Some rando windows laptop

That should let me just turn it on and go, and switch with the ATEM.

If you don't need title graphics or other stuff OBS gives you, you can also ditch the laptop and go with a dedicated h264 encoder instead!

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 6:05pm -08:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Dec 2
I'm looking at the ATEM Mini, and might just get it and a couple cameras and do actual switching instead of simulating it.

If you wait a few days I’ll have a video about it out 😉 Mine is in the mail right now! At $300 it’s basically a no brainer.

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 3:21pm -08:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Dec 2
Ok live streaming gurus.

Starting in the new year I'm looking at getting a weekly stream going again. But I'm looking at multi camera solutions.

Is there something out there that will let me take a wide angle shot and crop in to simulate multiple angles?

This is the kind of stuff I’m focusing on on my channel. BlackMagic just released a $300 switcher (ATEM Mini) which is probably what you want unless you’re ready to spend $1000+. afaik nothing at that price will do the crop thing.

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 3:19pm -08:00
gerwitz https://micro.blog/gerwitz • Dec 2
@aaronpk thanks! I have similar priorities as you, so this has helped me make a few decisions.

You mention UniFi Video but not what your camera setup looks like?

ah yeah I forgot to add cameras there! I'll add that section soon. The short version is I'm all in on UniFi video, I have a few of their cameras, and I installed their software in a VM.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Mon, Dec 2, 2019 12:05pm -08:00
Sidney Diongzon https://twitter.com/SidneyDiongzon • Dec 2
So....did everyone buy an Instant Pot today?

I bought one during the sale 2 or 3 years ago and it's been amaaaazing!

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Mon, Dec 2, 2019 12:04pm -08:00

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